Honey Flowers // Beige Autumnal Flower Design

Another look that came about whilst swatching the Nails Inc Nail Spice collection! This was a super quick one. Just 2 layers of Honey Lane, followed by designs stamped on with Smokey and Bright Lights, then a layer of smudge proof top coat and matte top coat.

Polishes/Tools Used:

Base:

- Nails Inc // Honey Lane (pink beige)

Stamping:

- Twinkled T // Smokey (dark grey)

- Barry M Liquid Chrome // Bright Lights (gold)

- MoYou London // Botanical 16 Stamping Plate

Top:

- MoYou London // Smudge Proof Top Coat

- Barry M // Matte Top Coat

Botanical Foils // Flowers with Primark gold foil and green watercolour design

This turned out so much better than how I saw it in my head. I think it's because for the first time I actually practiced the design first on some swatch sticks and ironed out the kinks. I need to do that more often instead of just ploughing on ahead.

When Primark recently re-opened I went in and spent a lot more than I should've but I just couldn't help myself. They also had a shiny load of new makeup that obviously I had to buy. Especially these cute jars of foil flakes. I think they're supposed to be used as eyeshadows and on your face but I immediately knew that these pressed flakes would be perfect for nail art looks.

They have them in bronze and gold and they're so much easier to use than foil sheets and £3. These pots are gonna last me years. I used an eyeshadow applicator to pick some up and then dabbed it on my nail. If you apply it on top of a dried glossy top coat it sticks but it also moves so you can re-position it how you like then seal it in with another layer of top coat.

For this look I also mixed some of Hope with acetone to create the watercolour effect. I did trial some of the blooming polishes I have from Nicole Diary but I didn't have a green so had to mix blue and yellow and it just looked muddy.

Polishes/Tools used:-
- Ciaté // White Heat
- Kure Bazaar // Hope
- Twinkled T // Vibin'
- Primark PS // Golden Foil Flakes
- MoYou London Stamping Plates // Botanical 07
- Revlon Colorstay Gel Envy // Diamond Top Coat

STAMPING PLATES: MoYou London // Botanical 3 & 4

So, I'm gonna change things up a bit and start doing some plate reviews because I have like almost a hundred and I need to start using them....also, these just came out (29th March). MoYou had been teasing on their insta that they would have some new plates coming out soon to replace Flower Power 23, which has been out of stock for ages. I don't think they're going to remake it. In fact nearly all of their Flower Power plates are sold out. 

So in this new Botanical range there are four plates:

With their new £6.99 price tag. Personally, I think they should've kept them at £5.99 as the size of the plates hasn't increased. Also, their shipping is ridiculous at a standard £3.99 for any order (that doesn't contain nail polish, then you have to £5.80...). So one plate comes to a total of £10.98. That's extortionate; and I'm part of the problem because I paid it. I bought 3 & 4 on the launch day because I've noticed new collections are selling out very fast and MoYou said they are not restocking plates anymore. I didn't buy them on a whim, I really had to think about it and look to see if I could get similar elsewhere and I think B4 is quite unique though and worth buying.

I didn't get plates 1 & 2 because there are so many plates just like them. The Mother Nature, Kitty and Doodles collections are virtually the same as Botanical 1 and I have 3 Harunouta Plates (that sell for around £1.50) exactly like Botanical 2. I love overprint plates so B3 I had to purchase as it has some lovely and unique succulent prints on it with all the lovely shading and the insect prints on B4 had me hooked straight away. I have some curtains that I bought from Ikea years ago with these exact designs and every time I look at it I want to do my nails like that; and now I can! I can already see the design in black on top of an A-England polish.

I really loved this design that MoYou did to promote the plate and I decided to do something similar;

The designs are all from Botanical 3. I'm yet to do a design using B4 (but it's coming, that plate has become one of my favourites). The Zig Zag stripes are from one of their Tropical Plates...I have far too many of them.

Botanical Collection