Leopard Print, Crosses, Gradients & Studs

Hi all, happy Thursday! I'm one follower away from 501, and my next giveaway ( I started following myself recently) yay!

Today we have some nails that I loved wearing, so so much, these made me feel a bit like a bad-ass :P

I started with a base colour of Beauty UK - Soft Grey, and created gradients on all my fingers using three other colours, Gosh - Berry Me (index), Barry M - Gold Foil (thumb & ring) and W7 - Black ( middle & pinky) I then stamped over my ring, and index nail in BYS - Black Satin using Konad M57. I added a stripe of black down my thumb, added studs, and added some crosses made of striping tape to my middle and pinky fingers.

A couple of days later I added in some dots to the stamped nails in opposite colours, which was the original plan, but I was doing these for a "night out" & I didn't want to mess them up.

What I used:

Base Coat: La Femme

Base Colours: Beauty UK - Soft Grey

                      Gosh - Berry Me

                      W7 - Black

                      Barry M - Gold Foil

Stamp Colour: BYS - Black Satin
Image Plate: Konad M57

Gold Striping Tape

Silver Round 2mm Studs

Top Coat: Sally Hansen Advanced Hard As Nails

Above is the added dots,and below is the thumb :]

And a picture of the sponged base for good measure, ignore the chip in the index (thank god I have a replacement CND - Stickey in my little mitts now :D)

What do you guys think of these? I'll definitely be doing this sort of mix and match again, or maybe even this design again.

Silver, Max Factor - Fantasy Fire & Silver Studs

I decided to dig out another polish I hadn't used in years. I got this as part of a pack for a Christmas, maybe last year, or year before. And I felt it had been a while since I wore studs, so I decided to pull out some silver ones.

This is a very pretty silver, metallic fleck polish by Scarlett & Crimson which is the teen line of products by Ruby & Millie. For this mani I used two coats of silver, one coat of Max Factor - Fantasy Fire, and then added some studs.

Here's a better shot of Max Factor - Fantasy Fire over the silver.

It was after taking these photos I remembered I have a close up/crop type action on my camera, so next time I need to capture some sparkle, I'm going to try that out and see how it works :] Here is the silver on its own:

And here's a close up to see the pretty flecks:

 

I hope everyone's having a good Tuesday. I'm seeing The Dark Night Rises today :] so I'm excited!

My Guest Post Over At Nail Addict!

For info on what I used head over to Nail Addict. Or click the pic :]

I really need to try this with Models Own - Pinky Brown & a grey creme maybe! Also, If anyone would like to know where I get my 3mm Pyramid studs let me know :]