The BHB Thursday challenge last week was multi-colored stamping. I haven’t used this technique much, but I have seen so many lovely manis using it that I couldn’t pass up giving it a try!
My base for this mani was Funky Fingers – Let the Beat Drop, a gorgeous blue with a subtle pink shimmer. Knowing what I know now, I would probably use an opaque undie for this polish, as it took about 4 coats for full opacity. It goes on very thin, however, so it didn’t build up too much or look thick. I coated these with Seche Vite and gave them a couple of hours to full dry.
Once I was sure they were quite dry, I began my stamping. I used one of the wave designs from MoYou London Sailor 06 and used M Polish – Starflower, Apricot Delight, Bells of Ireland and Sweetclover. I chose these polishes largely because of their shimmery quality, which I thought would go great with the shimmer in Let the Beat Drop. I did a line of each color on the plate and then scraped:


You can se that scraping blends the colors together. Here is how it looked on my stamper:

The Apricot Delight color is really showing strong on this one, but each one turned out a little bit different. I repeated this process for each nail and then used Seche Vite to finish off the mani.

And here is a macro that shows the color differences in more detail (on this nail I picked up a bit more of the blue and green!):

POLISHES:
- Essie β Grow Stronger Base Coat
- Funky Fingers – Let the Beat Drop
- M Polish – Sweetclover
- M Polish – Starflower
- M Polish – Apricot Delight
- M Polish Bells of Ireland
- Seche ViteΒ β Dry Fast Top Coat
- MoYou London – Sailor 06
The multi-color stamping ended up being more subtle than I had hoped, but I was really pleased overall. I definitely want to do this technique with some higher contrast stamping. It’s a ton of fun to experiment with colors!
I love this! Beautiful in every way
Lovely stamping!
Really nice stamping! I’ve never tried this technique while stamping and it looks wonderful. I might have to give it a try. The M polishes really do stamp great.
Very pretty! I’m a huge fan of multi-colored stamping!!
I adore the shimmer in those stamping polishes! Lovely!
Love this! Super cute!
Jen, your nails are absolutely beautiful!! This mani is no different, I love it! Slightly off topic, I adore how clean your blog is!
Beautiful stamping!
Oh wow this is perfection!
loved how they turned out
Beautiful colors in the stamping–all together stunning. π
Really pretty! Love the multi color stamping <3
xoxo, Nyx
Your stamping is amazing
Such a gorgeous mani. Shimmer polishes that can stamp?! I am sold on these, definitely need to add them to my collection.
Amazing stamping. I loved the macro shot π
This looks pretty. The multi color stamping gives look of multi chrome.
I love this! This reminds me of waves. It’s beautiful!! You should do this again, but create some depth and stamp some fish behind and in front of the “waves”. It would look incredible!
This came out beautiful!