26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pond Mani

This week's prompt was pond mani. I decided to go for something pretty and spring like so I chose Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01.
I started with a dusky pink (slightly purple base) of Kiko 499
I used Avon Iceberg White for stamping and Kandy Colors Grape Much? for the purple jelly layers.
I am never sure if the final layer should be stamping or jelly but I did stamping, jelly, stamping, jelly, stamping and left the final stamp white. The colour difference between 1 and 2 layers of jelly wasn't huge so I thought I'd just end up with a purple mess if I added another jelly layer.
I took a chance on not top coating between stamping but was very careful applying the jelly layers so as not to smudge the stamping.
I didn't take step by step photos but I did take each nail to a different stage and then do a photo.
Finally, not part of the pond mani, I stamped a floral image from the same plate with A England Nocturne because it all seemed too bright and white. I chose a similar sized floral image and I think it worked well. I also added a matte top coat, just to see how it would look.

Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01 with additional stamping

Pond Mani - Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

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Nail Crazies Unite - Pastel Floral

This week's prompt was pastel floral. As it happened I was doing a pastel fanbrush mani, and once I'd done it I decided it would be a great base to add flowers to for this prompt.
The base was Barry M Surfboard, Barry M Laguna and Danglefoot Polish Wolverine, so I already had pink, blue and yellow. I chose Colour Alike Berry Smoothie and Colour Alike Mint to add green and purple to the mani.
I started with the minty green and Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01. Then I added a more delicate image from the same plate with Berry Smoothie so that I wouldn't obscure the other colours.
The final mani was pretty but very subtle! (I stamped something very dark over it later 😄)

Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

 

 

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pastel to bold gradient with something on top

This was an intriguing prompt, of course something on top meant stamping! but I did need to make sure I chose something that would stand out well over the whole gradient.
I decided I'd go pale blue to bold pink using Barry M Laguna, a really pretty pale blue and Kiko 361, a gorgeous striking pink.
Then I stamped with Lina 4 - Seasons Spring 01 with A England Polovetsian Dances.
This was such a simple mani but I really liked it and wore it for a couple of days before reluctantly removing it.

Lina 4 - Seasons Spring 01

 

 

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Nail Crazies Unite - Hippy / Boho

This weeks prompt was Hippy or Boho. I went for colourful flowers over a very bight lime green base.
I had recently bought some Kiko polishes in a 5 for £5 offer and thought I'd see if they stamp - well it seems that they do! Some were brighter than others but I was pretty impressed with them.
I triple stamped Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01 with Kiko 280 (orange), 333 (purple) 361 (pink) over Gellifique One Step Gel 6022 (lime green).
I added a matte top coat to see if I could get better photos but I have to say, either way, glossy or matte, these did look better in real life. I think the bright base really upset my camera!!

Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

 

 

 

 

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Nail Crazies Unite - Red and Black

This week's prompt was red and black and I had already decided that I wanted to do red and black roses and had chosen the plate I wanted to use, Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01.
I hadn't quite decided which red but then my latest order from Glam Polish arrived including the February 2017 Limited Edition - The Boy Who Lived.
This is a red jelly packed with glitters and flakies - it is stunning and I just had to use it.
Actually with the detailed image I should probably have used a plain creme colour as I had real trouble photographing this. To the naked eye I can see the image perfectly but the camera couldn't so I had to add matte top coat.
I did prefer the glossy finish and I put a glossy coat back on after taking my pictures!

Glam Polish The Boy Who Lived

Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

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26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Blue Floral

I am having such a lot of fun trying to master the "blank" image on the Lina Stamping plate, Lina Make Your Mark 03 that I think background gradients will feature on a lot of my manis.
It is so much less messy than using a sponge for a gradient and as I only ever using a gradient as a background for stamping the results I am getting are encouraging and acceptable.
This time I used two blues- A England Tristam and A England Dancing with Nureyev.
Then I added flowers from Lina Make Your Mark 03 with Esmaltes da Kelly Wendy, and then a second layer of flowers with Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01 and A England Natasha's Dance.
This was one of those manis that parts of the stamping were invisible to the camera at certain angles but overall I think the effect was quite pretty and of course being blue I really did like it!
I included a shot part way through to show the steps although I was a bit pushed for time so I did not do a a full step by step collage.

Partial blue floral mani

Blue Floral with Lina 4 Seasons - Spring 01

 

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