So, my Cheeky plates had a few different animal print designs, and I feel like a lot of people do those, so while it might be a little overdone, the still young and fun girl inside of me (way down in there, stifled by work and sleep and soon school! I feel old..) just could not wait to get some zebra tips.
I started out with Gelous as my base coat, then for my thumb and ring fingers I layered two coats of a super pretty no-name aqua color that I bought at Maurices a few months ago. Application is really good for this one, opaque in two coats, and it dries semi-matte. I have another polish that I bought at the same time from Maurices and they are my only colors that dry semi-matte..I'm iffy about that type of finish. Are you trying to be matte because you know how cool it looks? Why are you still satin-y and almost shiny? PICK ONE!! Eh..
For my index, middle and pinky I used Kleancolor Neon Aqua. I do love this blue! Again, the application is really great with these polishes I have found, and I'm almost 100% positive this is opaque in two coats. I keep feeling like these neons from Kleancolor are going to show my nail line, but this one did not. Anyway, perfect color combo in my eyes =]
Sorry about the mess! I was excited because it actually went really well, unlike my first attempt at stamping which I am sure I will eventually post lol I used Pure Ice Black Rage and one of the zebra print designs from my Cheeky plates.
So You can't tell from the picture of my left hand before I cleaned up, and I didn't post of my right beforehand, but I did miss a couple of spots. On my left hand it wasn't a big deal, I remembered that with my bottle of Seche Vite came a little strip with some tiny rhinestones that look like diamonds along with about 25 little pink breast cancer awareness ribbons. I think some of the money went toward that cause, and that's why I bought it. I mean I was going to get the bottle anyway but I only had to pay maybe a dollar more for this one. Anyway, so I fixed my left hand, and then finished my thumb with Seche Vite (I didn't have nail glue, so this was the only way I could think of to get the rhinestone to stay) and the rest of my fingers I finished off with Hard Candy's matte polish (I think it's called Matte-ly in love?)
For my right hand, there were a couple of extra problems that I fixed the same way. As you can see, my thumb has a missing part of the zebra design on the right side. I knew that my stamper hadn't picked up all of the design (my fault, not Konad's lol) and I thought I could make that work for me. BAM! Two rhinestones. Then on my ring finger the same thing happened in the left corner, so I fixed it the same way. Sorry for my middle finger being in the way lol I finished my thumb and ring finger in Seche Vite, and the others in Hard Candy's matte.
Also, my pinky was just beyond repair and I did not feel like taking it all off and putting it all back on again. I felt accomplished, nothing was gonna bring me down!
You can probably tell that I did not wait for my stamping to dry before putting my top coats on. If you're a beginner like I am, please please please please wait for your stamping to dry for a bit lol You won't regret it! You might however if you have to look down at your nails and see veiny streaks all over. I do a little teeny bit, but I know that I'm just going to get better at this, and I think I did pretty well for my first zebra stamping attempt. I still only know of my Pure Ice Black Rage as being my go-to polish for stamping, but I don't see why Pure Ice's other cremes wouldn't work as well. I will find out though=]
