40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 Shades of Red / Orange and Tie Dye

I really wasn't sure how I was going to tackle this one but then wonderful @dreamymm did a stunning rainbow tie dye mani about a month ago, so basically I just did what she did! Thanks Mary!!
I used Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06 and Barry M Cotton with Above the Curve You Call me …Sexy, Donna and Akiko - 1 red and 2 oranges.
Mary has a great tutorial video for this on her You Tube and her IG, but basically it involves sponging the colours, stamping, sponging again, stamping again and a final sponging. Sounds simple if you say it quickly! I got through a lot of top coat as I top coated between each step being so nervous of smudging!
It looked really messy as I went along but I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome.

Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06

 

 

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May Challenges - Kaleidoscope

Today's challenge for #clairestelle8may was Kaleidoscope. I did have a plan for this mani but the arrival of the Kandy.Colors neon jellies tempted me to change my mind.
I used all six colours. In my mind these were 6 neat segments but in reality 6 blobby overlapping segments. Not that it mattered since I was stamping over it anyway, and I rather liked the resulting water colour look that I got.
I stamped using A England Lancelot again as I thought black might be a bit harsh and I used Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06. I haven't used this image before so I am not sure if the slightly poor pick up of image was the plate, the scraping or the polish. Lancelot is running pretty low so I am inclined to think I didn't have enough polish on the plate, and that maybe I should have scraped in 2 directions to distribute the polish better.
I am pleased with them anyway - the jellies are lovely and bright and make a great base for the Kaleidoscope image.

Kandy Colors jellies, Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06
 and A England Lancelot

 

 

  

Kandy Colors Northern Lights

Stamping! Virtuous Polishes Queen Ester and Naomi and Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06

Today I have a couple of lovely polishes to show you and some stamping!
Over the last couple of weeks I had seen Annette from Rainbow Connection mention the new Virtuous Polishes that were coming in. I decided to ignore this as I am certain I have enough polish - oh yeah!! but then she mentioned that they were good for stamping, so I had to take a look!
I don't have many polishes actually for stamping - the ones I have are mostly metallic finishes, and I love stamping with holos but the idea of stamping with really bright neon shades really appealed to me. I am not really into bright shades for the whole nail, but combined with something else I thought I could be persuaded and, having just got my hands on one of the Moyou London Kaleidoscope plates it seemed the obvious combination.
Rainbow Connection are selling mini Virtuous polishes as a set of 7,the Women of Valor, a veritable rainbow of neon shades so I ordered the full set. Once they arrived I was delighted I'd gone for the set - they may be the only bright polishes I have but they are so cute and pretty, I am sure I'll be trying them all very soon (even the yellow).
Having said I would pair a bright polish with something less bright I changed my mind and went for Queen Ester and Naomi, purple and teal - I love those 2 colours together and couldn't wait to see if they would look good using the Kaleidoscope plate.
I painted my nails with Queen Ester to start. The polishes dry to a matte finish, which I believe helps them to be even more neon, but also means they dry very quickly. As a result my application wasn't perfect, I'll need to bear that in mind next time so if they look a bit streaky or ridged that is my fault.
I had already test stamped all of them so I knew  they'd be fine but again as they dry so quickly you need to be bit quicker stamping onto the nail once you've picked up the image. I tend to hold the stamper and look at the image, turn it round a few times while deciding which finger I might put it on - not a good plan - pick up the image and straight onto the nail worked far better! I stamped with Naomi, and it stamped perfectly, excellent coverage over the purple base.
The upside of drying quickly is that they clean up really easily, sellotape picked up almost all the mess.
I love the end result - I think the colours work perfectly with the image I chose, the light wasn't brilliant for taking photos but I took loads anyway!

Virtuous Polishes Queen Ester and Naomi
and Moyou London Kaleidoscope 06