26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Black Base and some Gothic Stamping

This weeks's challenge was Black Base which rather conveniently coincided with #clairestelle8nov prompt of Gothic.
So, I started with a black base... of A England Camelot.
Then I stamped a lacy pattern with Colour Alike Venus and Dixie Plate DP 01.
Then I added a rather Gothic image from DP 04 using Colour Alike Supernova.
These two Colour Alike polishes are gorgeous duo chromes: I don't think Venus had much of a chance to do its magic with the pattern I stamped but I loved how Supernova looked and was delighted to see the camera catch the browny gold and the pinky red.
Finally I added a matte top coat.

A England Camelot

Dixie DP01 and Colour Alike Venus

Dixie DP04 and Colour Alike Supernova

Dixie DP04 and Colour Alike Supernova - matte

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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