Aboriginal Stamping Nail Art

I havent done stamping decals in a long time but today I fancied doing it. I also wanted to use a colour I dont use a lot, brown.

I actually like brown and I think this particular brown suits me :) This is You Don't Know Jacques by +OPI Products. Its what I would called an iced brown as it doesn't have a strong red undertone.

The stamping plate I used was from +MoYou London and has some funky australian themed designs. I used acrylic to fill it in and as you can see it didn't go quite to plan and ever some as the stamping cracked (on the lizards body) but I still like it. It also doesn't look so bad in real life! Damn you macro!

Of course I matted it all afterwards and I think that adds the the effect! I use Mentality matte top coat and that works so much better than others I have tried. 

What do you think? 

Femme Fatale Swatches Part 1....

Hello all! 

I hope you are all having a great week so far! I feel like I have not posted in a really long time but it actually wasn't that long ago lol! 

My grandfather has built me even more shelves today so I am in need of more polishes to fill them up! If you all want to see my bits and bobs (behave) Ill be doing a small post on my updated stash soon!

I have two gorgeous polishes from Femme Fatale for you today! There are two more swatches on the way very soon.

Femme Fatale are an artisan cosmetic and nail polish company from Brisbane, Australia. 

They also now stock a wide range of other indie nail brands such as Enchanted and HARE. 

Both of these sets of pics are taken with the flash on as the light in my flat is bloody awful! Dont worry though they are colour correct etc! I wouldnt bring ya duff pics LOL! 

First up is a Sea Pony. A beautiful purple jelly cream (crelly). This polish features many different sizes of hex glitter. 

I used three coats to build this up and you could still kind of see the smile line, only very slightly though. It has a good amount of glitter and the formula is really nice. I have done this with no undies, but I think next time I use it I will try it on top of another colour, just to see what its like. 

Next up I have a beautiful linear holo called Burning Dusk. This is a darkish plum with a blue shimmer. who doesn't love a holo?! This is three thin coats with no topcoat. 

I am totally in love with this shade. it is dark but the blue shimmer really lifts the purple tone up. 

The coverage it really good and the formula is great. This is my fave of these two, I'm a fool for a holo. 

You can view these and other polishes, both by Femme Fatale and others, on their website HERE

Stay tuned for part two coming soon......

*some of these products were sent to me for an HONEST review. The views on this product are COMPLETELY my own.

Aboriginal Inspired Nails

 

This boomerang was bought for us by my husbands step father on his recent trip to Australia.

 

I love aboriginal art and just had to give it a go.

 

these nails are relatively simple to do and i used

Base: Maybelline Color Show- Midnight Taupe

Dots:China Glaze-Papaya Punch

Barry M Gelly: Blackberry

Sinful Colours: Exotic Green

Kleancolor:Catch me

Kleancolor:Neon Yellow

17:Risky Red

NYC:french tip white

and a dotting tool. Smaller dots for the filler and a larger one for the main dots

 

The only thing to bare in mind is the colours used for the dots need to be opaque in one coat so they stand out against the dark back round.