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MoYou London Illusion Plate - Pastel Stamping Nail Art

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May is turning out to be the month of nail mails! And a month of splurging too, but lets not talk about that. I was part of a group haul Veeral of  Angel Nail Studio  hosted a while back, and some major lemming squashing happened :) I got my first MoYou London plates, and they are soooo good. I'm always looking for stamping polishes in lighter colours, so I snagged a white stamping polish by El Corazon as well.   Obviously, I had to come up with a pretty pastel gradient for the background :) Pardon the wonky placement please, I don't own a clear jelly stamper :(  I love how the warm colors blended together. This is definitely one of my favorite gradients I've done so far. Next step, Diagonal gradients! The image is from MoYou London Illusion plate 05, probably my favorite from this collection. I find it easier to work with such concentric-esq images, they go so well over a gradient and make your mani stand out.  The white polish used for...

Valentine's Day Nails with Stay Quirky Nail Polish

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Back after so long! One of my new year's resolution was to blog regularly, but like all new years' resolution do, this one too went straight outta window :D Moving past the very, very unoriginal whining, here are my Valentine's Day nails! Ooh yeah, so much PINK. I was initially going to do a holo heart as my accent, but some unmentionable-y horrendous incidents with DIY scotch tape stencils have made sure that your eyes are safe from that disaster. So we have a plain holo accent instead! I've heard a great many things about nail vinyls, but I don't think I'll be able to pull one sticky thing off another wet thing. Guess I'll just have to stick to free handing shapes for now! Holographic pearls needed 3 coats to be this opaque, but dayum that BLING!! The white to pink gradient looked to pretty on it's own, I'm kicking myself for not taking pictures before stamping over it. I think I need to do more pastel gradients! ➺Pink - Pink U...