Aqua Flower Garden

I still have a whole load of manis I never posted throughout July and August and have been trying to crop the photos and write up the posts in a frenzy, before the weather starts to get really cold and I feel rather strange posting summer manis! Lol!

Here is a rather eccentric mani I did last month. The reason I call this mani eccentric is only because I remember a friend telling me "you've really pushed the boat out on this one", although I thought it was quite "normal" for me. My nails are the only way I get to express myself.

Anyway, here is my Aqua Flower Garden! The polish is a franken I made a very long time ago but had only ever tried it in a pedi. It turned out an unusual pearly aqua colour. I stamped with BM12 (just realised I hardly ever use the original BM plates anymore, who does?) and filled in the flowers and leaves with various polishes. What do you think? Too much?

Hunger Games Capitol Colors - Stone Cold

Stone Cold is my last polish from the China Glaze Hunger Games Capitol Colors collection! Well, I also got Luxe & Lush today but you will be seeing plenty of that one over all sorts of colour in the weeks to come!

Stone Cold (District 2 Masonry) was one of those polishes I wanted without a shadow of a doubt when I first saw swatches of the collection! I love matte and this colour is so androgynous and "badass". It reminds me of a black chalkboard! A chalkboard packed with silver shimmer - did you have those in school? Lol...only joking!

I've never really had much trouble with any of my matte formulas but this is the best formula I've worked with in a matte polish! It's so pigmented you could get away with one coat.

I stamped some silver chains (BM12 and Barry M Silver Foil), to keep with the theme of the polish. You can see how a top coat also transforms this polish and brings out all that silver shimmer.