Halloween Stamping! A England Bridal Veil over Above the Curve Donna

This is a bit of a sneaky post as technically I should blog Above the Curve Donna first, but I really wanted to do a Halloween mani and time was running out, so I'll blog the beautiful Donna tomorrow, or very soon!
So, stamping... I decided to do a Halloween mani and CICI&SISI plate 10 has some cute Halloween images, as well as some cool cobwebs. I tried the small images but they refused to place themselves nicely on my nails, possibly not their fault?, so I reverted to my original plan of cobwebs on all my nails. You'll see from the picture of the plate there is a quadrant of cobweb, which I had planned to use but it was obviously not my day for stamping, I really couldn't centre it properly so that it would radiate nicely so I went for the full web instead.
I didn't try too hard to centre this one, I didn't mind if they were offset a bit and I am reasonably pleased with the end result, but yet again, by the time I had faffed around finding a polish that would stamp nicely over Donna, and redone everything too many times, the sun had gone down and I am left with desk lamp photos again.
I ended up using A England Bridal Veil, as the black I'd intended to use just wasn't dark enough, and I think it works quite well over the orange holo of Above the Curve Donna.

Updated Saturday, 1 November - added a couple of daylight shots.

Halloween Stamping! A England Bridal Veil
over Above the Curve Donna 

 

 
 

 

China Glaze Some Like it Haute, with A England Bridal Veil

One of my favourite types of mani is the glitter gradient, which I first saw on a post by Lucy of Lucy's Stash. I have done this one using China Glaze Some Like it Haute over A England Bridal Veil. Some Like it Haute is a beautiful well packed glitter, which I consider to be grey. It is a mix of tiny silver/grey micro-glitters and larger holographic particles in a clear base and it is super sparkly. I have a applied a thin brush stroke across the base of the nail, then wiped the brush on the bottle and then returned to the nail to drag the glitter up towards the tip. It's a bit hit and miss for me whether this technique works but it worked quite well with this glitter, it is well packed but not so dense that you can't get that gradient look.
It has quite a rough finish and I used 3 coats of top coat. I'm afraid as with the  Bridal Veil pictures, the shots don't really do it justice. The silver/grey glitter is very pretty and goes well with the shimmery black of the Bridal Veil, and the holographic particles pick up all sorts of colours. Despite the sunshine this afternoon, I failed to pick that up in  my pictures.

China Glaze Some Like it Haute

 

 

A England Bridal Veil

Well today I have a beautiful and frustrating polish for you! This is Gem of the Month on the A England website so it's selling at a special price, so after much dithering I ordered it. It arrived on Monday and Tuesday was my wedding anniversary so I thought it fitting to wear it. It's also Indie week on the Facebook group and these lovely A Englands are the nearest thing I have to an Indie.
This is a lovely black with a subtle holographic shimmer, very easy to apply, great coverage in 2 coats and extremely beautiful, especially in the sun. I love that it is subtle:- wild crazy holo's look lovely but are not for me, but it is very tricky to photograph - hence lots of pics, and frustration!
For the record, I was unsure whether to get this in case it was dupe for the back Glittergal that I have. Strangely, in the bottle the Glittergal looks very holo, but on the nail they look almost identical. I imagine if we had a very sunny day I'd have been able to tell the difference and then would definitely prefer Bridal Veil.
I'm also a bit sad as it occured to me that it's such a shame I didn't know about beautiful nail varnishes when I got married, maybe there weren't any :(
My mum would have had a blue fit if I'd got married with black nails, but I did have to take a few pics with my wedding dress, I've included a couple at the end of this post. I'd have loved to have worn something like this on my special day.

A England Bridal Veil