Sunday Stamping: Shoes Inspired

The challenge today was to do nails which were inspired by your favourite shoes. These have to be my favourite shoes, they were the ones I wore when I got married. I have lots of shoes I have gotten throughout the years but I always end up wearing the same couple of pairs.

Base Polish: W7 - Black

Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Stamping Plates: QA5, QA8

Sunday Stamping: Plate Ending in 6

Really not sure why one finger looks a different colour to the rest! All of them looked the same to me. This is for the challenge using a stamping plate ending in the number 6.

Polishes: ELF - Lilac, Max Factor - Fantasy Fire
Stamping Plate: Cheeky CH46
Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Sat-ART-Day: 1960's

Base Polish: Barry M - Retro Red
Stamping Polish:  Stargazer - Silver Chrome
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - BM07

31 Day Challenge: Favourite Technique

I really like stamping, it is relatively easy to do and easy to do on both hands.

Base Polish: Models Own - True Blue
Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Silver Chrome
Stamping Plate: Cheeky 36, QA5

31 Day Challenge: Tape Mani

These are some fishtail nails with the striping tape.

Polishes Used:

Barry M - Prickly Pear (gelly)
Color Club - Pucci-licious
China Glaze - Grape Pop
Barry M - Dusky Mauve
Barry M - Indigo
Barry M - Blackberry (gelly)
Stargazer - 161
OPI - Honk If You Love OPI

Swatch: Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Challenge for today was Silver, as notoriously annoying are chrome polishes for brush strokes I still really like Stargazer Chrome. The bottle wrap may flake off badly but its a nice polish and it stamps nicely too.

Stargazer - Silver Chrome

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.

Nail Polish: Battle of the Silver / Grey

Second post in this series and today we are looking at all the silvers and grey polishes, which wins?

Primark - Glo Baby Glo, Stargazer - Silver Chrome, George - Witchcraft, Miss Sporty - 420, ELF - Metal Madness, Revlon - Steel Me, OPI - My Private Jet, Models Own - Gunmetal

These were my top two of the grey / silvers, Metal Madness is a lovely silver polish with a whole load of almost holo glitter packed in. Gunmetal is a perfect metal polish without being a cream, chrome or a shimmer polish.

 

And the winner is Models Own Gunmetal!

Winter Holiday Challenge: Snowflakes

Today is the first of eight nail challenges for the winter holiday challenge over on Crumpet's Nail Tarts. Snowflakes were the nails for today and this is what I came up with. Unfortunately the blue holographic base didn't show up too well for the photos.

Base Polish:

Revlon - Cloud

Kleancolor - Holo Blue (135)

Stamping Polish:

Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Stamping Plates:

Bundle Monster - BM14, BM325

M59

Top Coat:

Miss Sporty - 010

Sat-ART-Day Challenge: Sci Fi

Another Saturday means another Sat-ART-day Challenge, this week it is Sci-Fi which of course could equate to anything really. I went for a mix and match set of nails.

Stamping Plates
Bundle Monster 15
M79 (Fauxnad)
B37

Polishes
Stargazer - Chrome
ELF- Navy
Kleancolor - Purple Chunky Holo
Eyeko - Rain
And a selection of acrylic paints

Sat-ART-Day Challenge: Halloween

Halloween nails, I have already done so many halloween inspired nails this month so thought it might be fun to try something a touch different. Sugar Skull inspired.

Base Polish: Barry M - Matte White
Stamping Polishes: Kleancolor - Metallic Green, Metallic Red, Metallic Sapphire,
Stargazer - Metallic Lilac
Stamping Plates: Bundle Monster - 310, 315, 317, 321, 325

ABC Nail Challenge: F is for Filigree

This is the ABC Nail Challenge, being run over on Llama Nails.Where once a week we are to interpret the letter of the week.

Letter F - Filigree

  Base Polish: OPI - Unripened

Stamping Polish: Stargazer - Silver Chrome

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 314