I heart pink art

Hello hey hi,

How is your week going?  Last week I was saying how the week was going so slow and this week is flying by.  It feels like I was just getting ready for Monday and here we are at Wednesday already.  Goodness me, can it even out a little at least :P.

I vaguely remember while I was doing the 31 day challenge that I had so many ideas.  I was going to do all this great nail art when I was done.  If only I made notes of these ideas because now that I am actually done, I can’t remember any of them.  One thing I did get shortly before the challenge started, was some new plates.  I didn’t really love them as much at first but here I am trying to make it work.  Let me show you what I did,

I started with 2 coats of Dollish Polish – Beauty school dropout (I really wish I swatched it, but I will next time).  While that was drying I stamped using Moyra 65 – Perfect match and Mundo de Unas – Black.  I then coloured in the bottom section of the image using China Glaze – She’s a mane-iac.  Once everything was dry I applied to my nails.  I topcoated and voila!

When I did the first image on my nails the pink section seemed to ‘break’ with the black lines looking frayed.  At first I was annoyed and was going to redo it but then I actually liked it.  It made me think of frayed lace or fabric, so I tried to create the same affect on all of them (some worked better than others).  I was so very excited to receive this plate (along with a few others from Moyra) but I was so bummed when they arrived and I saw how big the images are.  They’re such stunning designs but they’re so big that I will never be able to fit a whole image on my nails.  I can still use it and just use a part of the image but I feel it loses so much of the beautiful design.  On some of the other plates I have individual images (like a flower or insect) that is so big it can’t even fit one a nail without cutting some of it off.  Oh well, I guess it is like that for a reason.  what do you think of these hearts?

Thanks for reading,