Stamping Attempt and New Stuff!

Hi all, just a brief post for now, I have so many photos to crop and show you all, but not tonight as I am too tired! I found a few bargains today that I simply could not resist, so in the near future there will be a post showing you my shiny new nail polishes! And I mean shiny :)

For now though, I will show you the alteration I made to my gradient from last time, mainly just to practice my stamping and see what the results were like, but it turned out quite nice so I kept it for a day anyway. As I said when I first posted this gradient, I did feel like it needed something more, even though it was good by itself. As it was my first attempt at a gradient the colours didn't flow quite as smoothly together as I'd have liked, so I tried to think of something that would fix that.

I decided to stamp an all over nail design in a silver colour - I chose silver as it would give a subtle look over the colours I was wearing. The idea was mainly to complete the design rather than add a new design and I think it worked quite well at this. It was a really difficult look to capture in a photo, but hopefully you can see that the pattern distracts from the slight flaws in my gradient, without taking over the whole look. Here is how it turned out -

Again, sorry about the rubbish photos, I really need to find myself a photographer! All in all I really liked how this turned out, the silver was a very subtle look, but I think it did work to make the design feel more complete :) The silver I used was Constance Carroll Diamond Gloss in 248 Diamond. To see how I achieved the original gradient and the colours I used, the original post is here

Blog you soon, to show you all my exciting new goodies :)

Mwah, S x