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Saturday, 7 December 2013

Puzzle Pieces

Nothing to Disclose

Hello lovelies!

Today's post is all about my Follow the Devil ABC Challenge prompt: P for 'puzzle'.


This is a pretty straightforward look. It took waaay longer than it should have, though.


I started with a base of two easy peasy coats of Where the Wild Things Are. It's a beautiful polish, but it's subtle, so you won't get the full gorgeousness of it through my photos. There's a macro down near the bottom that will hopefully help with that. I am always drawn to greyed-out blues / blue-toned greys like this. Add in tiny silver glitters and iridescent glitters and micro-shards and, well, you have a polish with my name written all over it. Plus it applied like a charm, requiring almost zero cleanup.


I then painted on the squares in white acrylic paint. And here's where it took forever: I had to go over them three times to get them to opacity. (And they still aren't COMPLETELY opaque.) Argh! Once done, I used a dotting tool to place the 'interlocking' bits of the puzzle pieces in mostly random order. So long as you have a dot per side of a square, you're good to go.


Finally, here's the macro I promised you. Check out the golden/green shimmer, too!


Polishes used:
Duri - Rejuvacote (base coat)
Glisten & Glow - HK Girl (top coat; two coats to smooth out the bumps from the dots)
white acrylic paint
one-stroke brush for painting the squares
dotting tool

This cold I've got just won't kick the bucket. I'm a snifflemonster. I'm making tons of soups to try to rectify this, and I'm sleeping like a sloth, but still I sniffle. SNIFFLEZ 4 LYFE.

xo,

J.

2 comments:

  1. You can tell it took awhile, but I think your endurance paid off! That base...you always have the best base polishes!

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  2. Thank you sweet pea! Yes, I am blessed with some awesome polish in my life, it is true. :3

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