Hi Goddesses
Ok, here we go, more messy decal madness!
As you may know if you follow this blog, me and watermarbling don't get along. I really struggle to get my polish to spread, however much I yearn for those amazing patterns.
I recently saw THIS tutorial on Betty's Beauty Bombs, and wondered whethered it would be a better option for me. Basically, you make your watermarble pattern, let it "set" on the water, then pull it out, cut it to the right size (AND pick the bit of the pattern you like) and plonk it on your nail. So easy.
Yeh. So again, I'm posting this one as a work in progress, something we can hopefully look back on in a few months when I have perfected it (cough).
2 things strike me - the see through bits in my pattern. I don't know whether I need to do double rings, but man it annoys me, as does the slightly shaky lines in the water. Oh and the lumpiness. Flat it layeth not :/
Secondly oh this was messy. I think other people may be better at cutting their decals to size - I ended up dissolving the "extra" bits with acetone and then getting all messy. Yeh, YouTube here I come :)
Polishes used -
Morgan Taylor Sitting Pretty
China Glaze At Vase Value
China Glaze Lotus Begin
Hi Goddesses
I've fallen a little out of love with Zoya over the years, driven mainly by the year when they and OPI duped each other, and their price point in the UK, which is just way too prohibitive.
However, there's no denying that when Zoya get it right, they get it SO right, and Zoya Song is one of those legendary polishes for me, and probably my favourite blue polish. It's definitely one I would replace if I lost it.
It's such an amazing sapphire - rich, yet still bright, and all that amazing shimmer under the surface. The true genius of this polish is how it holds and refracts the light. Gorgeous.
Before I stamped, I added a coat of Black Cat Lacquer Bay Harbour Butcher, a polish I owned before I understood its name. It's a blue and black glitter, and you'll lol in a moment at how many of the black glitters ended up in the "holes" in the stamping pattern.
So, the stamping pattern is from Vivid Lacquer 034 and I used a silver polish to stamp with.
I'm somewhat agog that I managed to get each stamp straight - woah - and I love that it's an ace pattern, but which also allows the base to still demand some attention.
Hi Goddesses
Today's post was a great excuse to use a polish that has been languishing in my stash a long time - but I'll get to that in a minute.
First up, let's look at the base - Ceram Sea by Elevation Polish. This leans a little more sea green than sea blue on me, but luckily, it works with my skin tone.
I love how serene and deep it looks, and also how glossy! Imagine sitting looking out at a sea that colour - amazing.
So back to the non-glitter topper. Remember 3 years ago when flakie toppers were FIRST the rage? The Fingerpaints range,the piCture pOlish versions, Nubar Hidden Treasure? I remember looking and looking for China Glaze White Cap, and I know for a fact that I only used it once - on an afternoon 3 years ago when I did loads of Barry M swatches.
And yet look at it. Look how it works WITH the base polish and just lifts it to another level of lusciousness. Sigh. So how does such a lovely polish get forgotten? Well, I can probably come up with 982 reasons - a girl only has so many fingers lol.
I then decided to add some stamping, also in gold, and used OPI Love Angel Music Baby. To be honest, I expected it to stand out more, and whilst it was more visible in real life, it's damn tricky to spot the stamping in these photos.
I used Cici&Sisi07 and a lovely butterfly pattern, but the butterly is a little lost in the shimmer storm.
