40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 Shades of Purple with Circles

Week 16 of the 52 week 40 Great Nail Art Idea's Challenge.

This week the prompt is 3 Shades of Purple for everyone and my personal pattern prompt is Circles.

I have done a 3 shade purple sponge gradient with gold stamped circles on all but the ring finger.  On the ring finger, I started off with a white base (OPI Alpine Snow) I then stamped with the 3 shades of purple.  I have used BM322 plate.

I am still a novice where stamping is concerned as I don't own any decent stamping polish, but the No7 polish I used turned out pretty well.

  

  

See what other participants did in this challenge via the inlinkz below.

Dusky Rose Stamping - 28 September 2015

I have several stamping plates but I am not good with them at all. So, as you will see from many previous posts, I stick to water decals or freehand art.  But I have to say that this turned out OK.

Stamped Skittlette - Fail!

Ok, back in February I attended a school reunion. It was thirty two years since we finished and last saw each other.  I was a bit apprehensive and was not sure if I wanted to go.  But I am so glad I went as it was lovely to see all the people who came. 

Now on to the nails.  I tried to match them to the dress I wore that night.  The ring finger one turned out ok. But the middle finger was a little faint and I should have left well alone, but I went and stamped it again.... and what a mess.  I didn't have time to re-do, so went like this.  I think I will have to have another go and try with a different black to stamp with.  I should have taken photos of my right hand as that turned out much better, oh well two lessons learnt, don't over stamp and take photo of other hand!

Items used:

Nails Inc - Fashion Fawn and Black Taxi

China Glaze - Cosmic

BM Plate 306

Seche Vite

OPI Nail Envy

Extra Relaxed 31 Day Challenge - Day 15 - Delicate Print

Day 15 (week 15) of the ER31DC - Delicate Print. This is a week late in posting, been real busy with work and home life.  Print is so delicate it is hard to see.  But I used BM312 for this print.

Items Used:
OPI Nail Envy
Seche Vite top coat
Sally Hansen - Green Tea - turquoise
LA Girl Flare - White out (for the image)
BM312

La Paz-itively Hot Pink Jubilee

As you may be aware we in the UK have just celebrated Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee.  To mark the occasion I did two jubilee related manicures.
This first one was not so great (the stamping is off on all the nails).  Had it not been for the wonky stamping this would have looked fantastic IMO.  Nonetheless I got some nice comments from the children at school so I was happy.

 

Items used:

OPI - La-Pazitively Hot - Pink

Bundle Monster - BM08

Stamping Polish - Black

Green rhinestones

Seche Vite

OPI - Infatuation Makeover!

Having worn Infatuation for a few days, I stamped all over it before I change the manicure.  I got this idea from Emeraldsparkled.  Mine is not as good or as springy as hers, but it still got some, yes some compliments.

Espresso Myself!

OK, I saw this earlier on Chloe's post here, how amazing are her maincures.  Anyway I had a similar colour on so thought would have a go at the stamping too as I had the same BM plate.  For my stamping though I used OPI Espresso Your Style.  A deep shimmery brown shade.  My stamping is not as good and it does not do the colour any justice at all.  But it will have to do and I will just have to practice stamping a bit more.

Nails Inc - Monmouth Street

Woo Hoo, start of the Christmas holidays.  I thought I would do another simple Christmas nail art design.  This time using Nails Inc Monmouth Street. Again I only used one thickish coat of the colour, and it covered quite well.  To top it off I used a BM plate to do the green holly design, and just to the ring finger added a little red stone.  Simple but elegant, I thought.
Apologies though, my cuticles and hands are in a dreadful state in these photo's.  The weather has been so cold, and the central heating on all the time, has surely taken its toll.  Must moisturise more.

Some Old Manicures

Sorry for not being on for a while.

It was the last day of term as you may know on Friday 23 July, (if you are in the UK). It has been a real busy half term. So I have not been able to post much.

I have loads of my manicures photo'd and saved and so am just going to share as many as I can in this one post, so please forgive if it is lonnnnggg:)

This was a manicure of Yellow comparisons that I did, I updated it for a day by stamping it, a bit of Konad and some BM Plates.
Turned up Turquoise by China Glaze, The colour in reality was much brighter and sharper. My camera did not seem to want to pick that up:(
A few days later, I updated the manicure by fauxnading it, you can see I am still a novice as it is a bit skew wiff!

A Blue by China Glaze, apologies, the name escapes me. My daughter did this manicure, she then updated it by putting on Rainbow by Gosh

Tantalize Me by China Glaze

This is Moody Blue by China Glaze, a lovely creme polish.
A colour drop, the actual colour though is much brighter on the nail me thinks.
Excuse the lack of clean up, I just noticed!