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

Nails Inc Colville Mews with pretty top coats

Much as I was loving Nails Inc Colville Mews, I just had to have a little play with some glitter. I added one coat of Nails Inc Electric Lane which is a very fine holographic glitter. It gave a very pretty but quite subtle sparkle to the mani. Electric Lane is great over most things but I personally prefer it over darker shades where the contrast is more pronounced. This is lovely and you can begin to see the lovely rainbow of colours being picked up in the sunshine but I was in the mood for something  a little bit more.

Nails Inc Electric Lane over Colville Mews

So here is a little bit more : OPI Which is Witch?, which I have already reviewed twice but really wanted to try over a pale base. Isn't it just stunning ? a combination of fine glitter, and holographic hexes and bar glitter it picks up some many colours and I absolutely love it! It is so super sparkly and I think I will be wearing this a lot during the summer while my lovely darks have a rest.

OPI Which is Witch? over Nails Inc Colville Mews

OPI Which is Witch? with OPI Tomorrow Never Dies

The sun is shining today, hooray!! excellent opportunity to take a few picks of this very pretty sparkly glitter, OPI Which is Witch?
I have already reviewed this once, here but couldn't miss the chance to take some sunshine pics of it today over OPI Tomorrow Never Dies.
Which is Witch? is a wonderful combination of fine glitter, and holographic hexes and bar glitter and it picks up a whole rainbow of colours in the sunshine. This is just one coat, and the glitter distribution was pretty good. I still need to try it out against some paler colours but I'm loving this combination.

OPI Which is Witch? with OPI Tomorrow Never Dies

  

 

 

OPI Tomorrow Never Dies

I have gone for something which is quite bright today, OPI Tomorrow Never Dies from the Skyfall Collection.
This is a beautiful polish, it went on smoothly although I did use 3 coats for complete coverage. It's a bit brighter than my usual tones but I love it and it reminds me a bit of Leighton Denny Drama Queen, that I had done at the QVC Beauty Bash, and maybe also A England Avalon. If I'd realised before I started I would have done a comparison between Avalon and Tomorrow Never Dies but Avalon does look more purple in the bottle, and looking back at the pictures, Drama Queen seems to have more of a shimmer
This is another of those polishes where my camera and my eyes are obviously not in sync, to my eyes this looks like a Cadbury purple, but in the pictures it looks more blue. I did go and take another late pic with a creme egg, (one left in my Easter stash!!) and bizarrely I think the nails look more purple there.
Anyway, whether it is blue or purple it is beautiful, very glossy and just happens to be a rather good match for my purple gloves, which I am still wearing. The sun may have been out but it still feels cold to me. 

OPI Tomorrow Never Dies

 

OPI What Wizardry Is This ?

This is another varnish from the collection inspired by the new Wizard of Oz film, Oz the Great and Powerful, made up of 3 glitters, 3 pale shades and one liquid sand. This is the liquid sand, What Wizardry Is This?
I have already tried 3 of the 4 OPI Mariah Carey liquid sands, reviewed, here here and here and it's safe to say I am completely in love with these polishes, love the texture and the look of them.
I have also reviewed 3 others from this Oz the Great and Powerful collection : When Monkeys Fly! Which is Witch? and Lights of Emerald City here, here and here.

What Wizardry Is This ? is more subtle than the Mariah Carey sands, but no less beautiful. It does not have large chunks of co-ordinating or contrasting glitter, but what it does have is a gorgeous matte, but shimmery finish in a taupe, bronze shade. Its quite hard to describe but it really does have that look of smooth wet sand on the beach just as a wave has washed back down.
It painted on beautifully, 2 coats gave great coverage and I love it!
And here are lots of pics, just because it's so beautiful.

OPI What Wizardry Is This ?

   

 

 

 

 

OPI Which is Witch?

This was not the most successful manicure ever, I am not sure that A England Saint George was the best backdrop for OPI Which is Witch?.
To be fair, Saint George, reviewed here, is so beautiful on it's own it didn't need any additions but I did have a couple of chips at the tips and a burning desire to try Which is Witch?
Which is Witch is a wonderful combination of fine glitter, and holographic hexes and bar glitter. My camera really struggled to pick all of this up.
Offset against a dark background the effect was stunning to the naked eye, but interestingly, Saint George lost its holographic shimmer and just became a lovely dark green.
I think Which is Witch? definitely needs to be tried again soon over a paler more delicate base.
Not a lot of pics as I deleted loads :( but I did try to take a few in different lights, my neighbours probably think I am mad marching round the garden photographing my nails!

 

 

 

And finally a blurry one that I left in as it showed the beautiful array of colour picked up by the glitter.