November Challenges - HJ Manicure Thunderstorm and a purple reciprocal gradient

HJ Manicure Thunderstorm is a beautiful delicate lilac/grey creme. This polish is so wearable, the colour is just lovely. I am torn between recording it as pale purple and neutral. It applied beautifully, with excellent coverage and dried well. I am always a bit wary of paler shades for being streaky but no problem here at all - I am completely in love with this one!
I decided to use this as my base for a Purple Gradient for the Pancreatic Cancer Awareness mani #pcanovember15.
I started with a purple gradient of HJ Manicure Thunderstorm, HJ Manicure Lavender and Nails Inc Wigmore Street.
Then I decided to try another reciprocal gradient. I really wanted to see if I could do this with stamping rather than vinyls - so I used the same polishes again to stamp with Moyou London Pro XL 01. It took a few attempts to get this right and in the end by about the 7th nail I gave up trying to blend three colours and used Thunderstorm and Wigmore Street on the stamping plate. That seemed to be more efficient and gave the same result but neater so I'd do that again.

HJ Manicure Thunderstorm

Stamped reciprocal gradient

October Challenges - HJ Manicure SubZero and Thunderstorm and Bones

Today's challenge for #clairestelle8oct was Bones.
I started with a base of HJ Manicure SubZero, a lovely dark creamy grey which I bought very recently. This is a really nice polish, it applied well, dried quickly and gave great coverage with two coats. I might even have got away with one.
Delivery was very quick for these polishes and they arrived beautifully packaged. You can take a look at the full range here.
Seeing how thick and creamy it was I decided it was worth trying another HJ Manicure polish to see if it would stamp. The pale grey lilac Thunderstorm seemed the obvious one to try.
I chose one of my new MJ plates which I bought from Nail Artisan and stamped a sort of angular/ art deco / aztec type pattern over the grey. I think it worked well, it is subtle but I like it a lot.
Finally to the bones...I have no stamping plates with bones on apart from my dinosaur plate which I was about to use when I remembered the vinyls that came in the September Paint the Rainbow box.

HJ Manicure SubZero

 

 

HJ Manicure Thunderstorm and MJ XXXIV

 

 

Bones!