Dandelions. {Nailz Craze plate NC01}

I have my last Nailz Craze stamping plate to show you today. I've absolutely loved using them. They're amazing quality.

This is plate NC01. It has some awesome butterfly wing images, a peacock feather, hearts, something that looks like a four-leaf-clover (but perhaps they're just supposed to be hearts too), and a cute dandelion. I decided to use the dandelion image for my manicure. My stamping isn't great for this manicure so please excuse that. I used Ulta3 Black Satin to stamp with, and my Winstonia Stamper and Scraper.

Polishes used: Essie Bikini So Teeny, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls, Ulta3 Black Satin. I added some of these cute little black star glitters to the base of the nail. I bought them from Cherry Poppin' Nails.

The inspiration for this manicure came from Marta/ChitChat Nails. I loved what she did with this plate, here. I've adored using the Nailz Craze stamping plates, and I think that if you like stamping or even want to try it, these plates are great. They have some of the cutest designs I've seen on stamping plates! *Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review.  For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

Bridal Nail Idea #2 {ft. Nailz Craze Stamping Plate NC 04}

Hi guys! I have my second bridal nail idea to share with you today! If you didn't see my first one, you can check that out here.

I was provided with a few stamping plates from the lovely Natalie from Nailz Craze a few weeks ago, and it's taken me a while to get around to completing my reviews which is quite pathetic on my part, so sorry about that, but I did show you one of the plates last month here.
Today I've used plate NC 04 to create this bridal nail art. I chose this plate specifically for the cute diamond ring image! So cute! I thought this plate would be absolutely perfect for some cute bridal nail art. It would also be cute for Valentines Day, which is less than a month away!

The polishes I used for this manicure were OPI I Theodora You {one of my absolute favourite pinks. It's a jelly but builds up pretty much opaque in three coats, which is what I did} and It's Frosty Outside, which I talked more about here.

I stamped the images using China Glaze Devotion, from the Romantique collection. It's a metallic chrome, and it's technically a purple colour but it almost looks silver to me. The whole Romantique collection is amazing for stamping. Along with this I used my favourite Winstonia XL squishy stamper and scraper to stamp with.

So far I have found that the Nailz Craze plates are amazing quality, and actually work better than some more well-known brand plates that I have tried! I find I get a much crisper image with Nailz Craze. Even the images with large areas are amazing!

I'm not sure that I would actually wear this on my nails for my wedding day... It's more of a novelty for me. It would be fun to wear for something like an engagement party, or maybe a bridal shower or hens party, however!

What do you guys think? :)

*Product(s) in this post were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review.  For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

Christmas Cuties ❅ {Nail Art}

I'm finding myself super busy lately, leaving me little time to do my nails at all, let alone do any nail art. But I recently made some time to crank out some cute Christmas nail art.

I've included lots of standard Christmas things in this manicure. Santa Claus, a snowman {although it doesn't snow here and I have never seen snow!}, a Christmas tree, a pudding and a Christmas jumper pattern!

My nail art skills are kind of rusty, so I made each nail pretty simple. {It may not look that simple to some, but I promise you, it really was. The whole manicure only took me about an hour to do. A normal one-colour-manicure usually takes me about 30 minutes for reference.}

Polishes used in this manicure:

• Sinful Colors Rich In Heart
• Ulta3 Lily White
• OPI My Very First Knockwurst
• China Glaze Winter Berry
• OPI Big Apple Red
• Ulta3 Black Satin
• Essie Fear or Desire
• Revlon Jaded Night
• OPI My Favourite Ornament
• China Glaze Be Merry, Be Bright {'ornaments' on Christmas tree nail}
• Rubi Shoes Taupe
• Rimmel Acid House
• B Squared Lacquer Glitzy {one star glitter used on Christmas tree nail}

Sooo, as you can see, I used a darn lot of polishes in this manicure. LOL.

Oh, and the weird red & green lines on the tip of the Snowman nail? That's supposed to be a scarf, k? ;)

On my thumb nail, I stamped over Sinful Colors Rich in Heart with Nailz Craze plate NC 03*, with Ulta3 Lily White polish. Despite Lily White not being completely opaque, it stamped pretty well!

I have had my eye on this stamping plate for a while because of this adorable Christmas jumper pattern image! A few stamping companies have similar images now but I think Nailz Craze was definitely one of the first to do it.
I used this squishy XL stamper from Winstonia to stamp with, by the way.

I have some more Nailz Craze plates to share with you soon {I cannot wait!}, and I'll probably use this one again in a full manicure because I love it so much. :)

Thanks for visiting, my lovelies. :D I hope I have some time to do more Christmas nail art before Christmas is here but I'm not sure if I will. I have a lot of posts planned & a whooooole lotta swatching to do!

