Showing posts with label M44. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M44. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

Quick and Dirty Konad Swatches

Konad swatches are surprisingly hard to find, and I know how valuable they can be when you are right on the verge of placing a 1am wowsocool order. I recently broke down and bought 5 new plates with the 30% off code, and decided to do some very quick (and very messy!) swatches of a few of my plates. All used WnW Black Creme and WnW French White.

Plate m62:


Overall, I really like this plate. the design on my ring and pinky was a little difficult to work with, the entire image never wanted to stamp. The necklace (pinky and thumb) was surprisingly easy, as were both designs on the ring finger. The one on the middle finger was near impossible to center, and the top never wanted to stamp with the rest of the image.


Plate m60:


This plate was actually pretty great. The plaid design gave me trouble every time I attempted it, but the others were crisp and easy. The ring finger design, which I though would be the most difficult to transfer, was actually the easiest.


Plate m65:


Loved this one. Everything went on pretty easy, even the circles! I thought they would be near impossible. Hardest image to work with was the roses.


Plate m44:



Ok..... this was my first time using the french manicure konads. They are quite the challenge! I love the idea of them, but it is soooo hard to get them to line up correctly. Most of the time, they just look wonky. But I want to love them, so I am going to keep trying! The pinky design was the hardest to work with, the two on the middle finger were the easiest.

Hope this was helpful, even though they are *really* messy :)

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Halloween Fail of the Day

Soooo I decided that I wanted to do a slighty tacky, bright NOTD for today and tomorrow that was in the Halloween spirit. It.... did not turn out well. So first off, here is a KOTD from last week, and below that you can get a peak at the F(ail)OTD...

Old KOTD:


NYC White, WnW Black Creme Konad Plate m63


Now on to the Halloween NOTD...

So in my mind, I wanted a bright pumpkin orange like this LA Girl Flare:


But when I went to put it on, the application was beyond awful. I have no idea how I got it to look so even in the picture above.

So I decided to use another orange I have, WnW Craze in Inferno:



This is WnW Craze Inferno with WnW Black Creme Konad Plate m44


The orange is a lot more orange, and a lot brighter in person, but for some reason it just doesn't work. The black creme kept smearing onto the orange for no reason, but it was down at the cuticles, not by the konad. Anyway, this is also my first attempt at the french manicure konad, it will definitely take a little more practice. Unfortunately I think this mani will be staying on until tomorrow night, maybe it will grow on me...