Apothecary Stamping

Heyy space turtles! Not sure I'm going to manage as much nail art this month as I have so many things going on, but will enjoy fitting it in where I can. I have the apothecary themed Halloween 18 stamping plate and have visions of fabulous designs I can do but can't quite seem to put it together. Hopefully the ideas will come to me! For now I decided I'd just add the images in silver and lilac metallic over a dark green flakie polish for a bit of magic.

I started with a peel of base coat and then added two coats of deep green flakie polish. I then added the snake, jar, mushroom and moth images in lilac and some stars in silver. Once dry I added a glossy top coat. Although I wanted to be more extravagant when using this stamping plate I do still like this look and think it is a good way to wind down from the Halloween nail art, It felt like fitting early November nail art.

Colours used: Nightshade - Quixotic Polish, Foil Effects in Lilac - Barry M, Foil Effect in Silver - Barry M

Catstronauts!

Hey everyone! Back with another space themed Glam Nails Challenge prompt! The latest prompt was astronauts - I don't have a lot of astronaut images but thought these little cat ones would be perfect! 

I started with a base of Queen of Shade from Quixotic Polish. I wore this once before and wasn't that wowed by it and I can't think why - it's gorgeous! It's hard to do it justice in the pictures but it's a beautiful and unique polish, and the magnetic effect works so well. I used the Sci-Fi 10 plate from Mo You London for the cat images and the planets. For the stars on my ring and index fingernails I used the Kelli Marissa Bundle Monster plate.

This look was so easy to do and I absolutely love it! The base colour is so pretty and I love how it looks like the cats are playing with the planets. I particularly love the thumbnail though I struggled to get a non-blurry picture of it!

Colours used: Queen of Shade - Quixotic Polish, Foil Effects in Silver - Barry M

Quixotic Polish - Trying Another Lovely Indie Brand

Hello all! Got some plan old swatches today rather than nail art, but I'm excited to share these with you as I rather like them (spoiler alert!). Earlier this year I decided to buy a few polishes from Quixotic Polish for the first time, but didn't try them for ages as they are more the sort of thing I'd wear in the autumn/winter. These two are from their Flakie Bombs collection which is soooo incredibly beautiful! I resisted the other shades but that was tough! They had a picture of them all together which looked so pretty I wanted to frame it! Still tempted to go back for the rest...

ANYway, onto the polishes... first up is Nightshade, a deep green jelly polish with green flakes and specs of glitter. This polish is SO beautiful! It's got so much depth to it. I thought it might just be quite dark and come out a bit more black but I'm so pleased with how green it is. A very strong start! 

Next up is Ambrosia, a beautiful teal-blue-green, I'm not really sure what you'd call this to be honest but it's lovely! It looks different colours in different lights, my favourite is when that purple-y red flare shows up as you can see in the picture of my thumb nail. Looking at the pictures again it's hard to choose a favourite but this one really did wow me when it caught the light!