Stamping's a beach

Interpret that as you wish. I'm not really good at this stamping stuff, but I'm trying, and I'm working on getting better. As I was dying to put one of this summer's China Glaze neons on, I had an idea, and decided to go ahead with the stamping stuff. These photos aren't pretty, but at least it was a fun manicure - even though it did not end up as I had pictured it in my head. I used Love's a Beach and Wet n Wild Black Creme.

My topcoat made the black bleed, and yes, I fail at getting the image nicely onto my nails, but here it is. Love's a Beach is good in two coats, and by now, most of you know that Black Creme is good in one (though chips easily). Stamping with Love's a Beach mostly shows the shimmer, at least on black.

This is a sorta double inverted manicure, so the hand you're not seeing here has opposite coloration to this one (three black nails, two pink: index and thumb). It's basically the Homa manicure once again, with additional stamping - my recent Midsummer manicure was a Homa too, but with dotted flowers. What can I say, I do dig this Homa stuff. If I had more and better image plates, I'd probably had used a pattern which even better makes this sort of rough gradient transition from one color to the other.

Despite the bad skills here, is this an idea you like?

Swedish words of the day:
fransk nougat french nougat
Om nom nom.