Mindfully Polished: Nail Art with Envy Lacquer, Hit the Bottle Polish, and Born Pretty Store

*Purchased by Me*

Happy Friday! Today, I have some stamping nail art to share with you!

To start out with this look, I began with a polish from an indie brand named Envy Lacquer. Envy Lacquer is run by Melody, and she is so, so sweet, and is super interactive with her customers! The polish that I used is named Larryasaurus, and it is a color that was created in Envy's Entourage, the Facebook fan group for the brand. Every now and then, Melody will have us choose a creature to base a polish off of, and will then accept inspiration picture submissions; whichever picture wins is what the polish is based off of!

Larryasaurus is based off of an animated picture of a dinosaur. It is a medium mint green crelly with blue flecks and scattered blue microglitter, and it is a perfect representation of the inspiration picture! (Side note: Melody's labels are SO PRETTY! Look at the holo on that baby!!)

Larryasaurus was smooth and easy to apply, with an average dry time. I was able to get it opaque in two medium coats, but because it is a crelly, you may want to do three thin coats for full opacity. It dries smooth and glossy, but my swatches show it with topcoat!

After my polish and topcoat fully dried, I decided to add some stamping! For this design, I chose part of an image from Born Pretty's BP-48, and stamped it using my clear stamper from Born Pretty, as well as Blue-tiful, from the indie stamping polish brand, Hit the Bottle Polishes. Hit the Bottle is based in Australia, but there are US stockists available; this info will be posted at the end of the post! After the stamping dried, I sealed everything in with another layer of topcoat. Here is the final look!