Birthstone - Peridot - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all.

I would say happy Monday but this means I will be back at work when this posts and that means I'll be melting as the aircon is broken, and i'm almost certain the heating is actually on.

This is my first time in a long while taking part in Adventures In Stamping We Stamp On Sundays, so although I didn't have any amazing ideas I wanted to give it a shot.

This challenge was for Birthstones, and mine is Peridot, so I reached for the first green I thought of and had a think of what I could do.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Models Own - Golden Green

Flakies: Golden Rose Scale Effects - 04

Stamping Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Faunad M28 (Konad M33, and Bundle Monster BM318

Glitter

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Had As Nails

I'm a little bummed the gold kind of gets lost, and if you were to see these from a distance you probably wouldn't even think there was any nail art on!

Here's what I used:

The fauxnad plate M38 is actually the copy of Konad M33 so I'm not too certain why it's named differently. But a big thank you to Susana for sending this to me in one of our swaps! And here is the base before stamping:

Green, Purple And Gold Animal Print

Hi all. Happy Sunday.

Not taking part in Adventures In Stamping this weekend as I haven't got a clue what to do for it!

These were meant to post yesterday but after having a lush little trip to Seahouses (clicky here) on the Friday  & Saturday and seeing Despicable Me 2 as soon as I got back into Newcastle there was no way I had the energy to do anything but be lazy and snug.

I did these the start of May which is crazy! I loved wearing these though, and they were were definitely more interesting to look at in real life as the stripe of flakies shifting colour broke up the nail completely.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: W7 - Mauve Suede & Cutex - Sweet Pea

Flakies: Golden Rose Scale Effects - 13

Stamping Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Konad M60

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Better representation of the colours here.

Before Stamping

Above is two coats of the gorgeous Mauve Suede, I could have got away with just the one if I was more careful about coverage. Below is two coats that has a little of hand lotion on so it's not as matte as it normally is.

And for good measure he's a couple pictures from Friday night when myself and Amy were running along the beach like loons trying to catch the sunset!

Hope you've all had a great weekend like I have!

Bright Gradient & Golden Bolts

Hi again my pretties!

I hope you're all well, today I have a mani I did about a month back now, the sun had just started coming out and it made me really fancy sporting a pink toned gradient.

I would try and make out like I didn't want to do the gradient super-smooth and seamless, but the truth is I did these in bad lighting, and pretty much was falling asleep. That being said, I do love what a bit of stamping hides!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: W7 - Pink, P2 - Passion, Models Own - Raspberry Crush

Stamping Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Cheeky CH48

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard as Nails

And here's a shot of the base:

Hope you're all having a good Tuesday. I'll be at work when this posts, then afterwards I'll be on my way to see Man Of Steel. Henry Cavill in a tight fitting Superman get up; uh yes please!

Nails Inc - Porchester Square & Victoria Funky French Argyle

Hi hi all, Wednesday, woop! Half way through the week!

Funky french stamped mani going on today, I never usually like funky french on me as cause I like my nails a little too square for them (personal preference). But after swatching Nails Inc - Victoria it's vampy goodness totally reminded me of Fingers at Fingers Polish Mania. Which is why I chose to stamp with Nails Inc - Porchester Square and finish it off with a little French tip.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Nails Inc - Victoria

Stamping & French Colour: Nails Inc - Porchester

Image Plate: Konad M60

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And here's two coats of Victoria. A Third coat would've evened this out and made it super dark and sexy, but I wanted to keep it quite red.

Hope you're all keeping well =]

Over A Lilac Base - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all, happy Sunday! Happy bank holiday weekend to my UK peeps. It doesn't make much of a difference to me as I've not been working Mondays for the last month. Still the weather is pretty nice out, so I'm going to grab an hour lazing in the sun reading :D

This week I've actually made time for the challenge over at Adventures In Stamping and I'm hoping to keep this up as I've missed doing these weekly challenges.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Models Own - Utopia & Lilac Dream, Catrice - Dirty Berry

Stamping Colour: Miss Sporty - Raindrop

Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM313

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Here's the base before stamping:

I started with two coats of Utopia and then dabbed all the colours randomly onto a piece of sponge to create the subtle mix. I had hoped Raindrop would've stamped a little more opaque, but I like the colour combo anyways.

And here's what I used:

L-R, Models Own - Utopia, Lilac Dream (in China Glaze bottle), Catrice - Dirty Berry, Miss Sporty - Raindrop

Hope you've all had a good weekend so far :]

Models Own - Slate Green, Gold Foil & Blue Stamping

Hi hi all, happy Wednesday, I'm feeling slightly better today although my head is still massively fuzzy. But half day today, and I'm going for food. So should be good :]

Today I've got quite the simple combo, one that didn't quite work out, but I like how sheer the stamp is all the same.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Models Own - Slate Green & Barry M - Gold Foil

Stamping Colour: W7 - Blue Lagoon

Image Plate: Konad M64

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And here's the base of Models Own - Slate Green & Barry M - Gold Foil I painted on Gold Foil to a scrunched up ball of cling film (plastic wrap/saran wrap) and dabbed it over Slate Green.

Hope you're all having a good week so far :]

Matte Aqua & Gold Nautical

Hi all, happy Wednesday yayy, half way though the week already :]

Quick post today, cause I've been busy this past weekend, and also extremely lazy when I wasn't busy opting to laze in the sun and listen to music, and even take some hangover naps!

The base is W7 - Aqua Suede is a gorgeous matte polish from the same line as Night Suede. There's a few other colours from this range, a purple, gold, silver and bronze I believe. I'm tempted to try them all as the formula is pretty amazeballs. If I don't try the rest I'm definitely going to try and pick up another Night Suede, as I've been using this on everything.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: W7 - Aqua Suede

Stamping Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Cheeky CH49

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And here's some swatchy swatches

 These are two coats, no top coat, the flash washes out the colour a little.

