40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 Shades of Red / Orange and Tie Dye

I really wasn't sure how I was going to tackle this one but then wonderful @dreamymm did a stunning rainbow tie dye mani about a month ago, so basically I just did what she did! Thanks Mary!!
I used Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06 and Barry M Cotton with Above the Curve You Call me …Sexy, Donna and Akiko - 1 red and 2 oranges.
Mary has a great tutorial video for this on her You Tube and her IG, but basically it involves sponging the colours, stamping, sponging again, stamping again and a final sponging. Sounds simple if you say it quickly! I got through a lot of top coat as I top coated between each step being so nervous of smudging!
It looked really messy as I went along but I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome.

Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06

 

 

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Above the Curve Donna

Yesterday's polish was the very beautiful Donna, from Above the Curve's Doctor Who collection. I bought this one almost on an impulse from Sally Magpies, when she had a sale a couple of months ago. Orange is not a colour I generally go for but I have seen some lovely swatches of this, and I decided I'd regret it if I didn't get it. I am so glad I did, it is stunning! It is a bright orange holo, which seems to have flashes of gold in some lights, and almost a reddish duochrome quality in others, all inspired by the lovely red haired Donna Noble, played by Catherine Tate.
This polish applied well, dried nicely and gave good coverage with 2 coats. Some pics seem to show a bit of VNL but that is not apparent in real life. The holo is lovely and strong, but even in softer lights this polish is gorgeous. I think poor Donna has been a bit cheated as I wore this as a base for a Halloween mani, and I think I'll have to leave it out and wear it again soon!
Loads of pics as the sun was shining and I wanted to make sure I captured all the beauty of this polish. I love the polish, a great match for my favorite autumnal gloves and I am really pleased with the pictures, which I think reflect the qualities of this polish well.

Above the Curve Donna

 

 

 

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