Swatch: Barry M - Gelly Hi Shine - Greenberry 312

Colour: Spearmint Green
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 10ml

GOT Nail Challenge: Peach

Peach; for this challenge I chose to use Miss Sporty - Orange Crush 326 which first made an appearance on the blog in September 2012, the flames are ELF's Cranberry which was from September 2010.

Base Polish: Miss Sporty - Orange Crush 326
Stamping Polish: ELF - Cranberry
Stamping Plate: MoYou London - Roxy Collection 01

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Blue and Green #4

This is the third of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Blue and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use Sinful Colors Verbena, Barry M Blue Plum (blackberry) and Barry M Guava.

Polishes Used: 

Sinful Colors - Verbena, 

Barry M - Guava, 

Barry M - Blue Plum (blackberry)

Dotting Tools

Nails: Stamped Stars

Base Polish: Barry M - Blue Grape
Stamping Polish: Stargazer -  Blue Chrome
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 21

Sunday Stamping: Skyline

I had been wanting to use the skyline stamping image since I first got it, originally I would have gone with a night time back ground but then the stamping wouldn't have shown up as well. I used the saran wrap / clingfilm method for the background.

Base Polishes: Maybelline - Cool Blue 651, Barry M - Blue Grape 317
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 414
Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - New York Noir

Stamping Plate: MoYou N13

This particular stamping plate is from MoYou, it is backed which helps stops the sharp edges from cutting you.

 

This is a Halloween stamping plate and it has seven images on. All of these stamped well although the bat's wing has bleed a bit but that was because I accidentally dropped some acetone on the paper.

MoYou - £4.99

Swatch: Leighton Denny - Message in a Bottle

Colour: Sandy, Grey, Nude
Finish: Shimmer - slight pink, opalescent finish
Opacity: Three Coats
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 12ml

GOT Nail Challenge: Ruffle

Today is a ruffle manicure, I haven't actually tried doing a ruffle set of nails before. Not too bad for a first attempt but the lines aren't exactly straight. The polishes used are older again:

ELF - Fluorescent Pink - August 2010
ELF - Punk Purple - October 2010
ELF - Medium Red - February 2012

Polishes Used
ELF - Fluorescent Pink
ELF - Punk Purple
ELF - Medium Red

Dotting Tools

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Blue and Green #3

This is the third of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Blue and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use Sinful Colors Verbena, Barry M Blue Plum (blackberry) and Barry M Guava.

A little bit of a dotticure I ended up doing for this week.

Polishes Used: 

Sinful Colors - Verbena, 

Barry M - Guava, 

Barry M - Blue Plum (blackberry)

Dotting Tools

Nails: St. Patrick's Day 2014

Way back in 2011 I did some St. Patrick's Day nails (here and here) then I did some Pot of Gold ones in 2012. That brings us to last year and the nails that I did were a little bit of a stamping disaster here. Finally these are my 2014 St. Patrick's Day Nails:

Base Polish: Ciate - Mojito
Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - New York Noir
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster H04, H05

Stamping Plate: MoYou 94

This particular stamping plate is from MoYou, it is backed which helps stops the sharp edges from cutting you, which is a good thing for clumsy people like me.

 

The stamping plate has seven images in it and all of them stamped really well, I was concerned that the Ying Yang symbol would be difficult as I have some problems stamping large deep images but this worked fine.

I got this plate for the ankh symbol really but I do like the other images. Something which is annoying for me is stamping plates which have foreign symbols on, and that would be fine if they had a translation for it as I really don't like to wear something on my nails I don't understand the meaning of. In this case the symbol as far as I can tell is the symbol for 'om'.

MoYou - £4.99