Camo Mani

I've been wanting to do a camouflage manicure for ages. Now that we are in to September, and we're starting to see more fall clothing and fall colours I figured that now would be the perfect time to try the look out!

Blue and Gold Key Mani

Today's manicure continues my recent habit of quick and easy 'minute manis'. I like the finished look, but there really isn't a whole lot to say about it. As a result, I think I'll make this blog post quick and easy to match!

Polishes Used	Plate Used
Deborah Lippmann ‘On the Beach’	Vivid Lacquer Plate VL028
Sally Hansen Color Foil ‘Liquid Gold’

Cream Knit Mani

Today I have a quick and easy nail stamping manicure to share with you.



Cream Knit Mani

To achieve this look, I used Vivid Lacquer plate VL004 for the stockinette stitch pattern on all of my fingers except my ring finger.  For the ring finger, I used Winstonia plate W120 for the Nordic fair isle star pattern.

When I first saw this Vivid Lacquer plate I knew I had to have it. I love knitting and I love nail stamping - so this plate was perfect for me!  I bought it in the summer, so I never really had the urge to try it out until now that we're in sweater season.

Polishes Used

The nail polishes I used for this look were Essie's 'Urban Jungle', which served as the base colour, and for the stamping polish I used China Glaze's 'Release' from the limited edition 'The Giver' Collection. I chose these polishes because I wanted to use two colours that would give a realistic shadow effect when paired together.

I can't get over just how realistic the Vivid Lacquer knitting pattern looks on the nail! In real life, looking at this manicure from a couple feet away gives a bit of a trompe l'oeil effect. It almost looks like a thin, tiny swatch of knitted fabric has been placed on my nails!  Of course the effect would be a little more realistic with a matte topcoat, but for this manicure I chose this image more for the pattern, and not so much for the effect.  Now that I see how realistic it can look, perhaps I'll try it again with different colours and a matte top coat.

Pink and White Pink Ribbon Mani

A few posts ago, I did a 'Navy Pink Ribbon Mani' in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In that post, I mentioned that I wanted to do yet another, more traditional, pink ribbon mani later in the month. Well, I finally got around to doing it!

Here is the finished manicure:

Pink and White Pink Ribbon Mani

The polishes I used were:
OPI polishes 'Mod About You', and 'The Power of Pink' from the 'Pink of Hearts' 2014 Duo
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in 'Presto Pink'
China Glaze 'White on White'
Konad Special Polish in White

OPI 'Pink of Hearts' 2014 Duo

The image plates I used were:
Bundle Monster plate BM-321 (full nail design on my thumb)
Vivid Lacquer plate VL 001 (pink ribbon on my middle finger)
Moyou London Hipster Collection plates 05 and 06 (plaid print on index and pinky fingers)

I also used a few nail art rhinestones in various shades of pink on my thumb

Pink and White Pink Ribbon Mani - Left Thumb

I really like how this manicure turned out. I especially like the pink plaid! I followed the same double stamping technique that I used for the 'Clueless Inspired' yellow plaid manicure that I did a couple months ago. I'm totally enamoured with the plaid designs on the Moyou London Hipster plates, and I can see myself using these quite often as parts of future 'skittles' manicures.

As for what's coming up on the horizon, I'm going to postpone the Moyou London Artist Collection Design Series for a bit, as I have a few Halloween ideas I'd like to do before October is through. I may only be able to do one Halloween manicure, as there are only 5 days left in the month, and really like the mani I just created, so I hope to wear it for at least a day or two! We'll see what I can squeeze in. Since Halloween is on a Friday this year, I guess I can sort of count the weekend as part of it, which gives me a full week to work with!