Scorpion in the Sand ft. MoYou London Hipster

Hello Readers!


Today I have a mani for this month's #clairestelle8challenge. This month is a little special, as the challenge is being sponsored by Picture Polish and there are only four prompts instead of eight. The first prompt is a mani inspired by "where you live".  For me, that means the desert!

I started this mani with the Sinful Colors "Beaches and Cream" on my ring/middle fingers. I'm running low on this- I might have to buy another bottle soon which would be a first for me; I've never actually run out of a polish before  besides black and white.

For my pointer/pinky fingers, I thought I would do a gradient but when I actually started sponging it on it was way too light and I realized that the negative space image made it not really matter, so I just did thick stripes with the nail polish brush instead. Easy, since I didn't have to really worry about straight lines.

My cute little scorpion friend comes from the Bundle Monster "Fuzzy and Ferocious" plate, BM-S168. So scorpions are not so warm and fuzzy in real life... ha ha but how could you resist that image? And very appropriate for the region I was in.

My cactus images and the flecks on my middle nail came from this MoYou London "Hipster 16" plate; one of the newer cactus-themed ones. This plate is stinking cute. This particular image was tricky to work with, as you would expect since it's negative space, so I did have to fill it in in a few spots.

The middle nail is just an example of some double stamping- it is two different images that are on the above plate stamped over each other in different colors. The black design is from a different plate- a Born Pretty plate with southwest designs.