Lacquer Legion: Reinvention Challenge

Hello Lovelies!

There is new monthly nail art challenge hitting the streets today.  It is called "The Lacquer Legion" and hosted by four extremely talented nail bloggers: Sarah, Sammy, Rebecca and Leslie.  If you are not following these ladies...remedy that, now!  Each month there will be a new prompt to get your creative nail art juices flowing.  For the first challenge, the theme is Reinvention.  You can reinvent a favorite mani with new colors, reinvent a classic with a new twist or just do something completely new.  All participating nail artist will post their reinventions on January 27th using #LLReinvention on numerous social media platforms.  I think this is a great idea to spark some creativity, especially if you are in a nail art funk!

So for this months prompt, I decided to revisit the mani of mine that has been copied and redone the most by my followers on Instagram.  I was inspired by one of Sammy's tutorials for negative space stripes but did some funky French tips with the idea.  I actually hated this mani at first and wasn't even going to post it.  So glad I did!  For the challenge, I changed it up with some mirrors instead of negative space!



Top: Negative space striped done in July 2013
Bottom: Mirror striped nails done in January 2014

For both of these looks, I used striping tape to make the clean lines.  The chrome color is "Push and Shove" from OPI's newest Gwen Stefani collection.  This polish is very delicate and requires a special base coat (supplied with the polish) to help give is a smooth mirror finish.  I did give my nails a light buffing to help make ridges less noticeable.  I wasn't going to pick up this polish, but I saw too many cool swatches of it on IG and I am a sucker for good swatches.   Here's some more pics :)

 

Do you plan on picking up Push and Shove?  It is a pretty special polish.  Also, make sure to check out the other #LLReinvention posts on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest.  I can't wait to see what other people come up with!

 

-Amy McG aka McPolish