Whimsical Ideas by Pam Superhero..with stamping!

Evening all you lovely people out there! So, I was sick last week..and I have gone from being sick to being fully back at work and working 44 hours...and I have felt everyone of those hours! I sometimes envy people who have 9-5 jobs and when they aren't feeling great can throttle down and cruise at work for a bit. I work in healthcare and the 8-10 hour shifts can drain you to the point of being comatose on the couch *cough like tonight cough*. It hasn't helped that the workload has ramped up from busy but manageable to outta-control-which-one-of-the-12-cases-that-must-be-done-right-now goes first?! I hope the dust settles soon.

Anyways, somehow my nails have grown insanely long (for me) and after the cute Ulta3 Pastel Yellow I put on the other day I decided to take the mani just that bit further and try out Whimsical Ideas by Pam Superhero I bought a little while ago in a group buy with the Aussie Nails Girls group. I decided to accent just 3 fingers with Superhero and stamp the other 2 for variety..here's how it turned out.

2 Coats of Superhero on first 2 finger, stamping with China Glaze Happy go Lucky

Macro shot of Superhero, jelly yellow base with blue and yellow hexes, red stars and micro gold glittahs

 Macro on the nail, gorgeous glitter combo!

Glitter and stamping..do they go together?

Mix and match yellow mani, sucess or fail?

I quite liked how this turned out..in real life the stamping contrast wasn't quite as great with the  images being a little difficult to distinguish from the background..but maybe I could have picked a better stamping image choice...like stars (duh!) to tie in better with Superhero. Clearly, I thought contrasting rather than matching when I did this :) Anyways, it made me happy to wear it. Whimsical Ideas by Pam Superhero was easy to apply, I didn't have to glitter fish and the bow on the bottle is always so cute!

What do you think? Mani yay or nay?

Aussie Nails Monday - Skittles

Today is Monday and it's a good day for me as I have the day off..woohoo for long weekends. It's the only upside of shift work. Today's Aussie Nails Monday's challenge was skittles. I chose to do stamping skittles :) I have had a bit of a cuticle fiasco on my swatching hand so please don't look too closely and I have used my right hand for pics which isn't that easy to position. Oh the first world problems!

For this look I used FNUG Fantastica as a base which is a holo pale green polish which is only slightly tinted green in the pics. I then stamped with Gals Princess Plates Number 34 and using the 4 images on the plate, one on each finger with L-R China Glaze Happy Go Lucky, Essie Jag-u-are, OPI Swimsuit, Nailed It! and China Glaze Harmony.

Photo in the Shade

Full Sun..note, crooked stamping on ring finger on Left Hand

Not crooked stamping Right hand :)

 You can see the pale Green of the Fantastica in the individual pics :)

 The best for last, holo, green and stamping :) 

As you can tell from the lots of photos I took I really loved how this turned out. The base of FNUG Fantastica was lovely as always and the stamping was easy with Gals "The Princess set" plate. I purchased mine from Amazon.com and found the international shipping option which was a little tricky to find. I hope your monday went equally as well!

Check out the other lovely ladies participating in the Aussie Nails Monday Manis :)

Nail Gun XS - Marie’s Manicure Madhouse - Shatter Me Claire - A Polished Prance - Shades of Phoenix - The Epitome of Superficiality - Lacquer Dreams - NananaisNails - Enamoured With Enamel - Adelle1985 - Kelly's Kolors - Polished Peripherals - Every Little Polish - Mel My Issta - Walk In My Eyeshadow - JennLojko - Erinzi’s Nails - Lovessweetas - Jas’ Blingtastic Nails - Mckfresh - Maedaynails - Lili_Bete - The Reluctant Femme - Jibber Jabber - Messy Mansion - Nailovelogy - Ronda - It's All About The Polish - Pretty Polish Please