Halloween Smoosh Marble Mani with Spiderwebs

The Digit-al Dozen does Food: Day 5 - Salad

Twinsie Tuesday - Summer Lovin'

I went more literal with this theme. For today's mani, I started with OPI Need Sunglasses? (perfect summer polish name, right?!), then did a semi glitter gradient kind of look on top with Polish Me Silly (previously Lush Lacquer) Summer Lovin.

Stamping Decal Peace Signs

I wasn't a fan of how these turned out. So I just went outside at 9 at night when I got them done to get pictures with what light there was left because I just wanted to take them off and wasn't too worried about.

So my pictures are crap. Sorry. They aren't completely in focus and the glare off my nails is all awkward. It's just a hot mess. But it was just a test mani, so it's alright.

They looked a lot better in my head when I imagined them! The image was too big and the "decals" too thick and uneven. I think part of the problem is that I was impatient in making these decals. I used Seche Vite because I didn't want to have to wait too long on them to dry. But Seche dries really hard and they weren't as pliable as I needed them to be due to that.

Jelly Layering and Geometric Stamping

When I was trying to come up with an idea for some geometric nail art a while back, I went through my stamping plate book and pulled out a bunch of different designs. I layered some jelly polishes first: China Glaze Ride the Waves (blue), Zoya Coraline (orange), and Zoya Kate (pink).

Twinsie Tuesday - Something New

I was browsing the YouTube and the Google for the inspiration a couple of days ago to decide on "something new" to try, because my bottle of creative juice was 100% empty. I came across this video tutorial, and for a floral design, surprisingly loved it so much that I needed to recreate it! I changed it up a bit to fit my style better, and produced my first ever successfully multi-stamped mani.

That is how this fits today's theme. I have tried double stamping before, but have never been able to stamp more than once and have a good outcome. Tri-stamping is something new to me.

Random Oldies

I have a bunch of random old manis to share with you today that I never got around to posting. These are manis that I was just playing around with but never had a lot to say about. These are mostly phone pictures, nothing super fancy. I just figured I'd post them before deleting them. No real reason.

The first picture is of two ruffians. I'd gotten into my box of frankens and just wanted to see what some of them would look like together. All four colors are nameless frankens, the left mani with some China Glaze Matte Magic.

Seven Deadly Sins Series - Wrath: Halo Hues + BM204 and SE19 = Holo Rainbow Seahorses

... Could I have made that title any longer?? ^.^

Anyway. For the first Wrath theme, the prompt was "get mad trying, again, that technique you know is going to be a fail".

Well... What is something I am terrible at? Stamping. Definitely.

Have I made my point yet? Can we move on now?

Stamping Gone Wrong

Well I had a fun, double stamped idea...

Stamped Snowflakes on a Sparkly Pink Background

I loved my glowing beauty from yesterday so much that I wanted to keep it a while longer and decided to do some stamping on top.

For the snowflakes, I used Bundle Monster plates BM319 and BM14, as well as Salon Express plate SE19.

I started with my base mani from yesterday of Kleancolor Neon Pink and two coats of Sally Hansen Diamonds, then added a coat of China Glaze Techno, and stamped on top with Born Pretty Store's white stamping polish, then finished everything off with a coat of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri fast drying topcoat.

Zoya Natty with OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons

I decided to stamp on top of Natty and used Bundle Monster plate BM110 and OPI Don't Pretzel My Buttons.

Stamped Pink Gradient

After I wore the gradient I showed you yesterday for a day, I decided to stamp on top using a random design from one of the Bundle Monster plates, and Pixel Marvel-icious.

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Born Pretty Store Stamping Polish Review

I didn't realize how terrible the quality of these pictures were until I had removed the polish from my nails, and this was the best of the bunch. Sorry! :/ You'll see the white stamping polish again during my nail art challenge shortly, because I used it for my "inspired by your country" nails, though! :)

These bottle are very tiny. There is no actual size on the bottle, but they are about the size of a regular mini polish. They are spectacularly opaque, though! I was pretty surprised! I've never come across a white polish (haven't tried those made specially for stamping) that is as opaque as this one! I even did it over a dark blue to really test it, and it performed wonderfully! I foresee this being my go-to white stamping polish until it runs out!

I picked a couple of random designs from the Bundle Monster 300 series to stamp with. To be fair, I wanted to try each polish with a thin-line, or more detailed stamp, as well as one with fuller coverage. Keep in mind, I suck at stamping. That is one area I have yet to perfect, so some of the missing spots and whatnot are probably my fault! ^.^

Colorblind Leopard/Cheetah - Stamping on Sponging in Black, White and Grey - a Video Tutorial

I did these nails quite a while ago, but wanted to include the tutorial with them, and it took me a century to get it all done! Here they are now, though! ^.^

Quince de Creatividad - Stamping Plate Solution

I haven't done one of these posts in a while. If you follow me on Instagram, though, then you may already be aware of my genius that is the ultimate solution for stamping plates! If not, allow me to explain...

For one, I hate how my plates always slide around in my album, and when I am trying to use them. Two, if you have a husband like mine, every time he picks up the stamping plate book, or even thinks about it, for that matter, it is upside down and they're all on the floor. I know I hate rearranging and putting almost 100 plates back into their sleeves!

Sally Girl - Banana

So I picked this polish up off the clearance rack. I figured it's yellow, it's ugly, but it's a whole .69 cents, so why not.

Then I looked at the receipt and saw it had a name. Odd, I've never seen a Sally Girl mini polish with a name on it.

So then I peeled off the huge clearance sticker that took up most of the bottle, and saw that it had a little tab on it with its name "Banana".

First of all, is Sally Beauty now naming their teeny polishes? Because that would be great. I hate brands that don't name their polishes!

A Sparkly Blue Zebra

I decided to try out stamping and sponging together, and I quite like how it turned out! ^.^

I used China Glaze Some Like it Haute as a base color, and the blue on top is Sally Hansen Blue Me Away.

Layering Lizards

I had the desire to do some more layering, so I started this one out with a green franken polish:

Then I added 1 coat of Pure Ice Oh Baby! And two coats of Finger Paints Twisted: