Frisch Lackiert Challenge: Blumig

Today, a new round of the Frisch Lackiert Challenge starts, with the prompt flowery.

I opted for a reverse stamping. While I still don't excel at this technique, I think I finally getting better. My base are two coats of Essence Wild White Ways, for the stamping I used black Born Pretty Store stamping polish, Colors by Llarowe As Rome Burned and aEngland Dragon. I fixed the stamping with one coat of Bundle Monster Smudge Free Top Coat and then added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

aEngland polishes are available at various places, you'll find a complete list of retailers here.

Colors By llarowe are available at their own store,  Hypnotic polish, Color4Nails, Harlow & Co and a lot of other retailers. 

Wild in Vegas

Another indie polish for today.





My base are three coats of Girly Bits What Happens In Vegas... Ends Up On Facebook, a mauve linear holo with some larger silver holo glitters and golden reflexes.

For the stamping, I used Color Club Wild At Heart, a dark purple holo, and Born Pretty Store stamping plate BP-L024. I fixed the stamping with one coat of Bundle Monster Smudge Free Top Coat and added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for extra shine.

Girly Bits polishes are available at her own store, Harlow & Co. and Mei Mei's Signatures.
What Happens In Vegas... Ends Up On Facebook was a limited edition back in 2013 (shame on me) and is no longer available.

Funky Skyfall

Happy Easter (some days late)! I hope you found all your eggs, chocolate bunnies and whatever was hidden ;-)

For today's mani, I started with three coats of OPI Skyfall (James Bond Edition), a dark cherry red creme. The glitter topper is Essence Not Punky Nor Funky (Get Loud Limited Edition), a clear base filled with black, gold holographic and pink hexes, some gold holo bars and pink microglitter. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top provided a smooth finish. 

Bulletproof Symphony

 

Bulletproof Symphony is the name of today's polish.

This is a quite interesting polish. From a distance, it looks quite subtle, almmost a little boring. But there's so much going on, as you can see in the macro shot. It has a sheer purple base and is filled with myriads of gunmetal flakies and silver holo sparkles. On the nail, it looks more taupe than purple or grey. The base is too sheer to get the polish completely opaque, but Bulletproof Symphony is so sparkly that the nail line wasn't really visible to the naked eye (other than my camera, who picked it up clearly).

ILNP polishes are available on Etsy, Hypnotic Polish, Harlow & Co. and at their own shop.

Aqua Bubbles

After the somewhat dark and gloomy mani on monday, some more vivid colors for today.

I started with three coats of Girly Bits Get Weaponized, a vivid aqua/turquoise holo with tiny purple glitters in it.

Since the base reminded me of a tropical ocean, I added some bubbles using aEngland Tristam and MoYou London Sailor Collection plate 18. As usual, I added one coat of Bundle Monster Smudge Free Top Coat and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top. This mani was so sparkly, my camera had real problems focussing...

aEngland polishes are available at various places, you'll find a complete list of retailers here.

Girly Bits polishes are available at her own store, Harlow & Co. and Mei Mei's Signatures.

When Colours Collide: brown & silver

Another round of When Colours Collide ended yesterday, with the prompt brown and silver. Not your typical spring colors, but then, it was snowing yesterday morning, so I don't really feel spring-like anyway...

My base are three coats of Essence Who Is Mr. Brown (Marble Mania Limited Edition), a very dark chocolate brown creme. For the stamping I used aEngland Encore Margot (I just love this silver holo for stamping) and Born Pretty Store stamping plate BP-L015. Then I added one coat of Bundle Monster Smudge Free Top Coat and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

aEngland polishes are available at various places, you'll find a complete list of retailers here.


 

Rhodium Suit

Some grey and silver for today.






As base I used three coats of Catrice So Suit! (FeMALE Limited Edition), a dark grey polish that dries to a semi-matte finish (ok, the matte finish is not visible, but worn alone without topcoat it's there). My glitter topper is Emily de Molly Rhodium, a clear base with lots of silver holo glitters in various sizes, mostltly hexes but also some squares. I used a genreous coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top for a smooth finish.

Emily de Molly polishes are available on Etsy and at their own shop (Australia only) and at a lot of international stockists. Rhodium seems to be discontinued, I couldn't find it in the shops anymore.

When Colours Collide: Blue

The latest round of When Colours Collide ended over a week ago, but I have to admit, I was just too lazy to edit all the pictures in time... But now I'm ready, here's my all blue mani.

I went for a splatter mani, a really fun technique, but it's important to protect yourself and your environment with this one. So use tape, cuticle protection and a silicone mat (or an old newspaper) if you don't want to spend hours cleaning your hands and your table... The polishes I used are all MoYou London stamping polishes, Powder Blue as base and Chill Out and Winter Sky for the splatter. One generous coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top pade the surface feel smoother than it looked...