*Products marked with a * were provided to me by the company or PR for my 100% honest review. For more info please read my Disclosure Policy*

China Glaze 'Just Be-Claws' + Bundle Monster Stamping ♥

Christmas is only just over 2 weeks away, and I have my first Christmas nail art for the year to share with you today, using a polish from China Glaze's Happy HoliGlaze collection for the Holiday season this year. I bought this set of 4 'mini' polishes from the collection. {Though they are definitely not your typical minis. They are 9.6mL each and most mini polishes, eg. OPI minis, are around 3mL!} I had to try one of them out right away. :D

Just Be-Claws by China Glaze is a super shimmery red foil. It has a little bit of a pink look to it sometimes too. It applied super opaque and smooth. I used 2 coats.

I stamped over Just Be-Claws with a plate from the new Bundle Monster Holiday set! The plate is BM-H01. I used a snowflake image on my pointer and pinky, and a full nail image on my ring finger. My stamping definitely needs some work so please forgive me haha. I am rubbish at stamping full nail images. The image is so pretty, though, so I will definitely be using it again. :) The polish I used to stamp is China Glaze's Passion which is just a nice metallic gold.

Thanks for visiting. :)

Getting Back Into Stamping.

I've been wanting to get back into doing more nail art recently, but I'm not very good at coming up with ideas; hence why I'm always doing 'inspired' manicures.
Well, today's nail art is inspired by something - but it's not somebody else's nail art.

I started by creating a gradient with Essie A Crewed Interest, Revlon Buttercup and Essie Mint Candy Apple. My gradient was inspired by this picture from Pinterest. :)

{ I have a gradient tutorial video here if you are interested in seeing how I did this. }

I have been wanting to work on my stamping skills also, and I felt the gradient was too plain.
I stamped over the gradient using the flip flop images from Bundle Monster plate BM-309. I used this black polish from Born Pretty to stamp with. I kind of wish I hadn't stamped over the gradient - it looked prettier on its own. Oh well. *sigh*

Thanks for visiting! ♥

Halloween Sprinkles Nail Art!

REMINDER: My blog sale is still live! I just added some new polishes to it yesterday, and reduced the prices on almost everything on there! There's still about 80 polishes available in the sale. :)

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After recreating jauntyjuli's Halloween Cupcake manicure the other day, I really wanted to do some more Halloween nail art. I'm not into anything gory or creepy though, so I still wanted to keep it cutesy.

I find it quite hard to come up with my own designs for nail art and usually end up doing recreations of other manicures I've seen online, but this design I didn't recreate! I came up with it on my own. :D I was quite proud of that, even though it's a fairly basic design haha.

I've seen sprinkle/icecream manicures many times before - but never a Halloween icecream/sprinkle manicure! :D

For this design I used:
Sinful Colors Black on Black
Essie Fear or Desire
Born Pretty Store Glow in the Dark polish #03 {layered over 1 coat of white}
Essie Play Date
Femme Fatale Cosmetics Tricky Treat {discontinued - sorry!}

On my right hand I used the same colours, but mixed up the design.
On the black nails I did a polka dot design, kept the glitter on the ring finger the same, and stamped on my pointer and middle finger with Winstonia plate W116. I haven't stamped in a while so it's pretty rusty but it'll do, hehe.

This is by far the craziest nails I have worn... maybe ever! Yes, I did leave the house wearing these nails. :| Most of the time when I do nail art that's not subtle, it's just for fun and I don't actually wear it as a manicure. Buuuut, these I did.

Hope you enjoyed. Thanks for visiting ♥

Fun Stamped Gradient + OPI Crown Me Already

I really need to come up with better post titles lol...

Hi guys! I've been saying recently that I've wanted to get more into nail art. I haven't had a lot of time or inspiration for it in the past week or so, but I sat down a couple of weeks ago, and decided to do some nail art while I caught up on Big Brother! :D I'm really into Big Brother this year but I'm soooo behind and have to catch up! Let me know if you're watching it too! :)
I did these nails a bit over a week ago but didn't really have a time to post them on the blog till today. :( I am itching to show you this because I really love it!

Anyway. My favourite type of nail art to do would have to be gradients or stamping. (So I've done a mani featuring both of those!) I can't often be bothered with gradients though, as they are quite messy and I don't want to deal with the clean up process! :P Stamping is also messy (mostly the workspace, though).

For my gradient I used a bubblegum pink colour from the Kmart BC Co brand, Shade 14, OPI Do You Lilac It, and Orly Frisky.

For the stamping I used this plate (QA66) from Born Pretty Store with their black stamping polish (which I LOVE). The plate was fairly good quality in my opinion. The image is kind of these triangle-y shapes. Haha. My stamping skills still aren't so great but I don't practice much so that's my fault I suppose. ;) I'm not good at placing the image lol.

