Hello!
If you've been a reader for a while, you will know I have a thing for birds and feathers, especially owls and peacocks. So when the mood struck for matte flakies and silver stamping I rolled with it and came up with some festive owls! Sticking with the bird theme I used Orly Fowl Play as my base, then amped up the flakie level with a coat of Finger Paints Motley. I stamped the cute owl from Pueen 40 in Barry M Silver Foil and once it was dry (with the aid of Poshe - does anyone find flakies take forever and a day to dry?) I mattefied the whole thing. The accent finger was Maybelline Foil Flash (from the Colour Show Brocades collection). As well as taking ages to dry, I find flakies have a tendency to shrink - there's a teeny bit of shrinkage here unfortunately. Still loved it though. I know it's not strictly a Christmas image, but I do think the colour combo looked quite festive.
Pic spam!
Twit twoo!
Hx
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Showing posts with label finger paints. Show all posts
Saturday, 21 December 2013
Merry Owlmas!
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Wednesday, 25 July 2012
NOTD – What a difference a Konad Special White Polish makes...
Good morning!
Since I haven't blogged in a while, I have lots and lots of manis to show you that I've worn over the last month or so. I've written about half of them in draft and will schedule them in, with a few new mani's sandwiched inbetween - so you might see my nails go from claws to nubs and back again a few times!
I treated myself to a Konad Special
White polish a while ago now, because I was sick of thinking of a great idea for a
stamping mani only then having to scrap it because of not having a
white polish that stamped properly. I was always a bit reluctant to
buy Konad polish, since you can't use it like normal polish, only for
stamping, but I can now say it is so worth it. The white especially,
and I will be ordering a black soon. The difference, even between
this and what I considered a good-for-stamping regular polish is
incredible – opacity, dry time, how well it picked up on the
stamper. Yep, I'm a convert. I now want a red and blue konad polish
too, and that's just for starters...
Anyway, you know I said I wanted it
because I was sick of thinking of a great idea for a stamping mani
only then having to scrap it because of not having a white polish
that stamped properly? Do you think I could come up with an idea for
a mani once this arrived? Law. Of. Sod. But I eventually went for
this – Finger Paints Grape Gumball (which I won in a giveaway,
thank you Ashley!) with a floral design stamped in white. Grape
Gumball is super pretty, it has all these teeny flecks of iridescence
in it that are just lovely.
The stamping was so good I got asked
twice if they were nail wraps. Pretty chuffed :)
So, seriously, if you can never find a
white polish that stamps well just splash out on the Konad. I got
mine for £5 for 11ml plus a couple of quid postage on ebay, so
really it ended up cheaper than all the other white polishes I've
bought and tried for stamping...lesson learned.
Hx
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