Topatopa Summer Tribal Nail Art

Hey lacqueristas,

It's been nothing but stamping plate after stamping plate release over here these days!  They are certainly fun, but what I love more is actually taking my nail art plates out for a spin ;)  And if you are a long time reader or even a new one you know nothing floats my boat more than some tribal nail art. Today I have some tribals using my new stamping plates from Topatopa.  You might recall these plates from the review I did here or the geometric nail art I did here.  So let's take a look with the summery look I came up with....

 Mani-louge

Basecoat/Topcoat: Duri Rejuvacote / Poshe Fast Drying Topcoat

Base color: Bonita Pear Me Up

Accent colors: Bonita Team Pink, Orange You Happy, and Blue Steel

Stamping polish: Mundo de Unas #2

Stamping plate: Topatopa TP03

I love these plates!  Because the designs are so clean it's easy to pull together nail art without a lot of muss and fuss.  This look feel together very easily for me which is great because I have really been swamped these days with lots of things so quick and easy is the way to go.  I also took my new Bonita nail polishes for a spin.

I found these polishes at Rite Aid and one reason I like them is that they only cost me about $2 USD for each and they are extremely pigmented and pretty high quality.  They do lean a bit toward the thick side but this can be easily fixed with a drop or two of nail polish thinner.  Not bad eh?  I also wanted to see how these nails would look matte.  Which do you like better?



What do you think? You can find Topatopa stamping plates here if you're interested.  Thanks for reading and see you next post...

Topatopa Summer Geometric Gradient Nail Art

Hey lacquer ladies,

Happy Saturday! I've got a super simple look today using the Topatopa plates I reviewed earlier.  You can read that review here.  I wanted to do something easy for running around and taking care of errands.  I created an easy gradient and decided to take one of my new plates out for a spin.  The gradient actually ended up being the most complicated part of this mani.  For some reason I could not get Royal Highness to the opacity I wanted toward the end of my nails so it took a while to build up the colors enough for me to be satisfied once I did that the rest was easy peasy.  I will say again because my nails are long I did have to use a marshmallow stamper to get the X's to stretch to the end of my nails.

Mani-louge

Base: Duri Rejuvacote / Poshe Fast Drying Topcoat

Gradient: Bonita Team Pink, Royal Highness, and Orange You Happy

Stamping polish: Rica Blackout

Stamping plate: Topatopa TP02

This ended up being so easy and simple after all the complicated mani's I've done recently that it was a nice break.  However, don't worry I will still continue to post my MoYou London challenge mani's since I did complete the 31 days.  It's just pleasant to take it easy every now and again with the nail art. In any case I'm really happy with how this turned out both with the new plates and new stamping polish.  I'll have a review up on the Rica stamping polish shortly so stay tuned.



Do you think it's better to go toward quick and easy mani's as the summer approaches? I'd love to hear what other ladies try as the seasons change.  For those that are interested you can purchase Topatopa plates here and Rica Blackout is available here.  Thanks for reading and see you next post...