For the last Go Pink Wednesday I decided to go for something special, so I used two of my favorite things for this mani - Holographic nail polish and the butterfly wings stamping plate I designed a while back ago.

I started with two coats of Shaka Hologram Silver 06, then created a gradient with PUPA Holographic Strawberry 38. Once it was ready for my stamp, I stamped the black butterfly wings stamp from my Nailz Craze NC01 stamping plate with Wet n Wild Black Creme polish. I added some white spots with a dotting tool, used Chic White Flag white polish. Then I added Poshe top coat once the design was all done.

I had a few rough incidents while creating this mani, the most annoying was that Shaka's holo polish just didn't work with my regular base coat. I've been using  Nail Tek foundation 2 for few months now, and I haven't seen anything like this with my other polishes. Shaka's holo just wouldn't go on to of it even after the base coat dried. It left huge bald spots and dried so dull you could never see it was a holo at all. Even after applying the second coat on top of it, it was bad. So I removed it all and applied my old nail hardener by GADE which is kind of transparent glossy polish that doesn't do much. It was better on top of it, but first coat wasn't great. It was better when I applied the second coat of the holo, and then I could go on with my mani.
Pupa's holo wasn't as satisfying as I hoped it would be, I guess the sponging process didn't do justice to it because by itself it has a gorgeous holo effect.
Then the sun wouldn't come out for me and my holographic mani, it's a gloomy day here, so I had to use my lamp for the photos. So it's not as pretty as I hoped it would be but you can still see the holo effect.
I really love how Shaka's Silver holo changes it's color in the light, you can see the blue, green and even some purple which is really nice. Overall I love this mani and I'm happy to share it with you and would love to hear your thoughts.





The next day I managed to take some photos in the sun, although it came out for few minutes and it wasn't as bright, but the holo looks pretty and the colors are more accurate :)

This is the third mani I've done for the  Go Pink Wednesday and I think this is my favorite so far. I've been waiting to use my new polishes from Essence and the new Cheeky plates (this one is so pretty!) and I really love how it came out, even prettier than I imagined.

For this mani I used Essence Modern Romance which is a light peachy color with pink shimmer, and Essence Naughty and Pink! which is a sweet hot pink creme.
First I applied two coats of Modern Romance, and when it dried I applied both polishes on a sponge and created this gradient. I like to use a dry makeup sponge, I find it to work best for me.
Then I stamped with white stampy polish also from Essence and used the Cheeky CH53 plate, and finally topped it all with Poshe.

This came out to be such a sweet mani and I really love everything about it. I think I could wear this forever, and I know I will be doing this again with other colors or maybe even repeat it just as is. That's how much I loved it! haha
I've been waiting to use this lovely birds and love letters stamp and I was so excited when I got it! I think it's my favorite design from all Cheeky plates.
I already planned my next mani for the Go Pink Wednesday and I'm excited for it to be my final mani for this project.
So what do you think of my mani this week? What other color combinations would you suggest for it? :)

This is my second pink mani for the Go Pink Wednesday project I've joined last week.
I used Essie Fiji as a base, it's a lovely creamy pale pink. I needed two coats for nice coverage, but I think if I wasn't using a stamp over it, I would probably need 3 coats for perfect finish.
On the ring finger I applied one coat of Essie A Cut Above, which is a gorgeous glitter top coat with four different sizes of hexagon glitters with a clear base. I really love the color of these glitters, it has a lovely pinkish-red tone. I actually think it would look great layered into a jelly sandwich, but I will do that some other time.
For the stamp I used fauxnad plate M63, and stamped it with Sally Hansen Color Quick pen in Fuchsia Chrome.
I really love how it came out, very feminine and delicate. What do you think about my mani? Did you do a mani for Go Pink Wednesday yet? You totally should join in!

As you might have noticed there are lots of pink manis around the blogosphere lately. Well if you don't know why, I should probably be the first one to tell you that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

I decided to join in and spread the word, so for today's mani I chose to go with two things I haven't tried yet - Jade's holo polish and Cheeky's stamp :)

I'm a fool for holos and I just can't get enough of them, so I was really excited when I got this polish in a swap. I've seen lots of Jade's holos swatches and they were always so amazing! They sparkle like crazy in the sun, which is great because that's what the holos are all about!

I've also really wanted to try this cute swirly stamp from Cheeky's first plates set (CH16) so I thought it would be nice to try it over this holo. I stamped it with Essence white stampy polish. The white stamp gave it a subtle look which I like. What a shame that this mani will stay with me for one day only (I have a mani I've planed to do for my bf's band which is performing tomorrow!).

For these photos I used two coats of Jade Holografico - Seducao Rosa, no top coat in the photos but I applied it later when the stamp was completely dry. With a generous coat of Poshe I had no smearing of the stamp :) I love that top coat!