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

Superhero Challenge - DC Villain

Hello everyone :)
Today I have the next post of the Superhero Challenge! For this post I had to pick a DC Villain, I've really been struggling with this one since last week. I'd pick someone then realize I couldn't come up with a good design for them so I'd change my mind several times :P Today I finally settled on a character...

This is White Rabbit. She's one of the new 52 DC Villains and you can read more about her here - http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/dc-new-52-villains

I chose her as I love her costume (pink! and a bunny!) And I knew I'd be able to do a design for her that would look good :) So here are my nails...

These nails are again inspired by White Rabbits costume. 

Fore finger: Her ears and hair (the hair is awful! I apologize)

Middle finger: her mask

Ring finger: her corset

Little finger: her shorts and tail

For the base of my nails I used OPI Play The Peonies. A beautiful pale pink that I don't use often. However, when I do I always think why don't I use this..It's gorgeous! I used Jesses Girl Cupcake Frosting as the base on my little finger, this pink is also gorgeous and it's the first time I've used it. I then used OPI Alpine Snow for all the white and my Models Own Nail Art Pen in Black for the lines. 

Overall, I'm pleased with how these came out but if I'd found a character sooner I would have planned better, therefore they would have turned out better :P But I like them anyway :P While I was waiting for them to dry a girl knocked on the front door and she asked me what they were so I spent a while explaining them to her, she really liked them :) That made my day a little bit, I love talking about nails to people :P

Have you ever heard of the White Rabbit? Who's your favourite DC Villain? Let me know in the comments :)

Keep an eye out for a new challenge I'm starting tomorrow too!

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

Superhero Challenge - Marvel Hero!

Hello everyone :)
Today I have my next Superhero Challenge post! This time I'm showing you some nail art inspired by a Marvel Comics Hero! Again, like the last post, I didn't want to do a common hero so I went and looked at some less well known heroes that Marvel have created and came across this guy...

 

Captain Britain! I thought he was very fitting for this challenge seeing as we're all British ladies taking part in this challenge....

So I decided that for this challenge I wanted to have my nails all the same so I took my inspiration from Captain Britain's outfit.

 For these nails I used Color Club Cold Metal for the base, OPI Alpine Snow for the base of the cross and then China Glaze Poinsettia over the top of the white. I've never used Cold Metal before and I was pleasantly surprised by how good the application was, if I was careful I could have gotten away with one coat! I used two coats of each polish in this nail art.

I'm really pleased with how these turned out. I know my lines aren't perfectly straight but they're better than they would have been a few weeks ago :P Unfortunately nobody knew they were based on a superhero until I told them :P Although people enjoyed learning all about Captain Britain :P (He was intended to be the British version of Captain America!) 

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 :)