Tri-Polish Challenge-June #4

Yay! We made it through another month of the Tri-Polish Challenge! For some reason, it seems that a number of people had inspiration issues this month. I decided after my second manicure that I didn't love the polishes that I chose, but I managed to get ideas anyway.

 (You are given colors and have to select a polish for each to use in four manis, and you can use black, white, gold, silver and glitter topcoats, too.)

All along I wanted to do a gradient, and Tuesday was filled with tape manis, so here we go with my combination of the two.

I had a couple of days of wear on my base colors of Llarowe's P38 over Zoya FeiFei, so it was nicely dry for the tape application. I then took a little torn piece of my makeup sponge, clicked it with the hemostat and dabbed on the purple, then the pink, and then the red. I then took the tape off and tossed on a coat of Seche Vite.

This is a more distinct gradient rather than a smooth one.

Pretty happy with this iteration of  these colors! This works for me-although I had envisioned over white, I couldn't pass up the black.

Thanks again Debbie Crumpet for setting up this challenge. Sometimes more challenging than others-I suppose, for me at least, I don't want to be a copycat, but there are so many gorgeous manicures that the Tarts come up with! So take a look at today's offerings by clicking on the Inlinkz below.

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Tri-Polish Challenge-June #2

Red, Purple, and Pink! Love all three of these color separately, and together, but I think I chose particularly "wintery" versions of each. Because that is what I love!

I tried to do that three dimensional look with dots, but it ended up just being "offset dots", mainly because I used the same dotting tool to do both colors, and I think that a smaller one should have been used for the second set, this time in pink.

Offset dots are cool, though, too!

I have no idea what I did to get a black background, LOL.
All three colors went together nicely, two coats of my purple-Orchid Express, and then dots with Isla and Rose Radiance, Seche Vite to topcoat.

Next mani, I think I need to stamp, because that is another reason why I chose these colors, all three stamp wonderfully!

I am pretty impressed with all the manicures other Tarts are putting out there, and I probably will copy at least one of them! Look at what they did for this month's second installment-

Adios!
~~Lizajane

Untried Polish Challenge-Warm

Another Untried being kicked to the curb today!

With all my untrieds, I have a low number of what I would call Warm colors. I am rather pale, with a blue undertone to my skin, so I lean heavily to the cool colors.

However, I do give in to impulse, on occasion. Ahem.

But it's so PRETTY! Sally Hansen Lustre Shine Lava, three coats.
I was wondering about it with the first coat, it went on rather sheer, but I remembered from my swatch stick that it covered up pretty well. I'm not certain that the third was necessary, but I wanted to be very even.

And the duochrome!

Or should we call it multichrome?

Peachy, orangy, pinky, burgandy-y foily goodness!
I did experience some bubbling between the coats.
And some obligatory Seche Vite shrinkage.
But I still think it is gorgeous.

I am thinking about stamping over it tomorrow morning, with some black and an all-over design. If I do, I will edit this post and add another picture.

eta: Here it is stamped with with Zoya Raven, plate Bundle Monster 322. Looks nice, but I think I still have to order Konad Black.

Check out the other participants' manicures.

Masha at Lost In Lacquer
Raine at Lacquer Lily

Amy at Fancy Side

Amanda at Designer Nail Accents

Sam at Polished Art

Jo at Just Add Polish

Patricia at Polished and Glittered

Blueberry Pie at Blueberry Nails

Kristina at Lacquer Fetish

Missy at Gnarly Gnails 

And once again, thank you Jo for coming up with this challenge!

Adios!
~~Lizajane