Candy Cane Chevrons

Hello you!  I am finally feeling festive, so I am sharing the Christmas spirit with this golden candy cane manicure.

This design brings all of my favourite aspects of stamping together:  Moyou London stamping plates, holographic glitter, decals and last but not least Mundo de Uñas stamping polish.

Bottle Shot

Here is my post for the A-Z Weekly Blog challenge. We post alphabetically on thursdays. Today is the letter G for "Gold". Hashtag #A2ZNails

This is also my challenge manicure for Crumpets 52 Week Pick n Mix Challenge. This week, we have been given the prompts: "chevrons" and "red and gold".
Hashtag #52wpnmc

Gold and Glitter

Base colour:  Beauty UK Nail Polish, Unnamed (Gold)
Glitter:  Loose holographic gold glitter from set of twelve
Stamp colour:   Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 32. Reddish
Decals:  Konad Stamping Polish, White
Stamping plate:   Moyou London  Fashionista Collection - 04

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The Decals

Halogen Lightinng

Crumpets

An InLinkz Link-up

A2Z

An InLinkz Link-up

Snowflakes Skittle

Hello you!

My first festive manicure this year!  Here in Hereford (England, UK), we have had a couple of frosty mornings, but no snow yet.  Sooooo to help me feel more Christmassy, I thought I'd put some snowflakes on my fingers!!!!!

I Snow you Love Me!!!!!!

Fireworks and Flowers

I've been very slow in getting this post together considering how excited I've been about sharing it with you all.

When my sister Amity came to visit last week, she also brought along the nail polish she had used for my birthday nail party.  I used it to create a matching fireworks manicure on my own nails.  Amity was inspired to use this colourful glitter to create firework nails by Naomi, author of the blog, Bewitchery.  Click here to see Naomi's firework nails

Amity got me the beautiful Pueen Encore set of stamping plates for my birthday present and I couldn't wait to try them out.  Together we chose a beautiful floral section of plate plate 4a with butterflies and elegant tendrils surrounded by a lovely collection of different flowers..

Base colour:  Essie, Boat House
Base colour:  Technic, Carnival Glitter
Stamp colour: Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 12. Cream
Stamping plate: Pueen Encore SE04A

Our Fireworks Glitter Base

Fireworks and Flowers

Close-up

It was so nice to have you here <3

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Giant Finger!!!!

Double Trouble!

Halogen Lighting

Flourish on Pink Glitter

Today is Wednesday again! This means a new challenge for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October 2014.

Today's theme is glitter!!!  I have a gorgeous hot pink glitter by Loreal that was simply begging to be used today and I struggled to find a stamping image that didn't overpower it.  MDU stamping polishes are a godsend.  I stamped dozens of images over this glitter before finding this flourish.  The beauty of MDU is that it dries so slowly, there is no rush!  You can simply remove a stamped image from your nails using tape or a lint roll.  Sadly the sun didn't shine, so all my photographs are artificially lit.

Base colour:  Essie (Poppy-Razzi Collection), Lights
Glitter:  L'oreal Color Riche, 836 Scarlet Tinsel
Stamp colour:  Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 12. Cream
Stamping plate:  Moyou London Pro Collection XL - 07

Pretty pink sparkles

Halogen Lighting

Big fingers!

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Breast Cancer Awareness

Close up

Bottle Shot

Gigantic Finger

Autumn Blooms

It's the last day of September is Stamping month, and I have finally embraced the change in season with this gorgeous rust colour (Paprika GNP 32) by barry m.  I used an iridescent glitter as a sponged gradient on my tips and set it all off with some gold rhinestones.  I am also really happy about the chance to chop my nails off!  My bicycle needs washing, and there are a few other nail unfriendly tasks I've been putting off since I started this daily challenge. Goodbye long impractical nails, hello Autumn

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Paprika GNP 32
Glitter: Mixed glitter from Amazon
Stamp colour: Konad White
Stamping plate: Moyou London Pro Collection - 10 XL
Rhinestones: Pack of 1200 mixed colour from Moyou London

Indirect sun

Bottle Shot!!!

Rusty glitter = Swoooon 

Self timer again...

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Indirect sunlight

This photo is upside down!

Fish Fingers

Here is another manicure that I've been excited about trying for a while.  Colourful fish on a blue shimmery background.  The outcome was not everything I'd hoped for, but it was great fun using all those fab colours and glitter always makes me smile.

The problem is that my decal technique is not improving!  I find the dotting tool quite tricky to use consistently. Sometimes the polish is too dry and it takes part of the stamp away, sometimes the blob on the end is too big and it takes ages to dry and normally I manage to miss the outlines completely! Sigh, I guess you will be seeing many more practise attempts at this.

Base colour: Rimmel 60 Seconds, 842 Too Cool to Tango
Glitter on tips:  Loose iridescent blue glitter (Ebay mixed set of 12 pots)
Stamp colour: Konad Black
Decals: Rimmel 60 Seconds, 450 Get your Shades On , Rimmel 60 Seconds, 405 Rose Libertine and Primark Nail Polish, unnamed neon orange.
Stamping plate: Moyou London Sailor Collection - 04

Direct sunshine

Fish fingers!!!!

Eeeeek! I hadn't realised the rose had a bee inside!

Tools of the Trade

Indirect sunlight

The glitter gradient base

Aquarium before clean-up!

Halogen lighting

Stamping Polish Experiment

The Sunday challenge for Sunday Aug. 24th is:
Color combination I have never tried before.

This was a chance for me to try reviving my nearly empty gloopy konad white by adding another colour.  I chose a Loreal red I don't like much and I hoped it would make a soft rose colour when added to the white. It took a lot of shaking, I should probably invest in some mixing balls! I am not convinced this manicure is any better than if I had left my Konad white.  I probably should have added more, for a stronger colour but I am very happy with the consistency.  I will probably add red more at a later date, and will let you know the outcome.

Base colour: Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours, 320 Pop Fiction
Glitter topper: Essence Nail Art Topper, 02 Circus Confetti
Stamp colour:  Konad White mixed with 1/4 bottle of Loreal Color Riche, 403 Femme Fatale
Stamping plate: Born Pretty QA88

Direct sunlight

The glitter base

Artificial lighting

My left hand <3

Sunshine and glitter

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My phone seems to take better glitter pics!

Phone camera again

Celebration of Chaos!

I had worn the Party Time manicure for a few days, and wanted to practice more decals.  Since the glitter was so loud, I had to compensate with crazy stamping images, in contrasting black and white.  This manicure turned out much too busy looking for my taste.  I much preferred the look before stamping! Ah well, sometimes less is more.

Base colour: This is explained in my previous post, Party Time.
Stamp colour: Konad Black
Decals: Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White
Stamping plate: Moyou London Princess Collection - 13

Pow

Left hand

Right hand

All that jazz

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