November Nail Art Challenge Day 4

Happy Sunday everyone, and hopefully everyone is taking the time today to remember the fallen who fought for our freedom, whether you are celebrating Remembrance Day in Canada or Veteran's Day in the States, they are the ones that allow us to be able to do the things we do on a day-to-day basis.  I don't know about you guys, but I remember being in school and standing for The Last Post and it would always bring a tear to my eye, even though I don't personally know anyone who fought in the wars or lost their lives.  I am a pretty emotional person though, so maybe that has something to do with it.

Thinking now, I probably should have done some poppy nails for Day 4's design -- delicate print, but I didn't even think of it, to be honest.

For my delicate design, I used Essie Turquoise & Caicos as my base colour and then using Bundle Monster's stamping plate BM-317 and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Snappy Sorbet, came up with this design.  I apologize for them, in the pictures they kinda make you feel dizzy looking at them, they aren't quite as bad in person, lol!  I think it's just the colour combo that makes it like that.

First, I would like to note that Essie Turquoise & Caicos is a BEAUTIFUL colour!  This is 3 coats, but you could probably get away with 2 that are a little thicker.  If you don't have an aqua colour in your collection, I highly recommend this one.  It also turns out that, after I got this in the mail from Nail Polish Canada, my mom said "that looks a lot like the one that I have".. sure enough, we have the exact same polish, hahaha!  Of all the colours of polish out there, we both picked the same one, haha!

This was also my first time using the Sally Hansen Insta-Dri polishes for stamping and I have to say that it turned out pretty great!  There are a few spots that are missing polish, but the places it's missing polish actually looks like it's supposed to be missing, lol!

Also, when I was filtering through the pictures I took, I also noticed that I did the stamping in alternating directions.  This was not intentional, but it's funny how things just work out, lol!

While this stamping job isn't the best, I have to say that I prefer the Bundle Monster plates to the Konad ones I have because the full nail designs on the Bundle Monster plates are bigger and are easier to fit onto the entire nail.  Usually with the Konad designs I always miss and have a big gap on the one side of my nails, lol!

I hope you enjoyed this design as much as I do.  It's so fun to look at :)  And I think that the heart design could be used as "showing my love for those who fought for my freedom" even though the poppy is the traditional symbol for that.

And in the "spirit" of Remembrance Day, I leave you with this:

In Flanders Fields

by Leutenient Colonel John McCrae

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields

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