Stamping Saturday: Tiffany Art Deco

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Two posts this week, yay! I have low standards for myself haha. Today is a quick little Stamping Saturday mani. I just received Enchanted Polish Daydream and had that on for a couple days by itself. It's pretty and all, but I don't know that it was worth the $16.50 I paid. It is a lovely blue-green holo with blue shimmer, I think I see a hint of purple at some angles.

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Stamping Saturday
Enchanted Polish Daydream
MoYou London Time Traveler 05 & Rica Whiteout
(lightbox)

This color feels very Breakfast at Tiffany's to me so I decided to stamp an art deco image over it. I used MoYou London Time Traveler 05 and Rica Whiteout. I used my Creative Shop stamper and everything but I just had a tough time stamping today. I smooshed my pinky a little and all my lines are different on each finger. It looks good from normal viewing distance though, that's what counts, right!

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Stamping Saturday
Enchanted Polish Daydream
MoYou London Time Traveler 05 & Rica Whiteout
(with flash)

Check out the other amazing stamping manis everyone is sharing this Saturday! Have you loved your cuticles today?

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Stamping Saturday: Independence Day Nails

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Happy Independence Day to all my fellow US readers out there! I absolutely love patriotic manis and nail polishes, so for today I knew I just needed to go over the top and do a skittle mani.

Index (and thumb, not shown): Pretty & Polished Wham Bam Thank Ya Sam
Middle: SquareHue Times Square with Painted Polish Life, Liberty, & The Pursuit of Holo
Ring: Essie Butler Please stamped with Vivid Lacquer 002 and Pure Ice Silver Star
Pinky: What's Your Point-settia? stamped with MoYou London Pro XL 01 and Rica Whiteout, along with silver stud accents

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Stamping Saturday
Independence Day Mani

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Stamping Saturday
Independence Day Mani

Tonight my husband and I are going to try and check out some local fireworks! We both have to work Sunday so I hope the ones we plan on going to don't go too late. What are your fun plans for the Fourth of July this year?

***Bonus Stamping Saturday Mani*** 

Earlier this week I shared Hare Polish I'm Your National Anthem. I popped off the studs and stamped it with Vivid Lacquer 015 and a Sinful Colors gold metallic polish. I wish I had done that in the first place, I love how the firework stamp looks over the flakes so much! Check out my Hump Day HARE post from earlier this week to see more of this gorgeous Hare Polish, too.

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Hare Polish I'm Your National Anthem
Vivid Lacquer 015 & Sinful Colors Gold Medal

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Hump Day HARE: I'm Your National Anthem

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Since Independence Day is fast approaching--it always seems to sneak up on me!--today's Hump Day Hare Polish is I'm Your National Anthem. IYNA is one of the LE Lana Del Ray polishes (see Pretty When I Cry here) and most recent release from my beloved indie.

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Hump Day Hare
Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
(No flash)

IYNA is a red jelly with gold and blue flakes in metallic and satin finishes. There is a soft holographic shimmer, but I couldn't really see the holo aspect of it most of the time. I used three coats of this jelly, I was debating on a fourth but I didn't really have any VNL so I left it. I added some blue accent studs to bring out the blue flakes since they started to feel look purple to me.

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Hump Day Hare
Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
(With flash)

I don't wear much red and I feel like I have a tough time photographing red polish. I wouldn't say this is a patriotic polish or even my favorite Hare, but it is a lovely red flakie jelly! Any Lana Del Ray fans have this on their lemming list?

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**Edited to Add on 7/4/15**

I decided to pop the studs off and stamp this mani with Vivid Lacquer 015 and Sinful Colors Gold Medal. I love this look more! I also shared this in my July 4th Stamping Saturday post.

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Hump Day Hare & Stamping Saturday

Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
Vivid Lacquer 015 & Sinful Colors Gold Medal

(No flash)

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Hump Day Hare & Stamping Saturday

Hare Polish - I'm Your National Anthem
Vivid Lacquer 015 & Sinful Colors Gold Medal

(with flash)

Stamping Saturday: Mermaid Nails

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

For today's Stamping Saturday I have used a new-to-me indie brand, Baroness X, for my inspiration! This lovely mermaid-y polish is Baroness X Mermaid Madness. This is everything I wanted Deborah Lippmann Mermaid Dream and all the dupes to be.

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Baroness X - Mermaid Madness
without flash

Mermaid Madness is described as "a turquoise shimmer and glitter nail polish." The shimmery base has gold, teal, navy, and gold metallic and holographic glitters along with metallic turquoise dots. With all the stuff going on in this polish I totally expected goop. But no! Buttery formula, great glitter spread. I did three easy coats for full coverage. It's not even that the formula was good, it was noticeably awesome.

