A Little Beachy

Happy Wednesday! Short post today because I'm not really happy with the gradient so I didn't take many photos but the rest was decent enough!

Index and pinky: China Glaze - Sunday Funday with OPI - Amazon...Amazoff sponged on top.

I found the latter really watery for my gradient and it wasn't building up properly. Poo!

Middle: OPI - Love. Angel. Music. Baby

Ring: China Glaze - Shower Together 

Stamp: Winstonia 108 with China Glaze - Passion as my stamping polish. 

Inspired by this beauteous manicure from Kelli at the Nail Polish Challenge. Whose birthday is today and the reason why I recreated it :)

Peach Petals

Hey all! I've had this sitting around for a while and am just getting around to posting it. 

Click the jump to see how I got these pretty peachy petals. Say that three times fast..

Tristam Roses

Okay I couldn't wait to share this! Pictures were a little hard because everything was so holographic!

I started with a base of A-England - Tristam and stamped over it with Color Club - Over the Moon. I can't get over how much I love the Color Club Halo Hues for nail stamping. So perfect because they are all surprisingly opaque! The plate was the large floral plate (04) from Winstonia. Their large plates are ideal because they cover my whole nail without a problem.

Had to get a matte shot in here as well so you could make out the roses more clearly. Which do you prefer? 

And the gorgeous Tristam by itself! A gorgeous blurple holographic color, which was amazing in two coats. A careful painter could get away with one though. This would also be a great stamping color too!

What do you think? I hope you love it as much as I do!

Quick Post!

Quick, one photo post. Boring, I know. But I just wanted to share another amazing experience with the first generation Winstonia stamping plates! The quality is beyond belief for a new stamping plate brand, and for the first generation. From the biggest full nail images, to small very detailed images.

This right here is the mermaid image from plate W108. After two coats of China Glaze Seaspray, I stamped with China Glaze Strap On Your Moonboots from the Hologlam 2013 collection. And it came out perfect!

I also only have one nice photo because chlorine destroys all longevity in manicures. I love swimming class but I have to make sure I get a good photo before or else all you will see is it peeling and chipping. I chose the mermaid because it was the last day before our school pool is closing down and it only made sense to choose something water themed.

So if you don't already have these plates, get them! They are also reasonably priced :)

Indulging with Mimosas

Today I am wearing a shade from the China Glaze Avant Garden collection.

Mimosa's Before Mani's (p.s has anybody figured out why they spelled it that way..?)

It's a really pretty shade of peach and a little on the darker side of the spectrum. (In my eyes it leans a little towards a pink salmon color too) It also has this gorgeous gold shimmer in it that my camera failed to pick up for the most part. You can see it in the close up photo above on my index finger and middle the most!

I wanted to spice it up and I first I started stamping with Color Club Cosmic Fate, but then OPI DS Indulgence was next to it and I said "I wonder if this stamps well?!" And boy it did! I wish you could see more of the sparkle in these photos!

Winstonia Plate 111 (aka those suns everybody always uses)

Annd another photo because I can! Look at those suns. I call this combo, Indulging with Mimosas!

Thanks for reading ^___^