Fancy Friday #72: Reverse Stamping

Oooooohh I'm excited about this challenge. Up until now I've actually done this without realising I did reverse stamping, since I have made quite a lot of stamping decals.

This time around I wanted to try the technique where you do the colouring on the stamper and then do a direct transfer to the nail.

I did not succeed in any way :D. I didn't have time to do it all over again so what you get is my work-in-progress.

I actually started with my middle finger...and progressed to the ring finger. Certainly not an improvement!! I think I was too impatient, the polish seemed too wet which can explain the squashed pattern.

And the image turned out to be too small for my thumb :(

So when all else fails? FAIRY DUST ALL THE THINGS!!!

Det der reverse stamping? Det er jeg ikke så god til...endnu! Jeg har besluttet mig for at det skal prøves af igen, for det var rigtig sjovt at lave.

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Fancy Friday #53: Happy 1st Birthday

Last week saw the first year of Fancy Friday passing by and who'd have thunk I would still be here?

I certainly wouldn't have thought that a year ago. Which is why I really had a celebration on my nails. Bring out the bubbly and confetti!!!!

I love MoyouLondon plates, I have a couple with XL patterns on and they are simply way too large for my nails which makes it hard for me to align the patterns properly. So I chose to do reverse stamping instead and then cut the designs out to fit my nails.

Which is why my middle finger looks particularly lumpy -  one big design cut down to three small images that are then placed on my nail. But that also means there is a lot of excess dried top coat that has a tendency to lump together when the final layer of top coat is applied.

I really enjoyed making these though they do take some extra time and effort. Despite of the lumpiness of the mani I am quite satisfied with the outcome, it looks almost like I envisioned it.

Fælles Fredag holdt 1 års fødselsdag i sidste uge, og jeg måtte altså fejre at jeg har holdt på i et helt år, dog med en del forsinkelser på mine indlæg de sidste uger. Så det blev fyrværkeri, champagne og serpintiner der kom på neglene :D

Fancy Friday #50: Tribal/Pattern

For this challenge I was going to do a tribal mani but then one of my fellow Nordic nail addicts who runs Svartebloggen shared a blog post she did on reverse stamping and an awesome way to use it. Batcheeba's style is grungy and highly creative - in a remarkable way that reminds me of how Missy of Gnarly Gnails does things.

So this is became a pattern mani instead of the tribal, inspired by Reverse Stamping - The Cut Up:

I started out with these small fellows:

And then cut them into different pieces that I sort of randomly placed on my nails:

These were taken outside in indirect daylight:

As you may have noticed I moisturise before I take pictures :D.

The next pics are in artificial lighting:

I have used a different top coat here but I'm not totally convinced of it's use. I don't really find it fast drying and it made dents next to the edges of the decals - not cool in my view. But I still need to work a little more with it before I cast my final judgement.

So how do you like this? Something you'd try out or is it just not your thing?

Ugens udfordring er Tribal/Mønster. Jeg ville egentlig have lavet tribal men så faldt jeg over noget reverse stamping på Svartebloggen som jeg virkelig gerne ville prøve af. Og det er egentlig lykkedes meget godt ;)