Choi's nails

I didn't want to keep this one plain and the polish name just kept making me think of stars, stars and stars so that's what my ring finger nail design ended up with after two attempts.






The manicure looks a little 'dusty' and not as smooth because my INM Out the door top coat was thickening up and giving me a hard time. It did serve me well long enough but I think it's time for a polish haul :D

Think I'll keep this short and end it here because my body's telling me to HIT THE SHEETS. <3

I'm still trying to work this Nikon DSLR camera out but it randomly rotates my photos and made me realise the side pose doesn't look too bad. I've tried changing my hand poses and doing all that photo rotating myself but it just ends up with one word, awkward. The whole thing just looked awkward.




For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of a lilac base colour, here I used Essie's Lilacism. Two coats would be ideal but Essie's Lilacism really needed about 3 to keep it from looking obviously patchy.
• With a Barry M's Sugar apple which is a pastel minty green, on one side of the nail. Give it about 10-15 minutes before moving on.
• Using random parts of the design from Moyou London's Mother nature 02 plate, stamp all the nails. 
• Apply a thin layer of Color Club's Million dollar listing shimmery top coat.
• Seal with your preferred top coat (I used INM's Out the door top coat)

Hope everyone enjoyed reading this post. I hope to bring you guys more posts and designs once I get back into painting regularly.

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of Models Own's Lilac Sheen - Pastel purple
• With and black and gold polish, stamp the image from the Moyou Festive collection No 22 plate on the ring finger nail.
• Seal the nail with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Hmm, I tried to do the whole two tone stamping technique but with the design lines being kind of thin and all it didn't quite work out. The two shades did mix a little but I didn't think it was much of a big deal overall I'm still quite happy with how it turned out.

What do you think of this manicure? What other colour combinations should I try for the two tone stamping techniques?

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Two coats of OPI's Ski Teal we drop.
• Using Barry M's Gold foil and the maple leaf design on the Bundle Monster BM04 plate, stamp the design randomly on the whole nail.
• With a dotting tool and the gold foil polish gently dot the empty spaces.
• Seal the nail with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Simple right? The design unintentionally and thankfully looks a little festive to me. Given that I'm usually very bad at creating seasonal/themed designs I'm glad this can be pulled off as some sort of Christmas nails.

Well, thanks for reading! Hope everyone's having a good time with Christmas around the corner. 7 days! Where did time even go?!

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Apply two coats of Models Own's Strawberry tart, a pastel pink polish. One I do like to go back to once in a while. The photo above shows it as a full mani on it's own. This polish is part of MO's scented collection and the smell is still there for my one.
• Apply a layer of top coat on a nail stamper.
• With a design from the Moyou's Kaleidoscope collection plate 01 and the Konad white stamping polish, do as you'd normally do to transfer the image onto the scraper.
• With your choice of polish shades, colour in parts of the design whilst it is still sitting on the scraper. A dotting tool, toothpick or thin brush is recommended for this part especially if you're going to be painting the smaller/intricate parts.
  Here I simply used Misa's I will survive, a standard black and Barry M's Gold foil.
• Once the colouring is done, apply a layer of top coat over the design and wait 10 minutes for it to dry. 
• Using tweezers, gently remove the design from the stamper and place on the ring finger nail. If the design rips, you may need to leave it for a few extra minutes before attempting to remove it again. If the design still looks a bit 'wet' then I'd suggest doing so.
• Seal the whole nail one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

Have you tried the reverse stamping method yet? Well, you should! The process is a little time consuming with a bit of waiting here and there especially if you're going to go ahead with doing the full thing but the results are very satisfactory.

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's Protein base coat)
• Apply two coats of a China Glaze's Sunset sail.
• WIth the Konad white polish and Moyou's Kaleidoscope plate no.01, stamp the image on each nail.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door.)

What do you think of this design and polish?

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of Barry M's Meadow.
• With Konad's white polish and Moyou's Suki plate No.7 stamp the swirl design on each nail.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I used INM's Out the door top coat.)

How do you feel about these sort of polishes? Do you own any?

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of a basic white. Here I used Nails Inc's Floral street.
• Using the following colours apply to a sponge and sponge onto each nail.
  China Glaze Spontaneous - Purple
  China Glaze Wicked Style - Fuchsia pink
  China Glaze Secret peri-winkle - Periwinkle blue
  Misa Good to be green - Light grass green
• With black polish and the flower image on Bundle Monster's BM 221 plate stamp the image onto each nail.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I used INM's Out the door top coat.)
  

I might have over sponged everything here so it's not looking as 'bold' as I wanted it to but the end look is still satisfactory.

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply two coats of Misa's So HOT in sunglasses - Bright fiery hot red.
• With Nails Inc's Willow place - Gold shimmer glitter apply on the ring finger nail.
• Using the Moyou Festive collection plate no. 22 and the Konad white polish, stamp the design on the nails.
• After stamping seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door top coat.)
  The top coat started 'melting' the design so quite a bit of smudging here and there. I guess the trick with this top coat is just working fast.
  

I only decided to layer some glitter and stamping over the base because this red was extremely bright. I didn't feel like leaving it plain either but after putting everything on top it looks quite festive. This manicure feels a little out of place right now looking quite Christmas-y when it's getting quite summery here in London. But you know when Christmas comes round it'll be a design to consider :)

For this manicure:

• Apply one coat of your preferred base coat (I used Essie's protein base coat.)
• Apply any black base. Here I used Misa's I will survive.
• The flower image is from the Moyou's Mother nature collection plate no.2 with the following MO Chrome nail polishes:
  MO Chrome Olive
  MO Chrome Green
  MO Chrome Rose
  MO Chrome Blue
  MO Chrome Cerise
  MO Chrome Mauve
  MO Chrome Pink
  MO Chrome Indigo
• After stamping seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door top coat.)

Doesn't the shiny bottles just look awesome side by side like that?!

My top coat smudged things a little but nevertheless still happy with the end results. Those chromes are looking good standing out on such a dark base. Happy.

What do you think of this manicure?