As we still have a couple of weeks before the day itself I wanted to stick with a darker wintery colour, but still have a base that has a Valentine's feel to it. I chose Revlon's Vixen - How fitting is the name apart from anything else? It's tricky to describe the colour as it depends what light you look at it in. Sometimes it can look very deep red with brown undertones, but with two coats it leans more to a purple red. Either way I love it; but it does tend to stain a bit.
So, back to the stamping. The other week I had to double stamp as my chosen colours weren't as contrasting as I had hoped, and then last week I had a design in mind, but it was just fail after fail so I gave up in the end. So, not to be defeated I picked a different plate and tried again this week. Does anyone else go through phases like this with stamping?
I chose my new MoYou Princess Plate 10 which has loads of cute designs on it, but being a Valentine's design I chose the linked hearts and I stamped these with MoYou White Knight stamping polish as an accent nail on my ring finger. I thought it might be a bit much on every nail in this colour combination, so to finish the design I used the same white polish with a dotting tool to create mini hearts just off centre on the rest of my nails.
Overall I am pleased even though my white got a bit smudgy in places... Seems it's not just black that drags with top coat!
I am thinking of doing my very first full nail wheel of Valentine's designs; anyone fancy joining me for the challenge? Keep an eye out for it on Instagram and whilst you're there it would be great if you gave me a follow!
Thanks for stopping by
Aimée x
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