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

Tools of the Trade

The Decals

Halogen Lightinng

Crumpets

An InLinkz Link-up

A2Z

An InLinkz Link-up

World Music Day 2014

Sunday Challenge 22nd June 2014

Treble clef, Crotchet and Quaver nails with a touch of bling. 

(World Music Day was Saturday 21st June)

Base colour 1: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Lychee 

Base colour 2: OPI, Ski Slope Sweetie (sponged over)

Stamp colour: Konad, Black

Image plate: Moyou London Pro Collection - 14  XL 

Topper: 1.5mm iridescent blue hex glitter individually placed over black stamped image.

This is a little photo heavy due to me trying to show how shimmery and sparkly this mani turned out.

Garden tree shade

To quickly explain this manicure, I started off with nude nails using Barry M in lychee. AIS then inspired me with an exciting Sunday Challenge, so I lightly sponged a gold to over the nude before stamping (see penultimate photograph).  Konad black with moyou swirls gave my interpretation of music, and to brighten and add bling, I placed iridescent glitter over the heavier black flowers in the stamping image.

Out door late afternoon lighting

Artificial lighting

Most of the equipment I used

Base layers

And a sunny picture to finish this post with