Space Invaders Cheeky Stamping

Hi all, happy Saturday, quick post today =]

A couple of weeks back I was stuck for what to do on my nails, and after a few suggestions I settled on doing Space Invader nails, as I'd been meaning to since I received my Cheeky Plates. 

This was one of the main reasons I'd bought Pop Green Special Polish, but after trying it out on my thumb I realised It wasn't as bold as I wanted it to be. So to try and get the brightness I used Pastel Green, and without picking the image up from the plate I used Pop Green and scraped again. I'm not sure what this kind of method is called, or where I read about it, but it did work to make the green stand out more, although I would have much preferred a solid colour I quite like how these turned out.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours - W7 Night Suede Rough Sponged with W7 - Black

Stamping colours: Konad Special - Pop Green & Pastel Green

Dotted Colours: Nails Inc - Electric Lane & NOPI - Fell From The Tree

Image Plate: Cheeky CH45

Top Coat: Advanced Hard As Nails

Without flash, in daylight you can see the flecks that Night Suede has. These look a bit busy, but I still like them.

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

Earth Day - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all, I'd say happy Sunday but i'm sick and my head is so heavy :(

That being said I did manage to actually do this week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping. This week's challenge was "Earth Day" nails. After racking my brains for ages about which stamps I could use to do an Earth, Water, Air and Fire style set up, I got totally stuck on Earth so gave up and settled on these much simpler nails instead!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Collection 2000 - Angel Wings

Stamp Colour: Konad Pop Green

Image Plate: Cheeky CH33

Top Coats: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Rimmel - Matte Finish

Here's it before matte:

And here's what I used:

Very short and sweet today as I'm just about to put on a film, and get into bed! Maybe have a little nanna nap too.

Hope you've had a good weekend!

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 ^-^

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!

Purple Gradient with Pink and White Stamping

Hi all

Yay Thursday! Almost the weekend! Sorry again for the lack of posts recently I really feel like I have zero energy when I'm home after work, and all I want to do on the weekend is relax!

These nails aren't really as good as they should have been, but I think that has something to do with the image plate itself. I think It may been etched too deeply, I think I need to maybe get in contact with Cheeky and see about getting a handful of plates replaces. I'm not having much luck :(

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Collection 2000 - Angel Wings & Beauty UK - Jelly Bean

Stamping Colours: Konad Special - White & Psyche Pink

Image Plate: Cheeky CH50

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

See what I mean about the image? There's meant to be lines between all petals, and the ends are meant to be pointed like Cherry Blossom, and it just didn't really work at all :( These did look really quite fun from arms length though as the colour combo was nice and bright.

Here's a couple pictures of the base gradient:

Well that's all from me today. Hope you're all having a good one :]

Holographic Dollars

Hi all.

Today I have some nails for you that I was very excited to do, and I loved wearing these. These are a base of Gosh - Holographic Hero stamped with Konad - Pop Green using Cheeky CH55. So simple, but they were nice and bold. I felt so gangster with these.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Gosh - Holographic Hero

Stamping Colour: Konad Special Polish - Pop Green

Image plate: Cheeky CH55

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And a blurry shot for good the strange reflective look.

I wore these before It started getting light enough in the mornings for me to take photos. As much as I don't like the heat, I'm beyond looking forward to real daylight for photo taking!

Hope you're all having a good Tuesday so far. I'll be tucking into some lunch right about when this posts :]

Valentines Day - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all, I'm totally not feeling valentines day this year surprise surprise. So while this week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping is for Valentines Day stamping, you guys get my nails from last year that I never posted.

This time last year I was getting ready for an interview, and planning what to take to Edinburgh. I had planned these nails before hand, but then it got really late the day before we traveled so I rushed them.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Colours Used: Models Own - Pastel Pink

                          MUA - Shade 20

                          La Femme - Pink Creme

                         Sally Hansen - White On

                         Clubworks - Fuchsia

                         OPI - Excuse Moi

Nail Art Pens: White Green & Pink

Green Acrylic Paint

Striping Tape

Stamping Polishes: Konad Special White

                             BYS - Black Satin

Image Plates: Bundle Monster BM03, BM08,

                     Konad M60

Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

Forgive me for the quality of the picture and the rushed job. Oddly the guy at Edinburgh Dungeons who takes the photos when you're in the stock with an axe complimented me on these.

