Yellow. Thankfully my friend was involved in coming up with this super awesome idea. I thought I lacked the skills to make it happen, but it came out better and worse than I expected. How's that you say? Eh, I'm my own worst critic.
So the idea presented to me was a dragon stamped on my nails with shades of red and gold in him. I felt like I just couldn't get the positioning right, and I went through several restamps, but overall I think it came out. Just don't look at them too closely. Or for too long. You know what, just glance at them and keep scrolling. ;-)
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| OPI Nail Envy, Butter London Pimms, Butter London Scuppered, Essie Licorice, Zoya Sooki, Zoya Kerry, HK Glisten and Glow topcoat |
I figured since my MoYou London Suki 07 plate was brand spanking new, I would take a couple pics of it before dirtying it up. I've also included the dragon image I used.
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| MoYou London Suki 07 plate |
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| Dragon image on MoYou London Suki 07 plate |
I started my base with one coat OPI Nail Envy and two coats of Butter London Pimms. This is a great yellow, very easy to work with and no staining!
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| Butter London Pimms, two coats no topcoat |
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| Butter London Pimms |
After I laid my base down, I started on my dragon. A little lead lighting, a little advanced stamping, both using Zoya Sooki and Butter London Scuppered. I'll add a swatch of Scuppered at the end of this post, just for shiggles. :-p
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| Advanced Stamping with MoYou London plate Suki 07 |
I realized afterwards that I missed his snout and tongue, which kind of makes the dragon if you ask me. Aaaaaaand then I had a bit of a stamping fail. Oops. Luckily it came off fairly easy using a bit of scotch tape and I restamped it.
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| Stamping oops... |
Then I went to work on the rest of his body. Just regular stamping for these two, I went back and filled in the lines over the stamp with some color using Sooki and Scuppered.
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| MoYou London plate Suki 07 |
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| Lead light stamping with MoYou London plate Suki 07 |
And here's the finished product!
This was one of those stamping processes where I felt awful about them the entire time I was stamping, even had to sleep on it before I was okay with them. But I think he looks pretty neat. I continued the rest of his body (sort of) on the other hand, using the same techniques as above.
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| MoYou London plate Suki 07 |
As promised, here is a swatch of Butter London Scuppered. I left it on my thumb because I really like the green glitter in the bronze polish, especially when it caught the light.
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| Butter London Scuppered swatch |
Are you a fan of Butter London polishes? What is your "must-have" BL polish pick?
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