Lazy Days of Summer Challenge - Pool Party

Hello everyone!

I'm back to regular posting now and I've really fallen behind with my challenge posts so I'll be posting a lot of these over the next week :) There's even talks of an Autumn challenge happening soon so I better get my skates on and finish this one :P

Today's theme was Pool Party. I found this difficult as I've done a few mani's based around pools and water and things so I really struggled. When I heard pool party though, my first thought was what water looks like when sun hits it, it's all sparkly and bright but also calm and serene, so that's where my inspiration came from...

I decided to keep it pretty simple and go for a water inspired base colour and to create the sparkliness of water reflecting light with glitter.

For these nails I used two coats of Jesse's Girl Mermaids Lagoon for the base, This colour has such a lovely shimmer running through it in the bottle but it barely translates on the nail :( apart from that, the application and colour are perfect! I then layered one thick coat of OPI Last Friday Night over the top.

I really love these two polishes together and they do remind me of water :P I really want to layer Last Friday Night over so many colours as I've only used it over blues, I think it would look beautiful over white, or even in a jelly sandwich! :P

Thanks for reading :)

Summer Fun Challenge - Pool Party

Hello everyone :)
Today I have another post for the Summer Fun Challenge for you all. The theme for this post is Pool Party and I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I haven't done a water marble in a while, and I've never done a full water marble, only ever as an accent nail so I thought this was the perfect chance to do one. Here's what happened...

Oh my god! It turned out perfect!! This is exactly what I wanted when I thought about this theme, and it's the first time I've managed to do a full water marble without giving up :P

For this water marble, I used OPI Alpine Snow, China Glaze For Audrey and Zoya Charla. I've decided that Charla is the perfect colour if you need to do any kind of manicure to do with water or mermaids :P It's such a versatile colour and I've used it so much on my nails already :)

I took this photo outside just to give you a better idea of the true colours of the polishes. I used the colours above because they reminded me of the water and also tiles that line swimming pools, I think they all worked well together :)

Overall, this is the best I could have hoped for. These turned out awesome, in my opinion :P And I love how this picture shows the super sparkliness of Charla, it's such a gorgeous polish. If you don't own it, seriously you need it!! :P

Have you ever done a mani inspired by water? What colours did you use? Let me in the comments :)

Please bare with me if my posting is a bit strange this week as my son has caught chickenpox so I'm trying to get my posts up around him :)
Thanks for reading :)