Nail Venturous Floam and China Glaze Flying Dragon

Flying on a Floam Dragon..Sounds exciting, doesn't it? Well it is! I was going to have Floam Friday and I infact did this mani on Friday BUT there may have been a slight hitch with the lightbox that I use when my naughty black cat attacked it a little. There was some clean up to be done before use again. Grr. He's too cute to stay mad at for long and there wasn't any unfixable damage, so onward and upward.

So, what does Floam and Flying Dragon combo look like, it looks awesome!

I did my whole mani yesterday without taking photos except for the final look, but you'll get the general idea. I was inspired to use my Floam and thought China Glaze Flying Dragon (neon) would go well. It didn't turn out as neon as I wanted it, but it was still pretty darned good.

Nail Venturous Floam, without and with Flash

 China Glaze Flying Dragon (neon) with and without flash (so hard to photograph!)

 Kleancolor Jazz Olive, Catch Me and Metallic Aqua

 I applied Ulta3 Base Coat, 2 Coats of China Glaze Flying Dragon Neon (borrowed pic)

Then I did a coat of Floam on my index and middle fingers and stamped with Catch Me and Jazz Olive and using a dotting tool I dotted some accents with Metallic Sapphire. I used Bundle Monster plates for the stamping.

Flying Dragon with flash and Floam!

I think the color combination looks very fun :)

Left Thumb, I attempted to layer the stamp with interesting but not super clear effect. The detail is hard to pick up in a photo :(

Right Hand stamping

 Without Flash

 With Flash

 Right Hand Thumb Design (with flash)

Flying Dragon is so hard to photograph! I didn't think it would be. The photos with the flash seem to show the stamping designs a lot clearer. I actually really love this look in person, the contrast between the Flying dragon and Floam is awesome! The color I chose to stamped were in an attempt to compliment the Floam, I hope you think I did alright on that. Any thoughts?

Oh, and here is a quick pic of my furbabys who I love as much as my polish!

Meet my boys :) Gixxer is on the left and Tiller (special kitty) is on the right.

These 2 are brothers who are so fun and great company for me and each other.

Sweet Violet, Bundle Monster and Floam, oh my!

Today, in continuing with the purple theme I seem to have going is Ulta3 Sweet Violet, but before I get into the swatch I want to blabber on about some of the thing I am finding exciting in the polish world.

First of all Bundle Monster are releasing their new plates on June 20th! I am so excited as I love my BM plates and stamping. Sarahlouise at Spellbinding Nails has the down low on the various plates and the date release, June 20th :) There are some awesome designs coming out and even if you're not the best stamper these plates are pretty easy compared to some of the fauxnad and even konads that I own. You need these plates, trust me! The BM plates can be found on Amazon in both the USA and UK and the last time I ordered them from the US there was international shipping to Australia, it was not too expensive and delivery was quite quick.

Here is a sample of the plates that excite me:

How awesome will the little skull tip stamp look?

My next excitement is that after blog sale stalking, I have bought (it's on the way) a bottle of Floam! Yes, yes..floam is old hat to everyone else but I have been majorly lemming this little bottle of matte neon goodness. I always seem to miss when it's in stock at Ninjapolish :(  I was watching a bottle selling on ebay just out of interest and do you know what that sucker went for? Wait for it......$80!!! That was without the shipping. Someone must have been uber keen to own this little bottle of floamy magic.

 Now whilst I appreciate it is hard to get, its not obsolete so I think this kinda price madness is a bit OTT for this point in time. My bank balance would refuse to cough up for that much for a bottle of polish :) Floam isn't for everyone but I am looking forward to doing a gradient mani kinda like this one at My Polish Stash

So pretty!

I have a lil bit of nail mail on the way at the moment, so I am checking the mail box frequently with little avail :( Hurry up polish goodness and get to me! Floam in amongst it, as is a few of the China Glaze OMG collection that I am slowly but surely tracking down. I can't resist the bling. If anyone has any that they want to part with for a reasonable price email me! 

Anyways, enough excitable chatter and onto the swatching of Ulta3 Sweet Violet. Now this is not a super special polish, but it's pretty and has a metallic finish that I think will stamp wonderfully. This is with a base coat, 2 coats of Sweet Violet and no topcoat.

 Sweet Violet without flash and with flash ( I can imagine a blue-ish shimmer?)

No color change but just a lovely lilac metallic finish

The metallic finish would be even shinier with a nice Seche Vite coat I think.

Thanks for a having a look at my ramblings today, and tomorrow nail polish is going to be, you guessed it...purple! You just can't have enough purple in my opinion :)