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

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:

• 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 the Barry M - Matt white as a base.
• Using a sponge and Barry M's Mango - Orange. Grapefruit - pink and Blue grape - a royal blue, sponge the colours onto the base until they're blended.
• With the Bundle monster BM208 plate, stamp the design with the Konad white polish onto each nail.
• After stamping seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use INM's Out the door top coat.)
  

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Ciate mini's Underwear)
• Two coats Models Own's Asscher Blue - Aren't those turquoise dust looking pretty just reflecting back.
• Konad's white polish and Bundle Monster's BM 205 plate for the flower stamping.
• Models Own's Chrome gold for dotting the middle of the flowers.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use Misa's UV Bounceback)

I may still have a few more polishes from the diamond luxe collection to show so do keep a lookout for the next posts.

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I used Ciate mini's Underwear)
• Three coats of Models Own's Trillion taupe - taupe shade with tiny gold dust.
• Misa's I will survive - plain black for the image stamping with the image on the Bundle Monster's BM 225 plate.
• Seal with one coat of your preferred top coat. (I use Misa's UV Bounceback)

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I use Essie's Grow Stronger base coat but I think I'll need to invest in another one soon)
• Two coats of China Glaze's Lemon Fizz.
• A sponge painted with a yellow China Glaze's Lemon Fizz, an orange Barry M's Mango and a red Misa's So HOT in sunglasses from top to bottom. Sponge the nails until you're happy with the results. Add more polish to the sponge if you feel like the colours need a bit of a top up.
• The flower image from Bundle Monster plate BM16 and Konad white polish for the image stamping. This image had to be stamped twice to fill the nails as these were the first generation stamping plates that BM had introduced so their image sizing wasn't quite right.
• Glitter nail art pen to dot the middle of the flowers. Doesn't have to be a pen, any other glitter polishes would suffice.
• One coat of your preferred top coat. (I use Misa's UV Bounceback)

If you're looking for summer nail art ideas maybe you could try this gradient design. :)

I'd like to show Barry M's Blue grape before all the nail stamping because look how shiny shiny it is! This is two coats without top coat! It does belong to Barry M's Gelly Hi Shine collection after all and this shade really did live up to the name. You can almost my whole light box set up from the reflection. This blue is totally my kind of blue.



In my last post I mentioned picking up two collections from the Models Own sale and for the nail stamping I used the Chrome Blue and Chrome Pink from their Chrome collection. I've heard of this before but I'll say it for myself, these chrome's are great for nail stamping! Just see for yourself. The polish bottles also look great as they are.



Summary:

For this manicure you'll need:

• One coat of your preferred base coat (I use Essie's Grow Stronger base coat)
• Two coats of Barry M's Blue grape
• Models Own's Chrome Blue for the middle and ring finger nail stamping with Bundle Monster's BM 224 plate
• Models Own's Chrome Pink for the stamping on the index and pinkie nail.
• One coat of your preferred top coat ( I use Misa's UV Bounceback top coat)

Coming up you might see a bit more of some Chrome stamping here and there because I'm totally digging how they appear especially as they are stamped on a dark base.

What do you think of this manicure? Have you tried any of the Barry M Gellys or Models Own's Chromes yet?

What gradient colour combination would you like to see next? Other than Bundle Monster and Moyou plates which I'm already aware of, can anyone suggest any other image plates that are available to the UK?

What do you think of this manicure?

What do you think? What three colour combinations would you choose for this sort of manicure?