Simple Sunday 6/11/17- Purple and Silver ft. Moyou London Kaliedoscopic

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Today's Simple Sunday is a very simple and more subtle look. Originally I was going to try stamping with the Born Pretty metallic polish from last week over this deep purple color, but unfortunately I found that while the polish worked really well for the bold lines on the butterfly image last week, it wouldn't pick up the tiny details on the images I wanted to used for this mani.

So after trying with all my different stamper heads, I gave it up and switched to a Bundle Monster silver stamping polish.

I started this mani out with the gorgeous, rich OPI color "Do You Have This Color in Stockholm?" I love how shiny this polish is!

My french tip image comes from this MoYou London plate, from the "Kaleidoscopic" collection. I've used it to do french tips before, and I just really love the shape of the images to put it to this purpose.

I hope everyone is having a beautiful Sunday! I love hearing about your lives- let me know what you have going on this weekend in the comments!

Simple Sunday 4/2/17 ft. MoYou London Kaliedoscopic

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Today's post is another Simple Sunday, where I post a more traditional nail art look... supposedly... ha ha. I've been really enjoying working with nude shades for my Sunday posts lately, so this post is keeping with that tradition.

My idea behind this mani was to try out the "layering" feature on MoYou London's "Kaleidoscopic" plate. I've used this plate a few times before, but I've never actually used it as it was designed to be used- by layering the images together to create a multi-colored full nail image.

At first, my plan was to keep to three colors to keep the look simple, but halfway through I decided I really needed a third color to pull this off so I grabbed a slightly darker pink to fill in my reverse-stamped image on my ring finger. I also used a large dotting tool to fill in the dots on the images on my pointer and pinky fingers.

Here's a shot of the MoYou London plate I used for the majority of my images. The images with the higher arches on the right-hand side of the plate are the ones intended to be the "middle" image, because the smaller "bottom" images fit inside the arch better. I learned this the hard way- I tried putting one of the straighter images on the left-hand side in the middle first and it didn't turn out as well. (That's why I always stamp my Cindy hand first.... bwhahaha)

The ring finger image comes from and older born pretty store plate, which apparently somehow missed being photographed. Here's a link to it on Ebay, though, in case you're curious.

Nail Crazies Unite: Red and Black ft. Bundle Monster Mystic Woods

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Today's post is for the Nail Crazies Unite group on Facebook, where the bi-weekly challenges fill in the gaps between the prompts for the 26 Great Nail Art Ideas challenge group. Today's challenge is "Red and Black". I had some fun and tried a new technique this week that I really enjoyed.

I have been wanting to use these mushrooms for a while now, too, so I was pleased that they were going to work out for the "red and black" challenge. I tried to keep the other colors in the mani pretty neutral to make the red and black stand out as the main colors.

The Sinful Colors "Velvet Ribbon" was from this year's Christmas collection. I put on just one coat of it; Sinful Colors tends to do a really good job with these foil finish/shimmery polishes. I will note, however, that this particular polish chipped faster than your average polish.

Simple Sunday 1/22/17 with NEW Kandee Johnson Sinful Colors

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This week's Simple Sunday features a brand new polish by Sinful Colors, which is part of a collab with the Youtuber Kandee Johnson. About a month ago I spotted the first release of these polishes in my local Walgreens, which features candy colors and this fun textured pink polish. But yesterday I noticed a new display with a lot of iridescent polishes and some duochromes, and I picked a couple of them up.

The one I have on here is "Dripping With Pearls", and it's a lovely iridescent kind of champagne color. I actually thought it was going to be more white, but it ends up leaning more towards gold. This took a few coats to build up to full opacity (like 4ish), and I think if you put it over a white it will be more of a pearl color, but I wanted to see how it fared on its own.

I used this deep plum LA Colors polish to stamp with. I've used this to stamp before, and it is such a great stamper!

This was a super simple stamping mani, just using this MoYou London plate from the Kaleidoscopic collection with a clear stamper to do a french tip look.

Simple Sunday 1/8/17 with Bundle Monster Shangri La

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This week's Simple Sunday follows a nude-y, soft color palette that is mostly lifted straight from a five-pack of JLB polishes I found at Ross before Christmas. I added a little shimmer via Sinful Colors and a dark polish for stamping and voila! Easy color combo.

Here's a quick peek at my polishes:

This was the first time using Chocolate Truffle for stamping, and I was pleasantly surprised by how dark it turned out. Perfect for as an alternative to black for a bit of a softer tone. 

I had a lot of fun coloring in an area of this plate from Bundle Monster's Shangri la collection. I have really been enjoying these color-me-in images lately! They are just a ton of fun.

For my middle finger, I stamped an image from the MoYou London plate from the Kaleidoscopic collection:

This plate is intended for overlapping, so you can actually fit the smallest images inside the arch of the larger ones for a really cool multi-colored look, but I just used one of the smallest ones for a little accent next to my cuticle.