Sunday, January 16, 2011

Blue bouquet: BB Couture Ride My Sleigh

Hello ladies,

The recent cold spell has been inspiring garden fantasies. Longing to see delphinium in bloom, I created a blue bouquet for my nails. As much as I enjoy the effervescent feeling of cold, this year my heart has been time traveling a few months ahead.

I chose Konad pastel blue special polish to stamp the bouquets from Born Pretty plate M64. Royal blue rhinestones, pale blue pearls, and silver beads highlight the flowers. I alternated placement of blue Marquis rhinestones amongst the leaves. I added dark blue shading to the leaves and flower centers with a Nubar nail art pen in Sapphires.




Ride My Sleigh is such a beautiful shade. The color reminds me of the greenery on Victorian Christmas cards and old fashioned lengths of velvet ribbon. Ride My Sleigh has far too much delicate shimmer to join the army green shades. There is a combination of pale green, coppery red and rainbow glitter in the mix. The application was typical BB Couture perfection, easy to apply, quick to dry. I am showing three coats.

I hope you enjoyed my sparkling bouquet toss!

Ride My Sleigh was sent to me for review. This polish and the others in the Christmas Collection are available for purchase at overallbeauty.com.

Image plate M64 was provided for my consideration. Visit bornprettystore.com to see all the designs in their nail art stamping plate set #518.

Happy painting, ladies!
Posted by paintedladyfingers at 6:06 PM
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11 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 16, 2011 at 8:02 PM

    wow i really love these colors together! very pretty!

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  2. peripatetic33January 16, 2011 at 8:17 PM

    BB does it again, another have to have green.

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  3. paintedladyfingersJanuary 16, 2011 at 9:18 PM

    ThatsSOFresh: Thank you! A reader yesterday commented about loving blues and greens, so I decided to pair those colors in a single manicure.

    peripatetic33: Their greens are so amazing! I feel BB Couture creates the best greens of any brand.

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  4. UnknownJanuary 16, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    I just love this colour and the design is quite fabulous~!!! Green being my favourite colour, I definitely agree that "Riding My Sleigh" is a super groovy shade of polish~!!

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  5. DonnaJanuary 17, 2011 at 9:33 AM

    I wouldn't have ever come up with the greenish gold/light blue combination. It actually sounds ugly to my imagination, but seeing this it's inspired! The green gold does make you think antique, and then the light blue makes it seem just a little faded, and yet it's still clear to see. So yes, it definitely has a Victorian Christmas card feel to it. I wish I had an imagination that could come up with these stunning combinations.

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  6. SilvaJanuary 17, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    Wow, that's so pretty! For some reason, I thought the manicure would be entirely blue, but the base is green :)

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  7. MariaJanuary 17, 2011 at 3:26 PM

    gorgeous

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  8. LianeJanuary 17, 2011 at 5:08 PM

    I love how your stamping seems to focus on the centre of your nails. This is really nice and the jewels add to it too. :-)

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  9. Libby's Pink VanityJanuary 17, 2011 at 5:37 PM

    Green like a crushed green winter scarf. Or a Christmas tree skirt. :) Beautiful!

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2011 at 8:01 PM

    That's beautiful! I have to use my rhinestones and such mroe often!

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  11. LucyJanuary 19, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    This is really lovely. It does look like a Victorian bouquet. Gorgeous!

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