Saturday Nail Art - Stamping

Part of the point of this blog is to wear polishes I wouldn't have otherwise gotten around to. I've just shown swatches up to this point, but I think part of getting to really know a polish is using it for nail art. I didn't find the time to do anything really ornate this week, but I did want to see if Sally Girl 24 Karat would stamp well.

I edited this pic a bunch, but I didn't add the lens flare. That was in the picture already and I thought it looked cool.

Stamping isn't something I'm an expert at; even using a clear stamper, I have a hard time lining up the image on my nail. I used two images from the Uber-Chic succulents mini-stamp plate. I love succulents, so this was the first stamping plate I felt like I had to have. 

Stamped with Konad White and Sally Girl 24 Karat

The plate has a lot of cute images on it. I picked a design that actually appears twice on the plate in different sizes; the small one is perfectly pinkie-sized. I swear I'm going to stop blabbing about how my nails used to be long, but I actually swatched this week's polishes on them before the break. They turned out looking pretty bad, and I didn't get sunlight shots, just desk lamp. I thought I would show a couple even though they suck and I didn't edit them.

L: The plate
R: My nails dwarfed that tiny bottle :(

Join me next week when I resume swatching and eventually get to a polish whose name starts with a letter!

Sally Girl 24 Karat

Hello again! So in my introductory post, I didn't outline the premise of this blog. Basically, I'm going to be swatching polish from my stash and posting pics and thoughts on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. On Saturdays, I'm going to post nail art that is hopefully made from that week's polishes (unless they are completely fuggo together, in which case I have some alternate features planned). I'm going to post in roughly alphabetical order; this blog was almost called something like “alphanailmeric,” but I didn't want to commit to only swatching in alphabetical order and also that name looks stupid.

Without further ado, here's today's polish: Sally Girl 24 Karat!

Indoor lighting

For those of you who aren't familiar with this brand, Sally Girl is sold only at Sally Beauty...or was, it's actually been discontinued recently and replaced with something else. Not the most auspicious polish to start with, now that I think of it!

Sally sold these little tiny bottles for 99 cents, which made them both temptingly cheap and a complete rip-off. Swatching this basically emptied my bottle, although in 24 Karat's defense, I did a mani with this prior to nubbing. I considered putting the pics here, but trust me, they are terrible. 24 Karat is a perfectly average gold foil; there's absolutely no point in reviewing it, since you're not likely to find it anywhere, and the tiny brush is pretty miserable to use anyway. 

That was my first set of swatches! Join me Friday for a polish that is the opposite of this one in a lot of ways (by which I mean, you can and should buy it)!