Secretary`s Nail Art: Princess Charming

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13 June 2014

Leadlighting flowers

The days are going well here in Spain, life as a gametester is challenging and also a lot of fun. I get to use everything I know about the game, from being an old fan, as well as all the things I have learned as a Secretary. I am really looking forward to the release, when I can lean back, give myself a pat on the shoulder for a job well done.

I have been seeing this leadlight technique mentioned a lot of places, it's totally the rave of the summer.

I didn't bring that many polishes that would be great for this, so I needed to mix the colours I did bring with some clear polish to make this work for me. I didn't quite do it right, but as a first attempt, I think it's a good one.

So for this manicure I mixed following colours with clear polish to create this look:
Barry M - Superdrug Limited Edition Yellow
ESSIE - Mojito Madness
Savina - Royalty

All this over 2 coats of Wet n Wild - Tropicalia

I stamped using Wet n Wild - Black Creme, using Cheeky - Jumbo plate - Princess Charming

Leadlight technique

Have you jumped on the Leadlight - technique wagon as well?
Any particular polishes you find works the best for this kind of technique?
Let me know in the comment field below!

27 July 2013

Candy Love

Now that I have discovered the wonders of PVA glue, I have got another glitter manicure for you girls. This is L.A Colors - Candysprinkles. I recently picked it up at my local pharmacy, they had a stack of L.A. Colors in for a pound. This was the only glitter polish they had, so I picked it up.

I stamped using Barry M - Fuchsia, and Cheeky Jumbo Plate 8 - Princess Charming.

L.A. Colors - Candysprinkles is a sheer bubblegum pink base with red microglitter, small round sky blue, silver, and green glitter with larger white, green, purple and copper orange hex glitters
(from what I can see in there).

One coat.

Two coats.

Three coats.

The stamping didn't turn out quite as I have expected it to, it went on sheered that I thought, but I am quite pleased with the overall look. Definitely girly.
Let me know what you think in the comment box below.

23 July 2013

Damask

I have a love for damask wallpapers. I have, ever since I was a young little girl wanted to have damask wallpaper on my walls. Never been able to have it as a wallpaper, but I used to own a pair of damask curtains. When I received the Cheeky Jumbo plates, I noticed that Jumbo plate 8 - Princess Charming has loads of damask kind-of patterns, and thus I decided to make a damask manicure.

I wanted it to be quite an intricate design, and opted for an accent background with purple and silver. I really like how it all ended up looking and what I thought was a fail accent, turned out to be so beautiful.

W7 - Mauve Suede is such a complex color, it ranges from deep deep purple, to a vibrant mauve in different lighting, the first picture is taken with indirect sunlight and it almost looks blue.

The accent was done using W7 - Silver Suede and some striping take. I stamped with ESSIE - Little Brown Dress.

Let me know what you think in the comment box below.

22 July 2013

Lady in the Water

For this manicure I used W7 - Silver Suede and stamped using Collistar - Blu.
Loose glitter came from a Nail Art Stack pot I got from New Look, and Models Own - Dream Steam (clear polish) to add the glitter.
Stamping was done with the Cheeky Jumbo plate 8 - Princess Charming.

You might have seen this manicure in my PVA glue testing video on Youtube.

The really awesome thing about stamping over suede polishes, at least the ones from W7, is that with a little bit of acetone / polish remover you can erase any stamping without ruining the base color. So if you stamp a patch bad, erase and stamp again. Another thing that I really like about these suede polishes is that they are basically one coaters, all of them.

If you use top coat on them, they loose the suede effect and becomes a very vibrant color with a silver tone to it.

This stamp still reminds me of M. Night Shyamalan - Lady in the Water. A fantasy thriller from 2006. (IMDb)