Barielle - Elle's Spell Swatches

Today I have some swatches of Barielle - Elle's Spell. I never got the chance to swatch it by itself, but from the two coats I did on my thumb I think I'd need about four to make it opaque (I'm a thin coat kinda girl). So Here it is, two coats; over a coat of Barry M - Raspberry. I freaking love this polish, apart from the fact it dries a bit slow.

This is a pinkish red jelly packed with red/orange flakes that shine green at times, and in the bottle you get some blue glimpses too.

Base Colours: Barry M - Raspberry
Barielle - Elle's Spell

I loved these matte, I'm yet to wear this polish for more than a day as I love stamping, and have a hard time stamping over stunners like this. xD When I got this I didn't think any of the green would translate on the nail, but in real life you do get glimpses.

Peach & Green Using Dashica Big SpD-A

Bit of an odd combo today, but I really loved the shimmer against the creme. This was done with Dashica's Big SpD-A double stamping one of the images, turning it around. I can't believe I forgot to take photos of the base colour, but all I know the formula and the brush was a total PITA. I should've spent an extra quid on a Barry M instead I think.

Base Coat: CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Beauty UK - Peach Melba
Stamping Colour: Revlon - Emerald City
Image Plate: Dashica Big SpD-A
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Last photo's a bit out of focus but you can see the shimmer from Emerald City more clearly. I almost feel like I should've stamped something else over these...

Unnatural Animals - We Stamp On Sundays

So because I got a bit behind on this week I had majority of yesterday to plan something to do. I had thought to do something inspired by a pair of socks I own, but they are leopard print, and I'd done leopard print recently so that idea was scrapped. Then I settled on some sort of rainbow cow print, but they turned out pants. So I settled on rainbow zebra or tiger, even though I used the stamp a couple of weeks back :P

Base Coat: Nail RX - Stuck On You
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: Rimmel - Purple Reign
                              Clubworks - Neon orange & Pink
                              Deborah - Turquoise Fever
                              Miss Sporty - 346
                              George - Buttercup
Image Plate: Bundle Monster BM223
Top Coat: China Glaze - No Chip Top Coat

 

I started with a base of white, and used my usual mixing method for multicoloured stamping. As always on Sunday; here's what I used :]

Can't even describe how fun these are :D I keep staring at my nails. I think I'm going to wear these until I have the serious itch to change my mani. Hope everyone's having a good Sunday! :]

Pink & Red Roses Using Dashica Big SpD - A, And Cupcakes!

I feel like I've fallen behind! I've spent so much time this week looking at cake and frosting recipes for Scott's Birthday, that I've only just looked at what the stamping challenge is for this week, so after Scott goes off to work this afternoon I'm gonna try and plan some crazy unnatural animal nails, and hope there's decent light tomorrow for photos xD Anyhoo! Enough of that rant, and on to the nails.

So these are also from a few weeks ago. I'm slightly annoyed with myself not posting things, I've been playing with this plate that I won from Shirley over at Dashica Beauty for an age now. And I looove It, I only have one downside, the images are so large (which is obviously awesome for those with bigger nails) that I have a hard time picking how to put the image on my iddy biddy pinky. I know.. not a problem at all :P I love this plate!

Base Coat:CND - Stickey
Base Colour: Sally Hansen - White On
Stamping Colours: LA Colors - Power Outage
Rimmel - Celebrity Bash
Image Plate: Dashica Big SpD-A
Top Coat: Models Own - 3 In 1

Slighty annoyed at how these photos turned out. I used my typical mixing method to use these two polishes, and in real life you could see the shimmer and the violet shimmer from Power Outage on the nail.

And I finally decided to try out the new scanner, so here's a scan of the plate. Granted; it has some wear and tear, and I couldn't get it as shiny as when it was new :P

So Many pretties to try!

And.. For an even longer post; I'd like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTTIUS!

 Scott's Birthday cupcake, chocolate cake, chocolate chips, peanut butter frosting, chocolate sprinkles, popping candy, and the lolly from the popping candy packet just for funsies. xD

 Vanilla cupcakes, morello cherry jam frosting & sprinkles.

Peanut butter ones are chocolate cake, chocolate chips, with morello cherry in the centre, with peanut butter frosting and sprinkles. Crazy grey ones are Scott's invention. Vanilla cake, Eristoff Black - Wild Berry flavour and Blueberry jam frosting with sprinkles =] I hope everyone's having a good weekend so far =]

Claire's Candy Shop & Crackle

So this polish was sent to me as part of a swap from Iris over at Polish Amor, and I can't believe I haven't posted about it yet. Again these photos are from a while back.

Claire's - Candy Shop is such a nommy, amazing polish I love love love it. It's a pink jelly with multicoloured glitter pieces that range from small round glitter, to large hex glitter. But most of you have already seen this beauty, or Deborah Lippmann's - Candy Shop. So onto the pictures :]

Then I decided to add a black crackle, and I loved it even more, I'm kinda hit and miss with crackles, every now and again I think they look okay, but I don't actually like to wear them. But I loved this combo so much, and the photos don't do it justice it all.

 & Then I added a top coat. The more I look at these photos the more I'm disappointed, in person the glitter would catch your eye between the crackle, but they kinda look blah here.

I hope everyone's having a good Wednesday :] This was meant to be a scheduled post for Thursday as I will be ingredient shopping for Scott's birthday cake stuff, but blogger decided to be a pain the butt ¬_¬

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 =]