Road To Holo // Moon & Stars Ombre

Just one more shade to go and I'll have the entire holographic range in the Molten Metal series from Barry M. They're just beautiful shades and these two I had to do something with the minute I got them home. Holographic Moon was not what I was expecting and rivals A England's Katherine of Aragon on it's level of holo. 

I'm not the best at photographing holo just yet so I feel my photos don't quite do this mani justice. I started out by doing three sponged layers of Holo Moon and Holo Sunburst to get the ombre which is a look in its own right:

So shiny *drool*. I then stamped on some designs from the MoYou Scandi 10 plate with one of their polishes I picked up in the sale. I've got quite a few MoYou polishes now and they're a bit hit and miss. I spent a while trying to get a clean stamp with Snowflake, but like Night Sail eventually had to settle for bits missing because I would've been there all night otherwise.

That Scandi plate though is everything. I'm cooking up a look with the mountains and the road with a galaxy sky and some cacti... It will have to wait for the Christmas holidays though when I'll have a bit more time. 

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Barry M Molten Metal // Holographic Moon (champagne pink...not rose though)

- Barry M Molten Metal // Holographic Sunburst (holo pink)
- Revlon // Quick Dry Top Coat
- MoYou London // Snowflake (off white)
- Essie // Platinum Grade Top Coat
- MoYou London // Scandi Plate 10 

Holo Seas // Galaxy Swirls & Mermaid Scales

Oh man, these are the types of nails where I took about a thousand photos and it was so hard to choose under 10. Like most of my nail designs I had no idea where this was going, just that I wanted to do some mermaid scale nails. I ended up with galaxy mermaid nails! Score!

I started off with a white base coat and then applied some blobs of Crystal Blue and Pink Luxe to a silicone mat (these ones are from my born pretty post here). Then when they were still wet I gently pressed my stamper into them and then applied them to my nails.

This was pretty random but I loved how in some places it's super opaque and others translucent. I also love how this stamping technique brought out the duochrome properties of the polishes. Crystal Blue shines sea green in some lights and this application really brought it out.

Then using the BP-109 plate I stamped on the mermaid scales. I added a layer of the diamond top coat before adding Diamond Glitter as it caused the scales to drag. The following photos were all taken in natural daylight whereas the ones above are all indoors under two light boxes.

I want to wear this design every. Single. Day. And the best part is that after you've done one hand the next is easy! Just carefully peel the blobs off the silicone mat and stick them to your other with a layer of top coat. Or I've found another great use for them. Because they haven't been applied on top of a top coat they can break easily into shards; however custom galaxy mermaid flakies....I may have to do a post on this because it's genius.

Polishes/Tools Used:
- Essie // Blanc (pink)
- Barry M Molten Metal // Crystal Blue (ocean blue shimmer with green shift)

- Barry M Molten Metal // Pink Luxe (dark pink shimmer with gold shift)
- Barry M  // Diamond Glitter (scattered holo with silver glitter)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish //#4 (white)
- Revlon // Quick Dry Top Coat
- Born Pretty // BP-109 Plate