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Baroness X - Mermaid Madness
with flash

Mermaid Madness is so shiny and sparkly! It was like wearing molten metallic turquoise on my nails. Absolutely magical. 

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Stamping Saturday
Baroness X -Mermaid Madness
MoYou London Sailor 05 & Rica Blackout
without flash

Of course I had to stamp this puppy with some mermaid-y scales. I used an image from MoYou London Sailor 05 stamped with Rica Blackout. I'm not totally happy with my image placement. I think it makes my nails look stumpy and weird curved downwards at the end. Ah well, I'll try a different placement next time. Sailor 05 is easily one of my favorite and most-used plates.

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Stamping Saturday
Baroness X -Mermaid Madness
MoYou London Sailor 05 & Rica Blackout
without flash

I wish I could have done Mermaid Madness more justice! Alas, my photography skills are limited. Has anyone else tried Baroness X? I have some of her new neon thermal flakie jellies to show at some point, too!

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Baroness X

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Saturday Stamping: Hidden City Lagoon

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Oh Em Gee what a week at work. I ended up doing five hours of "unplanned overtime." I'm always torn about overtime. Like, yay OT pay! But also, boo.... more work. It has just been a rough couple of weeks that have left me emotionally exhausted, which also physically exhausts me. I've been painting nails but have had no energy to photograph and share them. Ah well. Here is a mani I did earlier in the week which I saved for today!

I am calling this look Hidden City Lagoon. I started this mani with a base of Aliquid Lacquer Hidden City--I shared a macro on instagram which you totally need to check out because it is amazeballs. This was my first experience with Aliquid Lacquer. This treasure was sent to me by my buddy Gio from @injeebwetrust. She knows me well! Besides being an amazing deep teal linear holo, it also has copper and gold shimmer. Holoshimms all the way! I apologize for the major lobster hands in my photos, you know I don't do much color editing though. The polish is true!

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Saturday Stamping
Hidden City Lagoon

After a couple days I decided to stamp it with a new plate I just purchased from MoYou London, Doodles 07. Such an adorable plate! I slapped on some images I liked but took care with my lil turtle, how cute is he?! I used Essie Good As Gold, a fantastic gold metallic stamper.

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Saturday Stamping
Hidden City Lagoon

I thought I could still further improve this mani and busted out my new Zoya Frida. I purchased the jelly trio from the Zoya Earth Day sale and I am so pleased I did. Just one coat of Frida and I had a lovely little Lagoon.

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Saturday Stamping
Hidden City Lagoon

I love the process of nail art. What do you think of this week's stamping? Make sure you check out what the other ladies did this week!

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Stamping Saturday: Henna-Mehndi Inspired

Purchased By Shelby Lou 
Press Sample--Zoya only 

Hey guys! I don't really have anything to say today. It's been a long week, my brain is done. Let's see just get to the nails, shall we?

I shared the base for this Henna/Mehndi-inspired mani on some social media earlier this week (see it on instagram or facebook) which is Picture Polish Cherish. One of my new favorite nudes! I love the holo particles that are somehow unique to the brand (and maybe Zoya, too?). WHERE DO THEY GET THE SPARKLES

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Picture Polish Cherish
MoYou London Explorer 22
Zoya Emilia

I chose some random spots on a full image plate from MoYou London Explorer 22 and stamped them with Zoya Emilia. I have been eyeing this plate for a long time and it lived up to all my expectations.

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Picture Polish Cherish
MoYou London Explorer 22
Zoya Emilia

I am not totally happy that the scale of the parts I chose are not all that similar, but that is just something to keep in mind next time I use this plate.

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Picture Polish Cherish
MoYou London Explorer 22
Zoya Emilia

I have Henna/Mehndi-inspired tattoos I designed, but I get really unclear on what exactly I am supposed to call this Indian art. All I know is I absolutely love these kinds of designs. I think I need to do some more research! What do you think of this week's edition of stamping?

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Stamping Saturday: Vintage Wallpaper

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I am a fan of contrast: black & white, new & old, modern & vintage. I love putting opposite elements together for a new look. I do this in my clothing, accessorizing, home decorating, and of course my nails. There is something about awesomely ugly vintage prints used in the modern medium of nail art that just tickles me.

