January Challenges - a vampy red and Fave Animal

I am so glad I am past my fear of reds!! I just love HJ Manicure Vamp - it really is the perfect vampy red. Beautiful application, good coverage with two coats and dried to a lovely glossy finish.
Pictures are taken with top coat.
The #clairestelle8jan prompt was Fave Animal- well of course it was going to be cats! I do love lemurs and red pandas too but I have cat stamping plates. In fact I had been looking for an excuse to use Apipila P34 which is a gorgeous full image cat plate. I stamped eyes and nose over 3 fingers (a bit of his tail is on my little finger) - no hand pose could properly line this up but hopefully you get the idea.
I wanted to use Pretty Serious Pina Colada Cocktail Crush top coat which is why I went for the dark glossy base - wow what a great polish for stamping!
And then of course there had to be some double stamping. I added more cats with Messy Mansion MM50 and Colour Alike Venus, a wonderful red gold green multichrome. Apparently they are fragranced too but I forgot to ask someone to check that for me.
Finally I added a matte top coat.

HJ Manicure Vamp

 

Apipila P34 and Pretty Serious Pina Colada

 

Apipila Super Plate D and Colour Alike Venus

 

 

January Challenges - Quilted

Quilted for #wnac2016 :
Glam Polish Fall'n for You! is a gorgeous glitter in stunning Fall (autumn) shades. I used 2 coats here as I was going to stamp over it but really I probably should have used a base or added a 3rd coat as I can still see the nail line.
Then I stamped a quilted type pattern from Apipila Super Plate B with Esmaltes da Kelly Naomi.
The glitter looks so pretty with the stamping but I just can't seem to capture it on camera.
I added a matte top coat which softened the whole look and I was quite pleased with that.
But I decided they really did need something else so I added some pretty flowers using HJ Manicure Candy Pink and Apipila Super Plate D. This looks a bit too subtle in the pics but in reality I think it was a lovely addition

Glam Polish Fall'n for You!

Apipila Super Plate B with Esmaltes da Kelly Naomi

 

 

HJ Manicure Candy Pink and Apipila Super Plate D