Roses

Hey yo!

Today I have got roses!
Purple gradient base over silver and stamping with lovely plate BBF-23.
The polish I used for stamping is maybelline, which I own like ages, and it's not dried.

Mani with three purples

Hi!
Today's challenge in the FB group Adventures in Stamping is mani with three purples.
So I thought of many purples that I used to rarely and of not even used stamping plates.
And that's what came out.

As a base I painted plain white polish. The OPI Nicole Count on me is very translucent, I painted like 5 coats over white colour to get near the colour of polish in the bottle.
Then I stamped with Maybelline Colorama Lavender Lies grass and little butterflies from the Mother Nature Collection 01 by MoYou.

Oh, almost forgot, that the middle finger and thumb are stamped also with Konad purple metallic.
Then I put larger butterflies from the other MoYou plate Kitty collection 01, using violet electrique.

Then I added some glitter to butterfly wings and to the "ground".

OPI Nicole Count on me has got a blueish nuance at some angles of view.

Winter Thermo

This time we were testing a thermo polish by Dance Legend. My sister was here again with her nails. The shade number 176 is lilac or purple in a "cold state". The shade is matte without any noticeable shimmer.

I stamped with essie Nothing Else Metals the swirly images from MoYou Pro 14. For the accent nail  I took white colour and MoYou Pro 06.

And if it's warm the polish turns to bright pink! 

If the air temperature is on level to keep only the free nail edge cool and you have warm hands, you get some gradient like this.

Anyway you can play with the polish by cooling and warming your hands.

Merge or Melt

Day 21 of the Laid Back 31 Day Challenge - Merge or Melt

It had been explained that everything is suited for "merge and melt" if it's like gradient or other techniques with colour mixing. I like gradients :). First I did a simple gradient with essence 106 free hugs, IsaDora 629 icy purple and Yves Roches 42 Violet electrique. 

And then I added glitter polishes also like gradient (glitters above are light pink and glitter at the nail edge are purple).

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.

Ombre

Laid back Challenge Day 7 - Ombre or Skittle.

I liked the idea of ombre more then skittle :). I thought to make some layers of more and more ombre colours, but the difference between two last layers was very slight, it would look like the only one dark layer. So I added some silver liner between layers.

Favourite Colour Family

Day 6 of the Laid back 31 days challenge. My favourite colour family is purplish-rose, like antique pink.

I chose a shade of intense dusk pink by alessandro "Dramatic Blossom". Unfortunately my camera wasn't able to depict the colour exactly. This two pics were the closest to the original.

For the accent nail I used striping tape and another polish by alessandro "Midnight Rebel" which is purple with shimmer.

Purple

Laid back 31 days challenge. Day 5 - purple.

I wanted to try striping tape mani which was done by someone for Christmas themes. There is alessandro Dramatic Blossom as base, alessandro Midnight Rebel, Misslyn las vegas and essence topper 03 Crazy in Love from "hugs & kisses" over the base.