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30 Day Challenge Day 13 – Animal Print: Zebra French Manicure

It’s Day 13 of the 30 Day Challenge and we’re on to animal prints.

They say there’s a first time for everything. Today, it’s my first time with animal print on my nails. I trolled around online for inspiration and saw several zebra french manicures. I liked the idea but added some color instead of just going for black and white.

Zebra French Manicure with OPI Care To Danse? and Pirouette My Whistle

For the french manicure I used Kiss Nail Art Paint White (untried) for the tips, and then two coats of OPI Care To Danse? (untried), a light sheer pink.

Zebra French Manicure with OPI Care To Danse? and Pirouette My Whistle

Zebra French Manicure with OPI Care To Danse? and Pirouette My Whistle

I then used Sinful Colors Nail Art Sour Grapes, a neon magenta striping polish, to create the stripes. I stuck to the tips for all of my nails except on my ring finger, where I painted the stripes on the whole nail. For a little something extra I added one coat of OPI Pirouette My Whistle, silver matte hex glitter with silver shimmer in a clear base. I finished with one coat of Poshe fast-dry top coat.

Zebra French Manicure with OPI Care To Danse? and Pirouette My Whistle

Not sure this is something I would ever have tried without this challenge, so I guess it’s good to expand my horizons!

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30 Day Challenge Day 12 – Stripes: Three Shades Of Gray

Day 12 of the 30 Day Challenge brings us to stripes. I used three colors of gray to do some horizontal stripes and then added some silver striping tape to help differentiate the colors.

Sinful Colors Hot Wired, Sinful Colors Slate, OPI My Pointe Exactly

My original plan was to use four different shades but the spacing worked out better with three. I started with the lightest color and went to the darkest shade as I moved toward the tips.

Sinful Colors Hot Wired, Sinful Colors Slate, OPI My Pointe Exactly

The colors in this manicure from lightest to darkest are:

OPI My Pointe Exactly (sheer light gray)
Sinful Colors Slate (medium gray creme with a subtle shimmer)
Sinful Colors Hot Wired (dark metallic sparkly gray)

Sinful Colors Hot Wired, Sinful Colors Slate, OPI My Pointe Exactly

I started with three coats of OPI My Pointe Exactly followed by a coat of Poshe fast-dry top coat. Once it was dry, I used some striping tape about one-third of the way down the nail and added one coat of Sinful Colors Slate. I followed that with another coat of Poshe. Finally I used the striping tape one last time to mark off the tip and painted that with one coat of Sinful Colors Hot Wired. To top it off, one coat of Gelous and one coat of Poshe. Definitely time-consuming waiting for all of the layers to dry, even with the fast-dry top coat.

Sinful Colors Hot Wired, Sinful Colors Slate, OPI My Pointe Exactly

Hot Wired is part of the new Sinful Colors Hot Flash Metallics line. It is very sparkly, but not sure I’d call it metallic. Still, it’s very pretty. This was my first time using it — to satisfy the 30 Days of Untrieds challenge I’m participating in simultaneously — so I definitely want to try it on its own. I think it will be a go-to polish for me this fall and winter.

Have you found a favorite among the new fall polishes yet?

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30 Day Challenge Day 11 – Dots: OPI Berlin There Done That

I think technically Day 11 of the 30 Day Challenge is supposed to be polka dots, but I just did gradient dots and realized it a little too late. I actually like it quite a bit, so I hope you do too even though it’s not quite what was called for. I’m simultaneously doing 30 Days of Untrieds, so I fit a few new polishes in as well.

Gradient Dot Manicure: OPI Berlin There Done That with Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

This mani includes three polishes:

  • OPI Berlin There Done That (untried)
  • Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby (untried)
  • Orly Rage

Gradient Dot Manicure: OPI Berlin There Done That with Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

I started with two coats of OPI Berlin There Done That, a taupe creme, on everything but my ring finger, which has two coats of Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby, a bright red jelly-leaning polish.

For the dots, I used the head of a straight pin to do the large dots, starting with Orly Rage, a rose gold foil. I layered over that with large dots in the opposite color of the base nail, and then added some smaller dots with a small dotting tool down the nail to create a gradient effect. Then I want back and added some base-color dots inside the large “opposite dots,” i.e. added red dots to taupe dots, taupe dots to red dots.

Gradient Dot Manicure: OPI Berlin There Done That with Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

I overlapped the dots a bit and also made sure some hung over the tips. My inspiration came from this gradient dot manicure from Chalkboard Nails. I finished everything off with a coat of Poshe fast-dry top coat.

Gradient Dot Manicure: OPI Berlin There Done That with Sinful Colors Ruby Ruby

Shade

I was a little sad to have to take this one off to move onto the next challenge!

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