Tropical Tuesday: Leafy and Bright

Hi everyone! Please help me think of a better name for this post... Today's nail art is simple but I am quite pleased with it. The only bit that didn't quite work out was the flower image on one of my thumbs not quite coming out right.

On my middle fingers I used a layer of gold metallic polish (colours listed below pictures) followed my sponging on some gold glitter. My thumb and little finger nails have floral images from Mo You London's Tropical 07 stamping plate. On my index and ring fingernails I started with a white base and then some leaf images from their Tropical 10 plate. I used a gradient technique for this with two Barry M polishes. I find this surprisingly easy to do as you can blend the colours a bit by swiping the card across the stamping plate a few times.

Definitely tempted to try more leafy designs. I think they make good accent nails and leaf patterns seem to be around a lot at the moment on clothes and things.
Colours used: Floral Street - Nails Inc, Flip Flop Fantasy - China Glaze, Key Lime - Barry M, Spring Green - Barry M, Bright Lights - Barry M, Million Dollar Dream - Fun Lacquer

Stamping Sunday: Ibiza Gradient Nails

Hi everyone! Still catching up but my nails are at least in a summery style so I don't feel too bad putting them on my blog so late! I wanted to do a tropical design featuring Concord from Cirque Color's and thought it would be a good idea to try my Tropical 30 plate from Mo You London for the first time as well.

On my middle fingers I created a gradient with some gradient sponges and pink polish, which has come out pretty red in the pictures. This should have been so easy to do but I'm still not great at gradients! My left hand definitely came out better as I think I overdid the purple on my right hand.
I had originally been planning some gradient stamping over white nails but as I'd opted for a gradient base I stamped the images in just one colour. Pale metallic gold stood and well and I find metallic polishes always stamp pretty well.

I'm pleased with this plate and polish and how crisp the images are. The images on this particular plate remind me of Ibiza, and the colours I chose here add to that effect even more. Though the gradients could be better I'm overall happy with how these turned out, and hope I get round to using this pkate again this summer!
Colours used: Concord - Cirque Colors, Seymour Walk - Nails Inc, Bright Lights - Barry M

Strawberry Nails Forever...

Hey everyone - happy Friday! I had plans for this evening but they've been moved and I'm really relishing a night in as I haven't been sleeping well and am so sleepy! This nail art is another one from weeks ago as I am of course still behind. I wanted to use my untried red glitter from Cupcake Polish (colours listed below the pictures), and thought I'd give strawberry nail art a go to make sure it didn't look too Christmassy!

I used three different stamping plates for this design. For the thumbs I used an image from my Roxy Collection 10 plate from Mo You London. This is a Beatles themed plate which was one of my first MYL plates and seems to no longer be available. For my middle finger I used strawberries from the Tropical 07 plate (really lovely plate!) and on my little finger I used some more strawberries, from the Tropical 34 plate. I definitely liked the ones on the little fingers best.

To fill in the strawberry images I used the advanced stamping technique on my Uber Mat using the sparkly red polish. You can see how here. The red was super sparkly in the light but I still haven't quite mastered the art of photographing that besides in the bathroom with a tiled background.
Colours used: Cream Soda - Barry M, Midnight Mischief - Barry M, Lord Liquorice - Cupcake Polish, Key Lime - Barry M

Stamping Sunday: A Mermaid Mix Up

Hello world! I am very wide awake so am putting off going to sleep to share with you some mermaid themed nail art on thermal polish. I wasn't overjoyed with how these turned out, but sharing them anyway, gives some variety I guess as I usually say I like them!

I started off with a colour changing polish. This one is Ursula from Femme Fatale Cosmetics, I thought given the name mermaid nails were appropriate. I stamped some images in silver from my Bundle Monster mermaid plate. I think this is where it went wrong as the silver didn't show up very well over the base colour. It only really worked on the mermaid scale nails.

For the mermaid and castle nails I used the advanced stamping technique using my Uber Mat. You can see how here. Let me know what you think of them, should I try them again with black or something else as the stamping colour?
Colours used: Ursula - Femme Fatale, Rain On  Me - Barry M, Cocoa - Barry M, Charlotte Street - Nails Inc, Plum - Barry M, Cobalt - Barry M