Category Archives: Nail Stamping

June 25, 2015

Ruby Wing Gradient with Leadlight Flowers

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

In Your Dreams

Because it’s a lovely sunny day I decided to use my Ruby Wing colour changing polishes for this gradient and leadlight nail art look!

Inside

Outside

The three Ruby Wing polishes I used are

In Your Dreams
Desert Valley
Crowd Surf

The gradient is In Your Dreams (white/grey) and Crowd Surf (pink/purple)

Stamping Plate BP-17

I used Stamping Plate BP-17 from Born Pretty, along with Desert Valley for the leadlighting. I’m so glad I have finally used this polish! I really wish I had read some reviews about the stuff before purchasing it, to say it’s not a nice polish would be a huge understatement! But a little bit of it works well for this 🙂

Desert Valley

I really like the way this looks outside!

side by side!

😀

7 Comments | tags: BP-17, Flower, Glitter, gradient, Leadlight Technique, Manicure, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, Ruby Wing Crowd Surf, Ruby Wing Desert Valley, Ruby Wing In Your Dreams | posted in Gradient, Nail Art, Nail Stamping

January 16, 2015

Born Pretty Stamping Plate BP-05 Review

By Ruth

*PRESS SAMPLE*

Hello! 😀

Silver and Black Stamped Gradient

Today I have a Born Pretty stamping plate that has kindly been sent to me for review!

You can find BP-05 plate here!

BP-05

Plate BP-05 has a really eclectic bunch of images! That Owl is really cute, and I really like the vine and leaf patterns.

My first impression of the images is that the etching looks really sharp and quite deep! unlike some other plates in the same price range.

The smaller full nail images are (with the help of my ruler) 19mm by 15mm and the larger image (at the top) is 23mm by 15mm.

The plate is 55mm across, so the plate is the same size as BM plates.

BP-05 back

The Back of the plate has a durable paper backing.

edge

And the edge of the plate has been finished really nicely. Its not sharp at all! For me this is actually really important, I’m forever accidentally cutting or scratching my fingertips on the sharp edges of plates! 😦

China Glaze I’d Melt For You and Laval Black

I decided to try out the swirly vine pattern from this plate, partly because I think it’s a really pretty image and partly because it’s a bold design that wouldn’t loose too much detail over the gradient.

And the gradient is because my nails are longer than the stamp image… Oops! 😀

I used China Glaze I’d Melt For You and Laval Black for the gradient, this mani looks really thick, because for some reason my sponge decided to disintegrate a bit on the last coat and left annoying sponge turds all over the place Gah! So after a bit of tweezering some swearing and around 3 coats of Seche Vite later my nails where ready for stamping.

I used some more I’d Melt For You for the stamping along with my squishy marshmallow stamp head. The image itself is really sharp and it transferred to my nails really cleanly. one final coat of topcoat and it was all done! 🙂

Gradient!

And don’t forget the code RPG10 will get you 10% off in the born pretty shop!

http://www.bornprettystore.com/

8 Comments | tags: Black, Born Pretty Review, BP-05, China Glaze I'd Melt For You, gradient, Laval Black, Manicure, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Stamping, Nail Varnish, Seche Vite, silver | posted in Nail Stamping, Review

January 5, 2015

Holographic Grey Nails with MM16

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

mm16

Todays nails are actually the ones I created for last weeks pick and mix challenge, I just didn’t have time to post them, so here they are now 🙂

Galactic Grey

I used a base of China Glaze Galactic Grey, Over the top I stamped an image from Messy Mansion plate MM16 using Konad SP black Than a coat of Seche Vite and a quick clean up and it was finished!

Holographic Grey

It took 20 minutes including drying times! 🙂

8 Comments | tags: 52wpnmc‬, China Glaze Galactic Grey, grey, Holographic, Konad special polish Black, Manicure, Messy Mansion MM16, Nail Art, Nail polish, Nail Varnish, Seche Vite | posted in Challenges, Nail Stamping

December 24, 2014

Christmas Nails!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

I realized that I haven’t done any actual Christmas nail art this year! I have done Snowflakes and some in Red and Gold but nothing really Christmasy!

So here are my Christmas nails!

Christmas Nail tree pudding reindeer candles

Christmas Nails

This is what I used

Sinful Colors – Snow Me White
Butter London – Come To Bed Red
Revlon – Hot For Chocolate
Models Own – Sardonyx
Color Club – Antiquated
OPI – Its All San Andreas’s Fault
Color Club – Black-ish
Revlon – Emerald City
Seche Vite
Konad SP Black
Stamping Plates HD05 and QA86
Nail Studs
Striping Tape

Christmas nails

This really took a long time to finish, but most of that was getting all the striping tape lined up.

For the stripy nails I started with Snow Me White, then the striping tape and a couple of coats of Come To Bed Red, it really was quite bumpy so I added two coats of top coat to even it out.

The tree is Emerald City, and some nail studs! The little reindeer is from plate HD05 and the snowflakes are from plate QA86. I did actually double stamp the snowflakes with Antiquated and Konad Black but the gold doesn’t really show up over the stripy background

Christmas nails

On my ring and middle fingers I applied two coats of Sardonyx this polish is from the Models Own Velvet Goth collection so it dries matte, I un-matted it with a coat of Seche Vite.

For the candles on my ring finger I used Snow Me White, Antiquated and Black-ish, I painted them with a little paintbrush.

The Christmas Pud on my middle finger is a mixture of Hot For Chocolate, Its All San Andreas’s Fault and Black-ish. I used Its All San Andreas’s Fault for some added texture. For the cream I again used Snow Me White the Holly is Emerald City and Come To Bed Red! I didn’t add any more topcoat over my pudding, so it would keep it’s texture! 🙂

Christmas nails

This Christmas Mani took hours but I really like it 😀

I hope you have a lovely Christmas! 😀

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December 23, 2014

Thoroughly Unfestive Tropical Fish Manicure!

By Ruth

Hello! 🙂

Today I have some thoroughly unfestive tropical fish nail art to share with you 🙂

Tropical Fish

I recently replanted my fish tank with loads of plants! It looks really nice now and my fish look really happy (well as happy as fish can look)!

For this I started with a couple of coats of Lumin-iceant from Color Club, I really like this polish, it’s a blue toned silver foil polish and it’s opaque in one coat.

MM21 and MM09

I used two stamping plates from Messy Mansion, MM21 for the scales and MM09 for the fish, along with konad special polish in black.

For the leadlighting chose to use some tinted polishes that I mixed myself, you can find the post about them Here. I used my dark blue, purple and red ones.

Tropical Fish Leadlight Nail Art

Here’s a bonus (rather rubbish) photo of my fish tank.