Guest post from Algae Veronica

Hey everyone! Today I have a guest post from the lovely Algae Veronica, aka the lovely Alex! Alex has been a wonderful friend to me and provides me with lots of the fabulous nail polish you see on my blog all the time, so I really hope you all love her post as much as I do. Tomorrow I shall have a review of the new Barry M nail art pens which I hope you shall enjoy, but for now I shall hand over to Alex and her wonderful rainbow zebra tutorial (after the jump)...

Guest post from Just Tis Ems

Hey everyone, happy april fools day (or easter monday) you may have noticed that I didn't manage to post my Then and Now post last night, but I shall do in the next couple of days and I really hope you like it. Also, yesterday was my blogiversary! I added an update to the post when I realised but stay tuned for a giveaway to celebrate, it wont be much but I hope you all enjoy it!

Anyway,  today I have a guest post from the lovely Emmie from Just Tis Ems who is a very dear friend of mine and I hope you love her nails as much as I do! 

These nails were inspired by this dress I loved the print on it and at first I was going to copy the dress exactly but then I ended up changing it into a whole different print scene but tried to stick around with the colors. 

The colours I used for this were Sinful Colors - Orange Cream, Pull Over, Winterberry. China Glaze - Sea Spray, Secret Peri-wink-le. CQ - Corduroy. Then I used a mixture of acrylic paints of brown and black to add the print part

Thanks so much Emmie, I hope you all like them! Let me know what you think in the comments,

Alice

Day 22: Inspired By A Song

When I was thinking through this challenge there were never any dispute over which band's song I'd be basing my nails around. It was always going to be Mumford and Sons. Unfortunately their songs aren't very transferable to nail designs, so I picked the most obvious and went with 'Little Lion Man'.

If you've never heard of them, open a new tab/window now (don't quit this post because what would be the point in me writing it eh? And you wouldn't get to see the nails) and go to youtube. I'd recommend Dust Bowl Dance or Thistle and Weeds, but they're one of those bands that makes a brilliant song absolutely every time, so just type in their name and go with the flow if you must. I'm ranting on about them now I know, but they are brilliant musicians. I went to see them live at the beginning of June when they came to Huddersfield (whut?) and they were just as good, if not better, and that says something about a band.

ANYWAY, here are the nails, which I'm sure is what you came here to see. I used Barry M - Yellow and sponged on Revlon - Mad About Mango. Then I painted the lion just by mixing Barry M - Mushroom with Barry M white/black for the lighter and darker shades of brown using a very small brush and then used acrylic paint for the details. Hope you like them!

Alice

Day 13: Animal Print

Hello! So today was animal print in the challenge and (again) I wanted to be as original as possible, so I googled around a bit (trusty google, eh?) and saw lots of pictures of pretty frogs (okay, not that pretty because they're frogs but interesting) and decided upon a simple design because I knew I didn't have much time. Hope you like it!

I used:

• China Glaze - Refresh Mint
• A mix of Barry M Black and Barry M Mushroom 
• Topped off with Seche Vite

Alice