Leadlighted peonies

Hello again!

We've got flower power! Lovely peonies from MoYou London plate pro collection 06. This is the first time I used the leadlight technique: you just colour your design over the stamped nail with sheer nail polishes. The base is typically white or other light colour and you stamp with black or otherwise dark nuance, which would be well seen through the sheer polish layer.

 

First I painted my nails with pure white and added some glittery sheer white polish (Yves Rocher Blanc neige) above. Then I stamped with black. And then I coloured the peonies with some polishes which I made more translucent by adding clear polish. Also I've got a really sheer red polish by Shiseido, and it suits very well for leadlighting. It is on the big petals around and over peach-colored areas. Due to its transparency the polish looks rather pink than red.

In the middle of November my chrysanthemums are breaking into bloom.
I think leadlight technique is more fun, if you've got ready to use sheer polishes. Some of mixed with clear polishes are stell not transparent enough.

Texture

Day 20 of the Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - Texture

Unfortunately I already did some texture polish for the "favorite polish" and I am going to write about new polishes launched in april, which are textured again, so I didn't want to repeat myself and looked into downs of my nail art boxes. I found there Japanese 3D nail sticker I've got from a friend of mine who was often enough to Japan before 3/11. The stickers are really voluminous and stand out and above your nail plates.

First I painted my nails with white polish by essence floral GRUNGE Lily Bloom (but basically it could be just any other white polish). Then I sponged different pink and purple colours over the base. I added a whitish spot on each nail to the places where branches were supposed to be. I painted the branches with grey and brown acrylic paints and let them dry. And then I added the stickers and golden glitter. Here I didn't use top coat yet.

So, and this is a final product cleaned up and covered with top coat.

Here the stickers are seen a bit better, and how they rise over my nails. :)

And that much polishes were used for sponging and decorating:

Does this design remind you of sakura and so on? One description for these stickers says there are plum flowers. Anyway it is the very time to get spring feeling with blossoming trees.