Barry M - Lychee - Grey and Aqua Horses & Cowboys

Hi all. Happy Monday :]

Barry M - Lychee is a polish I was lusting after for a while, but every time I'd call in to a shop to see if they had it, nowhere did. Until a few weeks ago when I called into Boots on the morning before work to pick up some lunch. Since then I must have used it about 4 times already. I love it. The formula's so so nice, and the colour (although it doesn't really look it in the pictures) is quite a nice nude for me.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Barry M - Lychee

Stamp Colours: W7 - Night Suede & Aqua Suede

Image Plate: Cheeky CH34

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Such a pretty nude!

When I first bought the Cheeky plate set I thought this was a really cute image, but wearing these I totally fell it love with it. From afar it looks like some sort of dog tooth pattern, and then when you stop and look you see that it's actually horses with cowboys. Well I say cowboys cause that's what I want them to be, but they're probably just jockeys.

Have a good day ^-^

Cliche - Maldivas & Psyche Pink UFO Stamping

Hi hi all. So Happy It's Friday.

Although I'm currently back to half time at work I'm really looking forward to this weekend as getting things sorted for my new contract for work have been a little stressful this week, and it should be sorted after today, so looking forward to chilling!

I have a little bit of a odd combo today. Cliché - Maldivas is a lovely Orange creme that looks a little peachy in certain lights. The formula isn't that great though, still having visible nail line after two medium coats. I decided to pair it with Konad Special Polish in Psyche Pink, which made the stamping hard to see from afar, but the shimmer against the creme was really pretty. And the bright colour combination really perked me up a bit when I wore this a few weeks back.



Base coat CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Cliché - Maldivas
Stamping Colour: Konad Special Polish - Psyche Pink
Image Plate: Cheeky CH46
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

 

Looking at these kind of photos, where all I have is overcast light giving me a corpse look, or using crazy flash it makes me so so happy that I'm actually starting to get daylight before and after work. It's even been sunny the past few days!

Hopefully by the time Autumn and Winter roll around this year I'll be prepared and have a light box all set up!

Have a great weekend ^-^

Purple and Gold Matte Bananas

Hi all, happy Wednesday.

By the time this posts I'll be on my way home, to the cinema, or to finally get the new piercing I want!

These were kind of a pleasant surprise, I'd done the base coat and the glitter to just wear for work, and then after work I was going through my Cheeky plates trying to see which ones weren't working and I decided to stamp with Barry M - Gold Foil, with these really cute bananas.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour:  Miss Sporty - Fatal Plum

Glitter: LA Colors - Sassy Sparkle

Stamp Colour: Barry M - Gold Foil

Image Plate: Cheeky CH42

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Matte: Rimmel - Matte Finish

Here's it with a top coat:

And here's a shot of the pretty glitter in action.

Unfortunately the glitter was super gloopy, so I had to thin it out loads before use, and that's all from me today :]

White Dogtooth over Multicoloured base

Hi all. Happy Wednesday. I say that knowing that there's only one and half days left to work! Can't wait for a little break!

Today I have some more "sandwich bag" method where you dab colours onto your nail and use plastic to gently mix the colours. Unfortunately for me, I didn't re watch the video, or do any googling before I tried this, and I actually mixed the colours on the plastic, and then transferred to the nail, which seems a lot messier than the original idea. After trying this method out for these nails I wanted to do a more purple and teal mix.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Rimmel White
Other Colours: Sally Hansen - Fairy Teal, Color Club - Hydrangea Kiss, Beauty UK - Jelly Bean & W7 - Pink
Image Plate: Konad M65
Stamping Colour: Konad Special White
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

 And here's the base before stamping.

I like the way these turned out, so I'm going to try it again, perhaps even the "right" way so I don't get covered in excess polish!

Have a good day!

Spring Flowers - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all.

Happy Monday, start to a four day week, four day weekend combo - I like! I always feel a little strange posting these on Mondays, but as it was getting so so late last night I decided to take advantage of the fact I can now set up posts in my lunch break!

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping called for spring flowers. When I started these I didn't know what stamp I was going to use, or what colours, just that I wanted to stamp over a gradient. So I was pleasantly surprised by the outcome.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Rimmel - White
Gradient Colours: Catrice - London, H&M - Make Me Blush, Revlon - Teak Rose
Stamp Colour: Sally Hansen Fairy Teal
Image Plate: Cheeky CH44
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

 Two coats of white:

Then I sponged on the three colours at once, and did two coats of this, these pictures were taken without a top coat.

Here's what I used minus the stamping polish: 

Hope you guys like these!

Back to work I go :(

Nails Inc Porchester Square, Electric Lane & Cheeky Stamping

Happy Tuesday all. Hope you've had a good weekend, I spent mine tidying and painting (though I'm no where near finished!) So my nails are suffering, but my room's starting to come together :]

Today I have some Nails Inc Polishes to show you. Some of you may remember I got these in my little Christmas haul, and I've just started getting around to using them now.

Porchester Square is a lovely nude pale mushroom taupe. It's very flattering, and the formula was good, although I disliked the brush, but I put that down to it being a mini. Mini polishes and myself don't get on too well. Electric Lane is a very pretty scattered holographic top coat, which doesn't dull like some others, and still looks good in dim light too.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Nails Inc - Porchester Square & Electric Lane

Stamping Colour: BYS - Black Satin

Image Plate: Cheeky CH52

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Total blur shot, but this is how pretty this top coat is!

And here's the Base alone:

And with Electric lane. Pretty pretty.

That's all from me!