Sister's Animal Prints

Ever since I developed a polish habit, my 3 younger sisters have certainly benefited. After school they love to come over and decide what they will change their color to for the next day. They were very excited when I got my Konad stamp kit because they love animal prints. It didnt take them very long before they showed up asking me to do it for them. I had no problem with that because I get more practice :)

I am limited to only stamping in black and white right now, but now that I know I like the way the stamps work i will order more colors of the "special polish."

Seriously, order the special polish! I've tried regular and it just doesn't stick well enough!

Once again, I used Stamp 57 from Konad for both girls. Very Cheap from Amazon, between 2-5 dollars depending which person you order from. I am excited to get more!

Madison, who is 15, wanted cheetah. We chose to use Orly-Lemonade and Essie-As Gold as it Gets for the base color and Konad's black special polish for the cheetah pattern. I only did one coat of each and the Orly looked awful but by the time the print went on, you couldnt even tell.

I wish you could see As Gold as It Gets more in these picture.s. In person, it give the manicure a little something extra than if we would have just stayed with Lemonade. Maddie almost didn't let me add it. 

Alea, who is 17, wanted zebra, like I did on Christinas in the blog before. Only she is obsessed with this neon pink so we did that instead of the light purple. 

These polishes are Sinful Colors-24/7 and Konad's special white polish. Simple enough :)

I have learned with this stamp to make sure that you are consistent with the direction you place it on the fingernail. I messed up a couple times having the stripes go vertically and it looked just like wood grain...maybe a good idea for another manicure in brown?

They are very happy with their nails. Alea keeps showing everyone we see and says she never wants to take it off. And I'm tired of painting nails for the day. (I also did mine...but saving that for the next blog) 

Hope you get inspired by the color selections... what colors would you do if you had these stamps?! 

Christina's Nails

My friend Christina came over and let me try out my stamps on her! We had to get her nails all perdy before her night out! Her color combination came out much better than mine that I did in the previous post. Stamping is getting easier as I practice with it. 

If you want to know how to do this...just ask!!

Her base coat is Essie-"Play Date", the zebra print is Konads special stamping white polish, stamping plate 57, and we topped it off with China Glaze-"Fairy Dust" 

I love the way her nails came out! Probably because I am extremely jealous of her nail beds. Mine are so deep, I wish I had hers!

We had to re do a couple nails because I missed spots but we got it done in time. 

 I dont have much to say about this manicure except, they are so fun!! The "Fairy Dust" made them extra cute. :)

Seche Clear as the base, 2 coats of Play Date, One stamp of the zebra in plate 57(konad), 1 coat Fairy Dust, and Top coat is Seche Vite, as always. 

I'm getting better at using the stamps!

First Stamping...Zebra!

 Yay! I tried something new and I actually like the way it turned out! This was my first go with trying out Konad's stamping plates. I decided on that brand from reading other people blogs. I'm so happy I bought them! They were very cheap from Amazon. The crappiest part was waiting for them in the mail.

Below is what I recieved (minus the mash brush set, I already had that) I got 2 plates, a double ended stamper, a scraper, and 2 colors of the special stamping polish (not pictured). 

I used Sinful Colors-"Tokyo Pearl" as my base. First time using it and I'm glad i intended to put designs over the top because it was so streaky. You could see every brush stroke. The black is Konad special Stamping polish.

Sinful Colors-Tokyo Pearl

Stamped, before clean up

My first couple attmepts, i went waaaay to slow so it wasnt working right. I watched good ol' youtube for a couple tutorials and that really helped. Must do the application as fast as possible!

Zebra!

I did make some mistakes and I tried to cover it up with some solid black, luckily the worst mess up was on an accent nail, so it almost looks intentional. 

Left Hand

I cant wait to try the other stamps!