June Challenges - A Smoosh and some UberChic stamping

For last week's #smooshynailsunday I used Leighton Denny Brick Road, Nails Inc Peach Sorbet and Barry M Bikini.
Then I had this bright idea to stamp over my smoosh using versions of the 3 smoosh colours.
Stage 1 - Uber Chic UC 4-01 and Nails Inc Queen Victoria Street - this was the best stage in my opinion.
Stage 2 - for the yellow fans! Uber Chic UC 4-02 and EDK Bee.
Final stage - Uber Chic UC 4-03 and Barry M Flamingo. A bit of a #nailfail as the stamping was a probably too subtle, it looked better in real life - but I wish I'd used a stronger peach / orange.

Smoosh!

Uber Chic UC 4-01 and Nails Inc Queen Victoria Street

Uber Chic UC 4-02 and EDK Bee

Uber Chic UC 4-03 and Barry M Flamingo

February Challenges - Smooshing, LOVE! and Flowers that I Love

Another combined post here - starting with a Valentine's Day smoosh.
The colours were pastel yellow, bright light blue and bright purple - I don't really have a pastel yellow but the picture they posted looked just like the 3 Leighton Denny colours that were part of the summer collection a few years back - Shipwrecked, Blue Lagoon and Maroon Me Knot so i went with those. They didn't end up quite as vibrant as I'd planned but I was nervous of adding a second layer of smoosh and turning it into a mess. so I went with the soft watercolour look.
As soon as I saw these colours the next thought that went through my head was flowers - a prompt for a weeks time for #clairestelle8feb was Flowers that I Love and these looked like the perfect colours for sweet peas, which are my favourites! I found an image on Moyra 10 Florality 2 that I am certain is sweet peas and stamped that with Barry M Black Grape.
Then after a day, I disguised this mani with a single coat of Kandy Colors Hey Girl and then stamped hearts with Barry M Black Currant and UberChic UC4-03 for the LOVE! prompt for #clairestelle8feb.
So, the time line is a bit mixed up for this mani but photos are in order of how the mani came together.

#smooshattack 

 

Moyra 10 Florality 2 and Barry M Black Grape

UberChic UC4-03 and Barry M Black Currant

November Challenges - Hearts / Love

One of the November challenges I am participating in is being hosted on Instagram by @ladyandthe_stamp and @starryeyed83 for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness - there are 5 prompts and they all have to be purple.
The first one is Hearts / Love so I chose to use one of my new Uber Chic plates, UC 4-03.
I started with a base of Barry M Black Currant - these new Barry M black polishes are lovely, really dark and glossy - I am afraid I had to buy all 4 and I expect I will try to use them all this month. I have already stamped with each one and I am really pleased with them.
This applied nicely, I did 2 coats but coverage was pretty good with the first coat.
Pictures are taken with top coat but it was beauitifully glossy anyway.
Then I added a coat of the gorgeous flakie from Violet Rose, I Have a Dream.
Finally I stamped using Uber Chic UC4-03 and 2True Pro Metallica Artemis. I chose the image because I liked the look of the hearts but didn't really properly think it through - my nails aren't really big enough to show the full image but I was quite happy with the end result.
Finally I added matte top coat - you have to matte anything with flakies, don't you!

Barry M Black Currant

 

 

Violet Rose I Have a Dream

 

Uber Chic UC 4-03 and 2True Artemis