Showing posts with label emily de molly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emily de molly. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 September 2015

Monday, 15 September 2014

31 Day Challenge, Day 15 - Delicate Print

Day 13 - I hurried through this so I could go to bed, to be honest. Not much to say, I did some stamping for this one. Stamping is great for delicate designs.

I used Dance Legend's thermo polish 178 for this. I'm pretty warm so no thermo effect is visible, but I've loved their other thermo polishes - definite hits in winter. The polish has a nice dusty pearl effect without topcoat, but with topcoat it looks like a shimmery creme.

Stamping is Emily de Molly plate EMD09.



Tuesday, 9 September 2014

Emily de Molly EDM08 - 31 Day Challenge - Day 8 - Metallic stamping

I was lucky enough to win a set of Emily de Molly's new stamping plates, and they arrived today! So it was easy to choose what to do for today's challenge - I was so excited to get stuck in to EDM08, with its beautiful ancient Egyptian themed images.


The images stamped very well, with nice crisp transfers. The only image I had a little trouble with was the heiroglyphics, because the lines are so thin, but as you can see with a little care they came up wonderfully as well. I'm impressed because thin lines like this often just come out as a hot mess, but I got a very clean stamp from the image.

I used an unnamed gold polish from Blush-amour, a polish which I was given as a young teenager. It's a bit gloopy but still trucking, and has a nice old gold look to go with the Egyptian theme.




A past manicure that I've done would also fit the challenge well - silver hexagon stud nail armour! Check it out, I really liked that look.


Sunday, 18 May 2014

Illamasqua's Seance with stamping from Emily de Molly's EMD03 plate

I was looking at some of the stamping manicures people had done using Emily de Molly's plate EDM03, and I saw that Bettina's Nails had done a pretty cool version where she'd double-stamped over UV polish. It looked so great, I decided to do a variation.

Coincidentally I was already wearing a UV reactive polish, Illamasqua's Seance. It's a lovely purple polish, great flow, self-leveling, which dries to a slightly satin finish. Adding topcoat brings out the slight silver sparkle in it. Unfortunately I don't have a black light, so no photos of it glowing.


I then stamped in white and black over the purple, although I used two different designs from the plate. And done! I really like the effect, so I'll have to keep it in mind for the future.