Saturday, 25 September 2010

Muted Velocity

Summer has well and truly cleared off... so it's time to break out the dusky, muted colours and the jewelled metallics. Back when Models Own had a 50% off sale in August I picked up a handful of polishes, one of which was Purple Grey as I'd heard so many good things about it. When put it on in the evening, I really didn't like it. It was boring, and it wasn't purple! But when I saw it in daylight the following morning, I warmed to it much more.



I decided it did need a bit of stamping to jazz it up though. I used Illamasqua's Velocity and BundleMonster plate BM10. I tried to stamp each nail at a different angle so the flowers didn't look uniform across all the nails. You can see I messed up that little finger a bit, but never mind! It was still a little bit plain for me, so out came the rhinestones. I centered 4 of the slightly bigger flowers on each ring finger with silver ones - in the pictures it doesn't look great but it sparkles much more in person. In hindsight, it wasn't the best idea I've ever had but oh well!



What do you think? Do you own Purple Grey?
at 08:01

20 comments:

  1. KONADomania25 September 2010 at 09:34

    lovely manicure!

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  2. Unknown25 September 2010 at 09:45

    I love it! its just my sort of mani. By the way babe you've got photobucket bandwidth exceeded messages all over your blog :s

    xxxx

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  3. liloo25 September 2010 at 09:49

    gorgeous. i love it. love the combo of colours. loved how you warmed it up with the light colour. if this was x factor, (god i am obsessed) it would have been applauded as a successful risk taker. 'you've made it your own' lol x
    *hides back in my hole lol*

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  4. jaljen25 September 2010 at 11:07

    It needed the rhinestones and it IS a boring colour. You did what you could and you did it well.

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  5. Sheefa F25 September 2010 at 20:49

    this is the pretties purple grey I've seen!

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  6. Carlito8626 September 2010 at 13:32

    It's on my wishlist, looks gorgeous xx

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  7. Alexandra26 September 2010 at 16:16

    Oh i love this!!!
    Wish i had talent like yours haha
    Alex
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