30 Days of Colour: Radial gradient with Picture polish Grace and Paris and Bundle Monster stamping plate 608 "It's broken"

Introduction

It's pink/radial gradient day in June 30 Days of Colour challenge and I was really looking forward to make second radial gradient, because I loved first one. I was not sure which stamping image to use until I remembered beautiful blue gradient with broken glass stamping, which Sarah did for Autism awareness.  It was a perfect opportunity to make a pink version with radial gradient. I used sparkly picture polish Grace and Paris , but to be honest gradient looked poor without stamping. Fortunately I received my Bissu polish just in time and it was a perfect metallic pink shade. Another wonderful radial gradient was complete. I wanted to give a romantic name to this nail art... so  "It's broken" and you can decided for your self what is it.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "It's broken"

June macro challenge: Emily de Molly Ariel's realm swatch

Introduction

It's a flakies day in our June macro challenge and I decided to share my swatch of Emily de Molly polish Ariel's realm. Previously I published neuron inspired nail art with this polish as a background. It has dark teal/green base and is loaded with numerous color shifting mini flakes and silver micro holo glitter. Another gorgeous creation from Hayley. I applied 2 coats, as it was a background for nail art and show it without top coat. There was no issues with application or staining and this polish looked amazing on my long nails.

Results 

Figure 1. Ariel's realm swatch.

30 Days of Colour: Indie polish neon watermarble and Mundo de Unas stamping with MoYou Explorer 23 "African masks"

Introduction

My second June entry for 30 Days of Colour challenge Neon/splatter is a actually a stamping over neon water marble, so no splatter part. Water marble was done using decal technique, you can find detail in the original post. I was not sure which king of stamping to do and used African tribal masks from MoYou Explorer plate. It looks rather unusual, and I can not decide how I feel about this mani. My favorite is ring finger with sad mask, even though this stamping image makes nail look a bit crooked.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "African masks"

Lilypad Lacquer Where oceans meet swatch

Introduction

Today there is no challenge and I just want to show you swatch of Lilypad Lacquer Where oceans meet. I did it before "Lizard skin" stamping and never had time to share. This polish is duochrome with green to teal shift, which is visible at day light, but not so much inside. There is definitely more shift on my macros, because I took them with LED + daylight and not so much on full hand pictures which were taken with flash. You even can see some sort of shimmer appears here and there. But I was not very impressed with this polish, as it required 3 coats to reach opacity on my nails. and I'm a one coater lover.

Results

Figure 1. Swatch of Where oceans meet.

30 Days of Colour: nail art with Femme Fatale Mirror, mirror on the wall and peacock Chez Delaney stamping "Silver peacocks"

Introduction

It's a new month and I continue to follow 30 Days of Colour challenge, feel free to join us and use tag #30daysofcolourchallenge. You can find list of prompts for June at the end of my post. For the first day we  supposed to do Silver/negative space mani and I chose to show silver nails with peacock stamping. My base polish is gorgeous silver/holo glitter  Mirror, mirror on the wall, but pictures below are not very color accurate. You can take a look at my swatches to see how it looks indoor and outdoor, in reality it's less blue and more silver. If you look carefully you also will notice that two peacocks have different thickness of lines, this is because I had to use different stampers in order to flip image. It's a first time I notice that stamper affected line thickness. I loved how this mani looked in real life, but my photos are not perfectly focused, I guess due to extreme shine. At the same time macros are really good, so keep scrolling until you see them.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Silver peacocks"

Mani swap: Green yellow and orange gradient with MdU stamping "Golden lotus"

Introduction

Something different today - my very first mani swap with awesome Sumeet from Tales of coffee lacquer and beauty. If you follow her blog (and if not, what are you waiting for?) you know that she does outstanding water marbles and gradients. For this swap we decided to do stamping mani, but I new right away that it will be one of her stampings over gradient, because they are so beautiful. It was hard, we do not have too many similar plates and I love so many of her designs. Finally, when I saw this gorgeous green to orange gradient I could not resist, even though my lotus and leaves are pretty different. But this color combo is divine, it glows on my nails. I love everything about this mani, thank you Summet for this opportunity to swap with you.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Golden lotus".

June macro challenge: Enchanted polish Kids swatch.

Introduction

New month - new challenge - June macro challenge!!! Enchanted polish Kids is one of my favorite enchanteds and I swatched in April before doing Mermaid nails. Since our macro challenges starts with Holo, I decided that it will be a perfect beginning for  summer. it's holo and duochrome, maybe even multichrome, so below you will see many pictures where I try to capture different looks of this wonderful polish. take a look at last picture with polish brush, it's a gorgeous macro showing holo sparkle very well.

Results

Figure 1. Enchanted polish Kids swatch.