#OMD3: Under the Sea & twinsie post with Michelle

I hope everyone has been keeping well... I haven't posted this week and in a way I feel guilty. It's just that I have been feeling so exhausted. I'm used to the dark circles under my eyes most of the times, but lately I'm a bit of a shock to myself.

Anyway, I ended up torturing myself again with this post. It would seem I'm a sucker for punishment, because it's twinsie time again with Michelle... And I totally sucked ass with this prompt. I feel that almost everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. I'm not gonna point out what went wrong, I'll leave it up to you to figure that part out.

I started with two coats of L.A Girl 3D effects Brilliant Blue. It's a beautiful polish, but not the kinda holo that I want... It's not the blue that's holo, it's the flakies. And I want the blue to be holo. If that makes sense.

Once it was dry (and after having bumped my nails), I stamped images off plate BP-L017. I stuck to the images that looked "under the sea". I really like the jellyfish, makes me think of Dory in Finding Nemo, "I will name him Squishy and he will be my squishy"... Something along those lines.

Besides that I had him stamped in pink over the algae looking plants on my ring finger, I think he's cute. That what you can see...

I used my essence stampy polish in white for all of the stamping. And let me tell you, it's difficult stamping with white when your stamper is white and you can't see if the image picked up properly.

This was also done in a bit of a rush, as I haven't had a off day since last Monday.

I'm hoping Michelle had some trouble with this prompt (sorry Mich), but at this moment I feel totally inadequate...Even though I had some people say they liked my nails and I'm thinking "Suuuuuure, wait until you know what it's SUPPOSED to be." Don't forget to pop over to give Michelle some luuurve. :D

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#OMD3: Love

This post was originally to show you the beautiful Hean #220. But I decided to double it up as the Love prompt for the Oh Mon Dieu nail challenge.

This two coats of #220, now Strawberry Surprise. As we've come to expect from all of the Hean's so far, they dry super quick and is very shiny.

I actually did something else with this colour, which was a total fail. 

I then decided on this and when I saw the prompts for the OMD3, I knew I had to use this for Love.

On my middle finger I have two coats of Ordinary Misfit. I did some double stamping there, I stamped the fleur de lis design from BP-L016 with Strawberry Surprise and then the kissing couple with my black stampy polish.

On my index finger I stamped with Tip Top Red Rendezvous and on my pinky with my black stampy polish. Both images from BP-L012.

On my ring finger I used Tip Top Red Rendesvouz again and an image from BP-L013. So does this seem lovey enough?

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#OMD3: Cat

Oh man, am I glad this week is half way done... It's going to be a long one as there is a possibility that Eid is Friday and we will only be 5 people managing a 12 doctor practice. Sounds like fun, right? Either that or my sense of what fun is, is completely twisted. Let's just go with twisted... Hehe

Anyway, today is day 15 of the Oh Mon Dieu nail challenge and the prompt is cat. Again, a couple of ideas floated around in my mind, none of which came to fruition. So I opted for something simple.

I started with two coats of Tip Top Broken Soul.

Broken Soul is a beautiful lilac, slightly darker than Tip Top Fairy Dust. Once that was dry I added cat decals I got from BPS.

The star studs I got from Gael. She was kind enough to give it to me the last time I visited her. They were sent to her by BPS, can't exactly remember why, but I'm glad she gave them to me. Thanks Gael!!

This was actually a fun mani, people kept noticing it and saying they liked it. It also came out that a colleague has a mug at work that has a cat like this on it. And we couldn't figure out why the damn cat looked so familiar! Haha

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#OMD3: Leaves

It's kinda weird posting on a Saturday... There was a time that I posted on Sundays, but I've changed my schedule. Still it's Saturday and it feels wrong. Anyway, the reason for today's post is the Oh Mon Dieu challenge. Day 11 is leaves and how difficult can it be with great stamping plates?

I started with 3 coats of Hean #225 (Mojito Madness) on all my fingers. Kinda odd that the swatch Michelle did required only 2 coats to be opaque, but I needed 3. Anyway, once that was dry, I used the 'dry brush' technique on my middle finger.

I used Tip Top Liquid Envy and Lazy Lizard. I used stamping plate BP-L015 for the leave pattern on my middle finger and the leaves on my index... I made a stamping decal with BP-L001 for my ring finger. I used Nubar Conserve for all the stamping. Conserve was a bday gift from Michelle and it's a beautiful colour and it stamps amazingly well.

I used Liquid Envy and Lazy Lizard to colour in the decal I made for my ring finger. I kinda like how this came out. You can't see much of the dry brush though and BF thinks that's because my colours are to close to each other. Oh well... Guess I'll have to try it again sometime...

Excuse the white flecks on my fingers... I was trying out a new liquid palisade, nail barrier thing and it probably wasn't the best time to try it. It is crap, seriously. My right hand still has patches of this stuff on my nails and it won't come off. It'll probably come off when I remove my mani. I think it took me longer to try and get this shit of my hand than what the actual manicure did. How sad, right?

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