Tuesday 4 September 2012

Polish Days - Geometry

So although I'm a nail art pro amongst my friends, it has become very apparent that I'm a novice in the blogger community. A whole new world has opened up to me... I had no idea how big the nail blogger community is... and I love it! The challenge is... how to break in to this cyber world of loveliness? Some of these bloggers have been posting for years with professional looking sites and thousands of followers. Some of my personal favourites are The Nailasaurus and Polly Polish and it's Polly who's presenting an opportunity for me to feel part of the vast blogger community.

She's created 'Polish Days', where a theme is set and all subscribed bloggers post a design around that theme all at the same time, with links to all other blogs.

So this is my first stab at the latest 'Polish days' theme - 'Geometry'.

My first thoughts were of the doodles often created in the margins of many a school work book where you end up with lots of little triangles, which inspired the design on the thumb. And things developed from there... basically, it's all about angles with a tribal neon theme to make them pop.

I started with a base of Models Own Pro Limited Edition in French White. Then I created the designs with three Models Own nail art pens in yellow, black and pink (I'm not sponsored by Models Own, honestly!). Then finished off with a layer of Seche Vite top coat. I repeated the designs on my right just mixing up which design was on which finger.

You definitely need a steady hand for this one, so for those of you who want to try something more simple, I've resurfaced a previous 'geometric' design from last month.
You can see the 'how to' here

Check out what the other bloggers have done...


Happy painting... the nailist xxx


9 comments:

  1. So cool! I love the colors you used :)

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  2. Lovely mani! And a belated welcome to this awesome community - one in which I am still a novice too ;)

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    1. Thanks Hannah and thanks for setting up Polish Days! I'm loving seeing everyone's designs and definitely feel part of the community now x

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  3. I love this! Really like the colours you used, I think the thumbs my favourite, I definitely did that pattern in the margin of my school books! x

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    1. Thanks Alexis. I was going to do that pattern on all nails but carried away.. story of my life! x

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  4. OH I really love how this looks, the whole tribal thing with the great mix of colors incorporated into the theme. It's great to see a new blogger jumping right in! (Not that I am an old one or anything.)

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  5. So cool! I like how you did every nail different but with the same colours. Very good job !

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  6. Thanks guys - I'm loving getting comments from some fellow nail lovers - I'm slightly too obsessed for my friends usually!

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