Pink Roses

This manicure is for the lovely little facebook stamping group: Stamp one, Stamp all ten!  This week's theme is to support breast cancer awareness.

This manicure needed to be really feminine, yet strong.  I quickly realised that the inverted roses on this moyou pro plate would be perfect.  Stamping these bold flowers in pretty pinks seemed obvious; but see the "tools and planning" photo to find out how I chose which colours and where they went.

Stamping Plate:  Moyou London Pro Collection xl - 07
Colours used (from right to left in photo below):

• Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Rose Hip GNP 20 (base)
• Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White (base)
• Rimmel Lasting Finish, 502 Hot Tropicana (base and stamping)
• Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 20. Fiusha (stamping)
• Homemade Konad Pink (stamping)
• Konad Stamping Polish in White (stamping)

Halogen Lighting

Closeup

Bottle Shot

The base colours

The stamp colours

Colours used.

Tools and Planning

Or Quality Street?

Gigantic Thumb!!!

This manicure really reminds me of the giant tins of roses chocolates my family gets for christmas.

Sadly no green triangles in here

An InLinkz Link-up

I Heart You!

Welcome to September is Stamping Month: Day Seven and the theme today is "Hearts".  Such a cute girly topic, so I obviously had to do a really, really girly manicure for this challenge.  I chose the hottest of pinks then I inverted the colours (as well as I could) on my accent nails. <3 <3 <3

Base colour accent nails:  Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Grapefruit GNP 8
Stamp colour accent nails:  Konad White

Base colour rest:  Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White
Stamp colour rest: Primark Nail Polish, unnamed (pinky red)

Stamping plate: Konad M 93

Hit the Deck

Halo Lighting

Tools of the Trade

Indirect Autumn Sun

Garden Shot

Army Chintz

Here I attempted inverse stamping only to figure out that not all colours stamp as well as others.  Stamping is fun. So many variations, so many image plates, I want to try them all out immedietly!

I removed yesterdays stamping manicure, and since I had used top coat before stamping, I got to keep my base colours from that mani :)

Base colour: Rimmel Salon Pro, 331 Sage Green
Ring base: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Papaya
Stamp colour: Sinful Colors, Snow me white 101
Image plate: Moyou London Pro Collection 14  XL

Not a Proper Princess

I really love the scale of these stamping images,they are just the right size to fit on my nails and you can still work out the individual pictures.


Base colour: I stamped over an unsuccessful lilac and white mani
Stamp colour: Primark, unnamed
Image plate: Moyou London Princess Collection 14 xl

Ladybirds and gingerbread men

I think the puzzle pieces are too large :(

Moyou London Fairytale Collection 06

My all time favourite plate

The Moyou Stamper got lost in the post and the Konad double ended stamper was taking too long to arrive.  So I scavenged and hunted, and found something that did the job (see last picture) . Please don't look too closely at my photos since the stamping image did not transfer crisply and the detail is lost.  There is definitely nothing wrong with the Moyou London image plate!

White used: Sinful colors, Snow me White 101
Pink used: Rimmel 60 Seconds, 405 Rose Libertine
Image plate: Moyou London, Fairytale Collection - 06

I am so sorry about the messy cuticles

Thumb and index fingers are inverse stamped

Swatch test when plate arrived

Can't seem to get my images right today. They just wont line up how I want them too :(

Inverse Stamping

Not a well executed manicure, but one I will definitely revisit.

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Dragon
Stamp colour: Sinful Colors, Snow me White 101
Image plate: Moyou London Pro Collection - 14  XL

I am backdating posts to date I took the photo. As a final note: please forgive poor photography, messy cuticles and bad stamping. This is a learning curve for me, and I will improve.