Electric Midnight Blue

Hello, Fireflies!

This month's Nail Challenge Collaborative challenge is Our Favorite Color.  My fave color for as long as I can remember has been Midnight Blue.  It's kinda hard to capture in polish, as it can easily go too dark and end up black.  But I was able to pick 4 polishes that closely resembled what I love about the deep, dark, mysterious Midnight Blue.

I started with Seche Hypnotic, an electric/metallic midnight blue.

It has some brightness where the light hits, and some areas of shadows.  It's a one-coater, too.  I decided to add another of my faves, flakies, to it with Liquidus Lapis.

Can you see the flakies?  Yeah, me, neither.  Not really.  Whomp, whomp.

Bottle shot:  Seche Hypnotic and Liquidus Lapis.

So disappointing when a flakie doesn't deliver!  I'll try it over something else before I declare it a total fail.  After all, there are so many in the bottle.  Surely they have to show up sometime on the nail, right?

Stamping Sunday - Holo with a Twist

Sunday Stamping! Today's challenge was to stamp over a holo.  Well, if there's something I have, it's a lot of holos.  This dusty slate blue from Jade, Extasy, was calling my name.

I liked this pattern on Shany SH20, but I thought it would stamp thicker for some reason.

Pretty, but it needs a little something.

I took Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Electric Sheep, Liquidus Blue Diamond Turquoise, and the tiniest nail brush I own, and filled in some of the shapes from the stamp.

I need to try the decal technique, but for now, this is more like what I was looking for.

Bottle shot:  Jade Extasy, Finger Paints Black Expressionism, Obsessive Compulsive Cosmetics Electric Sheep, and Liquidus Blue Diamond Turquoise.

Do you prefer your stamps to be one color, do you like decals, or painting them instead?