Polish Days: Vintage

It's Polish Days time again! For the first time since I started participating in Polish Days, I really struggled with the theme. This month's theme is Vintage... Hannah suggests that you could take the theme to mean using a vintage polish, or taking a decade or trend or anything really, so long as there is some connection with the past as your inspiration. Seems easy enough right... Wrong! I could not think. I often do stamping that reminds me of old-fashioned wallpaper etc, but I wanted to do something different and as I always use Polish Days as a way to make sure I do some nail art, I didn't want to just swatch a vintage polish. In the end I googled the word vintage and this is what I came up with..,

This totally reminds me of an old-fashioned day at the beach. I actually really like the way this turned out with the stripes and everything.

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This was my inspiration image. As I was scrolling down through google images, I instantly fell in love with this and knew I wanted my mani to come from this.

Here are my nails pre stamping. I love the stripes. Please excuse the fact that only two of my nails are top coated! I'm not sure why I thought it was a good idea to take photos before I did the other two??

Polishes I used were OPI 'My Boyfriend Scales Walls' as the base on all nails. I did the stripes using striping tape from Born Pretty Store with OPI 'Steady As She Rose' and China Glaze 'Aquadelic'. My ring finger was stamped using BM-309 with a-england 'Galahad' and BM-09 with Essie 'School of Hard Rocks'.

Thanks Hannah for another great Polish Days! Make sure you check out what all the other lovelies have made of this theme...

Maybe you're one of those annoyingly lucky people who own some heavenly vintage polishes that you want to crack open (not literally) and make the rest of us jealous, or maybe you too have a soft spot for doilies.  Perhaps you're inspired by a particular decade or trend.  As long as there's some connection to the past it'll fit right in with this months theme!

1. caz 'n' polish  2. Guilty As Charged  3. Truly Madly Beauty  4. Jennifer @ Jennibertt's Nails  5. My Polish Adventures  6. splatter mani  7. Maliberry Makeup  8. L O Z L O S A  9. Joanna @ The Treasure Chest  10. NailGlaze  11. Karine's Vernis Club  12. Nail that trend by the nailist  13. 1666 X 30  14. Liz @ Lozlosa  15. Lacquer Or Leave Her!  16. SwatchGirl  17. Susan @ The Subtle Shimmer  18. Elena@PolishMadness  19. Chiro@Nail of This Week  20. Wendy's Delights  21. Miss Mani Monster  22. Quinnie @ Adventures in LalaLand  23. Jamegackie  24. Ashley  25. A Lacquered Affair  26. Chrissie @ +10 Kapow  27. Nail Polish Creations  28. Aby  29. Ishah x Beauty  30. Ro @ It's Just a Hobby!  31. Nailtart  32. NorthernNails  33. Valiantly Varnished  34. The Swatchaholic  35. Maria @ So Marvellous  36. Me, Myself & Polish  37. Wacky Laki  38. Nailed by a Chef  39. Sabine @ My Polish Stash  40. Lacquer Buzz  41. My Nail Polish Online  42. Beauty By Jenny  43. POW Nails  44. JEN (Nai1 Chronic1es)  45. Claire @ nuthin' but a nail thing  46. Chester  47. Jane  48. Kirsty @ Oh! Look at my Nails  49. Piola  50. Nicole gets Nailed  51. polish cart  52. Jen @ The Nail Polish Project  53. Jessica (Sparkle and Shine)  54. The Frenzied Polisher  55. Amanda | Glittericity  56. The Beautiful Glaze  57. Anneke @ Pinpoint Polish  58. Thithi@ pretty tough nails  59. Josephine @ Rainbows in a jar  60. GelaNails  61. Nailphotos by Lani  62. Cassie @ Sparkles Make Me Happy  63. Red Frog  64. Hannah Polly Polish  65. Lacquer: The Best Medicine  66. LittleBeautyBagCta  67. Killer Nails  68. Alexis: Mangling my Manicure

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