Stamping! Mentality Beige Opaque over Smitten Seasonal Lattes

I have some more stamping to show you today. I think I had already bought the plate I have used today when Smitten Seasonal Lattes arrived, and I knew that whenever I got round to trying the Smitten this is the plate I'd be using to stamp over it. I first saw this plate on a posting by Anne from Betty's Beauty Bombs, and I just had to have it! Plate no 10 from CICI&SISI includes an image of coffee beans and it was that that caught my eye so of course it was the right stamp to use with Seasonal Lattes.
I was thinking of using a cream or white but I want to use white for snowflakes later in the week so I have used Mentality Beige Opaque. This has actually ended up looking gold, but I think that's OK - it goes nicely with the warmth of the brown holo.
The stamping is not perfect, I am finding different plates seem to need different levels of scraping, some harder than others, some in different directions or at a varied angle and I obviously need plenty more practice but I think the small imperfections in the stamped image add some depth to the mani.
The Mentality polish stamped well, and it was reasonably easy to clean up afterwards. I did smudge one nail when I top coated, I have to remember to float the brush very lightly across the nail, and certainly not to go back and do a 2nd sweep which is what I did on the little finger.
On the whole though I think these are OK, I like the contrast of the satiny finish of the Mentality with the depth of the shimmery holo, the glimmers of rainbow still peeping through.
No sunshine today, so I have some outdoor pics, some indoors using the desk lamp, and 1 with the flash.

Mentality Beige Opaque over Smitten Seasonal Lattes 
with CICI&SISI 10

 

 

 

Smitten Polish Seasonal Lattes

Today's polish is a real stunner. Smitten released this beauty in early autumn as part of their Fall 2014 collection, I saw swatches, fell in love and as soon as I saw it in Rainbow Connection I snapped it up.
I wasn't quite sure what to wear today, so I selected a few possibles and asked my son to choose - he went straight for this one. As you can see, my nails are shorter - we have small people visiting this Christmas and I'd hate to scratch them, and I do like to cut them back every now and then anyway. I think the colour my son chose looks great on shorter nails.
Seasonal Lattes is the most beautiful medium brown holo and it is just holo perfection. I only have one other brown holo, Colors by Llarowe Burnt Sugar, but that is a completely different tone. I have other brownish holos but nothing like these 2 - plenty of room in my collection for both!!
This applied so easily, perfect coverage in 2 coats and the holo is just wow! I often end up taking hundreds of frustratingly unholo pictures but I think my indoor and outside sunshine pics have both captured the holo pretty well.
This is such a lovely tone of brown, as you can see it looks equally wonderful in the sunshine and in the much cooler LED light of my desk lamp. In extremely poor light they just look chocolatey, I can live with that!!

Smitten Polish Seasonal Lattes