Bundle Monster Contest: Half of My Heart is on Deployment

I entered the Bundle Monster nail art contest to win their new set of nail stamping plates. You can vote for anyone and everyone you like, once per day, from now until the 20th, by giving them a thumbs up on the contest page. Above is my entry photo, under Megan Rhoads so you can find me.

Please vote for me every day!

I'm super excited and really want to win, so click the link above to vote :). Remember you can vote for anyone you like each day, even if it's everyone.

On to the details of the manicure! I started by making a base that looks like Navy camo by sponging different colors together. Zoya Kelly was my first color, my palette to sponge on top of.

Then came Color Club Sheer Disguise. I have no idea why I keep coming back to this one. It must be awesome, because I don't even like blue much lol!

Next came China Glaze First Mate, the perfect navy blue.

Finally was Zoya Dove, a light gray creme.

After a topcoat of Seche Vite to make it dry quickly and even out the surface, it was perfect! It even brought out the colors and made it look instantly brighter. See how it looks kinda like the camo? That is the hat he wears to work. I have it hanging on his side of the bed on the bed post while he's gone.

After I had my camo base, I moved on to the stamping! I used Bundle Monster plates 2, 8, 9, and 12. Thank you to Miss Monkey for letting me borrow them to make sure I could enter the contest! I ordered my own recently, so now I have my own set too :D.

Here are my thumb stubs. I like both of them in ways. I think the left one would have been perfect if I had placed the kiss a little more up and to the right, so it overlapped the word less. And the hearts on the right one are super...not in the right place lol. The red wasn't showing up at all by itself on my semi-dark background, and I had to use red, so I tried doing it over white. As you can see above that worked well....most of the time.

For this manicure I used in order:
Orly Nailtrition (Used about 3 times now and liking it)
Zoya Kelly (dark gray)
A sponge paint brush thing that I found for super cheap. Just like at a hardware store.
Color Club Sheer Disguise (light blue)
China Glaze First Mate (navy blue)
Zoya Dove (light gray)
Seche Vite Quick Dry Topcoat
Bundle Monster plates 2, 8, 9, and 12
Konad Special Polish in White and Red
Diamond Cosmetics Silver Brocade (on chain and anchor)
Orly SecNDry

Voila!!

New Bundle Monster Series!

So if you haven't heard by now, Bundle Monster is coming out with a whole new series of nail stamping plates. What makes BM so awesome is you get a ton of plates for an amazing price. The first set was 21 plates for $17.99! Compare that to a Konad plate for $6.99 each. Like with any nail stamping plate, you may not like every single design on one plate. BM makes that easier though because with so many you're bound to like a whole lot. And the rest just help you paint outside the box and do really fun collages of stamping. You can see great images of all the BM plates from series one on My Latest Obsession's blog to see if you like them enough to get them :D. I still don't have the first series and can't decide for sure if I should get it. I definitely want the new series though! Here are the sneak peeks that have been revealed so far on the BM Facebook page:

Pretty awesome huh? There will be 21 plates and the set will cost $21.99. There are a lot of improvements between the new series and series 1. Many of the new features improved upon the specific reasons why I didn't buy them the first time around. The plates will now have a backing to reduce sharpness, the plastic cover is more visible and easier to remove, there are many more full nail and tip designs, the images are all new and none are copies from series 1, and the full nail designs will be bigger! Here is a pic from their page where they compared a plate for series 1 (top) with series 2 (bottom) so you can see the difference in full nail design size.

What do you think? Do you have series 1? Was it totally worth it or not so much? If you don't have it why not (my reason is not many full nail designs and they aren't big enough anyway)? Are you going to get the new set?