SIMPLES- Week 3, Ombre- Grey to Black

Hi guys! It's been a little while...life has gotten in the way of blogging. I have been polishing and I'll try and catch up a bit this week with my posts. I am currently trying to stick to a challenge or two. Today I have for you the SIMPLES challenge- Nail Art from Muggle to Mastery, which is a basics nail art onwards created by The Crumpet. You can check out Crumpets post here. This week is week 3 (I have one and two somewhere, erm, yes..let me go find the pics) anyways this is Ombre. Ombre is best described by The Crumpet as "Ombre literally means shadow, in French.  An ombre mani, therefore, is one where the nails move through varying SHADES of the same colour, from light to dark, or dark to light, across the entire hand". Good to know how this differs from gradients!

 Since I am trying to do my nails and nail art with my untrieds still, I did a grey to black Ombre today. Now warning pics, with thumbs in it. Not my thing, haven't figured out how to do it gracefully yet so..sorry there.

L-R, Nubar Citadel, China Glaze Recycle, China Glaze Concrete Catwalk, China Glaze Haunting and Nails Inc Leather Effect Noho.

 I threw in a few doozys at the end with this Ombre..a glitter/black and a texture. Not sure it's strictly in the rules, but ya know, it's nails and nail art so why not have a little fun! Catch you in 2 days..I have a day off and hope to sort out the posts lying around on my puter! Mwah xoxo.

OPI My Pointe Exactly with Pirouette My Whistle

I have been pouring over the swatches of the OPI Ballet Collection for a little while and last week I finally got my grubby little hands on some of the lovely little sheer bottles of goodness. Yes, it was hard to decide on which to get. Yes, I got most of them! LOL. Tonight I am going to show you a swatch of My Pointe Exactly and Pirouette My Whistle.

My Pointe Exactly and Pirouette My Whistle

Macro of Piroeutte My Whistle

 My Pointe Exactly without and without flash, this is 4 coats with no Top coat

 Not so visible nail line!

 Accent with Pirouette My Whistle

 Lovely silver glittery sparkle :)

Now, the whole point of a sheer polish is to be able to see your nail underneath the polish and have a visible nail line which may not be everyone's favorite thing. Most of the Ballet range are great for sheerness, but My Pointe exactly is a grey, and a sheer grey can sometimes look like dirty nails... so for this particular look I did 4 coats of polish to make sure there was some opacity. Piroeutte my Whistle is the glitter that goes with the whole collection and does look lovely for the accent nail, so much more shimmery and sparkly in real life :)

Have you got these sheer polishes in your collection?

Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Grey

 Today I have for you another of my fav sheer and pastel choices for those jelly sandwiches when the craving hits :) The question at hand though is, is Sheer Pastel Grey really Pastel Grey? Not so much. From the bottle pics you can see that it it appears Pastel, so check on that score. To me in the normal light it looks lavender/lilac tinted and under flash, I can see milky white..not really grey.

 Sheer Pastel Grey without and with Flash

Lets see how the swatches look.

 Sheer Pastel Grey, 2 Coats with Ulta3 Base coat and no top coat. Lilac-ey :)

 Sheer Pastel Grey with flash, some grey here maybe?

 Sheer Pastel Grey with flash, milky white!

This particular color is a little bit misleading. It's not grey by any stretch of the imagination. If anything it looks similar to OPI Care to Danse? but with great opacity in 2 coats. It's lilac tinted in the bottle and in some lights on the nails. In other lights it's pink and milky white. Despite the misnomer this polish is still lovely and interesting. It is opaque in 2 coats and applies really well. Apparently OPI Care to Danse? is not opaque with even 4 coats, so for those who do not like the visible nail line, it's a less time consuming choice :)

Do you like this color or is it not your cup of (Grey) tea? On that bad pun, I am working this weekend making polish adventures a little difficult, but I am sure I can fit in some stamping! :)