Stamping Saturday: Lace Gradient

Hello and welcome to today's Stamping Saturday post! It's been a bit quiet around here, sorry about the lack of posts. My nails haven't been slacking - they've stayed polished! I just haven't made it to sit down and type something up. But I wanted to share this design here.

This look has a fun, bright color, a gradient and stamping! Click to read more to see the process!

#52WPNMC - Week 3; Matte

Week 3: I went with the matte prompt. Other choices were 60's and textured. I really wanted to try and do matte blue nails, like ones I pinned so long ago but didn't get the polish name. So I used what I did have on hand.

Julep Marisa topped with NYC Matte Me Crazy 

I stamped the flowers using plate m57 and Konad Special White. It's been a while sine I used this white to stamp and it didn't want to cooperate with me. 

A lot of you might have seen this pic on Pinterest, & it was the inspiration behind my mani. Maybe I'll get a navy blue someday and be able to match this closer :) 

An InLinkz Link-up

NYC Rule the City & Stamping

NYC has a new limited edition collection called Fashion Queen - and this is one of the Crystal Couture polishes called Rule the City. It's a unique color to my collection but it slightly reminds me of an indie I picked up a while ago that has a similar thing going on - gray and bright glitters of color. Maybe I'll do a mani using each and see if they're anything alike! 

This is my attempt to better show the color under the stamping. And of course it's a better closeup of the tip wear I've got going on, lol. I used Sinful Colors Casablanca for stamping, and one of my new plates from the HeHe collection (which I swatched here). I totally thought I'd use the swirls from plate 015 in a blue ocean-y mani, but here it is, fitting in nicely with this color scheme :)  

V-day Nails - Icy Kisses

I remember pinning a mani like this, with the matte black and metallic kisses, and I wanted to do it myself. I ordered the BM-303 plate with the kisses design some time ago, was (not so) patiently waiting for February. And then once I get my stamping supplies out, I realize that the image is bigger than what I had in my head :( I wanted to do two kisses on one nail, but there was no way that's going to happen. I never before considered my nails to be small, but maybe they are...I know for sure they're always short, but not big enough to fit an image? :(  Maybe there are other plates with smaller kisses..I'll have to look around.

NOTD - Wood Grain

I was happy to discover I had a wood grain design on one of my stamping plates (Cheeky, plate D), so I didn't have to buy a plate just for that design :) 

 Base: Ulta  On Taupe of the World (Why do I get the feeling there's a lot of polish names like this?)