Friday Challenge - Art Deco

It's Friday! That means it's time for my Friday Challenge, as set by my work friend (he of the comedy blog comments!) Today's theme was ART DECO. 

This is what I did.

This is two coats of Barry M Silver Foil, some tape, and Barry M Gelly Blue Grape (and some Seche Vite). 

I started by google image searching 'art deco' and then 'art deco geometric patterns' and saw lots of inspiring ideas. I deliberately wanted to avoid the black and gold style nails, as I've done those before and have seen them around a lot as well, so wanted something different. The particular image that inspired me most was this one:

   (source: http://nurgonzalez.wordpress.com/)

In the end of course, my nails looked nothing like this design, but it was the blue and white pattern that appealed to me, and I mostly improvised from there. Apparently I passed the challenge!

Black and Gold Art Deco Nails

Today I wore my gorgeous gold Jade Holo to work - I love how this gold looks!  Tonight, inspired by the numerous black and gold tape manis I've seen recently on a few blogs (everyone seems to be doing Great Gatsby nails recently!) I had a play with my striping tape, and came up with these, using my go-to Rimmel Black Out.

Initially I was going to do different designs on each finger, then the middle finger was meant to be an accent, but afterwards I wished I'd done the same design on each one. Oh well!

I'm still really happy with how these turned out! I've never done anything so intricate before, and while there are one or two places where something splodged a bit, they're mostly not that visible, so I'm pretty chuffed! Some of the black lines aren't quite the same width apart, but that's also fairly minor I suppose.

I love the Jade Holo by the way - look at it on its own!

What do you think?