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Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Pink Wednesday!!! - Medieval Shields (Checkered Mani)

For this week's Pink Wednesday I wanted to show you a checkered mani I did some time ago which was inspired by Erica of course. Her tutorials are detailed and so easy to follow and I love, love, love tape manis because of how easy they are and what you can achieve with them!!!

I was browsing through Jane's blog some time ago and she also mentioned that these look like Shields! They really do actually - Medieval Shields, but maybe not in pink and silver. I doubt ancient worriers would be very fond of these!

For the base colour I used Zoya Trixie. This is a light silver with a sparkling metallic foil finish. It's probably the closest you can get to the Minx or some sort of nail foil look, with a polish! Application was so easy with this one and there was no clean up whatsoever!! One coat of this would probably be sufficient but I applied 2 and removal is nowhere near as arduous as glittery polishes. In fact, it came off like regular polish.
As my CND Raspberry Parfait is a perfect 1 coater, I used it to create the checkered pattern :-)








xoxo

9 comments:

  1. Oh! I love that! The colors are perfect together and the design is lovely!!!!

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  2. so crisp and clean! I love it! I never seem to have much luck with taping off areas for my manicure. They DO look like shields! Hey, maybe us girly polish lovers would have taken a shield like this to battle...no? LOL!

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  3. nice and crisp, beautiful!

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  4. I really like this! Love the colours too :-) I actually haven't seen a manicure like this before.

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  5. I'm glad that this nailpolish isn't as tricky as glitters to take off! I'll be buying one in my next shopping trip. It looks amazing. Xtreme wear has one and it is really difficult to get off!

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  6. @ Lyndsey - I would have definitely taken a shield like this to battle. Maybe even with some glitter and rhinestones as well for good measure! Lol

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  7. I never thought of this as looking like shields, but now that you mention it, they really do! I love the color combo and how perfect it came out <3

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  8. I love it!! It's so girly! <3

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