LIVE ♥ laugh ♥ love - fanbrush stripes & stamping nail art - pastels from Deborah Lippmann's "Spring Reveries" Collection - Valentine's Day nails #10

Hello everyone!

Stage 4

I started with pastel mint green nails. Then I used a fan brush to make stripes in pastels (yellow, lime green, blue and lavender). I used all the nail polishes from Deborah Lippmann's 2014 limited edition "Spring Reveries" Collection, except for the pastel orange. Instead I used Ruby Kisses: Lavender Dream, that I've showed you earlier.

I stamped with China Glaze: Adore, BM- 405 (text) and BM- H16 (flowers).
BM-405 is from Bundle Monster's 2013 "Create Your Own" Collection, and BM-H16 is from the 2013 Holiday Collection. But now it's possible to buy individual plates too.
Adore is from China Glaze's Romantique Collection from Spring 2009. Shades from that collecion are Messy Mansion's favorites for stamping, so I wanted to try it. I found this teal on eBay, and it worked very well for stamping.

This manicure kind of evolved, so there are different versions of it below.

Here you see the palette. I've fallen in love with these pastels. You'll find their names in the product list. I was very pleased with the result you see below,

Stage 1

but sadly I had to redo the ring finger nail, so this is what it looked like before the stamping:

Stage 2

More photos of the "LIVE ♥ laugh ♥ love & 4 flowers" version:

Stage 4

Stage 4

I made this manicure for a AIS Sunday challenge in March, when I was very happy to see these spring flowers.

Stage 3

This version is with only two flowers.

Stage 3

Then I accidentally removed too much when I tried to use tape to do the clean up. So I applied the DL shimmer (La Vie En Rose) from the same collection on some of the nails. And then I filled in the flowers with the shimmer, but it didn't look good, so I took the flowers off. (No pictures of stage 5)

The last version is with the text on all nails and shimmer on all nails except the middle finger nail:

Stage 6

Stage 6

Products used:

Deborah Lippmann: Flowers In Her Hair (pastel mint green creme)
Deborah Lippmann: Build Me Up Buttercup (pastel yellow creme)
Deborah Lippmann: Spring Buds (pastel lime green creme)
Deborah Lippmann: Blue Orchid (pastel blue creme)
Deborah Lippmann: La Vie En Rose (sheer nude/ pastel pink with copper shimmer)

-all from Deborah Lippmann's "Spring Reveries" Collection from spring 2014

Ruby Kisses: Lavender Dream (lavender creme)

A fan brush
Palette (the back side of a Messy Mansion plate) 
XL stamper (black with white soft and small red hard stamper)
Stamping polish: China Glaze: Adore (teal metallic)
Stamping plates: BM- 405 (LIVE ♥ laugh ♥ love) and BM- H16 (flowers)
Lint roller to clean the stamper
Scotch tape to remove my mistakes/ for clean up, (which minimised the need for clean up with a brush dipped in acetone)

Duri Rejuvacote as base coat and Seche Vite top coat.


As I've mentioned before Deborah Lippmann products are not tested on animals.

Stage 6

I haven't swatched the Spring Reveries Collection, but I've used Blue Orchid for nail art. Just click here to see it.


Lani

How I made the multichrome gradient

Hello everyone!

I took some photos when I made the multichrome gradient that you saw in my last post, (before I stamped the leafs over it). So if you're interested in a photo tutorial, just keep reading. I'm not taking credit for the method, I'm just showing you how I did it. I think I learned to use a fan brush from a Cutenails YouTube video, and how to mix the colors with a toothpick before making a gradient from The Nailasaurus. This is an easy and quick way of doing it when you use three polishes or when the polishes are transparent.

1. Apply basecoat, and a black cream nail polish, and top coat. (I chose to use black here, but you can do what you want of course.)

2. When the base is dry, find what you need for the gradient. This is what I used:

3. Put a drop of polish from each bottle on a line, leaving a little space between them (for mixing). (But maybe it was a bad idea to leave space between them...) Use the toothpick to mix two of the colors. I used the other side of the toothpick (or wipe it) to mix the other two colors. This photo is taken after that was done:

4. Dip the fanbrush in a way that picks up all the colors. Because the brush and the line of nail polish was wider than my nail length, I did it like this: I dipped one side first, and wiped up the middle, and then the other side. Then I brushed a few times back and forth on the plastic to make it blend a little, and to get all the nail polish onto the brush.

5. Brush it on one nail from side to side. Then start on 3 again, and do each nail the same way. (I know that the stripes of the fanbrush is visible, but that didn't bother me. If you want to, you can add one more layer.)

6. Then I cleaned up the nail polish around my nails with a flat brush dipped in acetone. (Because one nail was fake, I used acetone- free nail polish remover on that one). I usually take some photos before top coat is added. But I'm just showing one here.

7. Then I applied top coat. If I should stop here, I would have applied cuticle oil too. But I wanted to do some stamping, so I don't think I did. But sometimes, if I have used cuticle oil, I just use a Q-tip dipped in hand sanitizer to get the nails oil free before the stamping. (Not sure if that actually helps... Lol!)

That's it. It was quick and easy. But with cream nail polish I would probably use a sponge. What do you think? If you have good ideas on how to do this better, please tell me in a comment.

Complete list of what I used:

fast drying base coat: IsaDora: #600 Clear
fast drying top coat: Seche Vite
GOSH: Nero (black creme)
Enchanted Polish: Magical Mystery Tour (teal- purple- etc. multichrome)
Enchanted Polish: Hey Jude (green multichrome)
Enchanted Polish: I Am The Walrus (copper multichrome)
fanbrush

toothpick

plastic bag (as palette)

flat brush (for clean- up)

acetone

nail polish remover

egg glass (for the acetone)

cuticle oil: Mi- Ny: Therapy Oil+ Cuticle & Nails With Vitamines E & F

Mi-Ny, Enchanted Polish, Gosh, and IsaDora are not tested on animals. (I have no information about Seche Vite.)

I have a lot of photos of the gradient, but I guess you want to see something else now, so I'll wait a week or something, and show the rest of the photos then. Unlike the photos (with the leafs) in the last post, the ones above are taken before the sun went down.

Lani