Monday, June 29, 2015

HOLO & FUNKY FLOWERS

Hola Chicas!

Hope you all had a great weekend. For today's Mani Monday I have one of the beloved Halo Hues topped with some colorful stamping.

What I used:


  • Color Club Harp On It; base, 2 coats.
  • MDU Black; stamping polish.
  • Pueen SE02B; stamping plate.
  • Assorted neons.
  • Seche Vite top coat.

Start off with 2 coats of Harp On It and while it dried I proceed with the stamping using the reverse stamping or advanced stamping technique. Having a couple of stampers comes in handy as you can work with them while the other dries and speed everything up. Once the decals are dry, started peeling off gently, then place the decal as desired on the nail and applied top coat, clean up and ready.

Daylight shot

Indoors shot

Here's both daylight and indoors shot. I can say it's the first time in quite some time that I really like a mani and it turns out exactly like I wanted it.

What you girls think?
Thanks for stopping by, nos vemos!

Friday, June 26, 2015

PURPLE MOSAIC

Hola chicas!

I created this mani because on my last haul I got a few polishes from Color Club's Modern Mosaic collection from 2014's spring I think, and I wanted to use them to decide if they are keepers or not. I grabbed "Love you to pieces" and "Subway station". They are very dense matte micro round glitter, 2 coats for full coverage.

What I used:

  • Franken shimmery blurple; base 1 coat. (can't even remember what I put in it to make this color)
  • Color Club "Love you to pieces"; 2 coats.
  • MDU Black; for stamping.
  • BM414
  • Seche Vite; top coat.


For the ring finger I did a decal with the same stamp and a bunch of purples. Maybe in the pics is hard to capture the effect but in person it looks rather cool and I like it very much, so it was a nice surprise how good it turned out.

I need to find another top coat as I have noticed that Seche goes dull after a few hours and I like the super shiny gel like finish.

So what do you girls think?

Hope you liked, thanks for stopping by.
Nos vemos!

Monday, June 22, 2015

TROPICAL GRADIENT

Hola Chicas,

I'm back and starting off the week with a tropical gradient that screams summer!

For the base I used 2 kleancolor polishes from their texture 3D range, it reminds me of the pixie dust; they are very pigmented and rather thick in consistency but very easy to apply and best of all, they're 1 coaters! The colors are vibrant and packed with micro glitter that gives them that "gritty" texture and also have  hex glitter in different sizes.
The texture reminded me of pineapples and so I wanted to sort of translate that and finally use my MYL Tropical plate that's been sitting on my drawers since Christmas.

What I used:


  • Kleancolor Sumer Grace; base, started off at the cuticle thru mid length.
  • Kleancolor So Cal Gal; base, mid length to tip.
  • Kleancolor Barbie Pink; dabbed on to tips with a sponge.
  • Kleancolor Neon Orange, base on ring finger.
  • MDU # 39 
  • MDU Neon Yellow
  • MYL Tropical 01
  • Winstonia W118
  • Seche Vite top coat


Below is the pic before stamping so you can appreciate at the base colors, how nicely they blend even they are textured.



I really liked how it turned out but I must say the MYL plate is not one of my favs really.

Hope you like it as well, thanks for stopping by.

Nos vemos!

Friday, June 19, 2015

POPTASTIC FLORAL MANI

Hola Hola!

Long time no see, I hope to get on track with blogging again as now I'm back and settled with new computer and wifi fixed yeeeiiii.

Let's get straight into it. Summer is now on full swing and weather here in UK has been rather nice, neons and brights all over the place but I was craving something more muted but just as colorful. I must admit I'm not loving the way the stamping looks, is not just what I envisioned in my head (yeah, everything is SO MUCH better in my head) but the base color is to die for. I would dare to say it is my fav shade of the season.

What I used:

- Color Club in Dancing Queen; base, 2 coats.
- Pueen Encore SE03B
- Caviar beads
- MDU in Pastel blue; for stamping.
- Seche Vite; top coat

Personally I think the color combo looks very nice and although the images are stamped very crisp I cannot really tell what is stamped on, at the distance looks like just a blue spot, not what I was going for. Maybe is just the image choice.
For accent I put some caviar beads at the center of each flower and that's pretty much it.



See you soon, please comment and let me know what you think.

Nos vemos!
 
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