Hope you've all had a good weekend. I spent my Friday night chilling, and my Saturday back and forth to the bathroom feeling like I was going to be sick :( Gladly I feel better today.

Sally Hansen - Quick Brick & Yellow Stamping

Hi hi all. Yay Friday!

This will be a scheduled post, but I already have that Friday feeling!

Today's nails start with a base, which is actually one of my favourite red polishes because it's so vibrant, and with all the Inst-Dri polishes I've tried the coverage is just amazing. So after a base of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Quick Brick I then decided to stamp with Konad Special Polish - Yellow, which at the time seemed like a fun move to make, but I'm not certain if it's the cheeky plates, or the special polish, but things just aren't working out!

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Quick Brick

Stamping Colour: Konad Special Polish - Yellow

Image Plate: Cheeky CH46

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

I had quite a bit of problems with the stamp smearing or more like stretching I suppose. And not picking up the little bits inside the stars. I've just started to work my way through my cheeky plates testing them on paper, so hopefully this was just a bad attempt on my behalf and not some deep engraving!

And this is a shot of Quick Brick without top coat, with flash. Nomnomnom!

That's all from me today :]

Tape & Stamp - We Stamp On Sundays

Hi all, hope you've had a good weekend!

It feels very weird for me writing this post (on a Sunday) but scheduling it for Monday. But it's getting late and I really really dislike posting too late.

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was to use tape in our mani, as well as stamping of course. As soon as this option was up for the vote I chose it because I instantly thought of a manicure I had seen many months ago on Tumblr. This is the manicure I'm talking about so gorgeous, and I love the original colour combo.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Collection 2000 - Angel Wings

Stamping colour: Konad Princess Polish - Pop Green

Other Colour: Sally Hansen Salon Manicure- Fairy Teal

Striping Tape

Image Plate: Bundle Monster - BM 223

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Here's a swatch of Collection 2000 - Angel Wings, and the stamping alone.

 Here's what I used:

Accent Nail - We Stamp On Sunday

Hi hi everyone :]

This week's challenge over at Adventures In Stamping was to create a mani with an accent nail. As I'm still working through some polishes that I haven't used yet I picked two Sally Hansen Insta-dri polishes painting my nails with Tealy Fast, using Grape Escape for an accent on my ring finger.

As I've just recently got some new Konad stamping polishes I thought I'd give Psyche Pink a shot. Unfortunately I'm a little disappointed by how bright this actually is, or how dull it is I suppose, as I was hoping for it to pop more. That being said, it is a shimmer stamping polish, and I did stamp over shimmer base colours so there isn't much of a contrast between the finish of them.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colours: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri - Tealy Fast & Grape Escape

Stamping Colour: Konad Special Polish - Psyche Pink

Image Plate: Cheeky CH53

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

And here's what I used:

Green Flakie Argyle

Hi all!

Quick post today, another mani from at least a month back now, this lack of daylight is starting to really annoy me! Also the flakies, and Diamond Drops looked so much better in proper sunlight, but there was literally not a sprinkle around when I had my camera near by.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey

Base Colour: Kiko - 296 - Meadow Green

Flakies; Catrice - C04 - Shake It! Flakie It!

Rainbow Shards: Color Club - Diamond Drops

Stamp Colour: Konad Special White

Image Plate: Konad M60

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

I probably could have done with two coats of Catrice - Shake It! Flake It! I would have used two if I wasn't going to add Color Club - Diamond Drops, and then stamp too.

So above is two coats of Kiko - Meadow Green. Not really much to say on this, the formula was amazing, which is a running theme with every single Kiko i've ever tried. The colour's glossy and bright and evens out on the nail so nicely.

That's all from me today! Happy Thursday :]

Essence Nail Colour3 - Boys Are Back In Town & It's Just A Crush, With Konad

Hey everyone! Everyone having a good Saturday?

