Frisch Lackiert Challenge: Half Moon

Half moon is this week's prompt for the Frisch Lackiert Challenge.

I started with one coat of MoYou London Purple Mouse, a muted medium purple creme. The polish wasn't completely opaque after only one coat but since I was going to add another polish over it, I didn't mind the slightly visible nail line. For the half moon effect, I used something out of the stationery departement, that I just couldn't find an english word for it. In german, it's called Lochverstärkungsring. They are little round stickers with a hole in it, and you use them for papers that are filed in a folder, so the paper doesn't tear. Is it a german and swiss thing only? Wikipedia only knows this one in german and esperanto. Well, anyway, I put those little round stickers on my nail base and painted a generous coat of Flormar 14 over it (don't you just love these imaginative names?! I mean, "14", what a genious name...). Flormar 14 is a dark purple with lots of course shimmer in it. As finishing step, I added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top (after removing the stickers, obviously). 

Havana Gold

For today I have a new stamped mani to show you.

As base color I used two coats of Flormar Satin Matte Havana, a golden brown foil polish that dries to a satin matte (duh) finish. The polish consists of a myriad of tiny glitter particles in various shades of gold, brown and even green. I bought this one on my trip to Milan this Easter, I don't know if this brand is available in Switzerland.








Then I used Pueen plate 59 (of the "Stamping Buffet") and Barry M Gold Foil to add the stamped pattern. On each nail I used another part of the stamping plate, but I'm not absolutely sure wether I like the outcome, or if it would have been better to use the same pattern on each nail...

No topcoat for this mani, it would have destroyd the satin matte look.