Clever Girl! Dinosaur eye with HeHe 086

This month's prompt in the Sci-Fi Because Nails facebook group is dinosaurs, and you know there's going to be a trove of awesome stamping designs going on in there!  Obviously the very first thing I thought of:


I'm not going to pretend to be modest here, I nailed the crap outta this one:

Dinosaur eye with HeHe 086
outdoor, afternoon sunlight

For a deep jungle green base I started with Tonic You'll Move Mountains, and for the dinosaur hide base I instead started with a stone grey crelly on my middle fingers.  The amazingly detailed velociraptor eye is from the top image on HeHe 086, part of their delightful science series of stamping plates.  Though the design is complex with very fine lines, I had no trouble picking it up on the first try.

Dinosaur eye with HeHe 086
indoor, CF lighting
The eye was stamped in black, then filled in with Esmaltes da Kelly Pleiades on the stamper head before placing it on the nail.  The leaves are from different parts of MoYou London Tropical plates 06 and 12, using Esmaltes da Kelly Carmelo and Emily de Molly green stamping polishes.

Dinosaur eye with HeHe 086
window-filtered daylight
HeHe plates are consistently fantastic and are very affordable, absolutely worth the wait on shipping from China.  Buy them directly from her here, since plenty sold on ebay or Ali Express are knock-offs with poor quality etching for the same price.

~Michelle

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