Day 26: Inspired by a PATTERN

Welcome back to the Longest 31 Day Challenge!  Today I have Day 26: Inspired by a PATTERN.  To see the manicures for previous days click here.

A coworker of mine was wearing a black and white houndstooth blazer the other day and that was the push I needed to try out the houndstooth design from M.A.S.H. plate m63.  I used Zoya Marley as my base, a gorgeous lavender with a smidgen of grey and a hint of shimmer.  I'm so happy I purchased Marley last year, it's been very handy to use as a base purple for konadicures.  On top of Marley I stamped the houndstooth design from M.A.S.H using OPI A Grape Fit!, a darker lavender cream color.  I'm really pleased with how this this turned out.

The finished design was more subtle than I originally anticipated but much less in your face as compared to other black & white or black & yellow houndstooth designs that I've seen.  What do you think?

Green and Gold

I don't have much to say about this manicure.  I think the pictures say it all.

Sorry for the tip wear here.  I forgot to take pictures after day one or even day two, so this is how the polish appeared on day three.  I think it held up pretty well.

For this design I used a base of Zoya Yara, then stamped Orly Luxe on top using M.A.S.H. plate m63.  I love these two polishes paired together.  I love how the gold sparkles in Yara seem brighter when paired with Luxe.  I like how well Luxe works as a stamping polish.  I like how well the image transfers from the M.A.S.H. plate to my nail.  What do you think?

Misty Blue

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I painted my nails this color.  I was rifling through my box of polish, looking for something soft, maybe a pale pink or pale purple.  I picked out Zoya Breezi, a color I got when I bought their color lock system back in June, and thought I'd give it a whirl.

This color is much darker than I was expecting.  Zoya describes the color as:

"Soft, dusty, dirty medium cerulean blue with an opaque cream finish.  A super chic high-fashion denim look for nails."

but in the bottle I thought it was more sky blue than steel blue.  It's not.  To try and hide the color I stamped M.A.S.H. plate m63 with China Glaze Platinum Silver on top.  I have a lovely sweater that would go great with this polish, too bad it's summer.  Please ignore my thumb; I probably redid that nail four times before I gave up on it.  Smudges, bubbles, crooked design, ugh!

I really like how this polish looks in the light bulb photo but the actual color is more true to the sun photo.  Lame.

I have to admit, this is the nicest polish job I've ever done on my nails.  I usually flood my cuticles with polish, or get it all over the sides of my fingers - trying to overcompensate for having really small nail beds!  This looks so much better.