31 day challenge - Day 31 - Recreate your favourite challenge!

The day has come! The very last challenge is here and I kind of bent the rules a little.. Rather than recreating my favourite look I instead chose a prompt and re-did the whole thing completely differently and the one I chose was inspired by a movie! I wanted to go out with something that I love and I do love films (if you know me, you know just how obsessed I am!), especially Marvel films! This look is therefore dedicated to Spider-Man!

I just wanted to say a quick thank you to anyone who has read my posts and supported me along the way! I've also added a collage of all the looks I've created (apart from this one!) which is at the end of the post!

31 day challenge - Day 30 - Inspired by a Tutorial

Wow, I can't believe I've nearly reached the end of this challenge! Despite it taking me much longer than 31 days (whoops!) I've had so much fun doing it! Today's challenge is to be inspired by a tutorial and as soon as I saw Jenfabulous's tutorial on YouTube I knew I had to attempt this look! The link to the original will be posted at the end.

 (The look is the last of the three!)

31 day challenge - Day 29 - Inspired by the Supernatural

So I completely suck at sticking to anything it seems and apparently this challenge is no different.. Many apologies for the lack of posts but I couldn't find it in me to be enthusiastic about the next few challenges for some reason but today I felt better and cracked on! Today's challenge is inspired by the supernatural and I couldn't think of much that wouldn't be too ridiculously difficult to do so settled on some spider-web nails which I think turned out pretty well!

31 day challenge - Day 28 - Inspired by a Flag (or several!)

I know, I know - I missed the post again yesterday! But back today with inspired by a flag and I decided that doing just one flag was boring so I did several!

31 day challenge - Day 27 - Inspired by Artwork

This challenge was another difficult one to think of inspiration for due to the vastness of options available (and my ability to pull any of them off..).  Because I tried (and ultimately failed) to recreate a couple of designs I'll put both of the looks I tried here!

Here's the first piece I liked!

Here's the second!

Yeah - nothing particularly good today but.. Well I actually have no excuse for that!

31 day challenge - Day 26 - Inspired by a Pattern

Inspired by a pattern was always going to be difficult as I'm not the best at difficult freehand stuff... I'm kinda happy with the way this turned out all things considered, though it isn't likely that I'll try it again any time soon!

Here's the pattern that inspired me!

31 day challenge - Day 25 - Inspired by Fashion

After a quick Google search for the fashion look, I came across a beautiful dress that Eva Longoria wore and knew I had to attempt this look! I think the look matches it quite well but it's not particularly pretty on the nails.. Unfortunately the purple didn't show up very well on camera too which is a shame.

Here's the dress that was the inspiration

31 day challenge - Day 24 - Inspired by a Book

The challenge of inspired by a book was the most difficult for me to think of a design for so far. I went through so many options in my head but couldn't think of anything appropriate! I eventually decided to re-do an earlier look and settled on a  Lord of the Rings style look. It turned out alright, nothing incredible though! The script is very difficult to do - it's so fiddly and it doesn't help when you have wobbly hands..

31 day challenge - Day 23 - Inspired by a Movie

I wracked my brain trying to think of a movie to be inspired by for this challenge and settled on one of my favourites - Star Trek! I took the inspiration from the uniforms they wear, particularly in the latest two movies. Man, Chris Pine is a fine specimen ;)

Here's the image I used for the inspiration!

31 day challenge - Day 22 - Inspired by a Song

The next "inspired by" challenge is a song! I went through my entire Spotify playlist trying to figure out which would actually work before I settled on Black and Gold by Sam Sparro. I think this look turned out pretty well and it gave me the chance to use another of OPI's liquid sand shades - this time in Honey Ryder!

Sam Sparro's Black and Gold - the inspiration for this look!

31 day challenge - Day 21 - Inspired by a Colour

We're finally on the home stretch of the 31 day challenge! Today's look is to be inspired by a "colour" which initially I was completely and utterly stumped by (apparently that happens a lot!). Then I remembered seeing this design somewhere else before and decided to give it a go. Unfortunately due to the terrible light conditions we have here in our typical dull English summer it was tricky to actually photograph this look so apologies if the pictures look poor.

31 day challenge - Day 20 - Water Marbling

This challenge has got to be the messiest, most frustrating one so far. Water Marbling has always been a pain to do due to the time it takes and the difficulty of getting it to actually work in the first place! Couple that with the fact that I kept knocking my nails and smudging the design and you make an irate Beth. The colours I used also seemed just too sheer to use but I was determined to use them! They turned out alright in the end though and I do love the finish that water marbling gives!