Neutral Triangle Half Moons

Hope you guys are enjoying the summer sunshine wherever you are, Scotland's being generous and we've had more than one day of sun, must be all this global warming, right? ;) 

I was craving some nude colours and fancied using Utopia or Lychee, I also found some striping tape so I decided to do a triangle half moon jobbie. All I did was lay two pieces of tape in a cross shape on my nail and filled in one of the triangles with Lychee over the base of Utopia. IT looked a tad empty so I dotted some Lilacism within the lychee triangle. 

Swatched! Models Own: Utopia & Nude Beige

Woo, finally done my first swatch post! :p I'll admit this is not a proper swatch as I dont have many photos in various lights and ive done two colours on my hand, but it's my first one!

Today I have Models Own Utopia (the lighter beigey colour) and Nude Beige (the darker of the two). I've been lusting after Utopia for a while, as it seems the loveliest pale lilacy, pinky beige. Nude Beige is a lot darker than you'd expect from the name, it seems almost like a light milk chocolate colour, and would make a good neutral for night time.

Both photos have 2 coats of each colour and a topcoat of Seche Vite.

For some reason I found Utopia a bit fussy to apply, but I think it was something to do with the brush as it seemed a bit too thin, and maybe thinner than other Models Own brushes?

Both colours are really nice variants on the nudey beigey colours and I think I;ll get a lot of use form both of them!

I'll hoefully have Barry M's new textured polishes for the next swatch post, they're currently sitting on my desk calling out to me! :)

50 Shades Of Beige

This design did not turn out what I wanted it to be. I wanted to do the triangle mani, with Models Own Utopia as the base, and Modles Own Nude Beige as the triangle and then do a dot of Barry M Lychee in the centre of the triangle. However, my taping skills were not up to scratch for some reason, and after the 3rd attempt to do the triangles, so I just did htis weird semi-skittle single dot thingy -_- I would've just kept it at the semi-skittle but I liekd the play of words for the title, soooo yeah :p

This is with 2 coats of Utopia and Nude Beige, one dot of Lychee and a topcoat of Seche Vite!