Friday, 18 July 2014

You look positively Orange with loneliness - CMC

Hey y'all!

This week the Colour Me Crazy prompt turned to orange, and since no other word rhymes with orange, it must be a very lonely color indeed.  I dunno, that's just what Big Bang Theory taught me.  In reality I love orange and took this prompt as an opportunity to have fun with several different orange shades in my collection.  Also, I'm not into prison-chick naughtiness, so I'll have none of that OITNB nonsense, do you hear me??

Orange dotted french tip dots within dots matte

These fun french tips were created using a small variety of polishes, beginning with a single coat of Barry M Mango on my ring finger and french tips in that same color on all the other nails. I followed that up with a coat of Quirk Send Him To Belize on the accent nail.

Orange dotted french tip dots within dots matte

It's really very hard to see it, unfortunately, but I began my dotting with a line of large dots of Literary Lacquers My Red Hair along the french tip and down the center of the accent nail.  This beautiful holo polish just doesn't dot very well and it pretty much ran together and made a jagged line anyway.  Undeterred, I mostly covered it with large dots of OPI Chop-Sticking To My Story which held together much more nicely.  Once those dots were dry, I then used a mid-size dotting tool to add Pure Ice Superstar in the centers of those burnt orange dots..

Orange dotted french tip dots within dots matte

I came back in on the accent nail with my smallest pinpoint dotting tool to add another dot of Chop-Sticking inside the white dots.  If you're keeping track, that's dots within dots within dots within dots.  Sort-of.  

Orange dotted french tip dots within dots matte

I finished off this look by protecting the nail art with a coat of SV, and then adding a coat of Barry M's matte topcoat.  I love the way Belize looks when matted!

Hope you enjoyed my fruity Friday nails as much as I did.  You can also check out other tributes to Orange in the inlinkz below.




Happy Friday y'all, and have a great weekend!  Come back tomorrow for a spectacular neon blue edition of Hey, Swatch It!

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That's really pretty! And the glitter polish looks amazing!
1 reply · active 559 weeks ago
Thank you! Quirk made *amazing* polishes. Still totally bummed that things went down the way they did and she had to pull out of business.
I'm pretty disappointed to hear that you're not into prison chick naughtiness.
3 replies · active 559 weeks ago
I mean... there's a time and a place, Anne. Truth be told, I just missed the beginning of it and I refuse to start a show in the middle, so I'll probably get around to it. After all, I eventually watched Chicago despite Richard Gere being in it.
I am 100% on board about not starting a show in the middle! I hate that, too. Is it not on Netflix across the pond?
It IS but hubby won't budge on getting Netflix because we pay so much for Sky (cable). I miss my Netflix acct! I had it for like 8 years when I closed it to move over here.
That quirk goes so nicely with the BM.
1 reply · active 558 weeks ago
I was surprised by that as well. Fortuitous circumstances all around :)
Ooh I love the tips here and the dotted pattern at the base of them! I don't really like the statement nail much (I've gotten more picky in nails style) but I do love the rest of it. Especially as orange is my fave colour and all :3
1 reply · active 557 weeks ago
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