Wiki'd Nails - Salicylic Acid

This week's Wiki'd Nails Challenge was Salicylic Acid - this is extracted from the bark of the willow tree so I bring you willowy nails (or as close as I could get them), and some flowery nails at the end too!
I started with a base of the lovely Kandy.Colors Avacado Smoothie and then added my willow bark with UberChic Beauty UC2-02 and Kleancolor Metallic Brown. Then I added my willow leaves with Born Pretty BP-19 and Virtuous Polish Rahab.
I think the combination of colours and plates worked quite well although I couldn't help thinking a panda would be well at home in this background!
Anyway in the absence of a panda stamp I couldn't resist adding some flowers for #hawaiianshirtmanifriday with Moyou London Tropical 03 and Virtuous Polishes Patience and Holy City. These looked OK but there was still something missing so I added more flowers from Moyou London Tropical 03 with Virtuous Polishes Miriam.
Finally, as if 4 layers of stamping wasn't enough, I added a coat of Above the Curve Ruby Rhod, a gorgeous holo top coat, just to soften the whole effect.
The flowers weren't part of the challenge so I have filed them in the July album rather than the Wiki'd album - just in case anyone is looking for them!!

Kandy.Colors Avacado Smoothie

UberChic Beauty UC2-02 with Kleancolor Metallic Brown
and  Born Pretty BP-19 with Virtuous Polish Rahab

Moyou London Tropical 03 and Virtuous Polishes
Patience and Holy City

Moyou London Tropical 03 and Virtuous Polishes
Patience, Holy City and Miriam

Moyou London Tropical 03 and Virtuous Polishes
Patience, Holy City and Miriam and
Above the Curve Ruby Rhod holo top coat

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July Challenges - Ice-cream

A couple of weeks ago I gave in to temptation and ordered the Kandy Desserts collection from Kandy.colors, mainly because I decided I had to have Vanilla Ice-cream, but all the other colours in the collection looked beautiful too - all lovely soft muted pastelly shades - the sorts of colours I go for when I want a change from dark  vampy nails. Then Claire put up the challenges for #clairestelle8july and there was Ice-cream on the list - it was fate!
Vanilla Ice-cream is so pretty, a soft creamy shade, almost a hint of green but the thing I love most is that close up you can see that slight dustiness you get with really good vanilla ice-cream that actually has vanilla in it. You can see this more clearly on the final macro shot.
I am really impressed with this brand, the quality is excellent, perfect coverage in 2 coats with none of the streakiness you sometimes get with paler colours.
I was still thinking ice-cream and neopolitan colours when it struck me - Berry Chocolate a lovely soft dusky pink shade from the same collection would look good as sponged tips, and then the finishing touch - a chocolate flake! How else was I to test a snowflake plate from DRK in July?
I stamped various flakes from DRK Designer 3 using Kleancolor Metallic Brown.
There was a risk that this was all just going to look very silly but actually, I really think it works. The images on the DRK plate are so pretty, I am really pleased I ordered it and even happier that now you can get DRK plates in the UK from Nail-Artisan, so no risk of customs fees!

Kandy.colors Vanilla Ice-cream 

Kandy.colors Vanilla Ice-cream and
 Kandy.colors Berry Chocolate

Kandy.colors Vanilla Ice-cream and Berry Chocolate
with DRK Designer 3 and Kleancolor Metallic Brown