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Greetings dear readers!
I'm so excited to show you today's manicure:
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I say it's patriotic as yesterday (30th November), when I wore this, was St Andrew's Day. St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland and our flag is blue and white therefore my colours were very apt :-)
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I started with a base of No48 by Easy Paris. Although the name features the word easy, application was anything but. I had to apply four coats and each one was more difficult than the last to apply. It was such a mess I had to double stamp in order to cover it up.
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First I stamped animal stripes using Bundle Monster plate BM223 and Miss Sporty silver. I didn't want this to feature prominently in my manicure but I wanted my patchy white base to be covered up and lifted.
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I then stamped using Midnight Sapphire by Boots 17 and my favourite floral image from BM224.
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Here's a close-up so you can see the silver stamping more clearly.
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What do you think girls?
Bye for now,
Laura
This is sooo gorgeous!!!! Wonderful manicure. This also reminds me of Dutch art. My grandmother came to Canada from Holland, and a lot of the art is done in blue and white too. Lovely! :D
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I nominated you for the Nail Art Friendly Blog award. :D
ReplyDelete(Sorry to link to my blog, but I wanted to show you the page: http://artevolve.blogspot.com/2011/11/thank-you-nail-reflections-d.html)
I take it that the white polish isn't your favourite one, then! :D
ReplyDeleteThe silver stripes is a very good idea, it looks subtle but pretty.
It looks so amazing! :)
ReplyDeleteVery pretty!
ReplyDeleteIt's so pretty and I love how the silver peeks through.
ReplyDeletethis reminds me a lot of traditional dutch china!
ReplyDelete@Ashesela, thanks! I know the art you mean, I was kind of aiming for something resembling "Delftware" :-) And thank you so much for the award!
ReplyDelete@Rainbowify Me, ha, well I bought it abroad for about 60cents so I can't really complain I suppose.
@Anja, aw, thank you!
@Polish and Charms, thanks :-)
@Sandra, thanks! The silver is subtle but does the trick I think.
@daisychain, I'm glad I was able to transfer the idea in my head to my nails :-)
I think this looks like that pottery that has these two colors to it!!! I am loving this a lot!!!
ReplyDeleteFingers, thanks! I love your enthusiastic response :-)
ReplyDeleteI love them!! So fricken cute!!!!
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