Elevation Polish Epidote 2

I love the simplicity of this mani; it was quite simple in terms of polish and stamping but packs a punch if I do say so myself!  It's one of the things I love so much about stamping; you can a cool looking mani in no time flat!

Started with a base of two coats of Elevation Polish Epidote 2 with an accent of two coats of OPI My Vampire is Buff, no top coat.

Topped with a coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top. (Note the topcoat didn't enhance the holo; different lighting!)

Stamped using Konad m95 using Mundo 43 on all fingers except accent, which was A England Dragon.




Finished with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.   It's fantastic that the holo pops on the stamping done with Dragon even though the lines are so small!



Hope you have a fantastic weekend; thanks for looking!

A-England Excalibur Renaissance and Hurt No Living Thing

I apologize for the unexpected hiatus; I had hoped to get this post up much sooner than now as I've had these nails done for a couple weeks and uploaded the pix a week ago; just hadn't finish the post. Hopefully, I'll have some time this week to do a few posts and next week is the start of the Digit-al Dozen challenge so the plan is that there will be a few more posts coming up soon!

Here's a couple mani's highlighting A-England polishes that were sent to me from Nail Polish Canada to review.

The first is A-England Hurt No Living Thing. 

A-England Hurt No Living Thing has a slightly tinted base with beautiful pink shimmer.  As Hurt No Living Thing is fairly sheer (and I'm sure you don't want to see my stained nails!), I layered one coat over Quo by Orly Runway Ready.



Different lighting; the shimmer is more obvious.  (This lighting, the polish is more accurate; but always give me lobster hands!)



Stamped using Lily Anna 08 using Mundo de Unas 20 stamping polish, which I chose to compliment the shimmer in Hurt No Living Thing.



Top coated to finish.  Feel free to click on the pix to see the shimmer from A-England Hurt No Living Thing!




A-England Excalibur Renaissance was also sent for review.  This is one coat, no topcoat....aka, perfect in those situations when you need a quick mani change! There were no application issues; one coat had great coverage and it dried fast as the case with most polishes with this metallic finishes. And while the pix look a little brush strokey, it wasn't nearly as obvious in real life.



Stamped using Konad black special polish using assortment of images from plates Big SdP C-2 (thumb, ring and pinky), Big SdP O (index) and Big SdP I (middle).  Unfortunately, cleanup isn't the best....I have been using other black polishes for stamping and forgot how bad Konad is to clean up.  It's not too bad here the next day, but still could be better.



A-England polishes are available here at Nail Polish Canada**.

Thanks for looking!

**items sent for review; please refer to disclosure policy.

Pot of Gold At the end of the Rainbow

Green isn't one of my favourite colours...so I had to be a little creative coming up with a St. Patrick's Day mani without painting green on every nail. I thought of a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow would be a little colourful...here's what I came up with.



Base polishes used starting at thumb are OPI What's Dune? over two coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet, then Catherine Arley 803, Catherine Arley 674, Catherine Arley 673 and Catherine Arley 800, all two coats except 674 which was three. Finally cracked open my Catherine Arley's after all this time.



Stamped rainbows onto the nails using KleanColor black with plate Big SdP A.



My stamping failed me at the top of the middle finger plus a few other spots so I took a fine brush and hand painted in the lines. Not a fantastic job, but passable....from a distance!



Then I hand painted the cauldron for the pot of gold....this is why I don't do free hand art! lol! I stamped a shamrock too using XL F using A-England Saint George but it stamped fainter than I wanted so I did hand painted another coat of the polish over the design freehand.



Added a dab of Color Club Gingerbread Man for the gold.



Then decided a wanted some gold coins; used Nubar gold glitters and put them in the pot.



To prevent the faint holo from fading even more, I used a light coat of Sally Hansen Clear Hardener which is suppose to not kill the holo...not that it mattered in this case as the scattered holo is so faint to begin with. It was interesting to see that I had a little drag on the areas I hand painted....not sure why as the coat of SH was thin plus a good amount of time had passed since I had drawn in the lines.




Thanks for looking!