Under the Sea

I love this little guy

So while practice stamping my new plates from Mo-You London I came across a fish that I knew I just had to do. He looks like Gil from Finding Nemo. I have watched that movie over a hundred times thanks to my daughter. I wanted to make my background look like moving water so I used the saran wrap method to get my desired look. I used two colors from China Glaze, shower together and man hunt. They are not a full on creams more like a crelly. I put down one coat of shower together then sponged on one coat of man hunt. I went back in with shower together on top to give that moving appearance. I stamped using my usual Konad white polish. 

Plate 08 Sailor Collection

Base colors

Base colors

I am head over heels for this mani. I feel like a walking aquarium. There will be plenty more manis with these stamping plates for sure. Maybe next time I will do all the Finding Nemo characters.

Mo-You London Sailor Plates

First off I would like to apologize for it being so long since my last post. Having two little ones take up so much of my time and energy. Thank you for baring with me. Now on to the good stuff...stamping plates! I had been eye balling Mo-You London's stamping plates for months now but I just couldn't bring myself to bite the bullet. They are obviously shipped out of the UK and being in the States myself I didn't want to even guess at shipping costs. I was trolling my usual nail blogs when low and behold an ad for free shipping. I just knew it was a sign of the gods. Then the agonizing question was "which do I order?" Man oh man I had a hard time. I finally narrowed it down to 6 for my first order. Plates 04 and 08 from the Sailor collection, Pro 07, Sci-Fi 06, Princess 10, and Festive 02. The Sailor plates were the first ones I knew I just had to have so of coarse I stamped them first. I went in with a non-stamping polish because I wanted to see how they did with regular polish. I just used my Color Club Warhol. I wanted something bright enough to see on film. Now please bare with me on my practice stamping. Its not very neat. I am sorry. I was just so excited I got in a hurry.

Please ignore the blue. My first polish I used was a little old.

I also wanted include a photo of the stamper I use. This is a black & white stamper from Winstonia Store.

As you can see these plates stamp BEAUTIFULLY!! I am so happy with my purchase. They have crisp clean lines, even with the finer details. The only time I had to stamp more then once when I had user error.  I have already used them for a manicure. It will be my next post. They are currently still doing free shipping. If you are looking for great quality stamps I would definitely check them out. They also come out with new plates every Friday. You can find their plates here.

Chelsea Girl

I was dying for bright blue nails the other night and thought "I have got to try my new color club polish." Once I started to apply it I got so disappointed. It was so streaky. I almost never have to do more then two coats of polish to get a smooth finish. This one took at least 3 and could have probably used 4. In the bottle it looks like this pretty bright blue neon. It goes on like a jelly so it has that rubber look and is way more sheer then I expected. Overall I just was not happy. It came back off after I took photo.s

Sponging and Stamping

I have been looking at my Winstonia plate #W111 and trying to decide how I wanted to paint the background for it. I finally decided to do a pastel type watercolor mani. I didn't feel like breaking out the plastic wrap so I just used cut up sponges to layer the colors. I put down a base color of Opi's Alpine snow because I really wanted the colors to pop. I used all China Glaze polishes. They are Lotus begin, What a pansy, At vase value, and Bahamian escape. I just would sponge on one color at a time and then at the end I went back in with the base color of Bahamian escape to even it out. I stamped with Konad's white special polish. As per usual I used my favorite Glisten and Glow HK Girl topcoat.

My base of sponging

Indoor light

Indoor light

Sunlight

Sunlight

Sunlight