dashica big sdp - u and gradient

for this one i used opi - my vampire is buff for my base color.  i then sponged butter london - cheeky chops, china glaze - snap my dragon, and china glaze bizarre blurple.  once dried i stamped with an image from dashica's big sdp - u plate.  excuse the lint from cotton on the plate. 

i'm really happy with the gradient, it's probably the best one i've ever done.  i did dampen the sponge, i hadn't tried that with previous gradients, so that has to be what made the difference.

butter london water marble

just going to do a few quick posts today of manicures i've had on my camera for this month.

this one was with all butter london's and cult nails - nevermore. opi - my vampire is buff was used as the base color.

the butter london polishes spread almost perfectly on the water.  if i ever redo this combo i'll do it with less black.  it kinda overtook everything more than what i was hoping. 

again, no great cleanup, my lazy ass hasn't gotten out to get a new cleanup brush yet :(

ozotic 904 matte

this turned out to be a pretty cool effect.

hopefully it'll last the weekend at work.  sigh.  work.

enchanted polish - igor

so i started out doing a manicure with this using china glaze's new 'cast a spell' from their wicked collection.  my seche vite must have been too thick because it never dried all the way and i messed up the manicure when i took a shower. 

it was pretty, but you couldn't see all of the tiny black glitter going on with igor that you can see with this combo.  i didn't get any white glitter out of the bottle, but that's fine.  i guess i need to flip the bottle an let it sit before i use this one again to let the white hexes sink to where i can grab them.

when i got home from work i decided to go ahead and re-do it.  i used butter london trustafarian as my base.  this is a slightly holo sage green color.  it's beautiful on its own.

igor...i love this.  then again, what enchanted polish don't i love?  it's another from the falloween collection.

i used 2 coats of trustafarian, 2 of igor, 1 coat of glitter food, 1 coat of gelous and 1 coat of seche vite...after i refilled my bottle >.<

this turned out glass-smooth.  love it.

i had to cut my nails way down.  after the one cracked a few weeks ago they've felt weird being slightly different lengths.  the ends were getting thin anyhow, so it was time for a trim.

manipulative stamped

last week my stamping plates from llarowe had arrived at my parents.  there was a bit of a wait with them, but that's fine.  i'll gladly wait for some epic nail mail ;)  in the same package was a lot of the new picture polish colors as well as some pretty and polished and 2 of the new enchanted polish colors.  i have a package waiting to be picked up at the post office with the other new enchanted polishes i was able to grab.  pics of those will be posted once i have everything.

with this manicure i used cult nails manipulative, stamped with the hits stamping polish carried by ninja polish.  i picked up a couple of colors of that when i bought their facets collection.   the stamping polish is awesome, really pigmented so picking up the color wasn't a problem.

these stamping plates are the best things i've tried so far.  i do have a set of the bundle monster plates, however with my nails being longer they've never really worked when i've tried them.  also their etching seems to be not as deep as the images on llarowe's plates.

when i first got these i tried out 10 different stamps just for the hell of it.  my nails looked like a mess with nothing matching and stamping a green over a hot pink, but i couldn't wait to get home from my parent's to try an actual manicure.  

i somehow smudged my ring finger on my left hand...totally my fault while stamping.  the stamper and the image plates are perfect.  i also like that llarowe is selling a plastic scraper and not a metal one like the konad one i have to use with my BM plates.  if you're not careful the plates will get scratched with the metal.

on to the pics...