NailNation 3000 Glow Worm

When I seen NailNation 3000 had a lime green holo polish, it was an instant lemming!  At the time, I think it was because this lime green type of colour wasn't available in a holo (at least not that I was familiar with anyway), but I do know that SmittenPolish has one now too (can be seen on SmittenPolish FB account).   I was lucky to snag it on a llarowe sale in the spring; this is a mani I did back in April using one of my favourite colour combinations....green and pink.  

Started with a base of two coats of NailNation 3000 #449 Glow Worm, no topcoat.






Stamped using Konad white special polish using an image from DRK-C.



Stamped alternating nails using same image using Konad magenta special polish.






Using dotting tool, added pink and white dots using same polishes that had been used for stamping.



Topped with SV to finish.



Different lighting.



The next day, took a pix in direct sunlight.




Love this bright, lime green holo!!!  I think it will be awesome with orange and black holo polishes at Halloween...maybe even purple holo too!  I haven't come up with a mani yet, but it's on my list of mani ideas for then!

Although I bought this at llawroe, I see NailNation 3000 is no longer for sale there....after doing some internet searching, I found that NailNation 3000 is being sold here via an online store here.

Thanks for looking!

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Digital Dozen; Fashion, Day 5

Day 5 of Fashion Week!  When I was thinking of fashion, it got me to thinking about designers....those who create the awesome fashions!  After searching through some pix on the internet and my plate stash to see what images I have that may relate to fashion labels, this is what I came up with.

I'll be honest; this seemed so much cooler in my head....and to top it off, there were a couple fingers that the stamping is so way off which was disappointing so what could have been "wow, really cool!" is just 'OK'.  

Anyhooo, base polishes used, starting at thumb and going clockwise are CQ Vintage, FingerPaints Black Expressionism, OPI Bride's Bouquet, Borghese Almondine and OPI Bride's Bouquet again; all two coats, topped with SV.

For the fabric look I was going for to mimic the Gucci purse, sponged index finger using Barry M Mushroom and Quo by Orly Naked.



Stamped using assortment of Konad special polishes using Handy 24 (thumb), Handy 26 (index) GA21 (lines), Handy 12 (Chanel logo), Handy 17 (index), and Handy 14 (pinky).



For a little added bling.....this is fashion week so I think it is appropriate....added a few colourful rhinestones to the index finger.



Topped with SV to finish.



(Still ticked at myself for really missing the mark on the Burberry and Chanel fingers!)

Here's a look at the Handy plates that have fashion images on them; there's a few more than the ones  used here.

Handy 23


Handy 14


Handy 13


Handy 12


Handy 26


Handy 17


Handy 15


Handy 18


A couple notes about these Handy plates; they stamp well and I was especially impressed with how well the very small, detailed images stamp. For example, the Gucci image used on the ring finger; to get images that small and in such detail is amazing for a stamping plate!  However, the full size images are on the smaller side and may not fit fully on the nail for those with long or wide nails.

These Handy plates and more can be seen on Mundo de Unas' FB page here.



Pix used for inspiration.

Here's the other ladies Day 5 mani's.




Hopefully you've enjoyed Fashion Week......thanks for looking!

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Digit-al Dozen; Fashion, Day 4

I'm not terribly into fashion, so when I was surfing the net for inspiration for another fashion mani, I Googled famous dresses.  Didn't see anything too exciting (or at least something I thought I might be able to stamp close enough to resemble one!) so then did a search for Oscar dresses....a pix came up on the results (even though it wasn't worn at the Oscar's!) that I decided to use for inspiration; here's what I came up with.

This was the dress I used as inspiration, a Carolina Herrara dress worn by Lucy Liu at the 2012 Golden Globes.

Started with a base of two coats of Sinful Colors Sugar High, topped with SV.  The base isn't as close in these pix as I wanted; obviously there are some screen colour variations as when I was doing this mani last night using a pix I had picked on my iphone, the base was bang on but these pix, my base isn't nearly light enough. Or could be my camera/lighting.

Stamped leaves from plate MM07 using Sally Hansen Insta-dri Jumpin' Jade. (Really liking the mani just like this!)

Plate pix of MM07.

While I fully intended to use the assortment of single roses in different sizes from this plate, when I did a test stamp on a nail on my right hand, I wasn't liking how the rose looked.  Decided upon an image from DRK-A and then stamped random roses throughout using FUN stamping polish in Mango Shake and a franken made by mixing Konad pastel orange and pastel pink special polishes. ( I dabbed a bit of both directly on the image plate, mixed up a little using an orange stick, then scraped and stamped.)

