Swatch: Maybelline Color Show - Cool Blue 651

Colour: Light Blue
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: One coats
Brush Type: Flat and wide
How Much? 7ml

Going through my polish collection I did see that Maybelline Cool Blue looks similar to other polishes.

Barry M - Blueberry Ice Cream

A slight shade lighter

George @Asda - Smarty Pants

 Smarty Pants is more of a green than a blue

GOT: Textured Nails

I used Barry M's Countess from October 2013, A England's Sleeping Palace from August 2013 and A England's Ascalon from July 2013.

For these nails I began by doing a gradient with A England Ascalon and Sleeping Palace. This turned out to be a very subtle gradient. I then added some striping tape and used Barry M's textured Countess over the top of the striping tape and then I removed the tape revealing the pattern below.

A England - Sleeping Palace

A England - Ascalon

Barry M - Countess

Striping Tape

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Purple, Red and Green #2

This is the second of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Purple, Red and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use: NYX - Purple Ink, Ciate - Dangerous Affair and Barry M - Guava.

Polishes Used:
NYX - Purple Ink

Ciate - Dangerous Affair

Barry M - Guava

Striping Tape

Nails: Black and White Leopard

W7 - Black
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 221

Sunday Stamping: Spring

What is more Spring like than pastels and cute animals. I used the stamping decal method to get the colours in the animal faces.

Base Polish: Pretty Quirky - The Hitcher
Stamping Polish: Nails Inc - New York Noir
Stamping Plate: Konad S10

Other Polishes Used: 
Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
ELF - Fire Coral
La Femme - Grey Cream
Color Club - Amost Famous

Stamping Plate: QA79

This stamping plate has 13 images on, stars, crosses, faces, lightening bolts and what looks to be an RFID Barcode. I found that all of the images stamped well, and the only one I struggled with were the filled in stars although I think that is down to my scraping technique.

I was particularly impressed by the line stars. Overall the stamping plate works well and the images are quite fun and can be used in various designs. You can see a couple of these nail art designs which I have done using this stamping plate;

Face

Leighton Denny - Steel Appeal

W7 - Sheer Lemon

Nails Inc - New York Noir

Crosses, large and small

Leighton Denny - Steel Appeal

Barry M - Silver Foil Effect

Stars

OPI - Alcatraz... Rocks
Barry M - Silver Foil Effect

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