Born Pretty Feathers & Bird Stamping

Today I have another Born Pretty Store stamping plate to show you. This is plate BP-58, which is available here for $2.99. As you can see, this plate has lots of cute birds, and some lovely individual feathers.

I did two looks with this plate, one with a full nail design and one with an individual feather. 

This first design has a grey base of Nella Milano Mercury Haze. I then stamped using the birds on a wire part of the plate and Barry M Silver Foil.

The plate stamped really well, apart from that one spot on the tip of my index finger - that was my fault though, not the plate's.  

The second look I did was with the peacock feather in the centre of the plate. I started with a base of Chanel Peridot, which is a polish I just love for its gorgeous greeny gold finish. I had initially planned to stamp using a bright turquoise metallic blue, but apparently none of my polishes were suitable as they just didn't show over the gold. Nothing to do with the plate, it was just the polish wasn't pigmented enough. 

Instead, I used China Glaze Don't Make Me Wine, which is a gorgeous dark metallic reddy purple. This stamped beautifully, and I love how this looks! Don't look at my poor stumpy thumbnail!  It broke badly across the corner a week ago, and is still not really presentable.

This looks fab in the evening sunshine!

I think this is a really nice stamp, and I can definitely see this one getting a lot of use. I think the cute cartoon birds in the heart would make a lovely spring or Valentine's mani.


The plate is currently $2.99, but you can get 10% off using my discount code.  

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Chanel - Rouge Noir

Back in the dark ages, years and years ago, in the days when I only owned TWO nail varnishes, one of them was this one, Chanel's Rouge Noir.

Rouge Noir became all the rage when Uma Thurman wore it and looked unbearably cool in Pulp Fiction, which was aaaages ago. I haven't worn mine in ages, and I regret it now, because LOOK! It's fabulous (of course)!

This is two coats of Rouge Noir, with no topcoat.  It's a really dark vampy blackish red, almost the colour of dried blood. In a tasteful, classy way though, haha!  

I wore this all day, and then this evening I've added a bit of my favourite glitter, China Glaze Solar Flare, because tomorrow is Friday, and Friday has to have glitter!  

I'm pretty happy with this look.  

Solar Flare is a great glitter - big sparkly shiny pieces of pure gold glitter. What could be better?

Peridot

My Parisian shopping spree started with Chanel's Peridot! I have had my eye on this for a while, but not actually seen it in a shop in person - the minute I did, I just had to have it!

This is two coats, plus one coat of Sally Hansen Insta Dri.



Look! It's gold!



It's green!



It's bronzey!



It shines!

It shimmers!

The formula wasn't fantastic - it's taken ages to dry properly, even with my Sally Hansen Insta Dri, and it's still made a couple of tiny dents on some nails. Still, that could have been me being too impatient and not careful enough. But the colour is beautiful, and it changes constantly in different lights, and I love it.