Nails inspired by a gorgeous scarf : some dotting and stamping

Today I have done a mani inspired by a really lovely scarf I bought from Colour Therapy. I don't buy a lot of clothes, most of what I wear is either ancient, knitted or both! but I do have a bit of a weakness for a pretty scarf!
This scarf is navy blue, tealy green, and a soft grey with some additional dark grey patterning.
As this scarf arrived around the same time as 2 delicious looking holo polishes from Colors by Llarowe, one blue and one teal it seemed obvious to me that I should try to recreate something of the scarf on my nails. In addition to In the Navy and Gizmo (teal), I decide to use Nails Inc Marylebone Mews for the grey part.
With In the Navy as my base I added some quite random flower shapes with my largest dotting tool and Marylebone Mews. Once dry, I then added the 2nd layer of flower shapes with Gizmo.It looked reasonable, worked vaguely as it had in my mind but something was missing, it needed some definition. I went to my stamping plates to look for something floral, and chose CICI&SISI 10. This plate has an image where the flowers look like they've been drawn with a spirograph (an arty toy I had when I was young). This was perfect as really I just wanted some lines on the mani, to pull it all together. I stamped with A England Camelot, and I am really impressed with the finished result. The 2 holo shades and the creme polish look great under the black stamping, the black barely visible over the blue but clearer over the flowers.
I am so pleased I added the stamping over this, the blue and green holos are both such lovely colours, and I am glad I used a creme for the 3rd shade, another holo I think would have been too much but the black just finishes it off.
This definitely will be recorded as one of my more arty efforts and now I am wondering what else I can do using these techniques.

Nails inspired by a gorgeous scarf

  

 

 

 

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the scarf

Colors by Llarowe In The Navy

Today's polish is my first ever Colors by Llarowe polish, bought from Rainbow Connection just a few weeks ago.
Although I have a lot of blues, I have been looking for a dark blue holo for quite some time, and so this one is an extremely welcome addition to my collection.
The holo in this gorgeous rich deep blue is really strong. I have yet to see it in the sunshine, the weather here is grim, but under my fluorescent desk lamp this looks amazing. Most of the pictures were  taken under that lamp, and a few were taken outside in the dull grey November daylight!
The holo is not apparent at all in the dull light but what I particularly like about this polish is that away from bright lights it is a gorgeous slate blue shade which is very wearable. It's very important to me to have a polish which is still stunning even when the sun doesn't shine!!
Application was good although quite a bit thicker than a lot of polishes I have used before, but it is very pigmented and coverage was pretty good even with one coat. I did do 2 coats and pictures are taken with top coat.
You'll be able to tell by the number of pictures, I love this polish! I love blue, I love darks, and I love holo so what's not to like ? ticks every box for me :)

Colors by Llarowe In The Navy

Colors by Llarowe In The Navy
still beautiful in poor daylight