Summer Lovin' // Birchbox August 2019 Nails

Oh man do I love this box design. I think this is quite possibly the longest I have spent doing a nail design as well; it took me a good couple of hours trying to get the pattern just right. I love how it turned out and this is now my favourite look I've done so far. I literally can't stop staring at my nails and I kind of wish I hadn't worn a peel off basecoat so I could wear it for longer but I'm glad I get to keep the peelies. I can always do this again. I actually really liked how the pattern looked with just the gold and peach/pink shades so I think I'll do that.

I would've loved to have gotten the ombre effect in some of the patterns but that's beyond me right now. I tried and originally had a base that was a faded mix of orange and pink but it didn't look all that great so I stamped over it.

How I did it:-

I picked up the pattern off the Moyou Arabesque 06 plate using the gold polish and filled in random holes with the gold on each nail. I then took my time and filled in the rest of the stamp with the remaining colours. This was time consuming and took way longer than I thought it would as sometimes you can touch the design a little too much with the dotting tool and disturb the design. Once you've finished with the reverse stamping, I applied some liquid latex, let that dry and then applied a layer of topcoat to my nails. After letting it dry for around 30 seconds I then stamped on the design and applied a layer of matte topcoat after clean up.

Polishes/Tools Used:

- Born Pretty // #1 (gold)

- Nails Inc // Peach Tease (pale peach), Hot Fuzz (coral peach), 
- Sally Hansen Hard As Nails // Giant Peach (pink peach)
- Jessica // Bohemian Rhapsody (navy blue)
- Cuccio Colour // Water You Doing? (deep violet)
- Mavala // Coral Bay (dark pink coral)
- Barry M // Matte Top Coat

- MoYou London // Arabesque 06 Plate

Bathroom Tiles // Born Pretty & MoYou London

Not my favourite look I've ever done but I thought I'd post it regardless because we can't all be painting Monet for our mani's (well apart from piggieluv...that woman is insanely talented). This was also done a while ago, I'd say the end of September, so it's an oldie.

I love the Arabesque plate I got from MoYou mainly because it reminds me of all the blue Moroccan style bathrooms doing the rounds on Pinterest right now. And can you believe it I even attempted the other hand * le gasp *.

It was not a good attempt though. This right here was my very first attempt at reverse stamping while the design was still on the stamper. I used a small brush to paint on the other colours and I couldn't quite keep it in the lines and I didn't leave it to dry enough on some and smudged the base design. 

As you can see the designs don't quite fit some of my nails either. I didn't realise that MoYou do duplicate versions of most plates. I was wondering why some were called 'XL', I just thought it was a bigger plate but instead it has larger versions of the same designs featured on the normal plate. On my other hand these ones were fine as I tend to keep that hand quite short but my left hand is normally a medium length.

I really wanted to do a tile design with 4 designs on one nail however, I didn't have enough time and I was a little unsure of how to execute it. But there may be a Bathroom Tiles part 2 soon....

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Essie // Blanc (white)

- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #17 (deep blue)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #284 (sea blue)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #333 (Mint)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #271 (lilac)
- Avon Gel Shine // Moondust (pale grey) (used on other hand)
- Revlon // Colorstay Diamond Top Coat

- MoYou London // Arabesque 05 Plate