Oh Mon Dieu! Day 15: Abstract!

Over the weekend, I got this new polish called IDK by China Glaze. My grandmother had bought it for me, and I wasn’t so sure if it was an actual China Glaze polish.. but, with a little research, it looks like it’s a discontinued collection by China Glaze. I was super excited because it’s holographic, and it’s my first holographic polish in my collection! If only I’d found this polish in time for the holographic theme for OMD2!

Anyways, today the theme for Oh Mon Dieu! is abstract. I’m not entirely sure what abstract is, but I looked online at other manicures of abstract nail designs, and it just looked like a bunch of curly lines, polka dots, colours all jumbled together. So, I used my new holographic purple polish by China Glaze and a handy white striper and jumbled together some lines and dots.

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Oh Mon Dieu! Day 14: Funky French!

At first, I wasn’t so sure about this theme.. I mean, how are you supposed to do a french tip without any nail tips? So, I tried to improvise. I attempted to do this lace-like manicure (although, I don’t think I quite pulled of a lacey-feeling). I’m completely missing my long nails! I would die to have them back, at least for this prompt…

For the white base colour, I used Blanc by Essie and for the pink, I used Mod Square by Essie. I also used Nicole by OPI’s Matte Top Coat.

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Oh Mon Dieu! Day 13: Ikat!

I’m not a hundred percent sure what Ikat is and I’ve never done an Ikat nail design before.. But, I’ve watched tutorials on them before and they seemed fairly simple, even doing it on your dominant hand (you would be using your non-dominant hand), as the design is quite a messy process anyways! It doesn’t have to look super sophisticated and proper. As you probably guessed by my rambling, the theme for today is ikat.

I tried to star the four new Essie polish that I got yesterday (although, some of them didn’t make it onto the manicure!)

The blue I used (as a base coat) was Mint Candy Apple by Essie. As the two accent nails, I used a base coat of Blanc by Essie and a glitter topper of On A Silver Platter by Essie. Although, I’d bought Plumberry by Essie, I didn’t use it because I didn’t feel like getting out my striper brushes! So, I used a pink striper polish from Sally Hansen instead (both were shades of pink).

Althought I’ve never done an Ikat print manicure before, I think the result came out pretty well! The other manis by the other girls looked quite similar to mine (besides having different colours).

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Oh Mon Dieu! Day 12: 3D!

Today’s prompt (well, tomorrow’s!) is 3D! I know you guys are probably thinking that I’m crazy.. (Or I just paint my nails too much!) but, I have a reason for doing more than one manicure today! As my nails have been recently chopped off, I want to get this competition over as quick as possible! So, that means doing more than one manicure a day! If I leave my polish on for a full day, it weakens the nails. Nails grow the most when they’re just out in the open, breathing, and not being suffocated by nail polish!

For this manicure, I put a base coat of Mod Square by Essie then put 5 polka dots on my nail using a black polish by RIMMEL and then I used my favourite polish from yesterday (the really pretty blue colour by Formula X by Sephora!) and put dots a little diagonal of the black ones, making this really cool 3D effect!

Click the above photo of the OMD2 prompts to be redirected to the OMD2 Reference Page! There you can find information on the competition, look at the other manicures that are from all over the WORLD and also enter the competition yourself! 

Oh Mon Dieu! Day 11: Rainbow!

Today’s prompt is rainbow and it’s also the day you get to see my nails at their worst – the shortest they can ever get. It’s basically just my nail bed. No free edge. At first, I’d done a glitter (in the rainbow colours) gradient, but I thought that was too simple! So, I ended up with this manicure instead. It was a bit more work, but I thought that even though I have short nails, doesn’t mean I should fall short in my designs!

I quite like this funky french tip manicure (even though my complete pinkie fingernail is covered) and although I’m grieving over the loss of my nail length, I’m quite happy with the design I’ve come up with!

Click the above photo of the OMD2 prompts to be redirected to the OMD2 reference page! It’s never too late to enter and it only takes one entry to win the whole thing! Good luck to everyone that joins!