Hi Goddesses
And welcome to Day 3 of DD Week. Today's design is one of my favourites of the week. It involves some good ole splodging, some failures, and ended up nothing like how it was supposed to!
I'm trying to use some Untried polishes in these here challenges, and for this one I pulled out Rimmel Stormy Skies, which is on base. It's a fabulous creamy-gray-blue affair, and reminds me a lot of Sally Hansen CSM Gray By Gray.
The aim was to do some splodging, and then stamp over it, so I splodged with Barry M Retro Blue polish (a LE a couple of years ago) and Model's Own Beth's Blue. As it looked super pale, I then splodged a bit more of the Rimmel back on top.
So, my goal was to do a doodle design in navy on top, but no matter what polish I tried, the stamp didn't want to work. Then I wondered about a patchwork design, but I couldn't get enough contrast to my base (but if you look carefully, you can *just* about see it on my little finger).
All lucked out, I wondered what else I could do with navy - and yep, dots it was! This uses Nella Milano Midnight Blue and pretty much my smallest dotting tool.
I actually really love how this turned out - the contrast of the dots to the splodging is just perfect, and the blues really combine together well.
Unfortunately .....
yeh, Baby Crumpet wasn't so sure. I suspect it's cos it's blue and not 3-D pink with flashing disco lights .....
Hi Goddesses
Have you entered the GINORMOUS Digit-al Dozen Giveaway yet? If you have, you'll know that MoYou is one of the biggest sponsors, offering a bundle that includes 10 stamping plates of your choice - wow!
So today, as a thank you, I have a little homage to MoYou featuring the peacock feathers that are on Landscape 02.
The base is Nella Milano Midnight Blue, which is my new favourite navy, and the stamping is with Too Fancy Lacquer Midnight Sonata.
I love the blue on blue contrast here - 2 very opposite ends of the spectrum - navy v light blurple holo. It's very effective.
I really like this peacock design - it's quite easy to get a good selection of feathers :)
So, we now need to have the Baby Crumpet verdict, and surprisingly, she was quite happy with these ...
Don't worry, she gets meaner as the week goes on!
Hi Goddesses
I hope 2014 is being good to you,and that you have lots of plans for making it awesome. My initial plan this month, is to introduce you to brands you (and in some cases, I) haven't seen before, and also to reintroduce you to some other brands that haven't been seen on this blog for a while.
We start today with 3 polishes I was sent for review by MoYou Nails (not to be confused with MoYou London of hotter than hot stamping plates). The brand is called Nella Milano and the polishes are designed to be one coaters. I received Midnight Blue, Peach and Ruby Red.
As you can see in this swatch of Midnight Blue, they are not one coaters - yet. I do have a suspicion though that as the bottle gets used a couple of times, the polish will thicken a tad and then be a one-coater (certainly a lot of Barry M polishes do this).
Here, you can see how the polishes look after 2 coats - glorious, and shiny. Easy application, nothing to complain about.
As they are supposed to be one coaters, I assumed they would also make great stamping polishes - and they do! - although that is not their primary purpose. So sit back and look at all the MANY ways I played with these babies!
Let's stick with Midnight Blue, which really is the perfect navy. Here it's stamped over Too Fancy Lacquer Midnight Sonata. As you can see, clear and opaque pick up.
I choose a portion of the peacock from a MoYou one-plate design - Landscape Collection 02.
I then stamped over another Too Fancy Lacquer - Champagne Cocktail - with Peach. I really love how this turned out.
The plate is another MoYou - Pro Collection 07. Again, perfect stamping opacity from the Nella.
And finally I did a Peach and Ruby Red skittle, again initially to see if they were one coaters - here are some shots of them at 2 coats.
I then stamped over them using a MoYou Festive plate, 03, and again, they stamped perfectly.
I knew this would be a colour clash mani, and it had much more presence in real life. On the photos, the camera has been a little blinded by all the bright, and it's hard to pick up the peach on red.
For me, these polishes are winners. I am happy using 2 coats of them, and I am over the moon that they stamp. As I said above, I do think in time they will thicken up, but if you want to specifically buy a one-coater polish, you'll need to consider that first.
The Nella Milano range can be purchased HERE. Although the polishes are a little pricey at £7.99,t hey are currently on sale at £5.49. Stay tuned, as I have another review post for Nella coming up within the week xx
