I have these silver and blue diagonal stripes for the Tuesday prompt of “inspired by your childhood” this week.

If my nails look quite obscure and not particularly reminiscent of anything to do with childhood, it’s because they are inspired by my old school tie.

My senior school was built in 1977, which was the same year as the Queen’s silver jubilee. Although the school logo at the time was royal blue, navy and white, the silver was apparently added to the tie to honour the Queen in her jubilee year.

And the tie was alternate silver and royal blue diagonal stripes. I don’t think I have the blue colour quite right. It was more than thirty years ago now, but I think the jumper was more this sort of blue, but the blue on the tie was a bit darker.

I used Barry M Foil Effects Silver for the base. It only needed one coat and was perfect. Barry M discontinued the Foil Effects polishes a few months ago. At the time I wondered (and hoped) if it was because they were going to launch a whole range of metallic polishes to replace them. Well, they have sort of done that with the recently launched Molten Metals. But they don’t stamp anywhere near as well as the foils did. So I’m still disappointed – as are hundreds of like-minded nails bloggers – that you can no longer get hold of the Foil Effects polishes.

Please take a look at all the other manicures from the Twinsies this week:

• Alaina at The Little Canvas
• Alice at Nail Art in Wonderland
• Amanda at Amandalandish
• Amanda at Fashion Footing
• Amber at Nails Like Lace
• Chelsea at Nailed Blog
• ChiChi at I’m Just Me…ChiChi
• Lisa at The Polish Playground
• Marisa at Polish Obsession
• Marisa at Polish Those Nails
• Megan at A Beauty in the Business
• Róisín at Cuti-CLUE-les
• Sara at The Call of Beauty
• Sarah at Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lacquer
• Savannah at Addicted to Polish
• Sharon at Behind Green Eyes
• Steph at Lovestruck Lacquer