Sunday 19 August 2012

Essie Dive Bar- Gradient and Stamping :)

As promised this is where the mani went after I applied Essie Dive Bar. I admired her for a day, then decided I would do a gradient. I was going to make her firey red at the tips but then thought I would go more subtle by piling on the blue. So, for the gradient I used Essie Dive Bar as the base, Dive Bar at the top of the gradient, China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic in the middle and OPI Swimsuit, Nailed it! at the tips. 

L-R Essie Dive Bar, China Glaze Rodeo Fanatic and OPI Swimsuit, Nailed It!

 Gorgeous Blue Gradient!




 Just love how the graduation looks here :)



Without Flash

With Flash! 
Now for the stamping portion of this program! For the stamping I used China Glaze Millennium and a mixture of Cheeky, Bundlemonster and Mash plates. I applied China Glaze Wireless Holographic top coat to 2 of my fingers for a bit of changeup.

Left Hand- Love!

Left Thumb
Right Hand

Right Thumb

Dark Blue in this light


Lighter Blue in this light

Gradient with Flash!
I am super in love with how this turned out! The blue gradient was really pretty and whilst the stamping was a bit OTT, I LOVED it. Haven't stamped up a storm in ages. My girlfriend said her fav finger was the stars one in the pic above but I loved the overall look of my left hand in the very first pic. I love how you can create a mani that is just so different depending on how you look at it. Makes it hard to just go back to a single polish!

Hope you liked the gradient/stamping! Now I am off to work to save lives....or something, LOL.

11 comments:

  1. Wow this is just beautiful! Wonderful gradient!

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    1. Thanks so much, it was so fun to do :)

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  2. I love the subtle look of the gradient and your stamping is excellent!

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    1. I probably should have stopped at the gradient, but I lurve to stamp and couldn't decide...so I did both!

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  3. This is so awesome!! The subtle gradient is amazing, I am going to have to try that one day!!

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    1. If you have a makeup sponge, you can gradient! It's just getting the colors you want to work togther :)

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  4. OMG I was stunned at the gradient mani!! gorgeous!

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    1. Thanks so much :) They aren't too hard and look pretty great I think.

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  5. Gorgeous gradient! I will learn how to do this one day! I just got my first set of stamping plates and I can't wait to try them out and put them on my blog! <3

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    1. Thanks! I just searched for a tutorial and found the best way that worked to me. Stamping plates are super addictive :) So fun to do..will check on how you go with them on your blog :)

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  6. beautiful gradient! I think I'm in love :P And good to know that is a really great silver for stamping!

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