May Challenges - Lace and Born Pretty BPL-030

This week's smoosh was a special editon for Mother's Day (not UK Mother's day - the rest of the world Mother's Day!) so the colours were white, glitter and our choice - I went for blue, because I love blue!!
I used OPI Road House Blues, 'Ard As Nails White Van Girl and OPI Which is Witch?
I am not sure I got as much glitter as I should have but I think it looked pretty and I liked the indigo blue with the white.
The prompt was Lace for #ggfnachallenge - the perfect opportunity to use Born Pretty BPL-030 which had been sent to me by Born Pretty for review -product code is 21816, available here
I started with Kleancolor Neon Sapphire and this worked really well with the plate - it stamped beautifully. I used a more open design as I was stamping blue over blue.This is a lovely plate with a nice mixture of mostly floral lacy designs, laid out well on the plate and because the images were basically 3 longs strips of pattern it seemed to be more flexible for longer nails. My nails are not particularly long but small images can be a real pain.
Then for my second layer I used Barry M Cotton and a more solid pattern. Cotton is not fully opaque so the blues still showed through and resulted in a  really pretty mosaic style.
I am really happy with this plate, and I have already used it again. I was also pretty pleased with the final mani.

#smooshattack

Born Pretty BPL-030 and Kleancolour Neon Sapphire

 

Born Pretty BPL-030 and Barry M Cotton

 

BPL-030

OPI Road House Blues

Today's polish is one of the ones I was lucky enough to pick up at the OPI charity sale last month. I generally don't buy polishes without googling for swatches first but when I saw dark blue, I took a chance. Fairly safe bet really, it's OPI, I love dark colours and I particularly like blue, so even if I had something similar I knew I'd love it. Actually, having checked my spreadsheet I think I am OK with this one, only 1 or 2 are close and that's fine as dark blue is almost as much a staple as black.
This painted on nicely although I did go for 3 thin coats for completely full coverage. This is a really dark blue, and does almost look black in some lights, it is also a teeny bit purple which is nice, I guess maybe indigo is the right description. It is such a lovely shade and so wearable. It has a beautiful glossy finish although I have top coated it too.
Something about a nice dark cream, so simple and yet sophisticated. That's was I was looking for with this mani and I was delighted with the finished look. 

OPI Road House Blues