Stars On My Shimmer

Summer has finaly started to influence my mind when I'm picking a polish to paint my nails. Recently I'm leaning towards bright summer shades, although it was difficult to abstain from dusty purples and taupes which I adore so much. Anyway, now I'm into brights and one of them is Depend 228 which I got in my first swap with Annie. Why haven't I tried it before?? It's such a beautiful blue shade packed with silver shimmer.. I guess this polish was just waiting for its time and now it has come:

Then I did some magic to the accent finger: sponged OPI Shimmer&Simmer, striped with a liner and put some stars. As simple as that. Looks much better in reality, plus I should have made the line thinner. 

And my favourite picture of the bunch:

Something Blue

Today I've made a somewhat weird mani. I seriously don't know what inspired me, probably I just didn't want to stamp over the whole nail because I love the polish colour so much - China Glaze Secret Peri-wink-le. It's among my top-10, which I'm probably going to publish for fun in the end of the year or so. Anyway, in the end I got almost what I wanted, but I didn't think it will look that weird:

Actually this mani is weird in all possible senses: I took million of pictures before I got some decent ones, and for the first time in my life I've stamped my right hand better than the left one! I never even thought it's possible, cuz I'm right-handed.

Now question to my dear readers: Do you stamp/do free hand nail art better on one hand than on the other? Does it become easier with time?

Le Rouge Et Le Noir

Do you know this novel by Stendhal? I read it a couple of times when I was in high school, and I just randomly remembered about this today when doing my nails. Firstly I wanted to try my new Zoya Andi (btw it's awesome!! The formula and application are flawless, and the colour is one nanoshade away from my ideal red) and in order to make smth interesting, I decided to play with a scotch tape. Here's the result:

Taking into account that it's my first tape mani, I'm satisfied. If I wasn't so lazy and applied the 2d coat of topcoat, the line between black and red would be smoother. And the last thing, for some reason my camera has an issue with red shades and never wants to reflect them correctly. So if someone is interested in Zoya Andi - you better find other swatches :)