31 Day Challenge, Day 3: Yellow

Day 3 of the 31 Day Challenge, and my spirits are still high, although I have a loss to report. 

This is what's left of my striping brush, I'm glad it pulled through until I finished my left hand! I got it on sale a couple of weeks ago at Kiko, and wasn't too much of a fan when I started playing around with it. The bristles were too stiff, making it hard to get a clean stripe along the curves of my nails, and the opening of the ferrule where the bristles came out (I'm sure there's a real word for that place) seemed too large. This was my first time using this brush, aside from a couple of practice strokes on old manis and paper. I always made sure not to get acetone in the ferrule, because I didn't want to dissolve the glue - needless to say, that didn't really matter. 

I'm glad I only paid 1,50€ for this brush and I think Kiko doesn't even sell them anymore. Now I know why.

Ok, on to the good stuff of this post! For the yellow, I used NYC polish in Lexington Yellow. It's a great, bright, clean, yellow but it got a little uneven on my this time around. I can't recall having any problems with it before, though, so I think next time I will thin it a bit before I use it.

Then I added the black stripes with Jordana Black Charm and my now defunct striping brush. I actually loved the stripes and how easy they were to do, I have to get a replacement as soon as I can.

As an accent, and my inspiration for this mani, I added the little wasp (or is it a bee?) from the BM-301 image plate. 

Here's a close up of her, isn't she sweet? Now tell me, wasp or bee?