... Polish Party - Splatter ...

I joined a new Facebook group in the last few days called Polish Party who are doing monthly challenges! That sounds right up my alley! A whole month to complete the task!! Woohoo! I have great intentions with my weekly ones but often I run out of time to paint (or in most cases, photo and edit!)

This months theme is Splatter Nails and thankfully I am just scrapping this into the month! Woohoo!

I've chosen to use a 2 coat base of Nails Inc Cadogan Place and splatter over it with the vibrant Nails Inc I <3 Ita. If you are new to splatter manicures, the straw is everything. Too big and it won't work and you just end up with polish everywhere. I personally love the straws that come with kids Fruit Boxes/Poppers/Juice Boxes. They seem to be just the right size to dip and spray!

It's been awhile since I've done a splatter mani and I'd forgotten how easy and simple it is to get a fantastic looking mani. I'm very much liking how this turned out and how the contrast in colours works.

With any luck the inlinkz will appear below and you can check out all the other lovely nails featured in the Polish Party! YAY!

An InLinkz Link-up

... Australia Day Nails ... Nails Inc - Little Miss Splendid ....

Woohoo!! Going to cheat today and use a guest post I did for Cathy at More Nail Polish at the end of last year. If you missed it first time around then here it is again!  I figured this fits in well with the Aussie theme for the week!!!

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I've got this special pretty to show to you today to tide you over for a bit longer! It's from the Nails Inc "Little Miss" collection and this one is Little Miss Splendid.

I brought mine from Beautybay.com but there are many other places out there to get your Nails Inc fix!! I regret not buying all the colours in this set as it's fantastic. They have the cute character on the bottle aswell which is a bonus! I love Mr Men!

When I first got this I immediately thought of Essie Turquoise & Caicos [and it's dupe Essence Chasing Waves from the BBC Sunclub series] but they are slightly different.

The Essie is on finger #3 and it's a slightly lighter shade and also it's not so opaque as the Nails Inc which you can definitely notice in real life. Also the Nails Inc does have a green shimmer through it which I wasn't able to capture on camera but you can slightly see it in the bottle in this picture below

After all that I thought I'd top it off with a little stamping :) Both these designs are from the Aussie Konad Plate A1 and the colour is NYC Color in Midnight which is a dark blue and it seemed to be a better choice with this colour than black

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!!  I love this plate but don't often get a chance to pull it out and wear it but maybe I should make more of an effort as it's great!

So if you are in the market for a beautiful colour but don't yet have the Essie [or if you just like cute designs on your bottles] then it might be worthwhile checking this one out. There are other Little Miss characters in the set [I believe there are 4 in total] but they have been around now for at least a year so get hunting!!

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