I actually wasn't going to stamp over the gradient, but the gradient came out a bit weird-looking so I decided I needed to cover it up a little.

Lastly, on my ring finger I used OPI Crown Me Already, one of my all time favourite glitters! :D I only needed 2 coats of it, it's such a dense glitter! ♥
I actually lost some of this polish when I was staying at my auntie's house a while back. I had it packed with some other polishes and it leaked. :( Not too much, thankfully!

This time I tried a different method of cleaning up the cuticles for the gradient part, because it is so messy. I used some PVA glue! I've been using PVA glue for a while now as an easy removal method for glitter nail polish. (I recommend you read this post by Pretty Purple Polish about that!) But I recently read that you can use it for clean up also!
So we all remember in primary school when we used to paint PVA glue on our hands and then peel it off, right? It's the same thing! I just painted a generous amount of PVA glue all around my cuticles and skin surrounding my nail (making sure not to go too close to the cuticles - and don't get any on the nail!). Then I used a hair dryer on the low & cold setting and blew it on my nails for a little bit to dry the glue faster because I'm impatient (and it was late at night - ain't nobody got time fo' that). :) When that was totally dry I did my gradient as usual. Once I was finished with the gradient I just peeled off the dry glue and cleaned up whatever was left (which wasn't much) with my acetone + little makeup brush! :) Soooo much easier than trying to clean it up with a million cotton buds!

I feel like I've done a gradient in these exact same colours before with a glitter on the ring finger. For some reason, this is just the colours I always pick up when I want to do a gradient.

Do you guys have any colour suggestions for my next gradient? I need to get out of my pink to purple to blue gradient rut haha.

Thanks for visiting! ♥

ANMonday - Sci Fi

Hi guys! I hope you had a lovely weekend! I had a pretty good one despite getting sick halfway through! My family has had a yucky cold recently and I've just caught it too. :(

So for this theme I actually had to look up what was classified as sci fi. LOL. A little embarrassing but whatever. IMDB told me that superhero movies are considered sci fi. And superhero movies are my favourite movies sooo it's no surprise that that's what I did! Actually, a lot of movies that I would've considered to be more 'action' movies are supposedly 'sci fi', so that's interesting.

Last week the Man of Steel movie came out and I am soooo excited to see it! I'll probably see it this weekend. :) So of course for today's ANMonday I did Superman nails!



I did a gradient of Pretty Serious Santa's Sunburn (the most incredible red shimmer EVER!) and Pretty Serious BSOD for the base, and then stamped with plate FUN2 and a silver stamping polish. I got the plate and polish from My Online Shop. The stamping is definitely NOT perfect, LOL, but I'm sick and wanted to get the mani finished before the sun went down sooo that's my excuse.

Excuse any sparkles you may see around my skin. The gradient was sooo hard to clean up!

Have you seen/are you excited to see Man of Steel?! I heard that it's quite long... but I hope I still like it. :) I've heard it's great otherwise! And what is your favourite sci fi movie?

#bestietwinnails with Marie!

Hey guys!

Marie from Marie's Manicure Madhouse (or @m1ssmar1e on Instagram, and she's also the mind behind Loony Lacquer) and I decided to do a #bestietwinnails mani! :D This was my first time doing a bestie twin mani! I'd wanted to do one for a while but didn't have anyone to do it with, haha. I believe this 'tag' sort of thing, was created by MrsLochness on Instagram and her friend. :)

We decided our mani would be a skittlette, and feature pink and brown with animal print stamping.
Today we revealed our manis to each other and it was so funny because they looked almost exactly the same. LOL!

So here's what went into creating my mani...

I started doing mine and then realised that it was so similar to a mani I saw a while back by, you guessed it, Marta from ChitChat Nails! Here's that mani. :) So I decided to just go all out and do mine almost totally inspired by her. :P

The pink creme (it actually has a subtle shimmer) I used is Ulta3's Pale Dahlia from the pastel collection from 2012.

I stamped over that using Ulta3's Cocoa with plate W101 from Winstonia. I also filled in some of the leopard spots with OPI's Goldeneye. :)

On the ring finger I used Essence Sneezy from the Snow White collection. It's a super nice chocolate brown with a little bit of silver microglitter in it. Before I stamped on the mani, this totally reminded me of strawberry & chocolate ice cream! Haha!

And lastly on the pinky I used 3 coats of OPI Goldeneye, my favourite gold of all time. :)

On my thumb I also stamped a little kitty over Ulta3 Pale Dahlia from plate W115 also from Winstonia, with Ulta3 Cocoa (pictured right).

It was really fun doing these twin nails with Marie! :) Make sure you check out her blog & follow her on Instagram! :D

I will definitely be doing more twin nails, it was awesome! :)

Hope you have a great weekend, everyone! ♥