butter LONDON Wallis and new Mash 2012 plates

I've been dying to wear this color for months now! It's been gathering dust on my shelves since I was saving it for a time when I could wear it for a few days. Since the challenge is over, I just couldn't wait any longer. I know you guys have seen this a thousand times, but here is butter LONDON "Wallis".

I apologize for the lighting; it's been overcast and snowing on and off here and there was no natural light at all yesterday. Wallis ended up in the lightbox, and no matter how I shoot it, the lightbox is never the same as sunlight.

 And one with flash to show how how the gold shines:

I LOVE this color! The olive/gold combination is pure awesomsauce. I'm not sure about how it looks with my skin tone, but it's amazing enough that I don't care much! This was 2 smooth-as-silk coats and SV to top it off.  I adore butter LONDON's formula, and Wallis did not disappoint.  But.....being me...I wasn't satisfied with wearing it alone, so I decided to try out my brand new MASH stamping plates. I received these on Thursday and I was so excited to try them out. I have to tell you guys, I'm a little disappointed. As you can see in the pics, my images are smeared on the left side of my nails - not from my top coat, but because the etching is so deep that it holds a TON of polish. My right hand came out much better since I picked up the image with my stamp, then waited about 20 seconds before stamping my nails. It didn't matter how much I scraped, the only thing that left a clear image was to allow the image to dry a bit on the stamp. Also, the  full nail images are tiny. They barely cover my middle fingernail, and leave a good third of my thumbnails uncovered. If I want to use these when my length is back, Im going to have to learn how to combine 2 stampings to look like one on the nail. The single images are awesome though. And the french tip stamps are small enough to actually use. My bundle monster french tip images take up half my nail, so I never use them. These I may actually try. Anyway, onto the pics of my smeared fauxnadicure!

What a smeary mess! At least I know that these plates give me some extra time before stamping the nail. I plan on trying the again this week to see if I can make the smaller full nail images cover my nails a bit more.

I should be back to posting more often now. I was sick yesterday so I took the day off (I managed to do a mani, and that was about all I could muster!), but I miss blogging every day so I'll be here often. Now it's off to swatch one of my newer polishes and turn it into a mani. :)

Happy polishing!
-Kimber