Fall Leaf Nails

Have the leaves started turning in your area yet? Just this past week or so, they started to turn where I live. So fall was the inspiration for this mani.



A little different eh?

Started with a base of Orly Iron Butterfly, which was from their Matte Metallic collex. This is one coat....I was just too tired to do a second as it was 1 am when I was doing this mani, which is around my usual time for finally getting time in my day (or night?) to do them lately.


Stamped using CND chrome polishes in Copper, Silver and Gold. All of these chromes work really well for stamping.



I really liked this combination of using a matte base with the chrome polishes and have already thought of a few different manis that I could recycle this look, using other plates and themes.



Used fauxnad image plates T41, D03 (not chez d plates, another D series), fauxnad m56 (Canada flag image but just used the maple leaf portion) and SdP D-14.


Unfortunately, matte polishes tend to chip. By 10 am the next morning, I already had chips and lots of tip wear so this mani was short lived.


Hope you have a fantastic weekend. Thanks for looking!

My Father's Day Mani+Last Day for Giveaway!

I'm heading to breakfast with my dad soon (and my husband and kids cause he's a father too!) and thought I would quickly share my Father's Day mani.



Polishes used were Essence My Boyfriend's Jeans for thumb, OPI No Room for the Blues for index and ring fingers and Essence Forever Mine for other fingers; two coats each.

Then stamped with Konad black and white special polishes using IP's SdP D-14, SdP C-17 and A19. Afterwards, used a bit a few dotting pens for a little colour interest.

Here's mani in progress. Before stamping; polishes by themselves.



Stamping in progress.



Lastly, once finishes, with SV.



I hope you have a terrific day. I've been spending all weekend with my dad and the whole family's excited to be heading out for breakfast soon (will probably be brunch by the time we leave!

Have a great day and thanks for looking!

And lastly, a final call to enter my giveaway which ends today! If you are interested in checking it out, please go here! I'll be compiling the winners soon and will post in a few days! Thx for checking it out!