Vacation Themed Konad

I know I only posted yesterday, but I'm going away on holiday tomorrow morning and likely won't be in any sort of mental state to put together another post until I get back.

So! In honour of the fact that I'm running away to Mexico for a week, I present a beach-themed manicure!

Apologies for the crappy photo-editing there. I didn't realize until after I'd taken the pictures that my cuticle was all mangled and unhappy. Hello Kitty is much cuter than a scraggy cuticle anyway.

Anyway. It's supposed to look like a beach, and I feel like I did a pretty decent job pulling that off.  The blue-ish colour is Emerald Depths by Color Club which is nothing like emeralds, but still totally beautiful. It's a gorgeous blue-green shimmery polish and I'm completely in love with it. Initially I hadn't thought to get it, and I'm so happy I did. Kirsten and I were putting together an online polish order together and I had originally wanted Worth the Risque, but it was sold out so I had to pick another, and this is what I ended up with.

The "sandy" nail is Color Club Love 'Em Leave 'Em (there's probably a comma in there somewhere), which is a sort of peachy-nude shade. It's also a very subtle holo, and the holo glitter has always reminded me of sand.

For the Konad stamp I had to sort of franken my own polish. For the sake of consistency I wanted to stamp with Emerald Depths, but it was just too sheer for it to work well, so I had to get a little creative. I tried a couple of needlessly complicated combinations of polishes and eventually found out that the easiest possible combination was the winner. I just mixed together two drops of Emerald Depths with one drop of the Konad special blue polish on a piece of tin foil. Seriously. I'm actually kind of embarrassed that it took me that long to figure out.

Once I had it figured out, I used one of the flower images from plate m76, and then used some Seche Vite to attach the rhinestone.

What do you think? Did I manage to make it look somewhat like a beach?