Nail Art Challenge #3: When Colours Collide - Black Negative Space

 

The third When Colours Collide nail art challenge was Black Negative Space. I ended up with a super cute nail design if I may say so - and I got to showcase two of my favourite indie nail polish brands: Darling Diva and Girly Bits.

I decided to do stamping and I found one of my Sugarbubbles plates that I thought would be great for this challenge.

Stamping plate: Sugarbubbles SB015

Stamping polish: Girly Bits Little Black Dress

Black polish: Darling Diva You're so Hot You Melt the Plastic in my Underwear

Here is the collage of all of our designs:

And here is my design:

That Darling Diva polish? One coat black nail polish!!! Goes on like butter and overtakes both of my two previous favourites for one coat black polish: a-england Camelot and Cult Nails Nevermore.

Nail Art Challenge #1 - When Colours Collide: Purple and Yellow

I have been member of a Facebook nail art group for years that is called When Colours Collide. Each fortnight they publish a colour combination and you then have two weeks to come up with a nail art mani with that specific colour scheme. You then upload your picture to the group album, they create a collage and on the date provided all participants share on social media.

As I said I have been part of that group for years, probably since its very beginning but for some odd reason I have never participated in any of the challenges. Recently I have felt an urge to get back in to nail art so when I saw the challenge for June 22nd which was purple and yellow I decided to jump right in.

I used pipe dream polish harlequin as my purple base and Girly Bits Silly Daffodilly - a lovely pastel yellow stamping polish. The stamping plate I used is Creative Shop 14.

Interestingly, the pastel yellow stamping polish turned out egg yolk yellow after I top coated the mani. My theory is that when the polish got wet again the pigment in harlequin mixed with Silly Daffodilly and made it look totally different.

Lastly, here is the collage that the moderators in the group made with all the manis from the participants: