Winter Nail Challenge: White Christmas

Today is the first day of the Winter Nail Challenge being hosted as part of Crumpet's Nail Tarts. The challenge today is 'White Christmas' and these are actually something I would wear.

Base Polish: MUA - Deepest Purple
Glitter Polish: Kleancolor - Silver Star 31
Stamping Polish: Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 323

33 Day Nail Challenge: Same Pattern, Different Colours

Base Polish: ELF - Innocent
Stamping Polishes: 
Thumb: Kleancolor - Metallic Red 161
Forefinger: Kleancolor - Metallic Black 168
Middle Finger: Kleancolor - Metallic Sapphire 165
Ring Finger: Kleancolor - Metallic Fuchsia 166
Little Finger: Kleancolor - Metallic Green 163
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 319

Sunday Stamping: Tone on Tone

For this weeks challenge I chose to go with blues, the stamping didn't show up as well as I had hoped.

Base Polish: Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction 320

Stamping Polish: Kleancolor - Metallic Sapphire

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM225

Sunday Stamping: Over a Beige Base

Base Polish: ELF - Innocent
Stamping Polish: Kleancolor - Metallic Sapphire
Stamping Plate: Cheeky CH52

Swatch: Kleancolor - Metallic Black

Kleancolour metallic nail lacquers are all really good for stamping with.

Colour: Charcoal black
Finish: Metallic, slight glitter running through it
Opacity: One coater
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 15ml

Nails: Skittle

Fore Finger: W7 - Black, Kleancolor - Blackout
Middle Finger: A England - Orphelia
Ring Finger: A England - Orphelia, A England - Ascalon, Stiping Tape
Little Finger: W7 - Black, Black Flocking Powder

Sunday Stamping: 1970's

Base Polish: Yes Love - K036
Models Own / WAH - White and Black Nail Art Pens
Stamping Polishes: Kleancolor - Metallic Red, Metallic Sapphire and Metallic Fuchsia
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - BM301

Stamping Plate: QA52

This stamping plate is pretty much Psy of Gangnam Style and Korean pop sensation. I thought it made for a comical bit of stamping personally.

Base Polish: Barry M - Matt White

Glitter Polish: Kleancolor - Kiss Goodnight 171

Stamping Polish: W7 - Black

Stamping Plate: QA52 and Cheeky 031

The stamping plate itself came with a protective peel off sticker on both sides of the plate.

 

The images stamped relatively well, and even on the deeper images you don't need to use any difficult techniques. As you can see below the images stamped well, the only concern I have is with the whole body Psy, and Psy with arms crossed his face seems to look odd.

Sunday Stamping: Butterflies

A couple of different butterflies for Sunday stamping.

Base Polish: Barry M - Lychee
Stamping Polish: W7 - Black, Kleancolor - Metallic Sapphire and Metallic Fuchsia
Stamping Plates: Bundle Monster BM205, B42

Nails: Grey Zebra

Something I wanted to wear for more than one day!

Base Polish: Ciaté - Vintage
Stamping Polish: Kleancolor - Metallic Black
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - BM223

Swatch: Kleancolor - Metallic Pink (158)

Originally bought this polish for stamping with, which is does work perfectly for.

Colour: Bright pink
Finish: Metallic
Opacity: One coater
How Much? 15ml

Something I did notice about this polish is it changes colour when you apply a clear top coat, similar to the Barry M Chameleon polishes and the China Glaze Tranzitions.

Swatch: Kleancolor - Blue Satin 37

This polish is quite different, I imagine it would be quite like marmite. As in some people will like it and others will not. This is because of the pieces of 'flitter' the strands of glitter. I managed to get this to work and only needed one coat of topcoat.

Opacity: Two Coats

Colour: Denim blue with holographic flitter

Finish: Glitter in the form of strands

Brush Type: Normal

Anything Else?  0.5fl oz

Nail Polish: Battle of the Pinks

For someone who isn't a fan of pink I sure seem to have a lot of them!

ELF - Gum Pink, ELF - Fluorescent Pink, ELF - Hot Pink,  Barry M - Buzz, ELF - Punk Purple, Kleancolor - Metallic Pink, ELF -  Mod Mauve, ELF - Fuschia, ELF - Purple Pleaser, Kleancolor - Metallic Fuschia, Max Factor - Plum, ELF - Rosy Raisin, Sally Hansen - Royal Romance

First round was easy, whittling down to three polishes. Hot pink is vibrant and out there, Mod Mauve is understated and bland but works as a good base polish.

And the winner is... Max Factor's Plum. While the other two are great base polishes, Plum you can wear alone. Gorgeous cream polish.

Nail Polish: Battle of the Blues

Battle of the blues, so many blues to choose from!

Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream, Collection 2000 - Electric Dreams, Essence - Let's Get Lost, MUA - Smurf Blue, Barry M - Chameleon Blue, Stargazer - Blue Chrome, Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction, Models Own - True Blue, Barry M - Retro Blue, Barry M - Blue Plum Gelly, Max Factor - Odyssey  Kleancolor - Metallic Blue, Sleek - Oxford, Sinful Colors - Hot Spot, OPI - Road House Blues, Eyeko - Cosmic, No.7 - Betty Blues, ELF - Navy, MUA - Navy

Cutting down all of those polishes to just four wasn't too difficult, Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream is such a nice cream base polish perfect for nail art. Miss Sporty - Pop Fiction is quite a unique periwinkle blue, shame it smells really weird.

Making the final two are Barry M and OPI. The Blue Plum is just so rich of a colour and covers in just one coat.

And the winner is... Road House Blues! It's just more of a colder navy compared to the Barry M. Something very wearable, plenty of polish in there (15ml) and the brush makes application so easy.