Cracked Mirrors

Hello lovelies!

I actually love what I am currently wearing on my nails. I'm fairly new to stamping; I purchased my first set of plates/stamper/scraper just after Christmas, but I'm quite pleased with how these turned out.

Half Moon Street is a beautiful, highly pigmented, shimmery cerise, which was pretty much flawless in one coat. It does stain though, just look at my cuticle on my ring finger! (I think I need to get some pure acetone for clean up/cleaning my plates) As you can see, Bond Street Lights is a perfect stamping polish, too.

The image is from BM-208 and kind of reminds me of a cracked mirror or something. I like it!

Holographic Zebra

Hello!

Today's mani is one that I did for a group I'm part of on Facebook, Adventures in Stamping. This week's challenge was to do a mani using a plate ending in the number 3. I only had three plates to choose from because I'm fairly new to stamping, and only have the second Bundle Monster set, but I had a look through them and couldn't resist using this one:

The polishes I used were M&S Rainbow for the base, GOSH's Black Passion for the image and China Glaze's Fairy Dust over the top. The image is from Bundle Monster's BM-223 plate. Annoyingly, my thumb nail was a smidge too long for the image, but it's not too noticeable in person!

In all honesty, most of the time this looks like zebra print over silver polish, with some fine holo glitter over the top; it's only when in direct sunlight that you can really see the holo from Rainbow coming through. I still think it's pretty though, and I think I'll be re-creating this mani again at some point. Can't go wrong with a bit of zebra print! ;)