One of this weeks prompts are "dark and vampy" and I knew that I wanted to try something new, but not too difficult that it would make me feel like loser if it didn't turn out properly.
To start off: a little pic to show you exactly how I end up doing my nails almost every week! She loves her mama :)
For this weeks challenge I used a Catrice polish that is a metallic greeny colour -33 In the army glow; Esssence 147 Miss Universe which is a blue metallic with hints of green and the Woolworths Fashion Passion stunning purple polish that I had won in the Pretty Messy Melon giveaway.
I started off with my base coat and then 2 coats of the Catrice army color.
It looked pretty rad on it's own but too "dark and dingy" as opposed to "dark and vampy" for my liking.
I then tried to do a pattern that I had spotted on the net - clip note: it was titled "easy diy nail art". Yeah right! hahaha easy for a rocket scientist maybe! Anyways... that turned out to be a flop.
I then grabbed a sponge... or rather I opened a pack of kitchen sponges and cut one up... painted some purple paint on it and dabbed it on my nail.
Much better.
I did the same with the blue metallic.
It turned out to be a sort of a gradient, as you can see, and I must say the overall result came out pretty cool! What you probably can't see in the pics is that the Catrice army color really set a good base color for the overall effect to work.
I love the grunge look and I love that anyone can do it.
Nail art for dummies! :)
There's still time for you to participate in the last prompt of the challenge!
