Blue Star Cross Stamping Mani

June 10th Update: I replaced the video at the end of this post with YouTube version.

When I woke up this morning, it was freezing 2 degrees. Brrr... winter is coming. I wish I could move to northern hemisphere just during winter time. 

Anyway, I created a mani using some Picture Polish shades that I recently purchased. For this mani I started off with cyan for thumb, middle finger & ring finger. Then I made a stamping decal with a cross sign from MoYou London Gothic 11 plate using Mundo de Uñas Gold, coloured in with freya's cats, and placed it on upper part of these three nails. For the colouring, I used a brush Minnie kindly sent me (the pink handle one you can see on this post) and of course it worked amazingly. I topcoated and placed two sets of chevron tape from What's Up Nail Art Store, painted freya's cat over the tapes and immediately peeled them off. I added square gold stud on the chevron part and finished off with Glisten & Glow HK Girl topcoat. For pointer and pinkie, I painted freya's cats and topped with gold studs.

I just love this colour combination. cyan is such a bright sky blue, and freya's cats is such a deep midnight blue, and both so beautiful. They are completely opaque after 2 thick coats, and dry pretty quick. Why didn't I try Picture Polish earlier?? Pity they are a bit pricey, otherwise I would get more! 

By the way, this mani got the most likes of all my manis on Instagram (2500 likes so far). My second most liked is just under 1900 likes, so I am a bit overwhelmed that this one is soooo popular!   

6/10更新：記事最後の動画をYouTube版に置き換えました。 

今朝起きたら気温２度。さ・・・寒い。日本はだいぶ暑いみたいですが、ちょっと羨ましいです。冬の間だけ日本に帰りたいなぁ。

さて今日は早速Picture Polishを使ったネイルのご紹介。出来上がりはこちら。

Finished product, with Glisten & Glow HK Girl topcoat. In the sun

親指、中指、薬指のベースはcyan。MoYou London Gothic 11の十字架のような模様をMundo de Uñas Goldでスタンプし、freya's catsで色付けしてdecal作成。それをこの３本の指の上の方に乗せる。ちなみにここの色付けにはMinnieからいただいたブラシを使わせていただきました♡（ピンクのハンドルの方）。いったんトップコートし、What's Up Nail Art Storeのシェブロンテープを２つ置いて上からfreya's catを塗り、テープをすぐに剥がす。シェブロンの部分に金の四角スタッズを置いてGlisten & Glow HK Girlトップコートで仕上げ。人差し指と小指はfreya's catsを塗ってスタッズを追加。

It was a cloudy day and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to take a sun shot. While I wait for the sun to come out, I took some bottle shots in the backyard :)

この日は曇りだったのでいい写真が撮れないかな～と心配でした。太陽が顔を覗かせるのを待つ間、お庭に落ちた花とボトルをパシャリ。

The sun was out for about 5 minutes, and I quickly took that opportunity to take these photos. You should be able to see pretty holo sparkles

cyanもfreya's catsもどちらもホロ粒子が入っています。濃い色を保つためかホロの量は少な目ですが、それでも太陽が当たるとチラチラっと光るので綺麗です。

2 bottles in one shot! This is a cloudy shot, so the holos are dimmed.

ボトル２本持ちに挑戦ｗ Picture Polishのボトルって可愛いよな～。写真映りが良いというか。ブラシもいい感じだし乾きも早いし、もっと欲しくなっちゃいます。しかし高いんだよな・・。豪ドルがもっと安くなるのをじっと待ちます。

さて動画をどうぞ。このネイルの動画の方、インスタでの「いいね」数が私史上最高値でした。今２５００いいねぐらいですが、２位のネイルは１９００いいね弱なのでぶっちぎり。「青のネイルはいいねの数が多くなる気がする」ってLouiseが言ってましたが、本当にその通りだった。手順が多いネイルなのでインスタの１５秒動画にまとめるのがすごく大変でしたが、苦労が報われた気がします。「いいね」してくださった皆様ありがとうございます。