Stamping and Saran wrap! Messy Mansion 20 and some pretty pastel flowers

Earlier in the week I was wearing Above the Curve Cold Rain, but I was bursting to try Messy Mansion 20, which has a sort of reverse image on it, where you are effectively stamping a background, and leaving the flowers as the base colour. I also had an idea I wanted to try out for a more colourful base which I thought would look good under black stamping.
I have done a few saran wrap manis and love the finished marbley look you get with very little effort, so I wanted to try a sort of saran wrap gradient thing! I chose 2 colours that went well with Cold Rain. Staying with the same brand of polish I chose This One's for My Peeps, a pinky lilac shimmery holo and Caty Perry-winkle which is a lilacy blue shimmery holo. Both these polishes have great opacity so I was pretty certain they'd work for a saran wrap mani.
I used the pinky one to do the lower half of my nails and the blue one for the tips and allowed the colours just to meet in the middle. I think the combination of colours look lovely together and had I not been so keen to stamp, I would probably have worn the mani just like that for a day.
I took a couple of pics and then started stamping. I used A England Camelot to stamp with and I did have a bit of a problem picking up the whole image so the stamping is not perfect. I do seem to struggle a bit with images where you have to pick up a lot of polish and I am thinking I should try this plate with one of my Mentality polishes and see if it is a bit more successful.
To the naked eye they look fine and I am really pleased with the finished look but blown up on the laptop you can see all the bits that aren't black when they should be.
I really like the black stamping with the pastel coloured flowers showing through - imperfections apart, they turned out exactly as I'd hoped and I absolutely love them!!

Saran wrap with Above the Curve Cold Rain,
This One's for My Peeps and Caty Perry-winkle

stamping with Messy Mansion 20

 

  

 

 

 

 

Above the Curve Cold Rain

Yesterday's polish is from Above the Curve's Best Things About Fall collection. Cold Rain is a delicate teal holo and it is really pretty. It is quite a green teal, and I think that's one of the things that is making me really love it, some paler teals are too blue for my skin tone but I am delighted with how this one looks.
I don't have a lot of pale, pastely shades but I do like this one. It is a lovely wintery shade and I can imagine this with some frosty nail art at some point.
Coverage was great with 2 coats and the finish is lovely. The holo is very pretty, not too strong and there are tiny blue flakies too although you need good light to see them.
I think the pictures are reasonably colour accurate and taken indoors with topcoat which did not dull the holo at all.
Added a couple of outdoor pics as the sun the sun came out today :)

Above the Curve Cold Rain