Back To School // Clairestelle8 Challenge September 2019

I can't believe it's September again already. The mornings are already starting feel crisper and the nights are getting dark early :( Whereas I love the idea of fall and autumn scenes with all the warm colours and general cosy-ness; when you're alone in the middle of nowhere it's kind of hard to be excited about the upcoming season.

But it's September and that means...discount stationary. That's right, all the stationary is on offer right now and I can't because it's one of my main weaknesses; that and Cadburys jelly popping candy chocolate. I've already done a similar look to this one but I really love the scholar and artist plates so combined them for a bit more of a detailed look.

I was a bit upset that I smudged the pencil stamp a little and the MoYou polishes are just awful. I'm going to have to stop buying them because it always takes me several tries to pick up designs. I might start doing swatch posts on them so others can see how terrible they are at being stamping polishes.

Polishes/Tools Used:-

- Nailberry // Stone (dark grey)
- Nicole Diary // Born Perfect (white)

- MoYou London // Mint Condition (pastel blue), Coral Crush (coral pink), Into The Woods (dark brown)
- H&M // Cantaloupe (mustard)
- MoYou London Plate // Scholar 01 & 06, Artist 21

Letters // #Clairestelle8 Valentines Challenge

So with this prompt I was going to do the 'ye olde' parchment paper with script writing however, I've seen a lot of those so far for this prompt and wanted to do something a little different. Then a bunch a new plates arrived in the post including the adorable Scholar 6 plate from MoYou and I knew I had to do something with that. Also, my dissertation deadline is looming (and the little brats went back to school this week after half term) so I decided to do something school related.

Also, I've finally cut my nails. I tried growing them out long but I've never been a big fan of long nails and I just couldn't take it anymore. I didn't cut them as short as I normally go but I'm happy with the new style; I think squoval is the way forward for me. Plus, I don't have to worry about them breaking anymore and I can use the small stamping designs again! Wins all around.

Back to these nails though; I love them! I love that they're messy but it kind of works. It was nice not use pink so much as well. I think this is the second design this month which isn't all pink.

How I did it:-

I started off with 2 layers of White Out and then stamped on the line design using Explorateur. The blue lines are #333 using the Holy Shapes 20 plate and all the other designs are from Scholar 6 using Night Sail and #1787. I then topped everything off with a matte top coat.

Polishes/Tools Used:-
- Collection 7 Day Wear // White Out (white)

- Cuccio Colour // Explorateur (speckled grey)
- MoYou London Stamping Polish // Night Sail (dark grey)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #333 (light blue)
- Born Pretty Stamping Polish // #1787 (light red)

- Barry M // Matte Top Coat
- MoYou London Stamping Plate // Scholar 6 & Holy Shapes 20