Good evening and happy Saturday! I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend :) Mine's rather busy, with one day down and one to go lol. Today was my niece's second birthday party, then tomorrow is Mother's Day.
This week's 40gnai prompt was floral. I used the gorgeous ILNP Peace and Atlantis for my base, with stamping from UberChic 1-02 in MdU copper.
Floral Inlinkz-
Good afternoon!
Boy, this year has certainly flown by; I can't believe it's already December! I guess that means I've had a busy year XD It doesn't really feel like it has been, well, at least no busier than usual, I suppose lol. Work has been busy, though, which has kept me posting to just once a week, so I have a week's worth of manis to show y'all :)
Let's start with Textured Friday's offering. I used three coats of the pretty purple Zoya Thea for my base, and stamped over with present images from Winstonia's Merry Christmas plate and MdU silver.
Thursday's mani was bright and festive, using a bright summer creme and a mixed sized circle glitter. The creme was Wait 'N Sea from China Glaze (which stained my nails upon removal) and the glitter was Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree from Candy Lacquer. Because of the glitter, I needed two coats of Seche to smooth it out.
Sadly, only one of my pics came out decent -_-
I regard Wednesday's mani as something of a fail. It certainly didn't come out how I pictured in my head, I think I should have used a different base or something. Anyways, it was 2 coats of Zoya Celine and a single coat of Finger Paints' Hollywood Decadence. HD is very similar to OPI's More Than a Glimmer. It dries matte just like Glimmer does, but I added a matte coat to my mani anyways.
In one of on the groups I'm in, on FB, this week's challenge was a radial gradient. There aren't many tutorials on it, but I recalled seeing a pic weeks ago of one. How I did mine was this:
I started with a white base, Zoya Purity, which got topcoated. On a makeup sponge, I made a dot of Purity, then circled it with Zoya Prim. I then sponged it onto my nail, going over it as many times as it needed, twice for this mani. I almost stamped over after I topped again, but I decided against it.
I was really on the fence about this mani, but I think with practice, I could get the hang of this particular style gradient.
Last week or the week before, I don't remember which, I received two new polishes from I Love Nail Polish. One of them I've already worn, Champagne Blush. The other, Black Orchid, I paired with one of their multichromes, Undenied, for Monday's mani. Two coats each, then topcoat.
The first three pics are direct sun, the other two shade.
Good afternoon, dearies!
It's been an incredibly busy week, hence my lack of posting, but this is going to be a catching up post :) So pull up a chair and your favorite snack/beverage and enjoy!
The first mani to be shown is today's Stamping Sunday challenge, Art Nouveau. The base color is 2 coats of China Glaze New Birth. I originally passed this up, but had read it was cool toned white, sort of like OPI's My Boyfriend Scales Walls, but instead of blue toned, New Birth is more green toned. In fact, the stamping polish I used, MdU Fiji, made it appear to be a pale, pale green. The stamped image is from VL-1. Topped, of course, with Seche.
I seriously need to work on my placement lol. For my thumbs, I enlarged this image, the other fingers I shrunk it for.
I almost did a black mani for Black Friday, but I didn't. I did a blue one, and it was textured. It was just two coats each of Zoya Nori and Vega. I like how Nori wasn't as rough as Vega but still has a bit of texture.
I had to take of my pics indoor this week, because the weather was pretty bad most, and wouldn't show some of these beauties properly.
My Thanksgiving mani didn't turn out quite the way I wanted it to, I think the green I used was too bright. My bas color was two coats of Zoya Nyssa, then a coat of Seche. Th first image stamped was the plaid from MJ XXIX in MdU high green. The other images came from Messy Mansion MM23, Winstonia W119, and Bundle Monster BM-H12, in the colors pinon, yellow, reddish, and brick, also from MdU. Seche over it all.
Wednesday's mani was a sparkly, girly mani, perfect, I think, for the day before a holiday. It was simply one coat of Zoya Margo, then 3 coats of Zoya Nova, then a coat of Seche.
Tuesday was more stamping, this time over Zoya Remy. First, two coats of Remy, in which the golden sparkle in the bottle didn't translate to the nail, which in turn made me happy. My pics make it appear more green though. Stamped over it was MdU light gold and MJ XXIX, then Seche.
Monday's mani was very simple, just two coats of I Love Nail Polish's Champagne Blush, a gorgeous rose gold holo. Seche didn't dull the holo either.
These pics make it appear more pink, but again, this was taken inside. Trust me, Champagne Blush is definitely more rose gold.
Good evening!
Actually, busy month for me >.< It's been hard to keep track off what's happening when lol. Every time I think I'm on top of posting, I prove myself wrong. Ah, well, at least I'm posting, right?!
Anyways! Let's get started. Today's mani was inspired by another I saw posted; it was called a negative space mani. I'm not sure what that's all about, but it inspired me. My base was a coat of just OPI's Natural Nail Base. I used Scotch tape and OPI's This Gown Needs a Crown and Love. Angel. Music. Baby and no top coat.
Wednesday's mani was a matte flakie mani :) The base was 2 coats of OPI's Incognito in Sausalito (lovely teal blue, by the way!), one coat of Finger Paints' Vivid Reflection, a coat of Seche, and a coat of OPI's Matte coat.
Tuesday's mani was inspired by one the polishes I used, OPI's Minnie Style. I have always loved Minnie Mouse, yet I passed up the two collections released celebrating her. A very close inspection of Minnie Style changed my mind. I never released it had square glitters in it! Of course I had to have it.
The base color for this mani was 2 coats of Zoya Gie Gie. I should have sponged on Minnie Style, but I didn't, and it was a hot, bubbly mess on the fingers I used it on. My thumbs and ring fingers were stamped with images from my Handy 32 plate in CND Vinylux Black Pool. Everything topped with Seche.
And, finally, Monday's mani also featured a new polish. When I first saw swatched of I Love Nail Polish's newest ultrachromes, I just knew that Undenied would be mine. Its shifts aren't as in your face as their others, but the color is gorgeou. My mani only needed 2 coats, then topped with Seche. I stamped over it using Messy Mansion MM03 in Maybelline's Bold Gold, and topped again with Seche.
