October Challenges - Holoween

The #wnac2015 prompt for this week was Holoween.
I started with a base of Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch, which I have blogged before. I love this polish so much - the colour is so much nicer on the nail than it looks in the bottle. It is such a rich reddy orange with holographic sparkle and it applies beautifully.

I stamped the pumpkins with A England Camelot and Nailways Halloween plates (Darker Period and Monsters) and then I added the cobwebs with  SV by Sparkly Vernis Blurple Ice Cubes and Nailways Halloween (Darker Period).

Apart from the fact that when I finished this mani the sun  was long gone, I was pretty pleased with this. The final shot was taken outside with the flash to capture the holo cobweb.

Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch

 

Nailways Pumpkins and Cobwebs

 

Stamping! with Pet'la plates, A England Saint George and Mentality Green Opaque over Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch

I have a 3 part mani to share with you today, a new polish and 2 new plates. This is also my Chinese New Year mani but I'll try not to make the post too long!!
I started with Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch, which is a beautiful pumpkin orange with really pretty glitter that picks up red, yellow and green in the light. I think this might have been limited edition (for Halloween) but I bought mine from Rainbow Connection and it is still available there.
The polish applied well, good coverage in 2 coats although I could see the nail line in the light. Not so much that it worried me but I am finding the longer my nails are the more I can see it as light shines through - I'll have to learn to live with it!
I did this mani over 3 days, so yesterday, Chinese New Year, I added the Mentality Green Opaque and used Pet'la plate Golden Russian. I love the Pet'la plates - they are brass so they look a lot different to all my other plates but the quality is excellent.
I think the metallic Mentality polish worked well over Pumpkin Patch, a lovely contrast between the soft polished sheen of the green  and the sparkly intense orange.
Finally, today, I added a 2nd layer of stamping with A England Saint George, a gorgeous dark intense holo teal and Pet'la plate Flake No More. I love it!! I think the dark teal with the paler green work really well against the orange, and again the plate was brilliant.
I love double stamping, it's a bit trial and error for me but sometimes you get some really lovely combinations, and whilst I wouldn't wear orange for more than a day or two, I'd happily wear this for some time!

Fancy Gloss Pumpkin Patch

 

Mentality Green Opaque
and Pet'la plate Golden Russian

 

A England Saint George and
Pet'la plate Flake No More