Superhero Challenge - DC Hero

Hello everyone :)
Today I have another Superhero challenge post for you all! Today's post is based on a DC Comics Hero!! I got very excited about this post and have had it planned for a while! Keeping with the theme of less well known characters I chose this guy...

 

The color Kid! You can read more about him here  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Kid

I chose the Color Kid as I really liked what he looks like he doesn't look like a conventional Hero and I love his costume! 

So here's what I came up with...

I took my inspiration for my nails from Color Kids costume once again. I really loved the rainbow panel so decided to do a gradient to portray that. Then I wanted the gradient to stand out so used black on the other nails to frame it like his costume does.

I made the gradient over bare nails and I think it stands out nicely, although it may have been brighter with a white base, I just didn't want really thick nails after using all this polish :p I used the following polishes in order from the cuticle line to the tip; China Glaze Poinsettia, Color Club Wham! Pow!, Color Club Almost Famous, Color Club Twiggie and Jesses Girl Girls Night Out. I sponged two coats of each colour on to the nail and then sealed with topcoat. The black I used was Revlon Lunar.

I'm so pleased with how this turned out. I thought the gradient was going to be a disaster :P I had great fun looking through all the Hero's for this challenge, but Color Kid was so fun I knew I had to show him to you all, I hope you like him!

Have you ever done a rainbow gradient? What colours did you use? let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)

Also, check out the other girls who are taking part in this challenge along with me to create the Super Six!

Sammy at The Nailasaurus

Debbie at The Crumpet

Sarah at Spellbinding Nails

Jo at Northern Nails

Kerrie at PishPosh and Polish

Superheros Challenge!

Hello everyone!
Today I have the first post of the new Superhero Challenge! I'll be posting twice a week for this challenge, there will be a villains post on Tuesdays and a Hero's post on Thursdays :) This challenge was created by Jo from Northern Nails and she kindly invited me to take part. This challenge is right up my street and I was so excited to be asked to be a part of it :) So here's what the challenge posts will be...

 

So for today's post I have a Marvel Villain!

It took me a while to choose as I didn't realize just how many characters there are :P Finally I settled on one I liked the look of and knew I could create something unique from it on my nails.

I chose Dormammu! here's the pictures I used for inspiration...

 He's one scary guy to look at! Which is one of the reasons I chose him. Look at his fire face! Anyway, onto the nails...

First I'll explain the inspiration for each nail.

My thumb was inspired by the blue ball of light you can see on one of the pictures in Dormammu's hand.

My index finger was inspired by the cloud rising from Dormammu's head in one picture.

My middle finger was inspired by his fire face.

My ring finger was inspired by his clothing

My little finger was inspired by the fire that is always present around him.

 Here's a clearer picture (I forgot the new watermark on this picture! :( ) and a list of the polishes I used.

thumb: OPI Alpine Snow, OPI What's With The Cattitude? and Models Own Indian Ocean

Index finger: Color Club Almost Famous, OPI In My Back Pocket and Revlon Lunar

Middle finger: Color Club Almost Famous and Revlon Lunar

Ring finger: H&M Berry Love, Revlon Lunar and Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black

Little finger: H&M Berry Love, OPI In My Back Pocket and Color Club Almost Famous.

Wow, that's a lot of polish!!

Overall, I'm very pleased with how this turned out! I thought it was going to be a disaster because the characters are so in depth and have so much detail but I had a lot of fun trying to translate the essence of Dormammu onto my nails :P

I can't wait for the Hero post on Thursday now!

Also, check out the other girls who are taking part in this challenge along with me to create the Super Six!

Sammy at The Nailasaurus

Debbie at The Crumpet

Sarah at Spellbinding Nails

Jo at Northern Nails

Kerrie at PishPosh and Polish

Have you ever done nail art based on a character? if so who? Let me know in the comments :)

Thanks for reading :)

Splatter Mani

Hello everyone :)
Today I have another splatter mani for you! For these nails I used neon colours as I had a new color club set that I wanted to try out and I was very pleased with the results...

 

For these nails I used 3 coats of OPI Alpine Snow as a base. I then splattered each nail using a straw and Color Club Almost Famous, Wham! Pow!, Poptastic, Twiggie and Pucci-licious from the Poptastic collection. These colours are so bright! I love how vibrant they are, I had several people comment on them and ask me how I achieved the look and no one could believe I'd used a straw :P The colours were also perfect application wise, I'm so glad I picked this set up!

I got smaller straws to do this mani as my last splatter mani looked a bit bare as the splatters came out larger. I much prefer the look of this mani, it's so bright and colourful! I can't wait to try this again with different colours, I think pastel colours would look great in a splatter mani too! :)

I hope everyone has enjoyed their weekend and the Jubilee for all my fellow UK followers :) Look out for some special Jubilee themed nails in the next few days :P

Thanks for reading :)

Charlotte xxx

My Stash

Hello everyone :)

Today I have quite a long post for you all. I thought it was about time to show you pictures of all my polish, especially since my collection has expanded rather a lot since I started blogging :P This post is picture heavy so I'll post pictures after the jump...