Digit-al Dozen Does Stamping; Day 2

I wore these a couple weekends ago; a bright pick me up to a dreary day!  A radial gradient for day 2 of Digit-al Dozen stamping week.

I initially was going to water marble so picked out some Pipe Dream polishes to use.  THEN I remembered I have absolutely no water marble skills so decided on a radial gradient base instead.  Used Pipe Dream Polish Light of Day, Happy Hour and All In.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped using an image from Infinity 015 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Infinity 015.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Here's the other ladies day 2 mani's!

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Digit-al Dozen Does Birthday's: April 2017

Today, we are celebrating Digit-al Dozen birthdays for April; this month, Uma at Uma's Nail Art and Katherine Marie at ProcrastiNails both celebrated birthdays; this is the mani I did based on the photo they picked for inspiration.  Happy Birthday, Uma an Katherine Marie!

Inspiration photo.

Started with a base of one coat of Enchanted Polish Opals & Cream.

I thought the iridescent glitters in the Enchanted Opals would give that oil slick kinda look in the bubbles so used them for a radial gradient.  Used Enchanted Opals & Cream, Opal Lagoon, Opal Nectar and Candied Opal.  In hindsight, I wish I had have  done the base a little darker but these polishes are fairly goopy and not that opaque so I had had enough with doing sponging even to get them to this opacity.

They didn't quite give enough of the iridescent look I was going for so added two coats of Colorama Blazes of Crystal.  I probably should have sponged on the flakies but didn't think of it at the time.

Added a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top before stamping. (Unfortunately, between my hands not being steady enough and so much going on in the polishes, my camera had a hard time focusing so I took a lot of pix and have quite a few to share in my attempt to show how cool this base really was.  It is sooooo much cooler than my pix portray!)

Stamped using an image from Creative Shop 02 using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Topped with KBShimmer to finish.

The next morning, I took these pix outside; they show the flakies a little better.

Then added a coat of OPI matte, again, hoping to show the magic of the flakies.

Topped it again with KBShimmer, then headed to work.

While I was sitting in the drive thru at Tim Hortons, I looked down at my nails and thought hmm, the flakies are looking good in this lighting, so grabbed a couple pix while I was waiting.  I think these were the best pix but excuse the awkward hand pose!

Flakiesssssssss!

Uma and Katherine Marie, hope your birthday's were fabulous!

Here's the other ladies mani's!

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Digit-al Dozen REDOES Art; Day 4

I'm a little bit behind with the Digit-al Dozen challenge but here is day 4 based upon a pix I found on pinterest!  Here's what I came up with!

Inspirational art.

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Tilda, no top coat.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.  

Did a sponged radial gradient using Zoya Tilda and Shawn.

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Made a stamper decal using an image from OS-03 (and a spare...that I did end up using on Ms. Cindy!)  FYI, used FunkyFingers Dark Knight for decal on the left and Mdu black for one on the right; the difference is very obvious!)

Applied stamper decal.

OS-03

Stamped rest of the nails using images from MoYou Kitty Collection-15 using MdU black.

MoYou Kitty Collection-15

Added butterflies using FUN red stamping polish.


Finished with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.



Here's the other ladies Day 4 art nails!

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Purple Radial Gradient

I'm having a lazy day at home; watching movies while surfing the net in between doing laundry!  An exciting life I lead, I know lol!

I did these nails late summer last year; please disregard the nasty cuticles and poor cleanup; I don't have good lighting and couldn't see that well!

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Porcelain Matte Cheshire China, no top coat.

Added a coat of topcoat.

Did a radial gradient using same Sinful Cheshire China, China Glaze Boho Blues and Orly Indie TX..

Topped with top coat.

Stamped using XY-L26 acrylic plate using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Finished with a final coat of top coat.

Love it!!

Hope you are having a great weekend....and doing something more exciting than watching movies, surfing the net and doing laundry!

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Testing Out Acrylic Plates!

I had told myself that I wasn't going to do any more mani's when I was in cottage country because I've been having so many issues there that tick me off:  topcoat smearing, really poor cleanup and not the best lighting.   I'm rarely happy with the way they turn out so figured why bother.  Then I received my order of acrylic plates that I had ordered specifically to keep in cottage country so I can keep the rest of my plates at home and thought I would try them. This is what I did yesterday afternoon; not perfect by any means but I liked how they turned out and they look better IRL but still have top coat smear!  Grrrrrr!

Started with a base of two coats of Orly Lift The Veil; shown with no top coat.

Added a coat of Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC.

Did a radial gradient using Orly Lift the Veil, Orly Frolic and Essie Jewel in the Crown.

Sponge for the gradient; Orly Lift the Veil was very thin and a pretty pale colour so I did a big blob of it very last every time I reapplied the colours.

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC before stamping.

Used an image from one of the acrylic plates, XY-F13.  Even with a clear jelly stamper, placement was not guaranteed!  Also, this jelly stamper was pretty hard so didn't hug my nail curves the best so placement at the sides was hit and miss.  Some I tried to line up again but not perfect by any means.  Used FunkyFingers Gesso as stamping polish.

This was me testing the image before use.  While I love how cheap these plates were, what I don't like is having to put them up to a light or a window to see what the images actually are.  As you can see (or is it, can't see?), you can't see any image on the plate very well.  I haven't done any reading up on use of these either; I used a plastic scraper as wasn't sure how my regular Konad metal edged one would work.  Also used pure acetone to get off plate and not really sure if this will affect the plates in the long term although there was no obvious distress to the acrylic plates for the times I did use it in cleaning off the plate.

Topped with Girly Bits What A Rush QD TC to finish.  Even though I waited about 10 minutes before top coating and it wasn't even that hot and humid, still had polish smear. Grrrr!

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