Floral Skittles!

I love busy nails but his one might have gone just a tad too far!  I still think it's OK but not the best nails I've ever done by any means but I always share the good with the bad because they can't all be great!  Who knows; someone might get some inspiration from this!  Maybe lol.  Anyway, here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of two coats of Leesha's Lacquer Grey, Greyer, Greyest, no top coat.  (Sorry for all awkward poses in this post; it was my lame attempt to hide bad cuticle/nail issue on middle finger that went on for months and months and....)  Little shadowy too because this was one of my first mani's when I was trying out new lighting setup. 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Stamped with an image from Lesly 35 using Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

Decided to double stamp; used same image and then MdU 16, and EdK stamping polishes in Buffy, Hipopo, Kaa and Lisa.

Added a few dots in the center of the flowers using FunkyFingers Gesso.

Finished with a final coat of KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

Hope you're having a wonderful weekend; thanks for looking!

Nubar Baby Blue Stamped with A46

A while back, I went on a little image plate buying splurge; I may or may not have ordered over 100 new stamping plates! (If by chance my husband ever comes across this, I only ordered 10; 100 is a typo, ahem!) Anyway, they all arrived last week and I've been sampling a few of them in recent mani's. I already showed some of the SdP plates; I thought I'd use one from A41-60 that I just received from Magno Nails.**

Base coat is two coats of Nubar Baby Blue. Used China Glaze DV8 using fauxnad IP A46. After I stamped, added a few random rhinestones for a little more interest. Here's pix before they were added and before I added a couple more stamps because I couldn't decide at what point I wanted to finish adding them!

Using DV8 as stamp was wrong polish to use for this image plate in hindsight.
When I was doing my mani, I wanted to use a holographic polish as we've had a lot of sun lately and I think holo is just so cool. But I usually don't like to stamp a lot of holo's as base coats as I think the holo is so cool and I like it to be focal point....and really wanted to use a new plate. So next best thing in my mind was to stamp using a holo. Unfortunately, the end result was you just see the colour, no holo. Even in full sunlight, hardly any sparkle shows thru as the image details are so small.

I do most of my mani's very late at night and usually take pix right away. The above pix was taken the next morning in full sunlight...hardly any holo is to be seen....its not even visible IRL. Its not like it got lost in the camera pix which sometimes happens that a mani is so much cooler in real life than it translates (hopefully this makes sense...I'm sure you all know what I'm talking about!!) Oh well.

And just before I took it off, I added a little random sparkle...not sure if I like it or not, but here's what it looked like.



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**Please note that I paid the invoiced amount in full for my plates. I do not endorse nor promote this website/etailer other than I am passing on the info of where I got them to those who may wish to know. I have no affiliation with any company and received no compensation for promotion of these products, nor am I promoting them...just letting fellow bloggers where they may be obtained should they be interested!