Black and Gold Tribal

I used some more of my stamping plates here, and I did actually have a hard time finding a polish that would show up on top of black, so I just stuck with my gold polish. And even that didn't really show up all that well before I put on a matte top coat, the gloss from the Seche Vite really hid the details of the design. (As you can see in the first picture)

The first picture is of my hand, because the image actually came out a little crooked. I did line it up straight but when I stamped it the stamp came down crooked onto my nail, but I actually like that lineup better than it being straight on. But I had already done my left hand.. And I didn't really feel like doing it over. 

I still need to work on placement and getting the stamp straight on my nails. 

Also, my nails are too short, so this whole stamp image didn't fit on my nails. I kind of wish that it was either smaller so it would fit, or my nails were longer.. Lol 

(Image Used)

Seche Vite Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Matte Topcoat

Polished Used:

Wet n Wild Fast Dry - Ebony Hates Chris

Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear - Golden-I 

Hard Candy Matte Topcoat

Plate Used:
MASH 47

Wet n Wild I got from Walgreens for about $2, Sally Hansen I got from Walgreens as well for about $2.50 and the Hard Candy topcoat I got from Walmart for $4.00

And Seche Vite topcoat I got from Amazon.

Wet n Wild Purple and Blue

I just got these polishes the other day and absolutely fell in love! 

I was actually quite surprised to see such a developed, by this I mean the duo-chrome/color they had, polish for only 93 cents each! 

The polishes I got were Wet n Wild Wild Card and Wet n Wild Rain Check. 

Beautiful colors! And I almost passed them up too. 

I actually have quite a few polishes from Wet n Wild's Wild Shine Collection, all of these colors from this collection I would highly recomend because of the tendency to have that chrome finish for such an inexpensive polish. 

But anyway, back to THESE polishes! Love at first sight. 

Wild Card - This polish is so hard to describe, the name is so fitting here. The best I can say is that it is kind of a mauve-ish purple with a pink shimmer. It does look pink in some lighting, but for the most part it is that lavender/mauve/purple(? Most bloggers I've read say lavender). It did take three coats however to get full opacity, the first was barely visable. It did have a good formula though it wasn't too thick and it didn't dry too fast, becoming tacky. And! Amazing, it was not streaky, which I was expecting from this chrome-finish polish.

I also did a little design on top of this with the blue that I was talking about above:

Rain Check.

Rain Check is a beautiful blue with a heavy silver/grey undertone. There is also a bit of a purple tone in this polish. This one was only a two coater, but other than that it had the same formula and also did not have any streaks at all. 

For the silver here, I used silver acrylic paint and a striping brush. My first time ever doing free hand painting like this! That's why it looks so horrible. Lol. Except for my thumb, and that's why I had to show it off. 

With matte finish

I also put a matte finish over this in the end, and I must say that I love these colors matted! 

Though they do look great both ways. 

I used Hard Candy Matte-Ly In Love which I got from Wal-mart for $4.00 

What do you think?

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)