#52weeknailchallenge: birds

This prompt gave me the opportunity to use a new stamping plate with bird images on it. I've been wanting to use it for a while, but now I don't know if I did it justice. Let me show you what I did.

I started with two coats of Cirque Lapis Lazuli on all my nails except my middle finger. On my middle finger I have two coats of Hean 870.

The stamp is from Moyou tropical 04 stamped with Nicole Diary black. I coloured in the birds with Lapis Lazuli, the eyes with Hean 440.

And that's that. I think that lapis lazuli may have been a little dark, or maybe I should have made the eyes a different colour. Anyway, lapis lazuli is gorgeous.

What do you think?

Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by @polishpixie92

Don't you just hate how the last Friday of the month sneaks up on you? I mean there I was laying in bed, about to continue reading my book, checking my emails and one from Michelle pops up reminding us about our Triad posts. Damn....

So here I am, no longer warm and comfortable, typing my post! Anyway, enough of that, if I finish this I might have some time left to read something.

This month was Michelle's turn and she chose something non Halloween, shock and horror right?? Our inspo is this mani done by @polishpixie92 Seems easy enough. Let me show you my version.

I started with two coats of Cirque acid wash on my index and middle finger. The rest has two coats of Catrice the sky so fly.

I then chose an image from Moyou flower power 23 and using Born Pretty navy picked the image up leaving it on my stamper. So four stampers later, I used sky so fly and painted one side of the image.

Once it was dry I rolled the image onto my nails. I then stamped the middle of the lines with BPS navy, filling in the gap. I didn't quite line it up, so don't look to closely!

What do you think? I kinda like how this turned out. Maybe I should have used some other colours too, but I didn't think of that.

Don't forget to have a look what Joyce and Michelle did, I bet they totally nailed it. Even with Joyce doing a midnight mani.

Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by Joyce

Its that time of the month again for our Triad. This month it was my turn to choose and I chose this by Joyce herself. She's been having such a tough time with her renovations and what not I was hoping this would improve her mood slightly. And not to mention that the inspo is gorgeous.

Let me show you what I did. This gave me an excuse to use Cirque pebble again! Not that we need an excuse. I have two coats on my thumb, index and middle finger. On my ring finger I have two coats of Pahlish golden snidget. On my pinky two coats of China Glaze central parka.

I then used some sharpies vinyls from becauseishop on my miracle mat to make the chevrons for my middle finger. I used Ulta3 black satin for my black. I wanted to stamp these... But I wasn't sure how it would turn out. So my lines are a little thick but oh well.

On my ring finger I stamped an image from Lina let's doodle! 3 with Nicole Diary black.

I love how this turned out. I decided to go with the recreate option this time, especially since I love the original so much.

What do you think? Do head on over to see Joyce's original and give Michelle some love! Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by Olga (@son_nail)

It's that time again! I can't believe we at the end of another month. I wonder how many Triad posts we have done already...

So this month it was my turn and I chose this mani done by @son_nail. I had loads of floral and negative space looks saved as inspiration, but I didn't want to do floral and not everyone likes negative space... So I chose the least offensive one! 

I started with two coats of Cirque Colors pebble on my thumb, index and middle finger. My pinky has one coat of Sorbet chic me baby.

On my ring finger I have two coats of a random HD polish. The aztec design (thanks Mich)(now you know where it's from), is decals from Aliexpress.

The leaves I stamped with Munde de Unas caramel from Lina Summer 2. So whilst doing this, I realised that I can't place decals in a straight line.... Even when I use my clear stamper!! 

I do like how this turned out, but I don't love it... It doesn't quite grab me like the original did. I think I should have used a different colour on my ring finger. What do you think?

Head on over to Joyce and Michelle to see how they totally rock this!

Thanks for reading!

Friday Triad: Inspired by @hannys_manis

I'm so so sorry, this post is a little late!! I realised yesterday that it's due today and then I went and got sick.... The plan was to do the post last night but I couldn't keep my eyes open!

It's that time of the month where we pick mani's for inspiration and see what we can do. This month it was my turn and I chose this mani by @hannys_manis. The moment I saw this I knew I wanted to use Cirque pebble with it.

I started wit two coats of pebble on my thumb, index and middle finger. My ring and pinky has two coats of OPI don't touch my tutu!. The chevron stamp is from BP-L006 and I stamped it with mundo de unas old pink.

For the flowers I used eseence I still believe in Santa Claus as my stamping polish and an image from BP-73. I coloured them in with tip top heartbreaker and moyra SP16. The leaves I coloured in with essence play with my mint and toy apple smoothie.

Of course I had to mattify it and I love it even more!!

What do you think? I totally love love this. Pop over to Michelle and Joyce and see what they did!!

Thanks for reading and sorry again for the late post!!