June Challenges - Silver / Negative Space

OK so it's June and this is the first June challenge for #30daysofcolourchallenge. The prompt is Silver / Negative Space. I love the sound of all the other prompts for the June challenge but I don't like silver really and not a huge fan of negative space manis. We can choose to do either or both of these prompts but as I am not much fussed by either I thought I'd do them both and give it my best shot!
I really really can't do bare naked nails so I started with base of Nails Inc Fulham Palace Road (a nice warm pale nude).
Then I used Avon Metallic Effects Platinum Petal to stamp the central image from Messy Mansion MM49. This is perfect for a negative space mani and even has a strip at the top so that you can do a french mani. I tried to line that up properly and had a moderate level of success.
I can't say I love the mani but it came out about as well as I could have hoped for and I like it more than I expected. By the end of the day it had grown on me but I can't say silver metallic nails will be anywhere on my top manis list!
On the plus side, I now know that Avon Platinum Petal stamps well, and I really like that image on MM49, but next time I will certainly be using a different colour combo.
I had a bit of time on my hands so I had a play around with a new app on my phone, so whilst it's not the best mani to use, I have also included a macro shot.

Avon Platinum Petal and Messy Mansion MM49

  

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Water Spotting with Nails Inc Princes Street

I have firmly avoided water marbling and water spotting in the belief that it is just too messy, but a friend set up a Facebook group for water marbling so I thought maybe I should give it a try. Another friend posted up her latest mani using water spotting so I thought I'd start there as it looked a little bit easier.
I am not going to bore you with the details of what I did, not 100% sure what went wrong but I need to practice. What I will say is that this took me 3 hours, and clean up was hideous!
I started with a base of Nails Inc Fulham Palace Road a nice soft nude, and for the water spotting I used Nails Inc Princes Street, a lovely dark blue /purple - a blurple!
I am posting pics of both hands so you can see how different they are, both look OK, not fab but I would have preferred both hands to look similar!
You'll see that clean up and picture taking are noticeably more ropey for the right hand. My left hand can paint and stamp but it can't wield a clean up brush or hold the camera still!
Anyway, I like the colours together, and either of the finished effects look quite good but not convinced it's worth the grief. I could stamp Princes Street over Fulham Palace Road in a lot less time but at least I gave it a go.

Water Spotting with Nails Inc Princes Street

 

Water Spotting with Nails Inc Princes Street
- the other hand