Hi Everyone Happy Hump Day! This day did not start out well at all. The city is on a boil advisory where I work due to a power outage and something about the psi level and blah blah blah. Needless to say no water means NO COFFEE in the morning! OMG it was like fate worse than death around there for awhile. Thankfully I survived and am totally prepared for tomorrow. I will be making my Caramel Chaos at home and bring a delicious thermos of it with me to enjoy tomorrow morning LOL.
Awhile ago I got some really awesome stamping polishes to review for Girly Bits. Being an avid stamper I was thrilled when Pam asked me if I would review her new stamping polishes. While there are lots of indies out there making nail polish there are only a handful making stamping polishes.
Some people wonder if they are the same as regular nail polish or are they truly different. I would say with Mundo de Unas those are strictly stamping polishes, they are too thick to wear as a regular polish. Some of the other indies such as Hit The Bottle and M Polish you could definitely wear as both the polish and the stamping polish. Same here with Girly Bits while they are intended to use for stamping they are thin enough to wear as a regular polish or use as a gradient. Pam made both metallic colors and cremes. Personally I am a creme girl but when I saw the bottle of British Racing Green she sent me I almost died. It is a gorgeous metallic shimmer Forest Green. I just love it!
I thought for quite some time what I could wear it with and then BAM March hit and I was like YASSSS some Celtic nails are perfect for March. Well really they are perfect for any time especially if you love those designs and images and I truly do.
I hauled out an oldie but goodie Catrice Genius In A Bottle and then stamped with the British Racing Green with my FUN 13 plate. It is pretty dang stunning if I do say so myself!
First up I'm going to post the bottle shots so you can see what I'm talking about
It's quite lovely
I had forgotten all about my Genius In A Bottle
Just a fantasic duochrome with it's golden bronze to green shift
sooooo pretty!
I think these colors were meant for each other
I had absolutely no trouble stamping with Girly Bits British Racing Green. I used the crystal stamper I bought from Girly Bits to stamp this image and it was so easy to line up and get the center of the image lined up on the center of each nail. The best part--if you make a mistake you can pull the image off with masking tape! I love stamping polishes that do that!
Girly Bits has several stamping polishes available in addition to the crystal stamper, stamping plates and some awesome nail polishes as well as treatments and base and topcoats. Exceptional products, exceptional customer service. If you haven't yet check them out please do so HERE
It's been warm here for the past 2 days so I really should be thinking about some Spring mani's but right now I can't get off my Celtic kick!
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Hi Everyone!!! Hope you are all having a great day! My lazing around and being unproductive lasted a day--today I'm back at it already. I got up at 7 am and cleaned the kitchen, bathroom and livingroom--okay the livingroom isn't THAT clean as I still have bottles of nail polish on the floor that need to get put away into the melmers LOL! BUT kitchen and bathroom are done. I got some great nail mail the past couple of days so I definitely want to play around with the colors I got and see if I can come up with something super cool and of course next week is Digit-al Dozen week so I need to start preparing for that as well!
Today's theme for The Adventures In Stamping facebook group challenge is plate ending in 8. I scoured the many I have and was happy to find a PUEEN image I could use! The real beauty in this mani is by far the base color! My friend Jen had a sale getting of some stuff that just wasn't her aka wasn't a holo polish (LOL!) and I snagged 3 lovelies beauties from her. Seriously Jen is cray cray giving up what she did but her loss is SO my gain!
Today my stamping is PUEEN08 over Catrice's Heavy Metallilac it is a gorgeous metallic purple!
I've never had a more "glowing' purple before!
My only complaint about this mani would be the fact a squishy stamper distorts images so my checkerboards are curved :(
If you fall in love with the color and then are sad you can't get Catrice here--never fear! Ninja Polish is carrying this color right now!
I honestly had something completely different in mind for today's mani--I'm so glad this came to me at the last minute!
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Hi Everyone!! ooooh I've been super busy and from what I'm told at work it's not going to get any better! Thankfully it's only going to last about a month. I'm trying to think of mani's I can wear that might last a few days OR something quick and easy.
I've really been into mattes lately. I don't know what it is either because when they whole matte look first came out I thought--ug, how ugly. Now all of a sudden I am loving mattes! I prefer my suedes over any matte because of their shimmer, BUT our challenge in AIS a couple weeks ago was something matte and my friend Malinka did a matte over a duo chrome and I loved it!
I got a lovely bottle of Catrice Genius In A Bottle from my wonderful friend Biance AGES ago so I decided to matte it and see what would happen
Gloriousness that's what happened!!!!
This is a shot in the shade-- I tried to capture the duochrome but it was rather difficult
This is a shot of it in the light and OMG so lovely!
Yes I am in love with duochromes matted! The pigment in duochrome polishes is full of shimmer and it's just so gorgeous matted.
Of course I couldn't stop there!
I stamped over it with my DRK-A plate!
I really love how this looks. These last two shots are in the shade.
But here it is in the light
Wow I just love how this looks!!!
I'm definitely going to try these colors together again with a different image too
How do you feel about matte?? Are you loving it, hating it--not really thinking about it one way or another?
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