Electric Purple Zebra & (an attempt at) Summer Flower Garden!

Hi everybody. Hope you all had a nice weekend! This will be a very quick post today but I have a couple of stamping designs to show you, for which I used China Glaze Electric Pineapple and OPI Fiercely Fiona as bases.

Here is the first one. I stamped using BM16 and Mavala Mexico, and then added some purple tips also with Mavala Mexico:

The second design didn't come out so well. I knew what I wanted to achieve in my head but it didn't really translate to the nails. Afterwards I realised where I went wrong. The orange polish I used was too sheer and although it was good for stamping, it wasn't so good for tips. Also, I don't really like the way the 2 flower colours meet :-(
Using yesterday's swatches of EP and FF as a base I stamped with BM06, Missguided Misstaken and Collection 2000 Ninja.

Blue Iguana - China Glaze

Hello my dear readers

The weekend is over which means back to work for me and less time to post and experiment with new designs :-(

I still had time for this quick mani before work, with a new polish I got from China Glaze's Island Escape Summer 2011 Collection - Blue Iguana.

What you can't see in these pictures of shimmering glass flecked blue is just the tiniest amount of purple duochrome. Its visible in the bottle but not so much on the nails. I had to apply 3 coats to get the desired opaque effect.

After I got home from work I was itching to do something else with it but other than taking it off and doing a whole new mani, the only thing I could think of is to try out some bundle monster over it.

I used BM11 and BM06 and also decided to see how some pink heavy glitter would look over it (I used Saffron London colour 09). Not brilliant was the conclusion I came to... it looked better in my head !!!

Thanks for reading :-)