Brown multichrome stamping

Hi everyone!


Apparently I did something to get the undivided attention of the higher powers that distribute flu, running noses, teary eyes and plain misery... I thought I'd already had my share of those "gifts" earlier this year but I guess not as I've been battling a really nasty infection for the last week-and-a-half. I finally gave in and went to my g.p. for antibiotics and I'm slowly improving now but I'm still sneezing and coughing my head off.

Don't ask me why but I thought it would be a good idea to reorganize my stash... Right, I hardly have the energy to get out of bed so reorganizing a zillion bottles is really smart! Next time I feel that urge, I'll just get back to bed and hide under the covers until the feeling goes away ;) Anyway, while trying to sort my bottles by color, I came across an untried brown polish and I decided to play a little (yup, attention span of a guppy at the moment...)

indoors, no flash - without top coat

Layla Mudhattan is a milk chocolate brown polish with a suede finish, not completely matte but definitely not glossy or even rubber like. In the bottle you can see a gold rose shimmer but that is invisible once the polish is on your nails. As with most matte and semi matte polishes, it dries really fast which is a good thing as you don't want to use fast drying top coat to preserve the finish.

I wanted to add a little something and as I was still working my way through the browns, I spotted Rimmel Bronze Princess on my desk so that was a no brainer: tone on tone stamping! Bronze Princess is a brown-purple-gold-green multichrome and it stamped surprisingly well. My bottle has a terrible brush (kind of like the dreaded Catrice brushes) but since I only had to paint a line at the top of the image I chose, Born Pretty plate BP-05, that wasn't a problem. I'm not sure if you can see the stamping very well in the picture, but in real life it looked really nice.

indoors, sunshine - no top coat

We actually had a bit of sunshine so I immediately grabbed my phone to take a picture. Bronze Princess actually looks darker than Mudhattan, which it isn't, but at least you get to see the lovely swirly image I stamped with.

indoors, no flash - with top coat

I added a coat of Seche Vite to see if the colors of Bronze Princess would come out more. As you can see: not really :)

Last but not least the line up:

Layla Mudhattan, Rimmel Bronze Princess

What version do you like best, the matte or the glossy manicure?
I prefer the matte one but that's probably because it reminds me of chocolate... yum!!


Layla Mudhattan was bought from Pretty Polish.