Copycat Claws: HPB Presents Summer Night Sky Nail Art

Friday, July 24, 2015

HPB Presents Summer Night Sky Nail Art

Hey there! I'm in quite a few nail polish Facebook groups (in case you can't tell from the number of challenges I try to do). There's one called Hobby Polish Bloggers full of other nail bloggers that are always a wealth of information. Every month they do a themed link up for swatches/nail art but I always forget to make note of what it is and end up skipping it. But this month I remembered! The theme for July is Starry Night Sky so I chose to do a swatch with some stamping. Keep reading to see all the details.

I thought Pretty Serious' polish called Hot Summer Nights would be an appropriate base for this mani. It's a deep inky blue with a subtle shimmer that really is like a hot summer night sky. I used two coats of it here.

Over Hot Summer Nights, I used a coat Twinkling Lights, which was designed as a companion polish. Both of these polishes were from the Christmas Without Snow collection. Unfortunately I think they've been discontinued so if you can get your hands on them, you should. They pair together magically.

Then I stamped some stars from Nailz Craze NC02 with MDU White. I also stamped an appropriate image saying "We Love Summer Nights" from Born Pretty Store's BP-L017. This image was almost impossible for me to stamp and resulted in a fair bit of frustration on my part. I tried every stamper/polish combination I could before I got a decent image. I don't know why that was since I usually find the BP plates to be pretty spectacular. Then I finished everything with HK Girl and went on wearing some summer nights on my nails.