#33DC - Day 10 - Flowers

 Hi guys, did you have a good weekend?  I'm back today with Day 10 of the #33DC and the prompt for today is flowers.  First, I would like to apologise for the grainy-ness of my photo's today.  I was fiddling around with my camera settings without really knowing what I was doing! (As you do)   I appear to have fixed it now, but not before taking this mani off : ( Hopefully, it's not too bad for you guys to look at.

Flowers are not something I normally do, but I had painted roses on my friend once before, so I figured I'd give it another go for today.  I started with a base of La Femme - Ice Blue Cream on all my fingers except for the index and pinkie, and used La Femme  - Lilac Cream for those 2 nails instead.  Then I added some stripes of Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream on the thumb and middle finger with my striping brush.  On my index finger I added 2 coats of Shimmer  - Karen and on the pinkie I used 2 coats of Shimmer - Caroline.  For the roses, I got some violet acrylic paint, and mixed a little with white, and a little with black to get the colours for my high/low-lights.  I then painted rough, messy circles with the original paint as a base for my roses, and added tiny strokes of the lighter and darker colours to create the "petals".  Then on the glittery nails, I painted sections on either side with the same violet paint, and once that was dry I added 2 stripes of Ice Blue Cream to help tie them in with the rest of the design.

Once I'd done the photo's, I couldn't resist adding a matte top coat, which looked like this:

 I couldn't decide whether I liked the matte or the shiny more, they're both nice.  I'd love to know which one you guys like better.

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