GOT Polish Challenge - I got the Blues

Hey y'all!

I'm still playing catch-up today, and so I have yesterday's GOT Polish look today in Blue.  I'm not entirely sure where I was going with this.  I only had one legitimate oldie blue polish in my stash, the same L'Oreal that I used in last week's Stripes look, so I set about working with that and another oldie in what all started as a saran wrap mani and morphed into... well, you be the judge.

I know, it's a hot mess.  It all began innocently enough, when I did two coats of Maybelline Express Finish in Pearl, which must be at least 10+ years old.  It's a sheer pale pearl shimmer with a bit of a pink cast.  When it was dry, I painted on a single coat of L'Oreal Jet-Set in Jet and quickly used a wadded up piece of cellophane to marble it out.  It looked good, but I couldn't stop playing, and wound up putting another coat of Pearl on two accent fingers and then stamped over them with a pattern from the MoYou London Egyptian Explorer plate again in Jet.  The pattern makes the stamp look like it's gold over blue, which is so NOT what happened.  Anyway...

I still couldn't stop fiddling, so I added on rhinestones in light blue and dark blue - alternating round ones on the stamped nails at the center of the swirls, and alternating diamond-shapes in the center of all the other nails.

Yeah, no... still not done.  I wasn't happy that I'd still only managed to use two colors, and only one of them was a blue which read more black on the nails anyway, so I dug out elf Skinny Jeans, which I think was probably released over a year ago, though I don't think I bought this bottle til last summer when it was on clearance.  I added dots in the center of the square swirls on the stamped nails, and completed a cross pattern in dots on the other nails.

I think that finally pushed it over the edge too far.  In hindsight, I should've left the stamping alone, and just used that diamond/cross pattern on a single accent nail.  However... because I suspect I knew that was gonna happen, I took macro shots before I put the dots on, so you can see the details.  I know you're excited about that.  LOL.

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So now you know why I've got the blues.  As you can see... the saran wrap nails look pretty good with just the rhinestone pattern, but I still don't think they look very blue.  I'm very not happy with the stamping at all, but that's not the stamp's fault.  I dunno... what do you think I could've done differently to save this manicure?  Let me know in the comments.

On the plus side, this weekend I have a beautiful new UK Indie polish to show you, coming on Sunday.  Tomorrow I'll be talking about my skincare regimen for the #2014BloggerChallenge, and hopefully next week I'll have some great nail art for you.  In the mean time, check out all the gorgeous blue looks created by the other ladies of CNT.