A = Angles

A-Z Weekly Blog

I am so happy to be part of a group of nail bloggers A-Z challenge.  We will post alphabetically every thursday. This is the first week and so we have the letter A.  The theme for A is "Angles" (and also angels).

Base colours:

• Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White
• Maybelline Super Stay, 20 Uptown Blue
• Essie Nail Lacquer, Where's my Chauffeur

Stamp colours:

• Konad Stamping Polish in White
• Essie Mirror Metallics, 944 Blue Rhapsody
• Rimmel 60 Seconds, 825 Sky High

Stamping plate: Q Girl - 016

Close up

Alphabet themed nail art!!!!

This is a fantastic polish for stamping

Massive finger!!!!!

Halogen lighting

Variations

Tools of the Trade

The first stamp

If you have noticed that this base stamp does not match the photos of my finished manicure, you have great eyes!!!!  This happened because I badly damaged the stamping on my ring finger during clean-up (I was at my Dad's house). I had to remove the stamping and the old polish and start fresh.  I only had a white polish with me so I stamped in turquoise.

The base for my index finger

More cat hair

An InLinkz Link-up

Stolen Dotticure

I've never tried a dotticure before!  I scoured the net to find something simple and striking.  I also needed a look that didn't require exact precision, since I am so clumbsy while holding the dotting tool!  I have added a picture of the gorgeous manicure I copied at the bottom of this post (I would be too embarrassing for me to add it earlier since Heather's is so much cleaner!) Heather explains wonderfully how to create this look here on her blog "I feel polished" her dotticure is totally perfect <3.

Obviously I had to stamp over this, but I wished I hadn't.  It was far too busy for me after stamping.  I have posted a couple of pictures for you to see below.

Blue colour:  Rimmel 60 Seconds, 842 Too Cool to Tango
White colour:  Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White

Stamp colour: Konad Black
Stamping plate: Konad m51

Halogen lighting

Dots bottle shot

stamped bottle shot

Gigantic finger!!!

Tools of the Trade

Diagonal Stripes

Blue dots

Awful stamping effort

Finished dotticure

My inspiration on I Feel Polished

Sweet Things

I'm back!  Today is day 17 of September is Stamping Month and the theme is "candy"

I love these Stamping polishes from Mundo de Uñas!!!!  I have a huge list of reasons you should try them, at the bottom of this post.

Base colour:  Rimmel Salon Pro, 317 Hip Hop
Base shimmer:  OPI Nail Lacquer, Ski Slope Sweetie HL E15 (not pictured)
Stamp colour:   Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 14. Violet
Decals:  My konad mix and Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 16. Lilac
Stamping plate: Moyou London Princess Collection - 08 and 11

Halogen Lighting

Halo Lighting

Indirect sunlight

Tools of the Trade

The decals

Sunshine and sweeties

Autumn sun

I've been playing with my Mundo de Unas stamping polishes for a couple of days now and really believe that their creator Sylvia is actually a magician!

Firstly: I can't actually believe how vivid these colours are over black.  Magic is the only explanation!  The photos do not do these polishes justice.

And this polish is so thick, I only need the tiniest amount to cover the image I want.

Also, these polishes are so slow to dry I don't have to panic to finish stamping each nail.

Next, I love that I don't have to clean my image plate every time I stamp, the polish doesn't set on the plate, so I just add a touch more and pick up another perfect image <3

And, sellotape really does take this stamping polish off the nail, I don't have to worry so much about making mistakes now.

Tape also removes the Mundo de Unas stamping polish from my cuticles so much better too.  My clean up is much quicker and easier now.

Lastly try as I might, I have not managed to smear these polishes with top coat application.  I was curious, and really did put this to the test, swiping topcoat over the same place multiple times, double dipping etc, my Mundo de Unas did not smear :)

White Leopard

This manicure is the base layer preparation for the AIS Sunday Challenge, in which I will be trying to copy a darker leopard print phone cover.  Keep watching this space to see how this develops.

Base colours: The following colours are all fairly sheer, so I added two different coloured coats on each finger, trying to make every finger slightly different.
Barry M 309 Strawberry I/C,
Barry M 318 Peach Melba,
Rimmel 60 Seconds, 450 Get your Shades on
OPI Ski Slope Sweetie HL E15
Loreal top coat confettis, Splash Peach (bottle not photographed)

Stamp colour: Konad White
Image plate: Konad m57-1

Making progress 

I couldn't resist Loreal top coat confettis, Splash Peach on my pinky

This stamp would be fantastic to spruce up a tired manicure

Base coat colours

Both hands stamped cleaned and oiled

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

Sci-FI Grunge

I will definitely attempt this manicure again with more futuristic colours. everything stamped cleanly and evenly.

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 Sci Fi Collection 04