Those Who Can't Water Marble, Stamp!

I love the look of water marbled nails; I see the awesome water marbling and have bought all the polishes that are suppose to yield good results, I've tried tap water same temperature as polishes, distilled water same room temperatures as polishes and watched countless youtube videos but still can't seem to grasp it!  My very first attempt was somewhat successful and every attempt after wards has been a fail.  I do hope to one day sit down and see if I can get better results but in the meanwhile, I thought these stamped nails imitating water marbling turned out pretty darn good if I don't say so myself!   I'll stick to stamping until I can water marble better! Here's what I came up with!

Started with two coats of Fiendish Fancies The White F.17-03, no top coat.  As soon as I seen this at Indie Expo Canada I said to Laura, the owner of Fiendish Fancies, that this will be the perfect base for nail art and it was one of my very first mani's after IEC 2018! All nails have the same number of coats and as you can see in the middle and ring, they are opaque but I'm surmising the way the light hit the index and pinky, they don't seem as opaque.  What I love about this polish is the hint of white shimmer and the silver holo glitter that combined with the sheer consistency of it make it so pretty!  It's too bad my pictures don't pick it up better.  

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping.

Did a stamped gradient using Moyra SP 19, MoYou Pink! and Moyra SP 01 with an image from Kelly Negri KN17.  I was happy that all three colours gradiented well even on my shorties!  This is why I still do my nails even though they are short!

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Hopefully soon you'll see some successful water marbling mani's, in the meanwhile, I will stamp on!

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Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 5

Happy Friday the 13th!!!  Hopefully a black cat will not cross your path today, you don't step on a crack, walk under a ladder or break any mirrors!  

This is my final indie love challenge mani for Digit-al Dozen featuring black cats for Friday the 13th on a blue indie polish base as again, only sharing blue mani's for April in support of Autism Awareness. Here's what I came up with!

Started with a smooshy stamper base using assortment of indie polishes:  Girly Bits Denim & Diamonds, Girly Bits Blue Christmas, KBShimmer Sky Jinks, KBShimmer In Yacht Water, KBShimmer My Life's Porpoise and Moyra SP. 22.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Moyra Stamping Plate 51 - Friends using FunkyFingers Dark Knight.

Moyra Stamping Plate 51 - Friends.  If you have a fondness for cats, this is the plate for you!

Stamped accent using Fig Tree Stamps with CNF 002, another image from Moyra Stamping Plate 51-Friends and Delaney Chats & Chiens 001 using Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

Delaney Chats & Chiens 001.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

The next morning, I decided to topcoat the mani with OPI Matte as there was so much shine on the pictures that they didn't show that well to me.  If that makes sense lol.  I liked how they turned out matte too, especially the distressed base look.

Hopefully you've enjoyed all the indie love mani's this week!  Here's the other ladies day 5 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

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Digit-al Dozen Does Indie Love; Day 4

For Day 4 of Digit-al Dozen indie love theme, I'm sharing a few indie products; indie stamping plates and indie stamping polishes.  Nails are blue again as I'm only sharing blue mani's for the month of April for Autism Awareness month.  Here's what I came up with!

This was my first foray using the gradient image on Lina Make Your Mark 03.  Not very successful but I always share the good with the bad.  This is a gradient using MoYou Beach House and MoYou Deep Ocean.  This is a big fail to me; to be honest, I can't even say I've mastered (or even gotten better) at the stamping gradient as any gradients I've done since this (and this is almost a year old), I've just done the more traditional way using a sponge.  I would love that this would work better for me, or even with the fan brush as it would make gradients so much faster, but I honestly have never tried it since.  

Topped with a layer of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I was thoroughly disgusted with my gradient attempt but as I had already invested my time in doing it, I thought I had better see if I could save it.  So stamped on top of it using another image from Lina Make Your Mark 03 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

This too was a fail as somehow I ended stamping something on my ring finger.  Gaaaa!  So needed to cover THAT up, so stamped using yet another image from Lina Make Your Mark 03 using MoYou Deep Ocean.

While this finally didn't make the nails an utter fail, I thought the nails STILL needed something more.  So stamped for the fourth and final time using an image from Marianne nails n.62 using Moyra SP 05.  I think this is also the first time that I've done a quadruple layered stamped mani (other than when I've stamped single images randomly on nails; then I've probably done 20 or more stamps but this is actually layer on top of layer on top of layer on top of layer. Whew!) 

Topped with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  I do have to say that I really like how this ended up, it was just quite a bit of work getting there.  Just goes to show that with a bit of work, you can save a nail fail lol!

Here's the other ladies Day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!

Autism Awareness Day!

April 2nd is Autism Awareness Day; here is the mani I did for it!  

Started with a base of two coats of FingerPaints Blissfully Blue, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

I made stamper decals using images from Dixie Plates Awareness plate.  Unfortunately, the Autism Awareness ribbon was too large for my nails; I first stamped using the UberChic Luxe stamper, then immediately transferred the image to a clear stamper head.  This took a few tries as some of the lines are so fine and they dried pretty quickly even when I used MdU stamping polish.  All images on this mani are from the Dixie Plates Awareness plate; I isolated and stamped images for the ring and pinky.  I used MdU 2 and 73, Moyra Sp 02, 05 and 22, MoYou Deep Ocean and CND Bicycle Yellow.  

Dixie Plates Awareness

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

April is Autism Awareness Month; I'm going to try to do my part and do a few blue mani's throughout the month in support of the cause which is near and dear to me....just in case you start seeing a lot of blue posted in the future!

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Butterflies!

I shared this mani a while back on IG but haven't shared anywhere else so thought I would do now!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Essence Jeans On!, no top coat.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using Cbl Lilac Petals Stamping Polish, Moyra SP04 and FunkyFingers Gesso.

Top coated with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using images from Marianne Nails n.104 using MdU 1. Each of the butterflies were stamped individually....that's 16 individual stamps!

Marianne Nails n.104

The added sparkle from Cbl Lilac Petals just adds so much more to this stamping!

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

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Digit-al Dozen Does My Home; Day 4

I'm a little late in posting my day 4 Digit-al Dozen mani; it was super hectic last week and then I spent most of the weekend doing holiday shopping!

This is my day 4 my home mani based on one of my holiday tablecloths!  Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of 4 coats of Girly Bits Eggnogoholic, with accents of two coats each of OPI Adam Says, "It's New Years, Eve" and Barielle Central Park.  Eggnogoholic is pretty sheer and some wear just a couple coats but I'm not a fan of VNL on me so I wear extra to opaque.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Marianne Nails n.118 using MdU 37.

Added dots to the berries using Moyra SP.02.

Stamped accents using Hit The Bottle A Glint of Gold using an image from EJB-03.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

The stamping on the accents actually turned out better on Ms. Cindy so thought I would share.  The gold stamping on the red......swoon!

Here's the tablecloth the mani is inspired by.

Here's the other ladies Day 4 mani's!

An InLinkz Link-up

Thanks for looking!