31 Day Challenge: Honor Nails You Love

Better late than never! I'm here at the finish line of the 31 Day Challenge and amazingly only a few days late. For the very final day of the challenge (oh god, it feels so good to say that!), I have to Honour Nails I ♥ so I've selected a design by one of my favourite nail artists - Paulina's Passions. Paulina was actually inspired by Very Emily - another one of my favourite nail ladies so this mani has given me the chance to pay tribute to two talented artists that I admire!

As you may know, I'm in the running for the Best Established Beauty Blog award at the Cosmo Blog Awards and the ceremony is tomorrow. I've had a busy evening spent packing and I've managed to get everything I need in to a reasonably sized duffle bag so I'm feeling like a packing pro right now! This is the third year I've been nominated but only the second time I'll be going to the ceremony. Last year was amazing fun and I'm sure this year will be another night to remember. I'll be meeting up with Lucie and Alice in London and we'll be representing the nail blogs this year! If you want to follow any of the action, keep up with me on Twitter and Instagram.

For this nail art, I put down my base colours: Barry M White, Essie Go Ginza and Barry M Majesty.

For the patterned nails, I used striping tape to mark off where I wanted the white to show through. I created a textured saran wrap pattern over the top using Nicole by OPI LeaPink for Joy, Sally Hansen Himalayan Blue and Essie Go Ginza and removed the striping tape immediately. There's a tutorial for the textured saran wrap technique here.

It's all topped off with two coats of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.

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