52 week nail art challenge – Week 31: Flowers

Hey hi,

Happy Monday!  Did you have a good weekend?  Mine was equal parts productive and lazy which is perfect. I suppose I would’ve liked a it more lazy but my to-do list says I should’ve been a little more productive.  What did you get up to? I am SO ready for this week!

Time for another week of #52weeknailchallenge hosted by Polish Portfolio.  As always, you can follow this # to see what other people are creating and you can find the list of prompts for this year below.

The prompt this week is flowers and I was really excited about it.  I just love flowers lately and I feel like I might be over doing it a bit but flowers are pretty right?  Floral nail art is really versatile and when this prompt came along I had an idea of what I wanted to do.  So let me show you

I started with 2 coats of Color Club – Lady holiday on all my nails and left that to dry completely.  I then stamped over it with Lina Feeling Shapely 01 and Mundo de Unas – Dark grey.  While that was drying I went to work making the flowers.  I stamped using Lina – Spring 01 and Mundo de Unas – Black. I then coloured in the flowers using China Glaze – That’s shore bright (purple), China Glaze – Bottoms up (pink) and China Glaze – Neon and on and on.  I stamped the full image on my ring finger and then just placed one flower of each colour on the other nails.  I topcoated and then added a matte topcoat too.

I wasn’t sure if I preferred the matte or the glossy version so I am showing you both versions.  What do you think?

I also have a swatch for you of

Color Club – Lady holiday

This is 2 coats with no topcoat.  It’s a light grey creme with a really nice formula and opacity.  I am never really short of grey polishes but I just love them and this is a really good one.

I really like how this turned out and I like the bright colours paired with the grey base.  What do you think?  Do you like it?  Should I have changed it? Let me know if any other flower ideas I should try!

Thanks for reading,