Golden Oldie Thursday #38: Brown

Today marks the last week of the GOT polish challenge among us Nail Tarts. 38 weeks of going through my old polishes - which has been wonderful.

Miss Crumpet has devised a new challenge that will incorporate prompts for old polishes and she is fine tuning everything at this point - but very soon I will be able to reveal all about it.

In the mean time you can all look at this here, my brown mani for GOT: SeaLore Polish Arctic Otter. Gorgeousness in a bottle is all.

 

Make sure you check out the rest of Crumpet's Nail Tarts and what they have come up with for the last of the GOT Polish Challenge:

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Golden Oldie Thursday #37: Burnt Orange/Copper

I have a polish the same colour as copper pennies that hasn't seen light of day since the week it was bought - and the sad little bugger only got a one finger swatch back then!!

GOT to the rescue!!

Illamasqua Shrapnel was one of three polishes created by fans of Illamasqua and I bought it in my very first order together with the other two fan collaboration shades: Raindrops and Eclipse - incidentally polishes that has suffered almost the same sad fate as Shrapnel.

I usually don't like that colour on me but I am not hating this either, which is good :D.

I had some bubble issues which I can only connect to my base coat so I won't use Sally Hansen's Nail Quencher together with Shrapnel ;). Top coating it didn't help the bubbling so I decided to stamp it - my go-to rescue.

I used Messy Mansion plate no. 20 for this image...

...and stamped with BarryM Gold Foil:

As you can see my rescue attempt didn't help much  - bubbles are totally visible :D

I really like this even though I shy away from colours like this - maybe I should try some more.

Remember to check in with the rest of the GOT polish girls and see which polish they have chosen for this week's challenge.

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Golden Oldie Thursday #36: Ignored for too long

Ignored for too long? Most of my polish get to be ignored for too long :D. So I just opened the top drawer in Helmer 1 and found two gorgeous YSL polishes: Wintergreen and Moonlight Blue.

In the bottle they look extremely promising, on the nails it is a totally different story. That shimmer is almost gone :O.

They are a dream to work with!! High pigmentation means they are both one coaters though I used two layers as usual.

I decided to give them a good stamp!! With MessyMansion plate 16 and BarryM Silver Foil.

Look at that bottle shimmer!!! Wah for it not translating to the nails!!!

Do you have any ignored polishes? If you do, which?

Have a look at what the other girls have ignored for too long:

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Golden Oldie Thursday #35: Indie

Boy was this one tough...I could hardly decide which brand to choose.

But I've wanted to wear my Dandy Nails polishes the past couple weeks - and that is where I went again.

So I looked them over and matched these two beauties up with each other:

 

My C-curve is way too deep for the star shaped Nail Vinyls to work decently which made me curse A LOT when I used them. I might as well free hand the stars next time :D.
 

Make sure to check out which indie brands the other girls are showing off today ;)

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Golden Oldie Thursday #34: Purple

...And another week went by :D and here is last week's GOT challenge mani - the prompt was purple.

I wanted to do a bubble mani - or whatever they are called, but I failed miserably so I just took the easy way out and stamped on top of it :D.

I ordered some Messy Mansion plates this summer and one was a lace plate - absolutely gorgeous and I decided it would save my failed mani. And it did ;)

I used China Glaze Spontaneous, China Glaze Grape Juice, Zoya Danii and Zoya Hope. And I stamped with Kiko 621.

I absolutely adore this mani - you can see the bubbles peeping out from the lace pattern and it works!!

Golden Oldie Thursday #31: Stripes

Time to dig out something gorgeous...Rescue Beauty Lounge Pause and Faraway. Using my awesome new nail art brushes I free handed the stripes.

I did this when we came back from Sweden but for some odd reason I never got around to prepare pics or write up a post...post-holiday funk, perhaps?

These reminded me how much I adore my RBL's. Perfect opacity in two layers and easy application.

And this concludes my GOT Polish back log :D.

Golden Oldie Thursday #30: Glitter Topper

I was in Sweden when I did these nails and one of the polishes I always bring is Elevation Polish's travelling polish Dark Cloud. It all started out in a facebook fangroup where I'm a member. Lulu created a very limited glitter topper that we could buy if we promised to take it with us when we travelled. The challenge was to do a mani and photograph the polish at a holiday destination - and then post pictures in the group.

It soon developed in to a set concept where Lulu has made Dark Cloud part of her core collection - and she invites people to share their travel stories with it. And since I am in Sweden at least twice a year it has been travelling with me there for a couple of trips now.

So naturally I felt the need to use it for this challenge :D - as it's partner I have chosen Alter Ego Nail Enamels Beach Comber.  I love the blue base and the lavendar glitters I think they go really well together.

I absolutely adore this combo!!!! And if it wasn't for the fact that my untrieds are in the 100's I would wear this again very soon!

Golden Oldie Thursday #32: On White Base

As soon as I saw Ms. Osborne in this dress I knew I wanted to do some nail art inspired by it - and then I realised that one of the August GOT challenge manis were going to be On a White Base...

Here is what I came up with - using nails inc. floral street as undies for Sealore Polish Beluga Blizzard. I free handed the time glass shape on my middle and ring finger and then taped the lower part. Then I put some black polish on a makeup sponge and just dapped away gently.

I cut out some triangular shapes that I taped on my little finger and dapped with a sponge applied with black polish.

On my index I used the "other" side of the triangular shapes I cut out, so my entire nail was covered with tape, except for the triangles - and dapped some black nail polish there as well ;)

Lastly I made a sort of yinyang swirl - it sort of seemed appropriate...

Hope you enjoyed these - I had a blast making them ;).

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Golden Oldie Thursday #29: Holographic

So here is the first of my many challenge manis that I just kept postponing.

Yay!! One of my favourite polish finishes was part of the GOT polish challenge!!! Too bad I was holidaying in Sweden and totally forgot to bring an old linear holo polish. I did bring Essie Carnival though so after the initial annoyance I got going with the polishes that I've actually brought.

I decided to use nails inc. hyde park gate as base for this and then glitter topping it all :D

I stamped my index finger with Vivid Lacquer plate 019 - I used a Konad lilac polish that I've had for a long time, but it really didn't give the colour pay off I was hoping for. I ended up finishing it off with a layer of Carnival.

I topped my middle and ring finger with Lynnderella Bibbety Bobbity Boo Blue and then topped it up further with Carnival :D.

And in order for thumb and pinkie to not feel left out I did two layers of Carnival for good measure :D

And an out-of-focus version to underline the holographic glitters:

Stay tuned for more challenges ;).

Golden Oldie Thursday #28: Yellow

Waaaayyyyy too late with this but that is the way things go when the Holiday spirit kicks in :D

Took RBL Square Pants and some Elevation Polish glitters out for a spin...and came back with this look:

Elevation Polish Stay Behind, Catch a Wave

Elevation Polish Daisen

It is really lovely and delicate - I think Jelly Sammiches are my new favourite mani...too bad I haven't got that many jelly polishes :D

My cuticles really are in a bad shape at the moment - endless application of oils and balms is not always enough to help. I am looking in to a couple of solutions that looks promising but I will keep you updated on this...

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