Persistently Glittery: a-england princess tears stamping.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Mismatched muted mani - My favourite things!

So after my awful splatter fail, I did a mismatched mani which basically consists of all the things I like to do best on my nails - Bows with little heart rhinestones, pink with gret, one glitter nail and stripes! This is my nail zen.

Ahhh that's better :)

I used:

Thumb:

China Glaze - For Audrey

Forefinger:

A-england - Iseult

A-england- excalibur

Middle Finger:

Chick Nails - Gr8 Grey Owl

A-england - Iseult

China Glaze - White on White

Models Own - Pink Blush

Ring Finger:

China Glaze - Full Spectrum

Little Finger

Zoya - Cho

Models Own - Pink Blush

I used Full Spectrum from the CG Prismatics collection which I 'accidentally' bought all of... whoops. They're AMMAZING! When I have time I'll try and do swatches of all of them.

What do you think of this? I like the muted tones.

Thanks so much for looking

Aimee x

Monday, March 12, 2012

Purple Crumpet Fairy Spring Challenge Day 16 - Spring Gradient

Okay first an apology. My cuticles are revolting! I have been working so hard on my studies that I've been neglecting them a bit and it shows. Secondly, My clean up is AWFUL. My clean up brush died and I haven't yet got a new one. So I'm really sorry.

Today's challenge is spring gradient. I didn't want to do a sponged gradient, so I decided to do a stamping gradient instead. This is the first time I've tried it and I'm quite pleased with how it turned out!

I also added some tiny blue bullion to the little flowers which I really like.

The purple is A-england - Guinevere over which I've stamped with A-england - Princess Tears (I initially wrote princess teats and giggled about it for a good ten minutes!). I LOVE the effect! It's so subtle. The light is rubbish here at the moment so I couldn't capture it well enough but I definitely suggest you give it a go because the effect is awesome! The image is from my beloved Dashica SDP A plate which I cannot stop using! I LOVE IT SO! Okay enough waffle... PICTURES!