Brucci Heavenly Julia & Nautical Stamping

Brucci has been blowing my mind lately!  I got all of my Brucci's online at Image Beauty for $2.35 each and I'm just amazed with their quality.  They're the first polish not to chip on me in a long long time.  Every other brand, except maybe Essie, chips easily on me.  Brucci is diesel.  The only thing is there are very few swatches of them online, so ordering them is a crapshoot. Anyways, here is Heavenly Julia with some stamping.

I used BM206 and BM08 for the designs, with Konad Special White polish.  I used some of the same white for the dots on my thumb, too.  I love dots, they're great space fillers.

Flash - true to life color.

This color is a lot darker in real life, it looks a lot more navy and lot less purple.  In the pictures shown, I used two coats over CND Stickey and sealed with one coat of OTD.  Out the Door needs more credit, it is really super shiny and very glossy!  It dries *so* fast and is cheaper than most other QDTCs.

Brucci French Petal & a Jelly Sandwich

I only have two Brucci polishes, but I really like the two that I do own.  I got one a while back in a ROAK kind of thing, and I recently got this one from ImageBeauty.  French Petal was $2.35 on ImageBeauty and I believe they're also sold at Rite Aid.  For as cheap as they are, they really are impressive. French Petal is a new favorite, a yummy baby pink jelly!

Three Coats of French Petal

This is three coats of French Petal over CND Stickey sealed with a coat of OTD.  This worn like IRON!  French Petal is the perfect palette cleanser if you've been wearing lots of crazy colors.  I really enjoyed how
it looked on my hands, it's super soft and feminine and not many colors I've been wearing lately are.

I jazzed it up with some stamping with BM201 plate.  The full images on the new Bundle Monster plates are really great.  I have normal sized nails for the most part, but my thumb nails are wider than most.  The stamping covered my thumbs IF I turned the design sideways.  For this particular design, it didn't affect the direction of the image.

I also used Konad Special White for the stamping.  That was a wise investment.  Many metallics and foils work well for stamping, but I have not come across a white that works as well as Konad Special White Polish.  The only other Konad polish I would consider buying is possibly the yellow, as many yellows are far too sheer for stamping.  They run about $8 or so, so I'm really not jumping to buy any except for white.

This is actually a "jelly sandwich" except instead of glitter, I used stamping.  There are two additional coats of French Petal over the stamping plus another coat of OTD.  This, again, wore like iron!  Brucci seems to wear really well for me personally and that's always a good thing!