31 Day Challenge 2014: Day 28 - Inspired by a Flag (Union Jack)

Had to pick the Union Jack really, only a few more manis left! Can't wait to finish this challenge now, although it has been good to do.

I painted a base coat on all my nails. Then on my thumb, middle and ring finger I applied 2 coats of China Glaze White on White. Then on my index and little finger I applied 2 coats of OPI Honey Ryder.

Then for the Union Jack. I am really bad at doing free hand stuff so this is not brilliant!

First I used a nail art brush to paint the red stripes vertically and horizontally and then diagonally using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Rapid Red. Then I painted the triangles in-between using China Glaze First Mate. As I said I am really bad at free hand, so I didn't worry about being too neat with the colours as after I went in with the white Barry M nail art pen to neaten it up. This definitely helped me a lot!

On the other two white nails, my thumb and ring finger, I have done polka dots. First I stamped the polka dot pattern from Cheeky plate CH6 with Rapid Red. Then on the alternate lines of dots I used a dotting tool to fill them in with First Mate.

After a little clean-up I then painted Seche Vite on just the thumb, middle and ring finger as OPI Honey Ryder is a texture polish, and that is the mani finished!

As always thank you for visiting and if you have any questions or anything to say then please comment below :)

Blues :)

When I bought all my new China Glaze polishes I bought a few blue polishes so here is a blue mani and how I did it :)

Firstly I applied my base coat then 2 coats of polish to each nail, on my thumb and my little finger I used Hanging in the Balance, on my index finger and middle finger I used Electric Beat and on my ring finger I used First Mate, all China Glaze polishes.

On my index finger where I had painted Electric Beat I did a gradient using the same three colours. To do this I painted the 3 colours in a line after each other onto my plastic palette dish, I then placed the sponge into this and then stamped the sponge onto my nail, I did this process twice to get this effect.

On my ring finger where I had painted First Mate I then used Barry M's Amethyst Glitter and applied 2 coats on top.

On my thumb and little finger where I had painted Hanging in the Balance I used the polka dot pattern on Cheeky Plate CH6 and Konad's white special polish and stamped this.

Then on my middle finger where I had painted Electric Beat I used Bundle Monster plate BM-307 along with Barry M's Silver Foil and stamped the butterfly pattern.

I then applied my top coat and here is the finished manicure :) I messed up my little finger a bit after I applied the top coat :( but never mind I still think it looks good :) and I hope you like it too!