Wednesday 24 August 2011

3 random designs

These are just single pics I found on my phone of some of my manis.

The first I painted with China Glaze's Ingrid as a base coat (two coats) and stamped with Bundle Monster plate BM-223. Nice understated design - looked much better in natural light, not nearly as dark.




The second I painted my nails with Rimmels I Love Lasting Finish in 239-Your Majesty, a lovely glittering silver. I then sponged the tips with Konad SP Blue. I stamped a lace effect from plate M71 across the part where the two colours met on my nail, and then stamped a butterfly at an angle in the bottom corner of each nail, using the same Konad SP Blue. The picture does not do this mani any justice, it turned out really well and really looked beautiful! It is an awful pic but I couldn't bare to leave it out, i will do this again and get better pics :)



This was a particularly girly pretty mani :)
I painted the base with my favourite, China Glaze's For Audrey. The plates used were BM-225 for the large blue leaf design and Konad M2 for the little white flowers. (I have since purchased little crystal rhinestones which would have been adorable placed in the centres of the flowers!!)


Konad M57 Colour Explosion


 Colours used: China Glaze Fairy Dust (as a top coat), Barry M 307 Lemon, and Rimmels Number 819 Green With Envy, 293 Pop Rose, 312 Ultra Violet & 500 Peppermint, stamped with Konad SP Black.
Plate used: Konad M57 (again).

This was FUN!!!! :D
 Here is a pic of the 5 polishes I used:

Very simple technique, with one sweep I painted a single line of colour and aligned the next so it almost touched, without overlapping and bleeding into each other. I done each finger and than went back to the start and gave each colour a second coat. I waited 20 mins for this to dry to ensure each colour dried properly before stamping-I did not want to make any mistakes and start again!!
I used one of my favourite plates Konad M57 and stamped the beautiful Leopard print in Black, which unified all the colours. Then just to add even more fun I used China Glaze's Fairy Dust as a top coat - just one layer as it is extremely sparkly (which my phone camera didn't really pick up)
Lurve this - and it worked perfectly with the costume I was wearing for an 80's themed Dirty Dancing night out!!!

I'm only posting this pic coz my cat Lucy is in the background ;)

Konad M57 & M2 Sexy Fishnets

 Colours used: China Glaze 693 Cherish, Konad SP Black, Konad SP White.
Plate used: Konad Plate M57 & M2.

This is my take on a french mani, sexed up with a lace fishnet print with some pretty flowers!
In hindsight it would look MUCH BETTER if I used a black base and only stamped in white, so will try that next time & try link it to this post.
Here are images of the two plates I used. I now have around 50 and have only tried half, I'm off work this week and plan on trying at least half of that so will post another 'Random stamping' page when that is done (maybe tomorrow!)
This mani was nice and got a lot of attention/compliments in work, I like the three contrasting colours but need to work on my white French tips...