Tuesday, 27 March 2012

Spring Challenge - Day 5 - Rainbow

Hey everyone!
It's the fifth instalment of the Spring challenge myself and Esme of Nail Addict are doing. Today is rainbow nails, but I think of these more as stained glass windows. They don't scream rainbow; but trust me when I say there's 7 colours in there!

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: Rimmel - Purple Reign
                                   Rimmel - Pop!
                                   LA Colors - Static Electricity
                                   Barry M - Bright Red
                                   George - Buttercup Shine
                                   Flormar - N007                                   M&S Mini - Unnamed pink
Image Plate: BM208
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

You can see the purple here on the thumb, on the other nails it's kinda blended into th mix.
 

I kind of feel like I was let down a little bit by Purple Reign (although it could just be my placements) but I will try this again one day when I have a sexy vivid purple in my hands (Yes; I am looking at you Zoya Mira you will be miine!!) and will see if it works out better.

Then I decided to see how it looked matte, and I looved it even more. Giving it the matte top coat really made the colours pop, and they looked more luminous




Don't forget to head over to Nail Addict to see what Esme came up with for today's challenge.

Up next; on Friday is frogs!

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55 comments:

  1. Camila27 March 2012 at 15:03

    OMG, these are gorgeous! *__*

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  2. Anonymous27 March 2012 at 15:11

    OhMyGosh I LOVE this!!! This is absolutely stunning!! Fantastic! :D

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  3. Beccy @ Two Days Slow27 March 2012 at 15:21

    How on earth did you stamp with the different colours like that? Fab!!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:22

      I just dabbed the colours on the plate, scraped then cleaned up the plate, and used what was left on my scraping card to fill in the image, scrape again and stamp :]

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  4. esmeheredia27 March 2012 at 15:47

    LOVE! as usual :) & yes they do look a bit like stained glass windows! can't wait for friday!

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  5. Paulina27 March 2012 at 15:55

    This is so cool! How did you stamp with all those colors? I like this mani!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:24

      I use what's left on the card after the first stamp has been scraped and cleaned (if that made sense?)

      I am planning to do a tutorial :]

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  6. Naila Nails27 March 2012 at 16:07

    Love these! great colours :)

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  7. fingers27 March 2012 at 18:28

    DUDE holy freakin crapola!!!! This is amazeballs! Seriously awesome! I am in awe of you right now!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:26

      Wow! I love getting comments like these from you Fingers! Thank you so much!

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  8. Unknown27 March 2012 at 19:40

    What?!! I thought these were nail stickers!! Omg, that is amazing! Really great colors and I absolutely adore the matte version!

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  9. Disincentive27 March 2012 at 19:59

    I love these SO MUCH!

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  10. Unknown27 March 2012 at 21:01

    This. Is. So. Amazing! How did you do it?! I must know so I can try this immediately.

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:29

      Oh wow! I use what's left on the card after the first stamp has been scraped and cleaned (if that made sense?) I'm gonna try and do a tutorial soon though :]

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  11. Malinka27 March 2012 at 21:42

    OMGOMGOMGOMG!!
    Amazing!!

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  12. Simply by me27 March 2012 at 21:56

    girl, you are crazy!!!! this is so beautiful!!!! I want it!!!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:37

      :D! Love being called crazy when it comes to nails ;] Thank you!

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  13. Laura28 March 2012 at 01:16

    This is so cool! I adore this.

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  14. Laurie28 March 2012 at 03:49

    Love, love, love, SUPER LOVE this!!!!!!!!

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  15. Rainbowify Me28 March 2012 at 08:15

    That looks really great! I'm not that into matte manis, but I have to agree with you on this one. It looks fantastic matte! :)

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  16. Ivy28 March 2012 at 10:21

    This is soooooo pretty! You should totally put up a tutorial ;)

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  17. Melissa28 March 2012 at 10:54

    Yes def a tutorial. I'm wondering tho if you dotted the colors on the plate and then swiped it before you stamped. I tried that once before but wasn't successful so a tutorial would be awesome!!

    Thx for showing us :)

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails30 March 2012 at 20:43

      Hehe! For the look I like (trying to avoid harsh lines) I've found you can dot on the colours by the image you're gonna use and then wiggle the polish over lightly, and then scrape.

      Or what I do majority of the time is to dot on the image, scrape it, clean the plate, and use what's left on the scraper to smoosh across the surface of the image before scraping to reveal a more mixed look :]

      I hope that made sense! I will be putting up a tutorial soon which might help :]

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  18. SusYellow28 March 2012 at 15:11

    Wow! Amazing! Melissa is so right! Tutorial!
    P.S. I also like it more matte

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  19. Missy M (Gnarly Gnails)28 March 2012 at 16:14

    this reminds me of mosaic tiles - i love it! you need to do a tutorial on this! please!

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  20. Unknown28 March 2012 at 17:52

    It really does look like stain glass. Very pretty :)

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  21. Jacqui of The Scholarly Nail28 March 2012 at 20:28

    Absolutely amazing!!!!! Definitely looks like stained glass. Love this!

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  22. Amanda28 March 2012 at 21:12

    Fantastic! Love it!

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  23. Amelia28 March 2012 at 22:30

    absolutely bloody gorgeous xxx

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  24. kelly-devilishdesigns29 March 2012 at 01:09

    woooooooooooooooooow!!!!!!!! That is amazing
    I have an award for you at http://www.devilish-polish.com/2012/03/versatile-blogger-award.html

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  25. Lydz29 March 2012 at 23:11

    sooo amazing! this is great! :)

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  26. arfblat30 March 2012 at 09:18

    Wow this is absolutely gorgeous!!! I am in love with the mattified version, those colors are just spectacular!

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  27. drinkcitra30 March 2012 at 22:57

    This is so amazing! I really like how it turned out! It really does look great matte!

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  28. M.31 March 2012 at 06:31

    This is wow!

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  29. KawaiiKagura2 April 2012 at 00:21

    This is exactly the kind of thing that makes me want a stamper. I bet they looked even more stunning in person!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails2 April 2012 at 16:25

      They were really fun to wear! :] & You should totally get one :]

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  30. The Beauty and The Business13 April 2012 at 01:05

    i am in love with these nails! Ugh I wish I could copy this!

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    1. Jennius - Gold Speck Nails13 April 2012 at 11:12

      You should do it ^_^ If you don't have any plates you could always use thin bits of tape/striping tape to mask off the nail and sponge on a rainbow ^_^

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