Green, Silver and Gold Mani

Today I have a quick post to share part of a manicure I did!

Green, Silver and Gold Mani

Polishes Used:
Butter London 'Wallis'
Sally Hansen 'Silver Sweep'
Essie 'Rock at the Top'

Plate Used:
DRK Themes Enlaced

Polishes Used

I forgot to get a picture of this manicure while it was fresh, so by the time I got around to it, I had lots of tip-wear from cooking, and washing dishes! The 3 fingers I photographed were the least chipped. The other two fingers were painted similar to my pinky - solid green with a gold glitter gradient starting from the tips.

I was a little disappointed with this manicure. This is my first time using 'Wallis', and I had a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to do with it. The colour looks so amazing in the bottle, however there's very little contrast between the colour and my skin tone, so the look ends up being very neutral, and subdued on me. Unfortunately, neutral mani's aren't really my forte. I'm going to have to really work with this one to try and find interesting ways to use it in future manicures!

Purple and Gold Mani

I wanted to do a quick and easy polish change right over my previous ‘Metallic Green, Gold and Black' manicure, so I decided to design a manicure around a darker colour that would give full coverage in a coat or two. I've done this before using black, navy, and even with metallic silver, but I didn't want to use one of those options again. Enter Revlon 'Naughty': A beautiful purply-browny-grey shade that covers well in one thick coat!

Here’s the finished manicure:

Purple and Gold Mani

The colours I used were Revlon ‘Naughty’ and Sally HansenColor Foil in ‘Liquid Gold’ (one of my go-to stamping polishes).  I did the stamping with two different patterns from DRK Nails Plate DRK-A.

I've had 'Naughty' for a while, but I don’t think I've ever worn it. I really love complex colour mixes that are hard to describe in a single word. I guess that first and foremost it would be classified as a purple because of the purple flash that you see over the “purply-browny-grey” base.  The flash on my camera is making this polish look a bit lighter than it does in real life, and it also makes it appear a bit more purple because it is bringing out the purple flash in the polish.

Polishes Used

For an impromptu mani, I really like how this turned out. This is the reason that I love nail stamping so much. You can polish your nails, and then easily bump your manicure up to the next level by adding some stamped images or patterns! This simple 10 minute mani looks like something a lot more complicated and time-consuming to do. 

I've only been nail stamping for just over 10 months now, so I still find it absolutely amazing that with this simple technique, I can do beautiful home manicures on my own, in very little time! 

Navy and Silver Dot Design Mani

This has been a week of impromptu manicures!  I managed to do 4 different manicures this week. My first manicure, 'Church Themed Mani', was quite labour intensive, but the three that followed were basic stamping mani's that took very little time to do. Here's a picture of the fourth and newest manicure:

Navy and Silver Dot Design Mani

I applied another coat of Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in 'Dark Huemoor' right over my previous 'Navy Pink Ribbon Mani', and then stamped an image from my DRK Nails DRK-B plate, using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 'Silver Sweep'.

I love this image! In fact, it was the main reason that I bought this particular plate. This is actually the first time that I have used it, so I was thrilled to be able to take it off my 'untried' list!

Polishes Used

Anyways, I think that this Sunday, I will forego doing another installment of my 'Moyou London Artist Collection Design Series', as I usually do. Instead, I hope to do a special Thanksgiving Mani on either Sunday evening, or Monday morning, since (Canadian) Thanksgiving is coming up on Monday. I have quite a few Thanksgiving themed image plates that I only get to use once a year, so I'm probably going to have to do some sort of crazy skittles mani to try to use all of them in one shot! LOL!