I'm feeling a bit blah as I write this - I think I've got a cold or something coming on. I'm all stuffy and my ears are itchy. However by the time this posts I might be feeling better, and I'll be either shopping with Amy, or doing her nails :P

Today we have another Essence Nail Colour3 layering. Boys Are Back In Town is a really nice grey purple, I've always wanted a polish this sort of shade, but because it dried considerably darker on the nail I was a little disappointed! It was still a nice colour to wear alone though, but when I added the shimmer/fleck polish (It's Just A Crush) I totally fell in love!

Base Coat: : La Femme

Base Colours: Essence Nail Colour3 - Boys Are Back In Town

Essence Nail Colour 3 - It's Just A Crush

Stamp Colour: Konad Special White

Image Plate: Konad M65

Top Coat: Rimmel 60 Seconds - Clear

Close up of the little flecks. As you can see It's mainly blue/purple, but at times there's some random orange flashes :]

 And some swatch shots of The Boys Are Back In Town for good measure :] The formula was on the thicker side, but was so amazing to work with. and dried a treat too.

I think tomorrow will be the first Sunday that I'm not taking part in the Adventures In Stamping Sunday Challenge, I voted as well (slaps back of hand) but with everything going on here I'm just not going to have the time :( I'm going to feel extremely weird not posting, so I do hope you all can forgive me!

National Pet Week - We Stamp On Sundays

This week over at Adventures In Stamping the challenge theme is National Pet Week. I knew straight away what I was going to do as I'd just recieved some plates for review from The Born Pretty Store and was excited to use them. I will be doing a full stamping review of the two plates I got some time soon, so keep an eye out for that. For now though I used the little cat image from the S10 animal plate.

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colours: Rimmel - Milk Chocolate
                        Rimmel - Tip Whitener
Sponged Colours: ELF - Desert Haze
                             Matalan G - Storm
Stamping Colour: Konad Special White
Image Plate: Born Pretty Store - S10
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

I started with Rimmel - Milk Chocolate, with an accent of Rimmel - Tip Whitener on my ring finger (which is god knows how many years old, but has been thinned so much now, it actually dries!) I sponged ELF - Desert Haze and Matalan G - Storm on Milk Chocolate, and Storm alone on the ring finger to represent Jazz, my grey and white cat. I then stamped with Konad Special White Polish, and added a top coat.

And as every stamping challenge goes here's what I used:

*This product was sent to me for review*
They also offered a 5% off coupon for my readers using code DS5X31

Purple And White Stars

I was going through my boxes of polishes, and remembered how much I loved this polish. And then since my nails were shorties I headed for the first set of Bundle Monster. I wish I'd taken some photos before stamping, as I didn't realise I haven't posted about this polish before. It's such a gorgeous colour, and the formula is so great. Very pretty purple purple :]

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Coat: Rimmel - Pompous
Stamping Colour: Konad Special White
Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM20
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

 

These were incredibly fun to wear. Even though I love delicate and intricate nail art, I looooove having something bold on my nails. Hope everyone's having a good Tuesday =]

Acid Leopard

These are actually from a few months back, and I'm not sure why I haven't posted them, as It's really not like me. I like posting things in the order I do them :P

This was my first time using a real konad stamping polish (this was before I used Konad White), and I was not expecting there to be so much of a difference between special polishes and regular ones. I had to re-do a lot of nails because of the smearing that occurred. Usually when I stamp, the image that's transferred is already dry within a few seconds, but with the special polish I had to actually wait before top coating, and be more careful with the brush strokes. The nails that I had to re-do were a total, total streak fest. Every little bit was streaked and smeared! Urgh!

Oddly though I don't have this problem with Konad White, so maybe It's just because this colour was so pigmented.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Clubworks - Neon Green
Stamp Colour: Konad Special Polish - Red Wine (I Think)
Image Plate: Konad M57
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

 

I personally love these. The base is such a weird acid 80's vomit green, and with the wine red combo, it's so wrong it's right in my books!