a England Order Of The Garter

17 May

Hello everyone! There has been a lot of stuff going on this week, I wasn’t feeling well and the weather has been crap so I haven’t been able to take many pictures. Anyway, on Sunday I showed you some stamping, but the base color I used is so pretty that it deserves its own post! Here are some pictures of A England Order Of The Garter before I stamped over it.

a England Order Of The Garter

Order Of The Garter is part of A England’s The Legend collection, I almost didn’t get this one because I only wanted the holos, but this is just as beautiful as the other polishes in the collection. It’s a bright blue glass-fleck, I love the color and the finish! The formula was good like the other A England polishes I’ve tried, but it went a bit sheer on the first coat. Sorry, I can’t remember for sure if I did two or three coats, I think it was probably three but Sunday seems sooo long ago that I’m not sure! It seemed like it wanted to stain my nails a bit so be careful with removal.

A England Order Of The Garter

A England Order Of The Garter

A England Order Of The Garter

Isn’t it gorgeous? I really love this shade of blue, and so far I’ve always been impressed with A England’s shades and formulas. Thanks for looking! :)

I purchased Order Of The Garter from http://shop.llarowe.com/ for $12, it is also sold at A England’s website.

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a England Order Of The Garter stamped with Devotion

13 May

Hello! I hope all the moms are having a Good Mother’s Day! I visited my mom earlier and I’m trying to clean up the house a bit now before Sunday is over and I have to go to work! I have a quick post today with some stamping that I did for the Adventures in Stamping group, the challenge was to use a plate ending in 5.

a England Order Of The Garter stamped with China Glaze Devotion

I started with a-England Order Of The Garter, a gorgeous bright blue glass fleck. Then I used China Glaze Devotion to stamp the flower pattern from plate BM-205. I missed some spots, my stamper was not picking up the image very well, I’ll have to check next time to see if I can figure out why.

a England Order Of The Garter stamped with China Glaze Devotion

a England Order Of The Garter stamped with China Glaze Devotion

a England Order Of The Garter stamped with China Glaze Devotion

Thanks for stopping by! :)

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Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly Holographic Gradient

10 May

I’m so in love with how these nails turned out that I can’t bring myself to change my polish!! I wanted to try another gradient, and to add something extra I made it holographic.

Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

I started by doing a sponged gradient with Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly, I’m still trying to get my gradients more smooth but this one turned out pretty good. Then I added one coat of Hits Hefesto, a holographic topcoat. Everyone who likes holos should get Hefesto now if they don’t have it already! I love it, I want to put it over every polish now, and I think I’ll be getting backup bottle!

I couldn’t narrow down my pictures so I have several to show how pretty this looks!

Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

A blurry picture to show the holo:
Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

And in the shade:
Zoya Wednesday and OPI Fly gradient with Hits Hefesto

This is one of those times when I can’t stop staring at my nails. I hope you can see the gradient well in the pictures because it seems like it was more obvious in person. In the shade Hefesto looked like a pretty silvery sparkly topcoat, in the sunlight it was a beautiful holo. Wednesday and Fly are pretty colors on their own, and looked great together in the gradient. I love everything about this look, I’ve had it for five days, I just noticed a chip on my right pinky so I’ll be changing it soon but I wish I didn’t have to!

I got Wednesday at http://Zoya.com, Fly should be available wherever OPI is sold, I got mine at http://aveyou.com and I got Hits Hefesto at http://shop.llarowe.com/.

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Blue Gradient with Joy Butterflies

8 May

I wanted to try a gradient again but also wanted to use a stamp in my DRK-A plate so I ended up doing both!

Blue Hydrangea and A World of Compassion gradient with DRK-A butterflies

I started by sponging a gradient with Nubar Blue Hydrangea and Sparitual A World Of Compassion. Then I used China Glaze Joy to stamp the butterflies image from the DRK-A plate which I just recently got. I’m not sure if I like it or not, from some angles it looks ok but from others it bothers me a bit, the gradient didn’t turn our exactly how I wanted. Also, I stamped the butterflies upside down so I rotated the above picture to make them look upright.

Blue Hydrangea and A World of Compassion gradient with DRK-A butterflies

Blue Hydrangea and A World of Compassion gradient with DRK-A butterflies

I think I will try this again maybe with different colors, maybe Joy wasn’t the best color to stamp with.

Thanks for reading!

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Stamped kitties!

6 May

Hello! I came up with this stamped design for today’s challenge in the Adventures in Stamping group. The challenge was Unnatural Animals so I used my new DRK-A plate to stamp some multicolored kitties.

Stamped kitties

I started with a base of Sinful Colors Black on Black, and used China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy, Zoya Lolly and Milani Dude Blue to stamp the kitties. I thought the neons would show up a bit better but they are not as bright as I hoped.

Stamped kitties

Still, I think it looks pretty cute with the kitties. I definitely have to use this stamp again! :)

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