Hello and welcome!  This week’s very cutesy design comes from my never ending quest to use what I haven’t before.

So obviously my inspiration for this mani came from trying to use what was hiding in my stash.  But, I got a great idea on what to do with some nail powder by watching a What’s Up Nails repost of a @gotnail post.  She came up with a great way to stamp with powders, and I just had to try it.

What I Used:

• Base Coat:  Cuticula – Fresh Apples Static Base Coat
• 1st Color:  Girly Bits – My Name is Elizabeth
• 2nd Color:  Maniology – Corpse Flower
• 3rd Color:  Maniology – Jazzercise
• 4th Color:  Maniology – Ducky
• 5th Color:  Twinkled T – Glow Up
• Top Coat:  Glisten & Glow – Top Coat
• Maniology x Hannys_Manis M055 stamping plate
• silicone stamper & scraper
• lint roller sheet
• Twinkled T icing powder
• makeup sponge applicator
• Twinkled T clean up brush, size #2
• acetone nail polish remover

I started with a fun, fresh smelling base coat.  And then applied two coats of Girly Bits – My Name is Elizabeth.  This is another polish from Polish Pickup (which I’ve been trying to limit myself from buying from), but I just had to get this one.  It’s got my name in the title after all!  How could I not?

Then I stamped the confetti-like dots in white, on all but my ring and thumb nails.  Sadly, without liquid latex, this meant a lot of little dot clean up in my future.  And since I felt unicorns deserve more color than that, I layered more dots on top of that, in blue, green, and pink.  This definitely made them look more like confetti.

For the unicorn stamps on my thumb and ring fingers, I applied the powder stamping technique I just learned.  So, I blended the aurora powder on to the stamper with a makeup applicator.  Then used that same stamper & some white polish to pick up the unicorn image.

The speckled dots stamped in white

Adding the aurora powder to the stamper first

It looked great!  If anything, the lines were a little thin for the aurora pigment to shine.  But I forgot one thing: nail powders don’t work with normal top coat.  So it worked in the end that lines were so thin.  But I still think the whole design is very cute and girly.  And now I really want to try the powder stamping again.

Final look – left hand

Final look – right hand

Hope everyone enjoyed their week!

Update:

I should’ve called this mani ‘Chips Ahoy’, because there’s at least a small chip on all but my pinky nails.  I’m just glad I didn’t ruin my nails underneath because of it.

This hand had larger chips, but there’s still a little on the edges of the other nails

Tiny chips everywhere, except the giant one on my thumb