Ciate Pepperminty with Butterfly Water Decals!

Ok so it was a good thought but yeah every day is hard.  Let's go with "more", shall we?  I'm also going with trying to use all the stuff I order off the internet.  I found these butterfly water decals so those!  Needed a nice pastel colour to put them on, so Ciate Pepperminty was a good candidate.  Let's flutter by these butterflies, shall we?

Ciaté Pepperminty is a nice pastel blue/green creme.  It does need three coats to be properly opaque but it's fine with those three coats.  To help speed up the drying process, I added a coat of Seche Vite before moving on to my water decal.  Now, something important here.  WATER DECALS ARE NOT LIKE TEMPORARY TATTOOS.  DO NOT STICK THEM FACE DOWN.  Instead, sit them decal-up on a saturated cotton pad then use tweezers to slide the decal off.  I learnt this the hard way.  I don't mind though as they have a strong white backing, meaning you get really vibrant images.  Cover them with another coat of top coat and you're done! 

The Verdict:  Love the flutterbies, the decals themselves, and the polish.  Win all round!  I'm always happy when I can get a composition to look good, even if it's just sticking a bunch of decals on my nails.  Composition has never been my strong suit so if it can look cool then I feel cool.  YEAH.  Butterflies.

31DC2014 Day 6: Violet! Or what happens when you don't know when to stop adding stuff

Dammit this challenge is hard.  Taking proper photos is just the really hard part on top of actually doing the nails cos you have to edit them, fix the colours, and then actually write the post.  Hence the placeholder posts.  I'm totes going to go back and do them proper, I swear.  Ok so Violet.  Not super feeling it, so hence the mature-shirt-for-older-ladies thing I have going here.  Oh well.  It's a thing.  Onward!

I don't really know what I was going for here.  I just kept sticking stuff on and it went ok I guess.  To start I applied two coats of Essie Bikini So Teeny then sponged on Essence Dark Night Starlight, Zoya Megan and OPI Planks a Lot, all purples.  I didn't realise my violets water decals were white backgrounded so instead of them, butterflies!  Oh course I needed to add glitter and studs too.  Urgh.  Not feeling it.  But it's here.  So yay!

The Verdict:  Yeah, this is the kind of thing you see in stores on vacation, you know, for the older crowd.  But the water decals are cool, even though they have a habit of dissolving if you go over them with Seche Vite one too many times.  Eh.