Ingrid’s favorite clover

I like simple dotticures, especially when done with one of my favorite color combinations; browish/taupe and a lighter green or minty color. This is China Glaze’s Ingrid as the base and Four Leaf Clover for the dots.

China Glaze’s Ingrid

China Glaze’s Ingrid is a lovely brownish taupe with golden shimmer. It sure had a flawless application and was opaque at two coats (according to the pictures it could use another one though, wasn’t noticable in person).

Sweet madness

I wanted  to create something that had both stamping and dotting (and a tad of painting). OPI’s Alpine Snow was used as the base and Barry M’s Pomegranate and Essie’s Mojito Madness for both the stamping and the dotting.

Gina Tricot’s Pump The Breaks

Gina Tricot’s Pump the Breaks is a lovely vibrant orange with golden shimmer. As usual with Gina Tricot’s polishes Pump the Breaks had a very good formula; very easy to apply, opaque at two coats and also dried fast.

Barry M’s Gold Mine

Barry M’s Gold Mine is a black jelly packed full of small golden glitter. This is two coats and it applied like a dream.

And nevermind the watermark in these pictures. I went through a phase of adding them to a bunch of manicures I did and well… It’s just too much work compared to the need.

 

Disturbing peridot

Wet N Wild’s purple Disturbia was used as the base for some quite subtle stamping with Chanel’s Peridot. I’ll try another stamp next time and perhaps another dark base as I quite like the toned down stamping of Peridot 🙂

I decided to be part of NailArt Sunday over at LeLack for the first time. 🙂

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Ghouls in Minsk

I wanted something toned down to put under ILoveNP’s So Ghoul and decided on Mavala’s grey Minsk. In hindsight I think So Ghoul would benefit from something lighter as underwear. Either way I like this dark glitter topper a lot.

Mavala’s Minsk

Mavala’s Minsk is a lovely warm grey with a perfect formula; easy to apply, opaque at two coats and it dries fast.

Toxic

There are certain polishes in my stash with a clear, tinted base that are perfect for layering. Many of them I’ve never tried on their own, and I have no idea why…Kleancolor’s Green With Envy is one of them. It has a yellowish green tinted base with large green hexagon glitter and smaller green glitter.

After two coats of Essie’s Spaghetti Strap as underwear I painted/dabbed two coats of Green With Envy on top. I quite like the result and doesn’t the green look toxic? 🙂

Illamasqua’s Glitterati

Illamasqua’s Glitterati is a dark raspberry (leaning on plum) jelly with a ton of small micro glitter and medium prismatic hex glitter. It needed two coats for full opacity and color depth. Unfortunately the polish looks more stunning in the bottle as usual but is by no means uninteresting on the nails.

Oh, and ignore the watermark… I went through a short phase of trying it but came to the conclusion it was too much work 😛