40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Orange, Purple & Green with Pattern on Pattern

Well this weeks challenge sounded like an opportunity for some triple stamping - we all have the same colours but then we are on a rotating schedule for the pattern, how lucky was I with this combo!!
I have used Colour Alike Scary Pumpkin, Lilac Sweater and Fairy Forest with Yours Cosmetics Sascha Gossen YS07. The base is OPI Here Today...Aragon Tomorrow.
I chose the patterns quite carefully so that you'd still be able to see all three colours once I'd finished. I am quite pleased with how these turned out. I love building up the colours like this - sometimes it's hard to stop!

YS07 and Colour Alike Scary Pumpkin

YS07 and Colour Alike Lilac Sweater

YS07 and Colour Alike Fairy Forest

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September Challenges - Colour of Your Socks

Today's prompt for #30daysofcolourchallenge was Colour of Your Socks. As I was in the mood for stripes, I dug out a pair of stripey socks and then set to work recreating them.
I started with a base of Leighton Denny Brick Road, and then added blue stripes with Esmaltes da Kelly Wendy and Moyou London Pro XL 01.
Then I added more stripes with Colour Alike Red Wine & Lilac Sweater and Lealac LLC-A. The image on LLC-A is quite large so it was possible to paint the actual stripes in alternating colours on the plate - a bit tricky but worth it I think. The resulting stripes were not that tidy, a bit wonky in places but overall I thought they were OK..
Then I added the knitted look with A England Lancelot and Messy Mansion MM40. I do like this plate!!
Finally I added a matte top coat. I still can't decide whether I prefer this mani matte or glossy but I was pretty pleased with it anyway.

Moyou London Pro XL 01
and Esmaltes da Kelly Wendy

Lealac LLC-A and Colour Alike Lilac Sweater and Red Wine

Messy Mansion MM40 and A England Lancelot

 

 

Messy Mansion MM40 - matte

 

 

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September Challenges - Colour of Your Eyes and Wings

Colour of your eyes was the prompt for #30daysofcolourchallenge yesterday. I have blue grey eyes that were listed in my baby book as sometimes violet so I thought A England Jane Morris would be a good choice for this! Jane Morris is a gorgeous slate grey holo with flashes of violet in with the holographic particles.
This polish applied beautifully, and although pretty opaque I did apply two coats. Pictures are taken with topcoat. You can't see the violet which is a shame but the holo picked up quite well on the camera.
The next challenge was Wings for #clairestelle8sept. It was a quiet day, I had no work and everyone was out for the day so I decided it was time for another reverse stamping adventure with the Uber Mat.
I used Moyou London Kitty 14, Essence Stampy 002 to stamp the butterfly wings and then coloured them with Colour Alike Raindrop, Fairy Forest and Lilac Sweater. I used a small brush for this, and found that so much easier than using a dotting tool. The scary part is lifting them off the mat, but I only ripped one a tiny bit and another that I hadn't laid  a good enough base for. I also made the effort to cut off all the spare around the edge before putting them on my nails so I didn't have such a messy wrap around the edge thing going on!
I had just finished when my husband came home so I pestered him to take a picture to show I actually did all 10 nails.

A England Jane Morris

 

 

 

Reverse Stamping with Moyou London Kitty 14

 

 

 

 

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