Mani Monday: Favorite Nude!

Hey guys! It's time again for Mani Monday and this week the theme is favorite Nude! Nude nail polish is something that I don't own a lot of, but I think it's important for everyone to have a good nude in their nail polish collection. I don't rock nude nails often, but it's great to have in the instance that I want something demure and neutral on the nail. It's also great as a base for nail art, which is how I used it today.

I don't have an all time favorite nude. I just haven't found that holy grail nude polish yet. So for my nails today I picked a nice looking nude-y polish that was untried in my collection. It's a great nude polish with just enough of a rose tone to it that it makes it totally wearable. It's the Rimmel 60 seconds polish in caramel cupcake. This polish applies like a dream. I love the brush on these! They are the flat sort of paddle brush style that I like (think Wet n Wild Megalast) but small enough that I can be really precise with them. Caramel Cupcake is a gorgeous color. It's sort of one of those grandma colors that I personally love so much. And the formula on this polish is great. It was opaque and even in two coats and dries in a flash!

I personally find nude nails a little boring, so I decided to do a little stamping on top to kick this mani up a notch. I wanted to keep with the neutral/nude look of the nails so I decided to stamp with one of my favorite fall time polishes. Sinful Colors Nirvana is one of those fantastic mushroom-y taupe colors that is just fantastic. The formula is fantastic and when paired with Caramel Cupcake this color just pops and looks amazing! The stamp I used is the Bundle Monster stamp # BM10 and I used the stone-like image.

I turned the stamp in different directions as I stamped each nail to give it a bit of a dimension and not have each nail look exactly the same. You can see from the photos that my stamping technique still needs some improvement, but while there are quite a few imperfections, these nails looks so nice at arm's length. I love the combination of the colors, and the pattern on this stamp is awesome. I just wish that this set I purchased from bundle monster didn't have that problem with the images being to small. It's most obvious that I encountered issues with this on my thumb.

Overall I really like this mani!!I really like this stunning nude. I highly reccomend it!

What's your favorite nude? I would love to hear from you! Leave me a comment below or use the contact card on the sidebar of this bloig to get in touch! If you are interested in joining me and sharing your monday mani, check out the group's facebook page at www.facebook.com/ManiMondays and be sure to come back next week and see what I come up with for the theme: Fall!