Purple Ombre with stamping.

I am feel absolutely miserable again.  I am so annoyed that barely a week after finishing our meds both my husband and I are sick again.  Urgh!  So please excuse me for not having too much to say today.  I am hoping to do a lot of nothing and hopefully get new meds soon too.

I wasn’t nuts about the final look because it totally looked much better in my head than it did on my nails but I do kinda like the idea.  Also, I am committed to sharing everything I try unless it is a complete and utter flop.  This wasn’t so I am sharing it 😀

I started off with a purple ombre using a makeup sponge.  I like showing the colours I used on their own as well sooooo….the colours I used were:

Essence – Hello Marshmallow

 

I’ve spoken about this beauty before.  It’s one of their newer shades and is a gorgeous lilac creme.  I love this colour.  It does have super subtle shimmer that is mostly visible in the bottle.  This is two coats with no topcoat.

Essence – Oh My Glitter!

 

This is a gorgeous polish.  A beautiful purple packed with micro glitter and a subtle pinkish shimmer.  This is also two coats with no topcoat.

Essence – Break Through

 

This is a deeper darker purple polish that is extremely hard to capture perfectly on camera.  This is pretty close though.  This is a perfect two coats with no top coat.

So I used these three shades to create an ombre.  Once that was done and dried I used my Essence stamping plate to stamp the tiger print in white using the Essence Stampy Polish. I then topcoated it using Essence Quick Dry topcoat.

 

I messed up a bit with the stamping and some lines look a bit smudged.  If you don’t look too closely and maybe squint a little bit then you can hardly tell 😉

 

After looking a this for a little while I thought that a matte version might actually look nicer.  So I added the Essence – Soft Touch topcoat.

 

I then realised that on the photos you can’t really see much of a difference.  In real life though I quite liked it.  It’s not perfect but it is definitely eye catching.  I also really like the combination of the purples.

Oh my, Isn’t this a very Essence post 😉 What do you think?  Hopefully I will be feeling tons better soon and I will then chat more.  Hope you are all well and keeping the germs at bay.

Thanks for reading