Summer Challenge Day 21: Inspired by a colour

Summer Challenge Day 21: Inspired by a colour

We’re now entering the last third of this 30 days challenge, and that means that we’ve reached the more fun and creative part of it. We’ve reached the part where it’s cool to be creative. I like that!

Inspired by a colour! I’ve thought a lot about what that really means. I mean… just slapping on one colour of nail polish is plain boring. And how can a manicure be inspired by a colour?

And then it hit me: I’ll let the colour that inspired me for this upcoming mani be: Peacock! I can hear you say that peacock isn’t a colour, but hey, peacocks are all about colour. Take a look:

I dare you to say that peacocks aren’t colours! :D

I started out by making a gradient, using Stargazer 304 and P2 “So Cool”. Stargazer is a seagreen/turquoise, very shimmery polish, and P2 is an almost metallic and very vibrant blue.

I didn’t apply a top coat, because I wasn’t done yet. But here it is, where I’m holding the Stargazer bottle: 

And here’s a pic with the P2 bottle:

I must admit that I really like this! I think I’ll actually do this again some other time. But hey – I said I wasn’t finished! :) Peacocks like to show off, so I wanted to add glitter. I chose Icing’s “Lemme see your peacock” – I mean, with that name I kinda had to, didn’t I!? It’s a very dense glitter, and I didn’t want it to take over the gradient completely, so I dabbed a bit of glitter on a sponge, and then I sponged it onto the gradient. My guess is that this glitter is opaque on its own in two easy layers!

But anyway – I sealed it all up with a layer of Poshé top coat, and here’s my mani, inspired by a colour:

And one more shot because I like it so much!

What do you think? Did you like my take on this challenge?

There are other Danish girls who also did a “inspired by colour” mani today. You should definitely check their blogs out to see what they came up with.  

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel – for nails inspired by a song! It’ll not be easy to choose a song, that’s for sure. So check in to see what I come up with!