OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 16 - Ruffian/Half Moon

Hi everyone! It's hump day of the challenge!! After today we're officially on the later half of the challenge...but the themes get more complicated :)

Today is Ruffian/Half Moon and I decided to go with a Half Moon manicure. I've never done one before and I quite like how it looks :) It won't be the last one I do!

I decided to go with a very geometric look. I started with one quick coat of Wet N Wild Black Creme and then I stamped it with Gals plate 17. Once that was dry I used page protectors and went over the top portion of my nails with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Just in Lime! which was opaque enough to cover both the black and the white. I really like the juxtaposition of the triangles peeking through the curve.

A side note about the Gals plates, with the curved cutout at the bottom they're too small for my nails unless they're filed to their absolute shortest and even then it's a very precise operation to get the designs to fit. It's super disappointing because I really love some of the designs. Half moons seem to be a decent way to utilize some of the designs though, it's a good way to make them work. The plates are really challenging my creativity to use them...which is good in a way but sad because I just want them to work as full nail designs like they're intended. If they didn't do the little curved cutout at the bottom they would be much better :(

Thanks for reading!!

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OMD 31 Day Challenge - Day 3 - Purple

Oh my! I'm super late today, barely squeaking the challenge in!! Today is day three of the challenge and the prompt says today is purple!

I have a geometric skittle manicure in purple for today. It's a lot of information so I'm going to break it down finger by finger:

• Pointer: two coats of Pure Ice New Lilac, stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Co-Bolt Blue and  a Fauxnad plate of m65
• Middle: two coats of Pure Ice New Lilac, stamped with Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Co-Bolt Blue and Gals Plate 35
• Ring: two coats of Pure Ice New Lilac, three royal blue square rhinestones
• Pinky: one coat of Pure Ice New Lilac as undies, then four thick coats of Pure Ice Cheatin

Wow, that was a lot of writing about what's going on in this mani! I bought Pure Ice New Lilac as a potential stamping polish, I'm not sure how well it's going to work. I'll have to give it a try in the nearish future!

Thanks for reading!

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