Stripes and stamps

I used the same striping technique that I used on my autumn mani to create this very pretty pastel mani.

I've seen other people refer to this stamp image on the Bundle Monster plate as snakeskin, but for some reason it reminded me of a pair of white socks I had as a kid with lace like holes in them.  That's why I chose to do a very pretty girly mani with it.

Here is an in-progress photo, showing how I did each of the stripes.  Look, I didn't even use a base coat. Naughty me!

As you can see, the edges around my nails are not neat, they are chunky and either all over my skin, or not even close to the edge.  But after I stamped I did my clean up and you don't notice the messy edges.

For this mani I used my spring collection polishes from Ulta3.  They didn't have a nice pastel green, but this is one that I frankened up ages ago using white and Ulta3 Jelly.

What I still suck at is lining up the stamp on my finger straight.  I seem to mess it up every time.  I'll have to get some tips from Carly at Konad-licious on how to get it straight, she always does a great job.