33DC2013 Day 17 - artwork featuring your favourite brand

 

My favourite brand... Catrice. It's also the brand I own the most polishes of (60 or so). Catrice polishes are not expensive (€2,99 here in NL, bit cheaper in Germany), they dry fast and often only need 2 coats. They change their main collection around once in a while and usually have a new Limited Edition out each month (they release more LE's in Germany though *pouts*). They make cremes, shimmers, metallics, the odd duochrome and a few glitter toppers.

From left to right:

• Catrice - LE Matchpoint C01 Team Lucky Mustards
• Catrice - 04 Orange-Utan
• Catrice - 690/19 Fred Said Red
• Catrice - 17 Caught On The Red Carpet
• Catrice - 890 How I Matt Your Mother

I did a yellow to red gradient, representing autumn colours. If I'd had any leaf stamping plates I probably would have stamped leaves. But I am still waiting for the MoYou Mother Nature image plates I ordered to arrive (pre-order means a long wait). Therefore I went with something linked with autumn... umbrellas! It does rain here a lot in autumn (and winter, spring and summer, but shhhh). I used plate GA38 from the Gals Fairy set.

I used How I Matt Your Mother (adore the name) to stamp with, it dries matte btw... lovely vampy purple! It's not the easiest polish to stamp with (dries too fast), but I don't own a black Catrice polish (yes, shame on me).

I wish the Fairy set had a single umbrella as well. To get the single umbrellas on my nails I had a cotton bud with nail polish remover at the ready to remove unwanted umbrellas from the stamper.

The last picture shows my right hand, slightly different. I really liked the autumn colours, though I barely have anything in my wardrobe in those colours. I'm still a gradient novice, for some reason I can't get it to look as smooth as others. If you have any tips, I'd love to hear them!