Pastel Chevrons

The theme today is "Chevrons" it's day 23 of September is Stamping Month.

The inspiration for this manicure came from Natalie.  She gave me the idea for the pastel base colours. She stamped perfect triangles over her base.  You will find her blog post and description here: enjoy, it's a really beautiful site. Scroll a bit further down this post, to see a photo of her manicure <3.

Base colours (from left in photo below) blobbed and sponged onto the nail randomly over Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White:

• Primark Nail Polish, Unnamed (turquoise)
• Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Blueberry GNP 5
• Rimmel Salon Pro, 337 Purple Rain
• Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Dragon GNP 11

Held in hand is my absolute favourite (actually, my only) jelly polish.  It makes everything soft and dreamy, I reckon even Laurie Nievin might like this one!

OPI Nail Lacquer, Don't Touch my Tutu NL T52

Stamp colour: Konad White
Stamping plate: Moyou London Princess Collection - 12

Muted Autumn sunlight

Bottle Shot

Under the trees

Tools of the Trade

 Base colours

The base

In the shade

Twin Nails with San

San is the amazing girl who taught me this technique to make nail decals.  Now I always always use this method.  I feel so lucky to do a twin manicure with her, she is so talented, there's never a mistake on her nails <3  See her video here.  She explains everything so beautifully.

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Blueberry GNP 5
The decals:

• Konad White
• Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Sugar Apple GNP 21 
• Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 12. Cream
• Beauty UK Nail Polish, Unnamed (green)

Stamp colour: Konad Black
Stamping plate: Moyou London Pro Collection - 10 XL

Matching Nails!

Halogen Lighting

Autumn Sun

The gorgeous San <3

The Decals

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Tools of the Trade

Indirect Sunlight

Sunshine

My nail twin!!!!

Bottle Shot

This is so much fun!

Crazy French Tips

Today's theme is "French Tips"  it's day 22 of September is Stamping Month.  I actually wore this manicure last week to test out some of my new Mundo de Uñas stamping polishes.  I really liked the end result, so I thought I'd save it to post it publically for today's theme.

Base colour: Miss Sporty Clubbing Colours, 320 Pop Fiction
Stamp colour: Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 42. Holland Blue
Stamping plate:  Konad m89

Tip colour:  Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White
Tip stamp colour:  Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 20. Fiusha
Tip stamping plate: Cheeky Jumbo Plate - C

So shiny

Halogen lighting

Sunshine :)

Indirect sunshine

Tools of the Trade

Tools for the Tips

In the autumn sun

Underneath

Marbled Galaxy

My first water marbling :)  I used the dry method, you can see parts of this process below. This technique will take some practise.

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Green Berry GNP 12
Water marble colours (from left in photo below):  Bronze Metalic nail colour from Savers, Barry M Aquarium Collection, AQNP5 Arabian, Ciate Paint Pots, PP037 Starlet

I was aiming for peacock inspired colours, but after seeing my marbled nails, I decided they looked more like a galaxy in space.  So obviously, I stamped stars over!!!!

Stamp colour: Konad White
Stamping plate: Cheeky CH5

Halogen lighting

Bottle shot

Star stamping

Marble Colours

Tools of the Trade

Water marble decals

Autumn sunshine

Spacey!!!

I am such a messy worker!

Scary

Today is the 20th day of September is Stamping Month.  The theme today is "Scary"

I have ripped off this amazing creation by Irina Walerica (http://walerica.blogspot.ru/) click here for the instagram photo that gave me inspiration for my manicure.

I find the scull on this artist plate really morbid.  I chose to stamp with purple since the colour is often used to symbolise mourning or death as are the carnations scattered around those roses.  I lifted the mood slightly by painting the roses pink!

Base colour: Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Coconut GNP 28
Stamp colour: Mundo de Uñas Stamping Polish, 14. Violet
Decals:  Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine, Dragon GNP 11
Stamping plate: Moyou London Artist Collection - 11

Indirect sunlight

Bottle Shot

Giant fingers

Tools of the Trade

The decals

Halogen lighting

Enormous fingers!

Hazy autumn sunshine

Cute Aliens

Today is day Nineteen of September is Stamping Month.  And the theme is "Space / Aliens"
Yet another perfect theme for me!!!!  I haven't successfully used my moyou full image plate and I've been wanting to try again for a while.  There are so many brilliant parts to this plate, it was tough choosing how to get the best bits onto my nails.  In the end, I swatched my favourite parts, cut out each finger and arrange them until I was happy (see photo below).  I mostly managed to stick to the plan!

And, of course, I couldn't resist puting the alien theme over a funky sci-fi background pattern.  So this manicure took longer than most.  I was really happy with the outcome though.

Base colour: Sinful Colors, 300 Easy Going

Base stamp colour: Sinful Colors, 101 Snow me White
Base stamping plate: Moyou London Sci-Fi Collection - 09

Stamp colour: Revlon Colorstay, 290 Midnight (teal)
Stamping plate: Moyou London Sci-Fi Collection - 04

Timer function

Indirect sunlight

Sorry about the background :(

The base stamp

The base tools

Tools of the Trade

This took some planning!

Indirect Sunshine

Halogen lighting