Digit-al Dozen DOES Nail Heroes - Literary Lacquers AGAIN, Indigo Bananas, Grace-full Nail Polish and MoYou

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And welcome!  Isn't that just the catchiest blog title you've read in ages hahahaha.  Today's post is a double whammy - some holo gradient nail art, with stamping on top - all from my top polish loves.

As is fitting, Literary Lacquers is the only brand to feature twice this week.  My love for Amy is like no other.   I also today have Indigo Bananas, and Grace-full Nail Polish, 2 of my other very favourite brands.

Do you own Literary Lacquers or Indigo Bananas?  If you don't, you really should.  Amy and Andrea are, for me, twins.  They both make polishes with a "less is more" sensibility, and are also able to see what's just around the corner in terms of new and exciting, and subtle twists.   That's why with Amy you get her amazing "crunchy holos" - the perfect mix of glitter and holo, and why with Andrea you'll gasp at a secret shimmer or flakie which is unlike anything you've ever seen before.

Grace-full Nail Polish had a STONKING 2015.  If I'd written my end of year posts, Theresa's Happily Ever After holo collection would have been my collection of the year.  I wore it more than any other, and the polishes just worked so well together.  Theresa has really become a holo mistress, and if you're looking for consistently fab and epic holos, she is definitely where to look.

So in my little painted gradient, I chose some of my favourites from each brand -

Literary Lacquers - Greatest Treasures - the polish that started my love affair with the brand
Literary Lacquers - Veronika - a stonking purple from her most recent collection
Indigo Bananas - Volcanic Corruption - a terrific fiery red
Grace-full Nail Polish - Magenta Sparks, a stunning cerise

Whilst I loved the holo fruit pastille lollipop I was wearing, of course I had to stamp over it, and I chose Illusion 04 from MoYou, one of my favourite MoYou plates.

MoYou totally changed the stamping plate market, and their semi-weekly releases were genius and financially crippling!  They brought a level of inventiveness to the market that hadn't been seen before, and for me they are utter game-changers, as well as being 100% reliable in terms of quality.

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Digit-al Dozen DOES New & Improved - Needle Drag

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Wow this week's passing fast!   I hope you're enjoying all the DD posts this week AND that you've checked out our new members.

Today is needle drag, a technique that I adore.  It's a technique that looks so simple and effortless when I see other people do it (Sveta Sanders, I'm looking at you), but comes out looking like it was done by a challenged chimp when I try.   I used a beautiful Indigo Bananas combo - Sequins of Events (the rose gold holo) and Break The Wheel.

I don't know if I'm too heavy handed or what, but I wanted to try again after I saw Cathy - that's new to DD Cathy - do this fab needle drag for the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge.  She even did a little video to persuade me it was easy.  Nah.

So again .... semi fail.  I feel I've learnt to do the stripe of polish down the middle better, but I still can't get the flow that these other bloggers get.  If you look closely, yup, still got groove marks on this one.

Ok, I'm off to our DD cave to ask Cathy for advice :)

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40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Pale Blue base

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I hope you've had an amazing festive period and New Year.  We're back, in the Crumpet's Nail Tarts with the 40 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge, and the pattern half of the challenge is back!

This week's theme is pale blue base - and for my base I chose the gorgeous Elderberry by Barry M.  It's not just a beautiful pale blue, it's dusty and creamy, not white-based, and I adore it.

I then sprinkled some magic over it - Earth, Wind and Fire by Indigo Bananas.  This is a crazy amazing flakie of pastel deliciousness - and it looked even more awesome in real life than it does in these photos.  Seriously, if you haven't got this yet, I recommend you grab it - it's totally unlike any other flakie I've got - AND it has holo dust in it.

My pattern prompt was circles and I got stampy.   I also saw it as a perfect excuse to use my new a-England Spirit of the Moors, a stunning cobalt holo.   Usually, a-Englands stamp brilliantly, but this didn't turn out as stellar as I hoped.  I think it's because the pattern is thinly etched.  I just wanted this to be BOLDER.

But seriously, that flakie .....

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