Day 22 - Inspired by a Song

This song is stuck in my mind from the very beginning of 30 Days of Untried Challenge. Quite annoying I would say. I hope that posting about it now will finally take it off! My inspirational song is Bird On A Wire by Leonard Cohen. This song has way too many versions, but I prefer the original. I think it's the best.

At first, I tried a different background. I saw Debbie Crumpet's entry for day 18 - Half Moon in the 30 Days Challenge and I loved it so much! I wanted to try something like that as a background for my birds. I used a base of Essie - Bikini So Teeny (which is gorgeous and will have to get a post all for itself soon!), I sponged using Sinful Colors - Feeling Great and I added a little line of sun with Sinful Colors - Firefly. While the result wasn't exactly as I imagined it, it was... ok. Alas, when I added my birdies, the entire design looked busy and dark, I noticed that I drew the birds upside down and I just hated it.

So I tried again. This time I used two coats of Illamasqua - Raindrops over one coat of Zoya - Megan. This is such a lovely combo. Cool and rainy. I then used China Glaze - Stone Cold, from the Capitol Colors Collection (the Hunger Games), to draw my little birds. I liked the texture that Stone Cold left.

If you want to see my review of the polishes I used as base for these designs, check this post.