Topped with SV.  (See the shimmer in Jumpin' Jade once it's top coated; it's most noticeable on the middle finger...love it!)



Here's the other ladies Day 4 Fashion mani's.





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Digit-al Dozen; Fashion, Day 3

There's not too many mani's I do without some type of stamping but this was one.....a pretty simple dotted mani for Day 3 of Fashion Week for Digit-al Dozen.

Started with a base of two coats of Zoya Darcy, topped with HongKong Girl Fast Dry Topcoat.



I had a hard time opening my bottle of Darcy which seemed odd because I just got it not too long ago and hadn't even opened the box that the Zoya Stunning for Summer 2013 collex came in.  When I finally got it open, this is what I found.



This annoyed me.  I bought Darcy as part of the Zoya boxed set online. When I checked the other 5 polishes in the collex, four of them where loose too...the caps were barely threaded onto the bottle.  I was very surprised that this is how they would have been sent out to distributors.....what other explanation can there be?  I was glad that only one bottle had leakage and it was minimal; I was able to tighten the rest of them before there was more leakage or evaporation over time because it could be some time before I even use them.  I know it's only a polish leak but still....annoying!

Using three different dotting tools, added assortment of dots using Konad black special polish.  There's more than three sizes of dots in this mani; the dots can be made smaller or larger simply by the amount of pressure applied when dotting.  I'm sure a skilled dotter could achieve this same look with just one dotter!



Here's the pix I used for my fashion inspiration....I'm not big on fashion but I adore this purse!



I waited half an hour before top coating because I knewwwww that these dots were going to be trouble with topcoat smear....and I was right; while not too bad, there was some minimal drag....another annoyance!  Not terribly noticeable IRL....only in macro...but still annoying!  I used SV to topcoat but I'm sure that the same thing would have happened with HKGirl too as I've had smear with it too.



This simple mani was an attention grabber; I received many compliments on it....and it was easy as pie to boot!  I do have stamping plates that could be achieved pretty close to this but dots are another one of those images that are hard to get fully stamped...I usually have to go touch them up with a dotting tool after anyway to make sure the dots are solid, so it was probably faster using a dotting tool.

Here's the other ladies Day 3 fashion mani's.




Thanks for looking....and sorry about airing all my annoyances!

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Digit-al Dozen; Fashion, Day 2

When I was looking for fashion inspiration, I tried to find clothes that I knew I could somewhat replicate using stamping plates.  This isn't necessarily what is high fashion or even fashionable, but just some type of clothes that I thought I could kind of copy....somewhat..... 

This was the pix I used for inspiration; I have no idea who the designer is although it looks like a nice summer dress worn by Elisabeth Hasselbeck.

Started with a base of two coats of Ulta Blue Streak, topped with HongKong Girl Quick Dry topcoat.

Stamped using white Konad special polish using Cheeky Jumbo 5, Musical Nails plate.

Like any of the stamping images that have a fairly large area to be filled with polish, this image was a little tricky; if you stamped down, there was scraper marks left on the solid polish area, so this is an image that is best scraped side to side or on a diagonal.  I wasn't very careful applying the stamping polish either, I should have made sure all the nooks and crannies in the V's were filled with polish as there was some voids left on scraping as you can see above.  Had I scraping down, they should have been filled, but I scraped on a diagonal and some where missed.  I also knew that this is an image I'd have a terrible time lining up straight too, so used an XL squishy stamper for placement....easier to place my finger in the stamper versus rolling the stamper onto the nails.  But it was hard to line up due the curved moon shape in the design and I was trying to stamp the straighter parts of the image (which is towards the middle of the stamping image) only on my nails  Hopefully this makes sense!  Looks like I did an OK job, although the thumb is a little on the crooked side!



After filling in the most obvious voids of stamping polish with a brush, topped with SV.  I didn't fill them all in, but I got the biggest, most noticeable ones....aka, the ones that were bugging me the most!  And these smaller voids are only noticeable in macro; they aren't noticeable at all in real life.

Here's a closer look at Cheeky Jumbo 5, Musical Nails.











I'm not sure how some of the images on the Musical Nails plate relate to music, but there are some great non-musical images on this plate regardless!

Here's the other ladies Day 2 Fashion mani's!


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