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MoYou London 31 Day Nail Art Challenge: Day 5 Shadows

Hey lacquer ladies,

I'm truly shocked I'm hanging in there for this challenge.  It would be a lie if I said it was easy.  Lol I'm already thinking wouldn't it be nice to take a break for a couple days.  Meh I guess it's fine.  The point of this challenge is to push myself a touch.  In any case here we are at day 5 with the theme of Shadows.   Seriously I struggled with this one.  What to do what to do?  I actually tried a variety of techniques not all of which worked before settling on the idea of using a jelly finish polish to trap my artwork creating a shadow like effect.  Let's see how it panned out. Basecoat/ Topcoat: CND Stickey / Poshe Fast Drying Topcoat
Base color: L'Oreal A la' Meringue topped with Essie Marshmallow
Stamping polish: Mundo de Unas #2
Stamping plate: MoYou London Suki 08 One thing you can see clearly from these photos is that Essie Marshmallow is definitely no where near a true white.  It's off colored which is fine, but after seeing these photos it made me glad I chose to use a white base first then layer the jelly over it.  I'm actually quite pleased with how these came out.  I love the idea of jelly stamping and it did create the effect I was looking for.  The only thing that bothered me slightly was that the colors were really muted so it might be better to do these manis in greytones rather than true color. What do you think?  I hope everyone is enjoying this mad dash foray into stamping.  I know I'm running a couple of days behind in my challenges to blog, but I'm ok with that.  Thanks so much for reading and see you next post...
Posted by Lacquer Lockdown at 2:31 PM
Labels: MoYou London, nail art, stamping, Suki 08

