Showing posts with label 'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon. Show all posts
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Friday, 27 November 2015

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Cartoons and Comics

Cartoons and Comics! This was a difficult one for me as I barely had any suitable images on my stamping plates. Generally I have a preference for patterns rather than things on my nails so I don't have any plates with cute little cartoony things on. Luckily I remembered that I had Moyou London Princess 14 which has a Minnie Mouse image which I stamped with Colour Alike Kind of Black over 'Ard as Nails Lazy Afternoon.
Although I almost never do accent nails I thought this might look a bit odd if I stamped it on all nails.
I know the bow is supposed to be red and white but I couldn't  figure out how to do that and I did try dotting white onto the bow but that didn't work, so I am afraid this is the best I could manage.
I stamped the dots from Apipila Super Plate A on the other nails with Hit The Bottle Snowed Under. They didn't stamp brilliantly and no amount of changing angle of scrape or the scraper seemed to make any difference but you get the idea, I hope.
Despite being really wary about this mani, I think it turned out a lot better than I expected.
Minnie Mouse!
 



Wednesday, 25 November 2015

'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon

I bought 4 lovely new polishes at the beginning of the week from one of the newer UK Indie makers, 'Ard As Nails. My First Winter is not their first collection, all the shots I have seen so far of earlier collections looked great and I have resisted so far but this one really grabbed me. It might well have been the fantastic swatches by Anna that swung it!
Anyway, as I do not do red, I thought I'd start there (!!!), with Lazy Afternoon. This is quite possibly the warmest red I have ever had on my nails and I really like it. It does look quite orange in the bottle and I was a bit confused as I know Anna's swatches are always reliable. It is an orangey red with a delicate holographic shimmer and is certainly more red on the nail than in the bottle. The holo is very pretty.
The consistency was nice - I used 2 coats for these pictures but to be honest if I was just going to stamp over this, one would probably have been sufficient, and yes, I tested this to see if it would stamp and it stamped nicely onto white paper. Next time I have a pale polish on I will test it properly.
I used this as a base for a challenge mani later in the week, but then I also tested a new plate on top of that. I had just re-homed Moyou London Steampunk 03 so I had to try it out. I used Colour Alike A Kind of Black with the heart shaped image. Possibly not the best combination of colours and images, and the alignment is not the best but I think it looks quite pretty.
'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon
'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon
'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon
 'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon
'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon
 'Ard As Nails Lazy Afternoon

Moyou London Steampunk 03
Moyou London Steampunk 03
Moyou London Steampunk 03
 Moyou London Steampunk 03