Ombre Manicure

Let me preface this post by apologizing for my absence and noting that this post is WAA----AY overdue.  LOL.  My life had gotten a bit hectic and I had some unexpected personal issues that needed to be handled, so manis/pedis were the last thing on my mind.  Anywho, now that things have calmed down, I can FINALLY do another post.  I finally decided to do an ombre manicure with my fave teal/turquoise polishes.  Though the picture below seems to wash out the colors and bring out the blue more than the green(clear case in point is Peacock which looks straight up blue in this pic instead of a rich jewel teal).  I tried to color correct, but wasn't able to do so. *sigh* You'll just have to take my word that this mani looks better in real life. :) 



This will be a first of many ombres I will try, and I hope I can get better representations posted later on down the road. 

Submission for Polish Hoarder Disorder's Weekly Challenge - Color Accent

One of the blogs I regularly follow (and my fave by far), Polish Hoarder Disorder, does a weekly challenge.  Up until now I've always liked watching from the sidelines, but not participating, either because I don't have the time (deadlines are usually Friday at midnight), the resources (haven't purchased that Konad Stamping Set), or the "know how" to send in a submission.  However, her challenge this week is a "Color Accent" mani: use grey, black, white and ONE color as an accent.  The deadline is tonight instead of last night, so I figured, "I can TOTALLY do this one."  Mind you that I've never done any sort of nail design before, and my skills as an artist are the next step up from "caveman drawings", so this is really my first time doing anything outside of just putting polish on my nails.  (It's been years since I've even given myself a french manicure!!!)  Anyhow, here's my submission for the challenge:

I used American Apparel's Factory Grey as my base, Orly's La Vida Loca as my accent color, and then Sally Hansen's nail pens in Black and White to fulfill the other two polish requirements of the challenge (strangely enough I don't have bottles of black or white polish).  My idea for the design was "a car's racing stripe".  You know, you see a beautiful Mustang or other muscle car with this nice wide white (or some other colored) stripe going up the center of the car....I guess I watched too much of "Pimp My Ride" when it was on MTV.  LOL

While it's not quite to my liking (the perfectionist in me kept saying "You can do better"), I figure it's pretty good for a first try.  I LOVE the color of La Vida Loca, which is why I chose it as my accent color.  I had some other candidates, but I figured this is a unique color, and since my design is so simple, I had to add something special to make it "pop".  What do you think?  Is this something you'd wear?  I'd like to try it again once I've perfected the technique and do a comparison :)