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:
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.
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.
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.
Just a quick weekend fun mani today. A friend had invited me to go check out a band last night, and while that fell through on both our parts, I still managed to squeak in time for a flash rock-star paint job. This is not the first time i've used a England's flawless Perceval for dramatic nail-art undies, nor will it be the last. I swear, this one has got to be one of my "desert island" polishes (not that nail polish would be the first survival essential one would plan for, ahem). I used some plain ol' scotch tape to stick on some diagonal stripes from ~1/3 down one side of my nail to the opposite tip corner, then layered on Sally Hansen's Sterling Silver Color Foil. The edges aren't as crisp as I'd like on some nails, since I ended up needing to do 2 coats of the silver, which meant that the tape jagged the partially-dry silver when i peeled it up. Oh well, I still had awesome semaphore android fingers. Same application tips ap...
After my peel-off fiasco left me with 2 split nails, I immediately reached for Orly's Nail Rescue kit, which I've used on many occasions to solve these issues. Nail Rescue comes in a box that contains this small bottle of cyanoacrylate glue with an extremely convenient polish brush in the cap and a little jar of acrylic powder - yes, kids, you're going to make yourself a little patch of fake acrylic nail. Spoiler alert: this system is utterly genius, and WAY longer lasting than any tea bag patch. As a refresher, this was my problem. Shown here is the split on my thumb, but in the rest of the pics, I'll be fixing my middle finger on my cinderella hand, which had a split just as bad, but much trickier to photograph without whackadoo contortions. Fortunately, both of these splits hadn't caught on anything yet, and therefore weren't bent out of place. In other words, this fix kit works best as soon as you notice a break problem, not after it's got...
For my first new mani of this year, I went straight for one that was on so many people's best of 2016 lists, China Glaze Pearl Jammin'. This lovely lady sold out super quick, and for a while was going for INSANE prices on ebay, but I found one at normal retail price on Amazon. indoor, bright CF lighting for both Pearl Jammin' is a greyed sky-blue base packed with warm coppery shimmer that's thankfully just as beautifully flashy on the nail as it is in the bottle. The formula is a little squirrely, the sort that's both slightly too thin and yet dries so fast that it gets gummy if you go over the same area twice. 3 coats are needed for even coverage with the sorta thin/sheer formula, but that's the price to pay for having the shimmer this bright, and all minor irregularities smooth out perfectly with a layer of topcoat. I stamped my accent nails with the cute dreamcatcher image on BM-407 using Hit the Bottle Copper Haired Girl. Then we promptly had...
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