40 Great Nail Ideas - Grey and Colour

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It's Friday!  Always a cause for celebration, and this weekend is going to be extra fun as Beth and I are also off to see The Hunger Games.  I just hope they don't deviate too much from the book.

Today's prompt is Grey + Colour, and my pattern was camouflage.  Originally, I was going to pick something hot and bright as my colour, but in the end went for a milder choice - and regretted it.

As I've mentioned, my depression has been worse over the last few weeks, and when I'm troubled, I always look for the soothing tones of lilac to calm me and help me feel more centred.

I'd been itching to wear a-England Wuthering Heights since I bought it - a rich. deep, smokey, scattered lilac it sadly ended up looking much darker on my skin tone, and therefore didn't give enough contrast to the grey.

Polishes used - 
base - OPI I'm Totally Fort Worth It (3rd time of wearing in 4 years - wow lol)
lilac - a-England Wuthering Heights
grey - Barry M Chai

I deliberately did my grey over the top of my lilac to show how depresssion can be like clouds, trying to stifle the light within.

There's a lot of posts about mental illness at the moment, and it's so important to remember - You Are Not Alone.

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Digit-al Dozen DOES Patterns on Patterns - Camo and Roses

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Today's mani is the only one this week that is inspired by a real thing.

A couple of weeks ago, a girl I worked with, came into work wearing a scarf.  At first glance, it looked like pure camo but on closer inspection .... ooooh, roses!

The roses were woven into the camo and really unexpected.  I loved the clash of masculine and feminine patterns, and knew instantly that this would make it to DD week.

The camo pattern was done with a dotting tool, and Barry M Olive and Cardomom and w7 Spearmint.  Once the base was dry and sealed, I added the roses.

The roses are a base of Morgan Taylor Sitting Pretty and petals of w7 Salmon.  I adore the clash of the pink with the green and the mix of patterns here.

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#52WPNMC - Camouflage - Pahlish Petropolis

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Wuff, it's a busy week.  It's almost inconvenient to do these nail art posts as well lol.  But I'm glad I am, as I LURVE today's.

Camo patterns are REALLY easy to do because they fall into that non-exact / messy category of nail art which I so love. I particularly love camo patterns when they are in unexpected colours - such as this one.

For weeks now, I knew what I was going to do for this prompt.  I have a top which has a camo-ish pattern on it using white, beige, dark brown, reddish-orange and bright pink.  Perfect!

For the eagle-eyed amongst you, this is not that pattern.  Why?  Well because I couldn't be bothered to get my arse out of the chair in the nail room to find a dark brown polish.  True life tragedy.  Instead, I extended my hand 2 inches to the left and picked 3 polishes from my birthday treat box.

So, instead, we have an all Pahlish camo, over a white base.  We have the creamy beige Shallow Lands, the lovely muted pink of Move Slow and Steady, and the SCREAMING OUT LOUD amazeballness of Petropolis.   I did my pattern with a 00 size nail brush.

Now for the tragedy.  My camera hates Petropolis. Me, I think I might wear it for life.  It's a tropical violet-magenta, very similar to Sarey's Berry (which my camera didnt' like either), and in real life this mani POPS with crazy fuchsianess and leans far less blue.

Other than that, I LOVES IT !!!!!

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Digit-al Dozen DOES Fashion .... Neon Camouflage

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Today I have some neon camouflage for you.  Apparently it's the new "thing", very trendy.  Even SJP is wearing it, so it must be lol.

Camo is such an easy design to do, and it's also one of my favourite types - there is no right or wrong, there just IS.   

For mine, we have OPI My Vampire Is Buff on base, and then for the greens I used piCture pOlish Honeydew, ILNP Green Goblin and China Glaze I'm With The Lifeguard.

I use a narrow dotting tool when I am doing this type of design.  I find them really good for dragging a puddle of polish into random shapes.

The only caution with this design is doing your colours in the right order, as the colour you do last is going to carry more weight.  You'll see that I finished with Green Goblin as it was the more traditional camo colour, and also because I wanted the neon to blend a little.

Finally, I added OPI Matte Top Coat, and instantly it looked like material!  Enjoy xx