Materials I used:
INM Ridge Free basecoat
Revlon 'Metallic' - used as an undie
Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer 'Bound to the City Life - base color
Mundo de Unas - 'Neon Green,' 'Neon Pink,' & 'Pastel Pink' - stamping
China Glaze 'Seeing Red' & 'Seduce Me - stamping
Pueen image plate 4 & 15
Fabur Nails stamper and scraper
Beauty Plus Salon glossy topcoat
I used a silver metallic basecoat as an undie...
I placed one coat of my teal blue jelly polish, from Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer. Using the silver undie, helps to bring out the shimmer and brighten the teal slightly. My goal was to use a dark yet bright background to create a night time garden scene.
I then began my stamping layers, first using a leaf/vine image from Pueen image plate 15 (image on left side of plate in the picture) along with Mundo de Unas 'Neon Green' on all my fingers.
Then using a couple of polishes from China Glaze along with a couple of stamping polishes from Mundo de Unas, I stamped rose images randomly across all my nails. I stamped two to three rose images on each finger, in no particular color pattern. The rose image is a singular rose image from Pueen plate 4 (rose image on the bottom right side of the image plate picture).
When I was satisfied with design, I performed a bit of cleanup with acetone and a brush, and applied my glossy topcoat.
This nail art design is slightly unconventional for me. I don't often wear darker colors and I haven't done a great deal of stamping. Typically, I would consider this to be a very busy nail art design, but I feel the combination of bright and dark colors helps to tone down the busyness. All in all, I like this nail art design way more than I thought I would.
The only thing I wished I could change about this, is that I wish I had an image of a fairy to incorporate into the design, since they are a significant part 'Midsummer Night's Dream.' However, I can easily image little fairies hiding behind the roses, can't you?
I actually created these for Nail Art Nation's weekly prompt, however, I was a day late in submitting them (as usual). I'll be happy to share them as a nail of the day post though, because they are (in my opinion) too pretty not to share. I hope you all enjoyed this nail art design just as much as me. Thanks for stopping by, see you next time.
Your Fellow Plebe,
