Guest Post: Purple Fairy Dust

claire


You may notice that the gorgeous nails above are not mine.  That's because today's Purple Crumpet Fairy challenge was a guest post!  I was lucky enough to snatch up Claire, one of the founders of the Purple Crumpet Fairy group!! Claire is also one of my great friends and I really admire her blog and even moreso her attitude on life!  If you get a chance PLEASE check out her amazing blog over at Purple Fairy Dust: All Things Beautiful.  I promise you will NOT regret it. Not only is it filled with great artwork, (like this!), but also it's inspirational. :)  Here is Claire's post for her nails!


"Today's Spring challenge was to do a guest post with a Spring theme.  Bee and I decided to pair up and i was so glad as she is one of my best buddies! I decided to use grey for the dull days we get here in spring and then pink for the brighter more spring sun vibe :) I wanted to do a cute mani to reflect my mood recently and I love grey and pink together. I hope you like my nails and I hope bee likes them too. Happy spring time, roll on summer :) x x "


Thanks for following!! I hope you are all having a great spring! Don't forget my Hunger Games series is starting in TWO days.  It will feature nail art inspired by each of the twelve districts as well as additional art inspired by the Capitol as well as the elusive district thirteen for a total of 14 mani's.  As an additional challenge I will be using the China Glaze color which corresponds with each district from their Colors Of the Capitol collection.  I can't wait to share it with you guys! You can catch previews of several districts on my instagram (user beejustice) or on my Facebook page!  

I Want Candy...

candy nail art


Today's Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge was subtle glitter or flakie bomb.  I have to admit...I have no subtle glitters!  I thought about doing a color/color glitter. Just gold glitter over a gold polish or the like.  I also debated using the one semi-subtle glitter I have, a Deborah Lippmann gold glitter.  But...I just didn't like the effect. So I went in a different direction. It's not really glitter...or flakies...and it's not terribly subtle. But it's darn cool and it screams Spring.  I've seen these in a lot of different places and I'm reading that they're going to be the next big thing (in fact, some companies will reportedly be selling kits to DIY this at home with!).  They look wicked cool but I was worried about the wear ability of it.  Actually, this was super easy and it didn't chip off or get caught on everything like I thought it would.  I would like to find a way to topcoat it more thoroughly though because those little buggers are SHARP and I scratched my skin up a bit with them!  Nothing serious, no broken skin mind you but enough for it to annoy me. Anyway the base on these is China Glaze Sweet Hook and Kinetic Candy.  I held my nails over a bowl and mixed up a bunch of Martha Stewart glass beads which I then sprinkled over the semi-wet polish.  I lightly top coated with Seche Vite but you really have to be careful top coating because it can leave holes or come out SUPER SUPER thick on your nail.  I hope you all enjoy and thanks for following!! 

How do you feel about my candy nails?

****UPDATE: Ciate has trademarked the term 'Caviar manicure/Caviar nails' and is now forbidding bloggers to use the term. I have removed all mention of "caviar mani" from my blog as per request.****

Patch Me Up

Barry M

Today's Spring Challenge was patchwork pastel nails.  I was a little intimidated by this one.  I've seen some really nice patchwork nails and then some not so nice ones.  I've played around with patchy nails in the past and didn't really love the results but I must say I rather impressed myself with this one.  It came out pretty nice on the first try!! I think adding the white lines was really what made it come together because before that it looked like a hot mess!!  I don't know that my colors are really 'pastel' per say but they're very Spring!!  I started with a base of Barry M Peach Melba and then added random lines using China Glaze Kinetic Candy, Models Own Pastel Pink and Orly You're Blushing. Then I added white lines with an LA Art Nail Art striper in White.  I hope you all enjoy and thanks for following!!

Petal Pushers

holland


Yesterday's challenge for the Purple Crumpet Fairy was to do a blossom tree.  First I thought I wanted to do Japanese cherry blossoms.  I love cherry blossoms and they always look so pretty on a nice, muted blue green background.  But I've already done cherry blossoms twice now...a bit better the second time I think!  So I didn't want to do that again. And I wanted to go in a little bit different of a different direction with the color and shape of the flowers.  So here are my first lily-like flowers. Obviously they need a bit of tweaking but I think they came out rather nicely under the circumstances!!  I apologize for the horrendous quality of this picture.  I really need to try to remember to bring my camera to school with me!!  I hope you all enjoy and thanks for following!! :)

Base coat is: butterLONDON Teddy Girl
Flowers are: Catrice Sir!Yes!Sir!, Models Own Utopia, and OPI Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI

Pucci, Pucci, Please?

christmas nail art
 

OK so today's Spring Challenge is a water marble.  Until a few days ago, I had NO idea what I was going to use for water marbling something for spring.  When I think of spring I think of bright, fun colors and I have ZERO.  I know, how is that possible, right?  I just tend to shy away from brights,  I do have some poppy Barry M colors, but they didn't marble to my liking.  So...then I got a WONDERFUL birthday present in the mail from the lovely Stella. A WHOLE set of Color Club Poptastics.  I immediately thought they would be amazing for water marbling and...as it turns out...THEY ARE!  My index finger got a little messed up on this one because the marble separated too much and it spread to thin across my nail when I dipped it.  I intended to fix it later but never did. :/  Life gets hectic, right?  I did another water marble with Chelsea Girl, Almost Famous, and Twiggie from this set which also came out lovely.  (You can check it out below!!)  Thanks for following and I hope everyone is having a great weekend!! :)

All colors by Color Club: Warhol, Pucci-licious, and Twiggie.


Twiggie, Almost Famous, and Chelsea Girl marbled with zebra print!

The Swingin' Sixties

Barry M


Today's Purple Crupmet Fairy Spring Challenge is to do small flowers or a flower bed.  I started with a COMPLETELY different design for this challenge but then I pulled out this awesome vintage 60's mod dress I have to wear today and I decided to do these to match.  I used Color Club Twiggie for the base (fitting no? I swear it was a complete accident!!) and stamped Barry M Cyan Bllue over the top. :)  These nails make me so anxious for Spring!! Thanks for following!! :)

Purple Crumpet Fairy Spring Challenge

purple crumpet fairy
Tomorrow marks the official start of the Purple Crumpet Fairy Spring Challenge.  I can't say that I'm going to participate in every single day of this challenge, I'd like to, but I also have a VERY busy schedule at the moment.  Oh, and my camera is broken!! Of all times. :/  But I'm going to do my best to do what I can and you may have to deal with a few less than stellar pics  here and there! :) Did I mention my mouse quit working on my desktop today too?  What a week.  Anyway here is the list of challenges for Spring:



Tomorrow starts off with Valentines Day nails!! I hope you're all as excited as I am for this challenge! :)  Remember you can always join via Facebook by clicking here or you can contact either of the creators, Debbie or Claire!

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