31 Day challenge (v.2!) Day 15: Delicate Print

Hello ladies! I am so sorry I'm posting so late today. Like my hubby posted earlier, I was having some technical difficulties.  Camera battery was dead when I went to take pics, and I had some stamping difficulties.

First, somehow I managed to pick up the wrong makeup pads. I use these to clean my stamper and scraper, as well as my stamping plates. So, as I was stamping, my happy little makeup pads started shredding and leaving all sorts of fluff on my plate and my stamper. This led to picking fluff out of my design with tweezers, which in turn led to some of the design lifting/smearing. Lemme tell ya, this was one of those "I really wanna throw this stamper against the wall" manis. This on the heels of completing my mani last night, only to somehow manage to fail to realize it was not drying and destroy my left hand almost immediately left me one grumpy girl.

So, I just left well enough alone sine I had a busy day scheduled and no time to re-do anything. I'm not pleased with the less than stellar stamping and all the fuzzies stuck in my nails, but hey...we ll have fails, right?

So today's prompt was Delicate Print. This prompt always befuddles me since it can be taken so many ways. But I went with something that is delicate, and printed it on my nails. ;)

The idea behind this mani was lace stamping. Since my plate with actual lace patterns hasn't arrived yet, I decided to do some layered stamping. I used my fishnet image from my BM plates, as well as a flower image from my Red Angel plates to create the lace effect. It actually came out really great the first time, then I ruined those and ran out of my usual make up pads and ended up with this. It's actually pretty cool IRL, but you know how macro mode is!

I used Spoiled by Wet N Wild in Show Me Some Skin as my base color, and stamped using Konad Black. Show me some skin is actually the only nude that I own since I was convinced I do not like Nude polish. Funny thing is that once I had it on, I really liked it! Go figure! Only downside was that this polish did not want to dry. It dried to the touch but was still squishy underneath, as evidenced by my kinda mushed middle fingernail!

Anywway, here is my take on delicate print:

I really like the concept here, but I think next time I'll use a different floral stamp (and ya know, avoid the fuzzies) since this one just didn't seem to cover enough to me. Fun experiment though!

Be sure to check out all of the Varnished Vixens' Delicate Print Nails!



 Kimber at Kimber's Lacquer Korner
-Kat at Hooked On Polish
-Diana at Nails By Diana
-Aly at Wonderland Beauty
-Meredith at Perfectly Polished
-Nicole at The Color Republic
-Kate at The Painted Pony Nails
-Cee at Absolutely Cee
-Sam at Polished Art
-Nail Narcotics
-Nicole at Nicole Gets Nailed
-Shelby at Shelby's Swatches
-Stephanie Louise at All Things Beautiful
-Mixed Mama
-Joanna @ Sweet Polish of Mine
-Patty Greenberg
-Liz and Lisa @ Lozlosa 
-Mari at Nailista
-Miss L at Beauty by Miss L 
-Gini at Sassy Paints 
-Chameleon Stampede 
-Pam at Nail-E-Glance
-Me, Myself, and Polish 
- Robin Sparkles  

 I'll be back tomorrow with something less irritating. :)

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber

31 Day Challenge, Day 15: Delicate Print

Holy smokes it has been a busy day! I promise to get back to my normal posting schedule tomorrow!

So those of you that follow me on twitter know that I gave in and cut down my nails today. :( I had broken 4 nails in as many days, so it was time. At least this way I effectively got rid of the thin, weak spots from having acrylics before I decided to grow my own nails out, and now they can grow back stronger and hopefully prettier!

Here is what they look like now (I took off my delicate print mani after breaking 2 nails on my right hand and just slapped on some glitter before heading to lunch with my family):

I miss my length already! Actually they're not too bad this length. At least I'm not catching them on everything! My nails also grow fairly fast, and I'll be using Qtica Natural Nail Growth Stimulator.

The glitter I'm wearing is Nicole by OPI Snowman of My Dreams.  I love this glitter! The colors are fabulous and application isn't too bad considering it's a fairly dense glitter. It is a thirsty glitter though, so it needs at least 2 coats of SV or a coat of Gelous to smooth out.

Onto the delicate print mani! For this mani I used OPI I vant to be A-lonestar as my base and stamped using BM 201 and Pure Ice Pussycat.  I had one hell of a time trying to capture this mani for you guys! The shine from my SV blocks out some of the stamping! I suppose that just means that it really is delicate after all! :)

Here it is in sunlight:

Indoors in natural lighting:

Light Box:

With flash:

And super bad macro:

I took tons of pics to try and show the stamping, but this was as good as it gets with my crappy camera.  I really liked this mani, and I was bummed when my busted nail ruined it. I'll have to re-do this one at some point.

Off to work on my Tribal Nails! This oughta be interesting!

Happy Polishing!
-Kimber