One Black Base – Four Looks

I bought two gel “colors” and since we’ve already done a bunch of white nail art, I thought it was time to do some nail art on a black reusable base. Sadly, these aren’t very thematic since we’re at the end of the month and I’m just scrambling to finish all my nail art challenges. Next month will be simpler in some ways…

#GlamNailsChallengeAug – Back to School
#StampingMasterAugust – Ice Cream

So with a prompt like back to school it feels like most people focus on more elementary school things like crayons and apples for teachers. I have seriously been loving some of the colorful looks I’ve seen for it. But. The last school I went to was college so I wanted to focus on something that was closer to my heart. Like the ice cream my student teachers from my beginning science class made for us with liquid nitrogen on the last day of school. Yeah, I’m all about food and it was good ice cream. I’d have to go a SubZero go get that kind of ice cream again. 🙂

• Base Polish:
  black gel polish
• Stamping Polish:
  Mundo de Unas’ “White”
• Advanced Stamping Polishes:
  China Glaze’s “Desert Sun”, Sinful Colors’ “Bright Lucite”, “Beautiful Girl” and “Ruby, Ruby”, Turtle Tootsie’s “Vanilla”
• Freehand:
  Essie’s “No Place Like Chrome” and acrylic paint
• Stamping Plate:
  Born Pretty BP-X33

#beautometry – Zodiac

I thought about doing a Western zodiac-themed set of nails, but I really want to make a full set of all the signs and have them match in style. I didn’t want to have two of one sign in a different style so I decided to stick with Eastern for now. Besides, it’s going to be the Year of the Rooster allll year, baby. And I think chickens are adorable. So you can probably expect at least one more on this theme before the year is out. (Product listing is for the second mani only.)

• Base Polish:
  black gel polish
• Stamping Polish:
  Mundo de Unas’ “Sunflower” & red acrylic paint
• Stamping Plate:
  Moyou London Zodiac Collection 22

#beautometry – Candy Land

I really wanted to do a thorough actual land of candy nail art for this prompt, but I am in a time crunch. So I dug out Harunouta’s L038 stamping plate which is full of candy goodness and went to work. Then I took my photos. And…I just wasn’t liking it. So I did it again. And then I looked back and thought maybe I’d been too quick to judge on the first mani? I don’t know… Either way, I’m also hoping to do a whole series of Candy Land nail art in the future, but this was still a fun manicure until then. 🙂

• Base Polish:
  black gel polish
• Stamping Polish:
  Mundo de Unas’ “White”
• Advanced Stamping Polish:
  Color Club’s “Miss Bliss”, “Eternal Beauty” and “Over the Moon” and Sinful Color’s “Whiteboard”
• Stamping Plate:
  Harunouta’s L038

#beautometry – Football Nation

Uff. Not a sports fan and also feel a little bad that the stadium stamping image I used was for soccer, not football. But, the prompt is what it is. So I included a little football and a little of what I’d watch: the halftime show. 😀

• Base Polish:
  black gel polish
• Stamping Polish:
  Mundo de Unas’ “White”
• Stamping Plate:
  Born Pretty BP-129 (musicians) and Moyou London Tourist Collection 14 (stadium)
• Football freehanded with acrylic paint

That’s it! Four manicures on a reusable black gel base. The gel is holding up pretty well so I think I’ll get a few more manicures out of it.