Messy Mansion & Moyra Burnt Paper & Falling Leaves Nail Art

Hi stamperistas

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Does anyone remember a very very long time ago I created nail art using the Messy Mansion "Love Letters" plate?  No well I do!  I was one of most popular designs.  At that time I think it may have been right when I was just getting into photography and trying to figure out lighting etc.  I've come a long way from there, but that mani remains one of the ones that I wanted to recreate to this day.  However there is no point IMO in recreating nail art if you can't make it better and in this case I used the art I created to enter the Beautometry Next Top Swatcher Contest.  If you have a chance and wouldn't mind please go like my first entry on Instagram and Facebook.

Messy Mansion & Elevation Polish Burnt Paper Nails

Literary fans,

Duck and cover because I'm getting ready to burn the library down ;)  No not really but I'm so excited for one of my new plates from Messy Mansion!  Julia I want to move into your brain and paw around for a while.  Seriously I love what you do!  In case you haven't read it here's the interview I did with Julia a few months ago.  Now let's get onto the art...

Pre-Burn

Mani-louge

Basecoat / Topcoat: CND Stickey / Essie Matte About You

Basecolor: Elevation Polish Cerro Torre 2 + Streetside NYC

Stamping polish: Konad Special Polish in Black Gold

Stamping plate: Messy Mansion MM24

I wanted to go nude and aged for this look so I used Elevation Polish Cerro Torre 2 and Streetside NYC to create a saran-wrap nail art base.  This is the first time I've used this technique and I'm pretty happy with the results. Has anyone else used this method before?  Tips and tricks are always appreciated!  I stamped on the various letters from MM24.  From there I created a few circles of black polish and sponged them out.  I then used acetone to "burn out" some portions of the paper.  Finally I mattified the whole thing using Essie Matte About You. 

Matte Burnt

As I firmly believe in giving credit where it's due I want to make sure I say I got the idea for these nails after seeing a post on my AIS group.  I tracked down the original creator Glitter Finger Alexa.  Click the link to see her original post. Oh and here's a shot of the original EP Cerro Torre 2 that was the base for this nail art.



So thoughts?  Which version did you like better - unburnt, glossy burnt, or matte burnt? This turned out so much more awesome than I thought it would!  You can find Messy Mansion plates here. Stalk her on Facebook here.  And because you know I love Elevation Polish and Lulu like woah you can find these polishes on Big Cartel on the 7th and 22nd of each month at 10PM and 10AM EST respectively.  Thanks so much for reading and see you next post!