Digit-al Dozen Does Mythic Creatures; Day 3

I'm running late for Day 3's mythic creature challenge, but here it is!  Hopefully you can make out this mythic creature as the image was a big one as you can see!  It was tricky to stamp as well as necessitating some acrobatic finger poses but hopefully your eyes 'drag on' this mythical creature!  (How was that for a clue!) Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of one coat of Barielle Irish Eyes, no top coat.

Added a very thin coat of CND Creative Play Express Ur Em-Oceans, no top coat.

Added KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

For the scales, stamped using image from Vivid Lacquer VL022 using CND Gold Chrome.

There's another image on VL022 that has the filled in scales, so I stamped on top using Hit The Bottle Electric Indigo and Hit The Bottle I Blue It All On Polish, trying for a multichrome dragon scale look.  The idea here was also to shadow stamp (even though this plate came out before shadow stamping so the images don't line up that well) but to also have a hint of the base polishes peeking through.  

 Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 Stamped using another image on the same VL022 plate using Funky Fingers Dark Knight.

 

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top.

 Thought that if I matted it, the base and outline might show up a little better, so added a coat of OPi Matte.

Here's the other ladies Day 3 mani's!

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Thanks for looking!

Teal Swirls

Just like there's a wide assortment of disorders in the autism spectrum, there's a wide assortment of shades in the blue colour spectrum including teal so this teal polish is being shared as part of wearing blue for April Autism Awareness month.



Started with a base of Nicole by OPI That's What I Mint, two coats, no top coat.  This is part of the Nicole by OPI Gumdrops texture collection from a couple years ago.



Stamped using Vivid Lacquer VL022 using white Konad special polish.



As I have a need to top coat all things even when I shouldn't sometimes like with textured polishes, I did anyway; used HKGirl quick dry.



Hopefully you're enjoying these blue mani's during the month of April!

Thanks for looking!

Digit-al Dozen Does The Terrific Two's; Day 2

Today's two theme is cotton being the traditional 2nd Anniversary gift.  Of the themes this week, this is the one that challenged me the most as all I could come up with were Q-Tips!  I really had to put on my thinking cap so went from cotton in it's natural form, to an end product; being a knitted sweater. Here's what I came up with!

Started with a base of Zoya Yummy (thumb), OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls (index, middle and ring) and Essence Walk on Air topped with two coats of L'Oreal Miss Pixie (ring); top coated to finish.  (In hindsight, I wish I had have gotten off my butt and looked for my bottle of Nails Inc. Baker Street for the accent ring finger as it would have been a better base match to the stamping polish but I was feeling lazy and didn't.)  No pix as I forgot (was being lazy!)

Stamped using assortment of images and polishes; thumb is Vivid Lacquer VL022 using Mundo de Unas stamping polish #22, index is Vivid Lacquer VL004 using Mundo de Unas #33, middle is Bundle Monster BM-206 using Mundo de Unas #33, ring is Marianne n.53 using Mundo de Unas #12, pinky is MoYou Hipster Collection-03 using Mundo de Unas #33 and black Konad.

Made cotton plants on the thumb by blobbing on white Konad special polish using a brush.

MoYou Hipster Collection-03

Vivid Lacquer VL004

Marianne Nails n.53

Vivid Lacquer VL025 (didn't use but thought I was going to, so took pix)

Topped with KBShimmer Clearly on Top to finish.

Now, isn't this better than Q-Tips lol (and no offence to any of the DD ladies if one of them did Q-tips as I haven't seen their posts yet!)

For my right hand, I used same base polishes and stamped using same pattern using Marianne n. 53 using Mundo de Unas #1 and #33 and made sweater nails.  (Kindly excuse the poor clean up!)

Here's the other ladies Day 2 Cotton mani's!

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Thanks for looking!