40 Great Nail Art Ideas

This week's colour prompt for #40greatnailartideas was hot pink, and my pattern prompt was water spotting or water marbling.
We had a bit of a debate on whether hot pink was a warm pink or cool. I then had some debates with myself whether I could get away with stamping since actual water marbling and water spotting always results in a disappointing mess for me. Then I debated if I should use black - something in my mind said water spotting should be black but then I googled hot pink water spotting and one of the first images that came up was Claire Kerr from Kerruticles with a hot pink over pale pink mani. So, I went for 2 really bright pinks, HJ Manicure Candy Pink as my base and stamped with Esmaltes da Kelly Chuoisco and Hehe 081.
It was bright! very bright!
I couldn't resist a second layer of stamping so I used China Glaze Liquid Leather with the same image and I have to say I found that a lot more wearable! I do like that I can see the 2 pinks underneath.

Hehe 081 and EDK Chuoisco

 

Hehe 081 and China Glazre Liquid Leather

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May Challenge - A Smoosh and Water Spotting

This week's smoosh was Cobalt Blue, Aqua and Silver - I used Nails Inc Instyle Oregon's Out (looks like Baker Street to me), Royal Botanical Gardens and Kate Spade Soho Silver.
Soho Silver is not really thick enough to smoosh with and the pictures are awful, not sure if it was poor light or what - it did look a lot better in real life.
Then the next prompt was Water Marble / Spotting for #firedazedchallenge - well you all know I don't do water marbling/spotting unless I can stamp it so here was a chance to use Hehe 081 which I have used with Essence Stampy 002. I think this worked well over the smoosh. This is a great plate, it has a central floral bit too like the others in this range but I just used the water spotting part for this mani.

#smooshynailsunday

Hehe 081 with Essence Stampy 002