Nail Crazies Unite - Ugly Sweater

This week's prompt was Ugly Sweater. I do have a few Christmas Sweater plates but I just received a new one along with a whole lot of beautiful pates from Messy Mansion so I had to try this one.
I had ordered three of the new XL plates (the knitty ones of course) but the lovely Messy Mansion people sent me seven other plates to review - this must have been my best Christmas present!!!
MM82XL has 12 images on it, all really large and actually since I had just cut my nails down, larger than I needed but I always love large images as I can use parts of an image. There are 2 sweater images on the plate, one is virtually a negative of the other which is great, I always love that option and because my nails are so short I was able to use the top and bottom parts of each image to create different images on 4 nails.
I had a dark red gel base on (I thought it was black when I bought it) so I went with the bright limey green 2 True Arete for the stamping. The images stamped really nicely. I did have to swipe sideways to get the full image on the "negative" pattern, when I went up or down I didn't spread the polish well enough but I loved how these looked when I had finisged and quite frankly, not "ugly" at all!!

Messy Mansion MM82XL

 

 

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Wiki'd Nails - Random - Little Fish

This week's challenge for Wiki'd Nails was Random - and I got Little Fish! a strange page with references through to a selection of other fish related pages but it came up after about 20 hits on the random button so I figured it would do!

I stamped some little fish I found swimming along the bottom of Fab Ur Nails FUN 17 over the flakie/scaley mani from earlier in the week using 2true Pro Metallica Arete and Athena.

It looked OK but then to add to my underwater scene I added a coat of  Violet Rose Polish I Have a Dream - more flakies!!! I think these gave it a really nice finishing touch.

Little Fish!!

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July Challenges - Swirls

The challenge for #clairestelle8july was Swirls.
I started with a holo base, a beautiful Above the Curve polish which I won in a competition. This poor pretty polish has no name, just Desk Clear 13.
Then I added swirls with Fab Ur Nails FUN 17 and A England Proserpine. These were cool - I love this image and I think the colours worked well together but after a while they makes you dizzy, so I added a second layer to tone it all down a bit!
The 2nd layer of swirls were from Apipila Super Plate B stamped with 2 true Pro Metallica Arete. I think these worked well too and they are quite elegant!

Above the Curve Desk Clear 13

Fab Ur Nails FUN 17 and A England Proserpine

Apipila Super Plate B and 2true Pro Metallica Arete