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The plate I used for Day 5 is probably the closest thing to perfect I’ve ever own. For quality of details, I haven’t found any other plate manufacturer quite as reliable as Messy Mansion – There is an outside chance it’s DJ Blue My Mind from the Electric Nights collection by China Glaze. It’s quite a subtle holo, in my opinion, but there’s a chance I’m just really not good at photographing it.

When making stamping decals, you need a top coat which is pliable when you remove them from whatever you’re making them on. HK Girl Glisten & Glow, whilst it is a fabulous quick drying top coat, is not pliable and not very good for making decals. And having discovered that making stamping decals is awesome, now I want to put them on *everything*. The glitter green is another polish I picked up in the Netherlands, this one from a Dutch pharmacy/drugstore chain called Etos.

I buy a lot of polish and associated things from the Facebook group UK Only Polish & Beauty Swaps and Sales. The idea with the Ombré Topcoat is that you apply it over whatever polish you like to lighten it and the more coats you apply, the stronger the effect is. In order to create a true ombré you’d apply the same polish on all nails and then apply one coat of topcoat to one nail, two to the next, three to the next, four to the last. I’ve essentially just created a gradient using it by applying one coat to two thirds of the nail, then another coat to half, and another coat to the top third and so on.

And it’s probably the only design you’ll see this month that doesn’t involve stamping. It’s a muted orange with a subtle holo to it which I singularly failed to pick up in my images. I used french tip guides from Born Pretty Store to paint the ruffian and this lush deeper orange is Riveting from the Hunger Games Collection by China Glaze. (You can find the tip guides here – be sure to use my discount code RTMX31 to get 10% off! )