June Challenges - A Smoosh and a Galaxy mani

The week before last the smoosh colours were pink, green and black - I used China Glaze Treble Maker, China Glaze Liquid Leather, and HJ Manicure Candy Pink.
I really liked this smoosh and that particlar week there was also a challenge within a facebook group to do a galaxy mani. It seemed to me that my smoosh would be a great base for a galaxy.
I sponged SV by Sparkly Vernis Blurple Ice Cubes over the smoosh and then stamped with Avon Iceberg White and Vivid Lacquer VL 040.
I think they ended up OK.

Smoosh!

Avon Iceberg White and Vivid Laqcuer VL 040

 

February Challenges - Nail Technique that I Love

The prompt - Nail Technique I Love for #clairestelle8feb - well of course it was going to be stamping and I was going to pair this with saran wrap, but recently I have the #smooshattack bug! My most fave manis are when I stamp over a relatively random base amd just let the colours and patterns work themselves out. I stamped Moyra 06 Florality 1 with Colour Alike A Kind of Black over my #smooshynailsunday mani. Then I used the same plate and stamped a different image with Colour Alike A Kind of White because if there is anything I like more than stamping, it is double stamping!
The smoosh was China Glaze Glow With the Flow, China Glaze Treble Maker and Kandy Colors un-named blue.

#smooshattack

Moyra 06 Florality 1 with Colour Alike A Kind of Black

Moyra 06 Florality 1 with Colour Alike A Kind of White

February Challenges - Animal I Love - cats!!!

I recently did a mani with black over neon and I liked it so much I decided I'd do something similar for the #clairestelle8feb prompt Animal that I love.
I used a base of China Glaze Treble Maker, and then used Moyra 02 Fabric Texture and China Glaze DJ Blue My Mind (invisible stamping it would seem) and China Glaze Violet-Vibes with the same plate.
Then I used Vivid Lacquer VL027 and Colour Alike Kind of Black over the neon base.
Finally I added a matte top coat.

Moyra 02 Fabric Texture

Vivid Lacquer VL027

 

April Challenges - Neon and Pastel

I have combined two #30daysofcolourchallenges today - neon for yesterday and pastel for today.
I have had this idea in my head for ages that I wanted to do a gradient and then stamp another gradient over it. Initially in my mind it would have been using the same colours but I have adapted it here so the base gradient is neon and the stamped gradient is pastel. It didn't quite work out how I'd hoped but they look pretty.
I started with a white base, and then I sponged the gradient of 2 China Glaze Electric Nights polishes, Treble Maker and Violet Vibes (there's me with  my green purple thing again) For 2 such different colours I think they went well together.
Then I did the pastel stamping choosing an image from Apipila Super Plate A. I used Virtuous Polishes Naomi and Queen Ester (ooh! green and purple again) and stamped them so that the teal green went over the purple, and the lilac went over the green. It is obviously not a pure gradient as I didn't really mix them that much but there is an element of blending when I look closely at the stamping. The polishes stamp beautifully but they dry really quickly so there's not much time for messing about.
I think this worked well, but from a distance it's like an optical illusion, the stamping looks blue! The clarity of the pictures is not great, the light was really odd today, but I'll certainly have another try at this with some different colours.

neon gradient with China Glaze
Treble Maker and Violet Vibes
#30daysofcolourchallenge

 

Virtuous Polishes Queen Ester and Naomi and
Apipila Super Plate A over neon gradient
#30daysofcolourchallenge

 

An InLinkz Link-up

An InLinkz Link-up