Hello lovelies,

It's time for a nail art challenge! I'm part of a Facebook group called PAINT ALL THE NAILS and this month's challenge is double stamping. I admit to cheating a bit because I've filled flowers with gold polish as stamped decals, not just pure stamping. But I'm pretty happy with the result so let's have a look at the manicure ;)

How to achieve this look:

1. Apply a coat of base coat on clean dry nails
2. Paint the nails with two coats of grey polish, I've used 'Ard As Nails Slated
3. Then using B. Loves Polish Colour Alike stamping polish in B. a Twilight and chevron pattern from B.01 ♥ geometry is perfect ♥ stamping plate, stamp on the charcoal chevrons
4. Next create the stamping decals, gold roses framed with white. Stamp roses from B.02 ♥ flower power ♥ plate with white Essence stamping polish onto B. Loves plates XL stamper and leave it to dry a minute.
5. Then fill in the roses with gold B. Loves Polish Colour Alike stamping polish in B. a Golden Queen
6. Once it dries paint a layer of topcoat over the decal and let it dry again. I've used Seche Vite top coat
7. Once the decal is dry, peel it off the stamper and lightly press it on the nail freshly painted with topcoat
8. Apply another layer of topcoat over the whole nails and decals
9. Cut off the excess pieces of the decal with scissors and then clean up the rest with brush and acetone

I've also played with matte topcoat (Cuccio Matte Topcoat) and the matte version looks great, so I want to share it with you as well:

As always, if you recreate this look then please let me know by tagging @lucysstash or you can include #lucysstash so I can see your creation. I love seeing your nailart!

Hope you've enjoyed today's post and manicure and please check out manicures from other bloggers:

Hello lovelies,

It's the last day of the A England week and today I'll show you nail art and I have a giveaway for you! Let's start with the nail art..

As you know I love floral nail art designs and I wanted to do some watercolour effect again. The A England Let Me In is my favourite shade so I'm using two coats as a base. Then I painted the  flowers using watered down white acrylic paint and Pure Color liner brush that I got from What's Up Nails.

I quite like how the flowers came out and the subtle holo peeking through the petals. What do you think?

Check out reviews of this collection:

• Review of Cathy
• Review of Wuthering Heights
• Review of Spirit Of The Moors
• Review of Heathcliff
• Review of Let Me In

Now let's talk giveaway! Adina from A England has kindly offered to sponsor a giveaway to end the A England week here at Lucy's Stash. There will be five winners and each can choose one of the new polishes from To Emily Bronte collection...

To Emily Bronte collection is available at A England website or from one of the international distributors.

The giveaway is open internationally but please allow additional time if you live outside of UK. There will be 5 winners, 1 nail polish of their choice each. To win one polish of your choice, enter through the Rafflecopter widget.

Good luck!

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