Summer Designs with MoYou Nails!

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I don't now if YOU know this, but Father's Day this year was also the first official day of summer!  So I created two nail designs to celebrate the new season using MoYou Nails stamping plates, polish, and rhinestones ^_^

The first design is based off one of my top favorite images that come to mind when I hear the word "summer" - sailing!

I did a gradient using "Lei It Again" and "Rum Me The Right Way" by KBShimmer, and painted a wave pattern using "In Yacht Water," also by KBShimmer.  To get the subtle waves look, I used a holo topcoat and OPI's Nail Envy in a watermarble pattern.  I then used my MoYou Nails Black nail polish to stamp the boat silhouettes, and a dark blue stamping polish from somewhere (I honestly don't recall, it's in an unmarked tiny bottle) for the dolphin silhouettes, all from MoYou Nails Plate 70.  I painted a light grey inside the dolphin lines because they just looked odd as outlines :P  I topped it all with my OPI Matte topcoat, and I'm pretty pleased with the end look ^_^

My second design is a bit more fun :)  One of my favorite activities I remember doing as a kid in the summer was making tie-dye t-shirts and whatnot.  So I thought I'd re-create a nail design to sort of emulate that look:

I used the entire Live Love Neon collection by Seventy-Seven Nail Lacquer for the watermarble designs.  I then stamped over using my MoYou White nail polish and a beautiful butterfly design from Plate 212.  Over the sun part of the butterfly image I placed a diamond rhinestone for an added sparkle :)  I totally love how this design turned out!!!

I'm always pleased with MoYou Nails plates and polishes - they all stamp so smoothly!  I've noticed that they pick up with different types of stamper heads, too, which is always nice.  Some of my polishes will only pick up with a super sticky and squishy stamper, others will only transfer on a more solid type of stamper.  All the MoYou Nails polishes pick up with both types so far.  I used my MoYou Nails stamper, which is not too sticky and is stiffer, for all these image transfers in the above designs.

What do you think of these designs?  What are some of the first things that come to your mind when you think of Summer? :)

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MoYou Nails supplied their stamping plates, polishes, and rhinestones for this review.  Opinions and experiences with the product are my own and are 100% honest.  Results may vary for everyone.

Press Release: KBShimmer Summer Collection

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Happy Monday to you all!  I've got a press release for you today explaining each of the 3 parts of the massive new Summer collection soon to be released by KBShimmer!!  It's pretty incredible, and your bank account will probably start weeping already by the end of this post ;)

Tempted yet?  Maybe?  Alright, how about these:

Still on the fence?  This should send you over:

I have determined that I only really need one kidney, so I can sell the other one and use the profits to buy these, because they are all AMAZING!!  This is the first time in a very long time that each and every color coming out in this Summer collection is one that I really want!  I have a few of these lovelies I'll be swatching and showing you in the next week or so, so keep your eye out!  

Until then, you can follow the KBShimmer Facebook Page, Fan Group, and Instagram for updates, sneak peaks, and all around fun!  See you soon <3

Challenge Your Nail Art: I Love the Color...

I was pretty excited for today's Challenge Your Nail Art them ^_^  The color I love most is GREEN!  I looooooove me some green!!  Any shade - pale, neon, grass, etc.  If it's green, I luvs it.  Which is going to make the month of March leading up to and including St. Patrick's Day super fantastic and full of GREEN for me :D

So, I was pretty excited that yesterday, I received my order of the Spring Bouquet Collection by Model City Polish and my order of three spring holos recently released by KBShimmer.  There is a beautiful green from both orders that I was more than happy to put into my design for today's prompt ^_^

Before I get into what I used, here's my design for today:

I used Ins and Sprouts from KBShimmer as the base color.  I so totally love this color so much that I may actually buy a second bottle - it's SO GORGEOUS!  I'll be featuring it and the other two spring holos I got in a later post.  I used Swirls Vinyl Nail Decals (also KBShimmer) on top, and did a gradient technique with Hellebore from Model City as the medium green, and Gemini Rising from Colors by Llarowe as the dark green.  This is my first time using vinyls from KBShimmer, and WOW, it was sooo smooth!  Look at how clean those lines are?!?  I'm impressed!!

Check out the other entries for today at the inlinkz below!  I'll be back tomorrow with the next prompt!

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