Konad Stamp M66

I've had this design loaded in my camera for a while, it's just been needed to be downloaded to my computer from there, but of course that is the most difficult part. I've also been going through Midterms for the last couple of weeks and that has been taking up a lot of my time! 

But now I should be back to posting on a regular basis and I have a bunch of images that still need to be posted because I was still doing my nails through Midterms, I just didn't have time ot upload them or write a whole post about them. 

But now to the actual post. 

I finally used my Konad plate! And let me say that it was so much easier to use than the MASH plates, all the little lines came out perfectly the first time, I was so amazed with the difference! But I still love my MASH plates, even with their fickle-ness. 

I did stamp using m66 on both of this designs, the red design is my left hand, while the green design is right hand. 

I love the little lotus flower! It is so pretty and delicate! 

With some more practice I'm sure the cherry blossom branches would come out better.

I tried stamping twice onto my middle finger, here, and that's why it's all messed up.

Polishes Used:

Red: ORLY Moonlit Madness (Bought for around $7-8 from a local beauty salon)

Green: Sinful Colors Last Chance (Bought for $1.99 at Walgreens)

Grey: Sinful Colors Slate (Bought on sale for $.99 at Walgreens)

Revlon - Emerald

Lately I've been looking for the perfect green; just green. Nothing fancy about it, I didn't want a light green or a deep green, or shimmer or glitter. Just green. 

And I finally found it.

Revlon Emerald - this is the perfect green. It is a creme and it goes on really well. This is one of there Top Speed polishes, and it did dry really well. I did only use one coat though, when I went out into the sun, it did need two coats because I did have spots where the nail showed through. 

I got this from Walgreens for $6.50

More Greens

I've been on a green kick lately, and before the other day I had only owned one green polish! Well, now I only have three...

But today I tried something a little bit different. I layered my polishes, I didn't really know how this would turn out because I had never used the top polish before and I hadn't even looked at swatches of it before. 

Here I am wearing Sinful Colors Let Me Go and Sinful Colors Last Chance.

Last Chance - a dark, creme green that goes on very smooth. It did go on very smooth, but unfortunately I got a bottle that the brush was a little bit messed up and flared at the bottom; I am seriously considering returning it for this reason because it was difficult to apply. It went on with only one coat.

Let Me Go - it has a pearlized sheen, and actually looks purple in the bottle, but this color goes on very thin and only gives the color beneath it a kind of pearl look. It did make the dark green lighter and gave it an almost duo-tone. It did bring a yellow into the green as well, and put a little shimmer. 

When it rounds to the edges of the nails (the shadows), in some lights it almost looks deep blue but in others it still looks like the deep green that Last Chance originally was. 

(After Let Me Go is added)

I will use Let Me Go on top of more polishes to show the different effects that it has on different colors and such. 

Here is the bottle of let me go so you can see what it looks like, it definitely has a purple tone to it in the bottle, but as you can see on my nails the purple doesn't show up at all.

Sinful Colors - $.99 each (on sale Walgreens)

Avon Suede Dupe?

Using one of my Avon crackles I tried making a suede polish with it. There are a few things that I would have done differently now that I have gone through the process, just because I know how the polish works now. 

I have also never seen a suede before in person, so I don't actually know what they are supposed to look like, I'm assuming that they are just a shimmery matte.

With the polish being a crackle, I couldn't use a base coat so the ridges on my nails are a bit more pronounced. To avoid this next time, I'm going to try putting a top coat on top of the polish and then another matte top coat to get the matte finish back. And then doing this, hopefully the polish will last longer because it did start chipping off after just a few hours. 

Also, I didn't get all of my base coat off, because I generally put on a strgthening base coat on the night before and then choose my nail color and do my nails the next morning so it did end up cracking in a few places on my right hand, and showing my nails underneath. 

It also went onto my nails a bit chunky, I attribute that to it being a crackle and me not taking of my base coat all the way; either that or it might have been how quickly it dried and the fact that I had put two rather quick coats on, but it dried so quickly that when I swept the brush acrossed it had already started clumping.

I used the polish: Avon Mosaic Effects Gleaming Emerald.

I didn't get very good pictures before it chipped off... The polish is actually a deep green. I tried to get a dupe of OPI's Here Today, Aragon Tomorrow (Suede), because I do love the look of that polish, from what I've seen from swatches, but it is quite difficult to find or really expensive. 

I will swatch this polish again now that I know how it reacts, and I will get better pictures so you guys can see how it stacks up to OPI's suede. Though I don't have OPI's shade for a side by side comparrison. 

Avon - Approx. $3 (on sale Avon Booth)