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Stamping Saturday: Vintage Wallpaper
Polish My Life Birthday Suit
a-england Fotheringhay Castle
MoYou London Mother Nature 02
Without Flash

When I first saw A-England Fotheringhay Castle from the newest collection, I knew it was meant for some vintage stamping goodness. For this mani I started with a base of Polish My Life Birthday Suit. Birthday Suit is one of my new go-to nude cremes, I used three creamy coats for perfect coverage. For my stamping I used part of a branch image I liked from MoYou London Mother Nature 02.

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Stamping Saturday: Vintage Wallpaper
Polish My Life Birthday Suit
a-england Fotheringhay Castle
MoYou London Mother Nature 02
Without Flash

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Stamping Saturday: Vintage Wallpaper
Polish My Life Birthday Suit
a-england Fotheringhay Castle
MoYou London Mother Nature 02
With Flash

I'm pretty happy that I was able to successfully use a full-image plate and place the image on my nails in a uniform way. I wish I had gotten the image down the sides of my nails better though. I used my Vivid Lacquer squishy rectangle stamper and it didn't quite smoosh enough down the sides of my crazy curved nails. I guess everything about me is curvy haha! Who else out there loves awesomely ugly vintage nails?

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Stamping Saturday: Vintage Wallpaper
Polish My Life Birthday Suit
a-england Fotheringhay Castle
MoYou London Mother Nature 02
With Flash

Products:
Polish My Life
a-england
MoYou London

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Stamping Saturday: Red Lacy Things

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

Three posts this week, woo! I am killin' it as far as I'm concerned with blogging. I was on call for the Red Cross last night and it was -5 before windchill. I totally lucked out and did not have to respond to anything, which is also awesome because no one had any fires either. But mostly I'm happy I got to stay warm in my bed! In other news my Christmas tree is still up and I turn the lights on everyday. In protest of this bitterly cold weather I will take it down when it decides to stop snowing. Okay but that might be May... at least by March 31st. It's snowing right now...

For this Saturday's stamping mani I started with a base of Polish My Life Nude Lace. I am addicted to this brand already! I always drooled over swatches from @lacquerloon on instagram, but I swear she could make me love even a truly fugly polish so I wasn't sure at first. Nude Lace is a warm nude creme. It is fabulous. I only needed two coats! I have decided to own as many of these cremes as I can, they are just perfect.

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Red Lacy Things
Polish My Life Nude Lace
A-England Rose Bower
MoYou London Fashionista 12

I chose to stamp my nude nails with A-England Rose Bower, a bright holographic metallic. I'm still stuck on Valentine's colors--I'm a seasonal snob. I chose the pattern from MoYou London Fashionista 12. I'm not sure what this pattern is supposed to be, embroidery or lace? I like it and my obsession with the Fashionista line from MoYou remains strong. Rose Bower stamped so amazingly in these teeny lines and I really must stamp with my A-Englands more often. I'm not 100% happy with my image placement but I enjoyed the mani overall--I need to not nit-pick. Make sure you check out the other stamping manis this week! Has anyone else tried Polish My Life yet?

Products:
A-England
Polish My Life
MoYou London

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Stamping Saturday: Chromatic Candy Clouds

Purchased By Shelby Lou 

I hope all the Americans had a great Thanksgiving! I will be celebrating today with my parents and my husband. On Thanksgiving I went to my in-laws but my husband worked, boo. I'm still a little bitter. I had a lovely visit with my MIL though, I really lucked out with her!

Today I'm doing that mean thing where I show you polish you probably won't be able to get. I lemmed this so hard and was ecstatic when it was offered once again: Pahlish Chromatic Candy Crunch. CCC was a Bespoke Batch that Shannon, the creator of Pahlish, offered for a second round via pre-order by popular demand. CCC is a metallic silvery lavender metallic holo with all kinds of brightly colored flakies. Gah! I just have no words. Here is the polish alone with flash to show off the holo. I used three thin coats and did add just a lil thinner, as I tend to do.

Pahlish Bespoke Batch
Chromatic Candy Crunch

Isn't that lil ghost adorable? So seasonally inappropriate at this point but who cares, the polish is amazing! I will be trying this over some different colors, I'm sure it would be stunning over black. After wearing this for a day I chose to stamp CCC with one of my favorite images from Nailz Craze NC02 and Rica Whiteout.

Pahlish Bespoke Batch
Chromatic Candy Crunch
Stamped with Nailz Craze NC02 & Rica Whiteout

I always tell myself I should freehand something or use vinyls... but stamping is just so damn quick and satisfying. I'm enjoying Stamping Saturdays, let me know what you think!

Products: 
Pahlish
Nailz Craze
Just Ricarda

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