Stamping Saturday & HPB Presents: Holiday Nails

I think I'm so full of holiday design ideas that I'm getting anxious I won't be able to get them all done before the holidays pass! Today I have a 2 in 1 kind of post, Stamping Saturday and HPB, as well as 2 designs based on one polish!

30 Days of Colour: Orange & Blue

 Day 6 Orange & Day 7 Blue

Since I like to add nail art to most of my manis, I noticed that what I ended up doing for the orange prompt could double as blue as well - so here's 2 in one! I quite like the idea - I'm already incorporating it into turquoise and magenta, so come back to check that one out in a couple of days ;)

I'm going to say that this is the first official koi design, of hopefully many more to com. As it's the blog name, the koi is present in pretty much every social media account I have, so it's about time I started on the manis :)

#StampingSaturday: St. Paddy's Greens

This Stamping Saturday I want to show the mani I  wore pretty much all week - and kept adding and evolving it, to finally finish off with a stamped design!

This Revlon Colorstay Rain Forest has been in my collection for a long time..one of those BigLots $1 polishes I picked up sometime and did not reach for after it stained my nails! But with better base coats, and to be honest, lacking a wide green selection - I picked this one to try a St.Patrick's day mani. Can you believe what it turned into!?

Stamping Saturday - 2 color gradient

So I totally finished my stamping and photographing on Saturday for the first time in a looong time, and then I took some Tylenol PM pills for my headache and just as I started editing - I crashed...haha. Then, life happened and Monday showed up...but here are the photos! I always feel a little guilty when I see Amy's post and my mani's nowhere near being done, or when I actually have something and Stamping Saturday takes a day off!

 Stamping colors are MdU Aqua and Fiji in a gradient attempt..the colors are really close though!

Dragons are coming

Viserion - cream and gold. Drogon - black and red. Rhaegal - green and bronze.  Out of all these, Viserion was the easiest one to do, the stamping colors show up well enough, but the rest of them gave me a hard time, as I tried to use whatever I had, and I do not own any of the lovely MUNDO DE UÑAS polishes (yet.)

Pinkie - Revlon Timeless, Ulta Smoke Screen, stamped with Konad Special Black. MM21.

Ring finger - Julep Nicolette, stamped with Sinful Colors Gold Medal and Konad Special Black. CICI&SISI 02, MM21.

Middle finger - Sinful Colors Secret Admirer, Sinful Colors Unwrap Me, Sinful Colors Casablanca. MM21.

Index Finger - Sephora by OPI Already Famous, Ulta Envy, Konad Special Black. MM21.

Thumb - Julep Cleopatra, Sinful Colors Dancing Nails. JR-2. 

Cloudy day

I really wanted to do a gray gradient, as it's been a long time since I attempted one. And of course, right as I started doing it I realized I misplaced my makeup sponges, so I had to improvise and grab a sponge from those I use in the kitchen...the yellow and green kind >< 

Well, now I'll know it's still possible to do gradient, but it's not as smooth (even after topcoat) and looks a bit porous. 

My grays are Revlon Timeless and Ulta Smoke Screen. I then stamped little clouds from a CICI&SISI stamping plate (which can be purchased here), using Konad Special White.

It might not be April yet, to have showers for the May flowers, but it's often rainy here, so gray skies are common :)