Feeling the blues?

Hello! Sorry for the temporary absence, I've been completely swamped with Uni work recently. Today's mani is from the vault, can you believe my nails are naked right now? o___o I have something in mind though since I have a wedding to attend on Saturday and I definitely can not show up without a mani! :P

The following photo was taken under the sun.

I applied two coats of China Glaze Caribbean blue then stuck on some nail stickers from Viva la Nails' free blogger pack. I actually quite liked this and the stickers stayed on surprisingly well :).

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Dr. Seussical

You'll never guess whose birthday it is today!! (Especially since Google sucks and didn't do a cool themed logo for it) You may already know, but this guy was the master of rhyme, silly illustrations, and odd characters that we all grew up with and still love. It's Dr. Seuss! Fun fact: Did you know that Seuss is actually supposed to be pronounced 'Soice'? Later in his career, he adopted the mispronunciation because it helped better relate his stories to that of Mother Goose, and because it was already widely pronounced the way we now know it as 'Soos'.

Anyway, as a kid, I was no different than the masses, and I, too loved Dr. Seuss. (Just ask my mom!)  My favorite book was 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish', and even as a kid I knew it by heart! So today, on his birthday, (he'd be 107 years old today!) I decided to honor Dr. Seuss by doing 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish' nails!!

I used MAC Vestral White as a base, with American Apparel Manila for the yellow fish, China Glaze Hey Sailor! from the Anchors Away Collection for the Dr. Seuss logo, the fins on the yellow fish, and for the entire red fish. :) For the green fish, I used BB Couture Poison Ivy for the green fish, CND Anchor Blue for the blue fish, then used American Apparel Hassid to outline everything as well as shade the letters in the logo. Topped everything off with 2 coats of Seche Vite top coat

I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them, Sam I Am!

Soft stamp nail art

When I purchased my magnetic polishes from Nail Art and More, I also purchase four soft stamp nail art pads.

The pads are about 1cm tick, and on one side they have coloured versions of the stamping designs.  These are good (in theory) because they give you an idea of what can stamped.

The under side of the stamp has the designs engraved and the finish and feel of this stamp is similar to a konad stamper - slippery and silicone like.

The idea is that you paint the polish directly onto the stamp like so..

Then blot off the excess polish onto paper so that only polish remains in the engraved area.

Then you simply roll the stamp onto your nail...  yeah right!

Like any new product, there is a steep learning curve at the beginning.  I recall my first efforts at konad and know they were dreadful, but were they as dreadful as this??

As you can see the polish didn't transfer out of the stamp correctly.  It was gluggy and thick and horrible.  But I did manage to get an OK kiss.

After these I tried to do multi coloured combinations, which was the main reason I bought these. I haven't been able to do that with Konad because of using the scraper.  Well, lets just say that I haven't posted those photos for a reason.  I found it took me too long to apply the different colours to the stamp and then when I was trying to blot off the excess, it removed the polish from the engraved areas too.   I will continue to practice to determine what works and what doesn't.  I really want to get the multicoloured designs working.

Has anyone else seen these or used these?  How did you go? Got any tips to share?