September Challenges - Pink and Coral

I have combined 2 challenges today, Pink for #30daysofcolourchallenge and Coral for #clairestelle8sept.
I don't have a huge amount of pinks and only one untried which was Above the Curve Desk Clear #11. This is a lovely pale pink with a subtle shimmer. It applied really well, with great coverage in 2 coats and no streakiness - perfect!
For coral I decided to try something new but I wasn't confident about doing it on both hands, so the right hand got stamping, the left hand got the experimenting!
For the right hand I stamped with hehe 040 (the wonderful fake watermarbling plate) and OPI My Chihuahua Bites. I was pretty impressed with the way the OPI stamped and I think it looked really pretty with the pale pink.
For the left hand I decided to have a try at dry marbling, so I used the same two polishes - in theory it would all be very co-ordinated! I painted a thick coat of the ATC and then added a couple of small blobs of OPI and swirled them around with a cocktail stick. I think I was a bit heavy handed as I moved too much base so you can see the nail peeping through in a few places but overall I think it was a reasonable first stab.
Finally, in another attempt to unify it all I stamped with hehe 040 and the OPI over the dry marbling. That looked quite pretty but the pictures did not really do it justice.

Above the Curve Desk Clear #11

OPI My Chihuahua Bites and hehe 040

Dry Marbling with OPI My Chihuahua Bites

OPI My Chihuahua Bites and hehe 040

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OPI My Chihauhau Bites and Invogue Sunset feathers

A very bright posting for you now, rather brighter than my usual manicures!
I wanted  to try Invogue Sunset today, another of Invogue's feathers polishes. I have already reviewed Jayebird and Parakeet, and this is my next one.
I did do a few swatches over different base colours to see which base I would use, and decided on the rather striking OPI My Chihauhau Bites, which is a very bright coral. This is really a "toes only" colour for me, but I fancied it as a base for the feathers. It painted on well and although the pictures look  a bit streaky coverage was good. This is way out of my comfort zone, super bright and I have no
co-ordinating knitwear!!

OPI My Chihauhau Bites

 

Sunset is a mix of white and orange strands in a clear base, which looked pretty good against a pale peach base but I fancied a nice bright background for this mani and I think the contrast is good.
These pics are with one coat of feathers.

Invogue Sunset, one coat

 And this with two coats:

Invogue Sunset feathers - two coats

I am pretty impressed with these feather polishes, I like them a lot more than I thought I would. These are available at Superdrug, and also at ohbeauty, where 1st class postage is free and they are on 4 for 3 at the moment!