Saturday, 12 July 2014

Colour me Crazy: Red

Hiya lovelies!  Today I'm starting a new weekly challenge being run by the British Nail Bloggers group.  It's fairly similar to FingerFood's Theme Buffet, in that it's just one prompt per week, and you can post whichever day of the week you prefer..........

These are the prompts that we've got coming up, and I'm really looking forward to them all!  I love open prompts like this, as it's easy to make it into something that's really "you".
So, this weeks prompt is red, and I decided to do a red to black gradient.  I did one of these a while back for the NAGG challenge, (see it here) but I've been dying to try it again since I made my nails pointy.
I used a different pair of reds than last time - Barry M - Pomegranate Gelly and Crush Matte, with Sinful Colors - Black on Black on the tips.  The gradient didn't turn out too smooth today, and I don't know if it was the polishes, me, or the sponge, but I decided to just embrace the choppiness of it and leave it plain.  I love how bold and simple this mani is, and my goth brain was really digging them too :)
I'm hoping that the next prompt will be posted a little earlier in the week, but we'll see.  I think orange is one of the hardest colours to do nail art with, without it looking like a Halloween mani, (not that I would mind of course), but I'm going to try and do something that isn't a sunset or a pumpkin.  No promises though :p

I'll be back tomorrow with some skittles for FingerFood's Theme Buffet, but in the meantime why not check out the other red mani's in the thumbnails below.



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8 comments:

  1. Glowstars12 July 2014 at 20:41

    Swooon! I love a good red and black gradient.

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    1. Unknown20 July 2014 at 16:30

      Thanks Vic! It is one of those timeless designs in my eyes, never fails :D xx

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  2. Brethil Ebontree12 July 2014 at 23:28

    I love this, so vampy! And to me that gradient looks pretty smooth!

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    1. Unknown20 July 2014 at 16:30

      Thanks Brethil! I guess it could have been a lot worse :D xx

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  3. Unknown13 July 2014 at 15:19

    This is such a striking gothic look. Great job!

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    1. Unknown20 July 2014 at 16:31

      Awww, thanks Ali! You know I can't resist a gothic mani :D xx

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  4. Unknown13 July 2014 at 19:53

    I love this look. It's so vampy and gorgeous x

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    1. Unknown20 July 2014 at 16:33

      Awww, thanks Mo :D I'm always up for a vampy mani, they never fail me :p xx

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