A couple of Sundays ago, placed an order on BF Beauty for some stamping plates. They finally arrived yesterday (it took 8 working days from Hong Kong to Australia - that's not bad, I don't think ^^) and I could hardly contain my glee. I think I even squealed aloud a few times...
I was too lazy to take each individual plate out of the packet for the photo, hehe.
I was so excited I decided to try out some stamping straight away. Stripped my nails of my matte manicure and painted on China Glaze's Light as Air. Then I used an Australian polish for stamping; BYS' French White.
It's my first time stamping, so it's not a fabulous job; actually, my right hand was rather fail so I didn't use it for photos this time. My favourite nail would have to my left middle finger even though part of the butterfly wasn't stamped on properly. You can only imagine what a disaster my right hand is from this photo, lol.
I used plate C03:
As the saying goes, practice makes perfect, so all I have to do is spend more time on stamping. Oh, and get some polishes which are more appropriate for stamping too - you can see that the white polish didn't come out that well.
Hey y'all! This design was inspired by several different youtube users. Creating this design is one of the things that made me decide on the theme for my youtube contest. Please be sure to enter! I'll do a seperate post for that. Im so sorry I am behind posting here on my blog. I also posted an update video that you can check out. In that I explain what is keeping me from posting as of late.
Anyways...let's get to the inspiration for this design! First thing that made me want to try this design was the red & yellow mylar flakes I received from designernailvideos contest. I could not wait to try the awesome prizes I won in her contest! don't forget that you can get most of the products I won from her website Designer Nail Supply! The ladies that inspired my abstract design were configure1973 for her suberb freehand and also madamluck for turning me on to the $ tree nail art stripers. the half moon tips were inspired by andreajk182, she also has an online nail supply store The Rock Star Nails so be sure to check her out!
Recently, I have subbed to a lovely lady hairtrends4u who has a channel focusing on hair, fashion and general life advice. She also has a website Hairtrends4u where she offers wigs, handbags, shoes, accessories & more!!! Be sure to visit =D Her outfits of the day got me inspired to do a design in the colors yellow & red and I wanted to make a design for her that would match some of her outfits since she is celebrated reachin 1,000 subbies =D . She also inspired the swarovski crystals because she calls her subbies Diamonds.
Another huge inspiration for this design was dollface22772s recent super hot Bonfire design! Soon as I saw it the mylar popped right in my head. God I really love her work and she is cool as ice =D She always inspires us all on youtube and I am still giddy at the fact that she made partner! One thing I was sad about was that I had to take off that falling hearts design a week early cs I wont have time to do my nails this weekend cs I gotta work & me & hubby got a date to the Bob Marly festival =D YAY Roots, rock, reggae mon LOL But anyway...she sells the cutest vintage style jewlry in her Etsy store Littlest Charm Factory. So check it out. Ive got my eye on that angry skull ring. Feels so tokidoki =D
Well ladies I hope you all enjoy this design. There's only one thing I don't like about it...my stupid freehand reminds me of mcdonalds XDDD or ketsup & mustard hehehe. Can you tell Im sleep deprived???
After reading so much about matte polishes from other polish blogs, I was quite excited to get my hands on some myself. Cue Orly's Matte Vinyl.
In all honesty, I felt a bit underwhelmed by the polish. I don't think it's Orly's fault, I think it's just that I expected too much from a matte polish. I was so excited to become a proud owner of it that it influenced my expectations from it; I had thought it'd be absolutely fabulous. The outcome? A flat polish finish. I wasn't too pleased with it, so I decided to spice up my manicure and gave it some glitter. Oh, and absolutely defy the entire purpose of having a matte finish polish by 'shining' it up.
Perhaps I was just expecting too much from the polish; I definitely don't love it, but on the other hand, I don't hate it either. If I can just think of something awesome to add to the manicure besides applying glitter...hmmm, something to sleep on, I guess :P.
I finally decided to try out China Glaze's C-C-Courage first :). I cannot begin to describe this polish, it's just so yummy!
Under the sun:
Indoors, with flash:
I love how this polish is just overflowing with glitter particles, and the purple is probably my favourite shade yet. The polish doesn't dry smooth, but that's one of the reasons why I love it so much. I don't own many glitter polishes, so I think I've got to get my hands on some more, especially if they're like this *___*. I just can't stop myself from touching my nails all the time, lol.
So, I've finally gotten myself around to dedicating a blog to my polish addiction :P. I was thrown into the world of polish earlier this year after stumbling across a polish blog. Needless to say, I became a bit obsessed with nail polish and began to paint my nails on a regular basis thereafter.
I currently own 55 bottles of nail polish, which sounds quite little when compared to all the polish addicts in the blogosphere hehe. Just yesterday, I went on a mini excursion to buy some China Glaze and Orly nail polish :).
From left to right:
Top row IDK, 2NITE, Re-Fresh Mint, Light as Air
Bottom row Wagon Tail, Lasso my heart, C-C-Courage, Matte Vinyl
I'm really excited, since these are my first CG and Orly polishes; I can't wait to try them on! Hmmmm, which one should I pick first? :D
Hey Y'all! Quick post =D It's soooooo very busy at my job so my posts for the next month or so will be brief and mostly pictures. I'll try to post the important info =)
I made this design with vintage leaf glitter, silver mini beads and a Swarofvski crystal. Very blingy! =D For info on those items be sure to heck out my stuff page and my summer haul.
Hey y'all! This is my recent design. I call it falling hearts. I had a catastrophe while converting the video I did doing my nails unfortunately...I have been trying to get my videos to process in HD and the files are very large. I didn't know that they would just convert over the old ones when I ran outta space on the card! Sooooo the first half got deleted so I got mad & deleted it all! LOL! I ended up doing it over on a practice nail.
To create this design I used the periwinkle mylar flakes that I won in Dollface22772's 3D Extravaganza nail art contest. They are sooooo pretty & my nails look like glass! I wish that the pictures could do justice! Thank you so much Dolly! I love them! Y'all be sure to check out her blog and Etsy store The Littlest Charm Factory! I also used they pink & purple hollow hearts I got from Karlinsu and the small pink & purple small hexagon glitters.
Hey y'all! I've been shopping! =D These are all items I've purchased since the craft store haul. I hope this helps and I hope y'all enjoy. I'm going to be brief. I'm so very sleepy tonight. I was up late trying to figure out how to get my videos to upload in "HD" I did on part one but I fear that I may have broke the windows movie maka HAHAHA!
On a parting note...I will be having a couple of contests that will be announced sometime this weekend to celebrate 1,000 subbies on youtube!!! I have 199 followers here on the blog so hopefully I'll be celebrate 200 followers! =DDD
Yay! I won 3rd place for my wearable Pink Lemonade design in dollface22772's 3D Extravaganza nail art contest. Y'all be sure to check out her youtube channel, blog & Etsy store the Littlest Charm Factory. I love my prizes and the have me inspired already! Check out my goodies =DDD Thank soooo much Dolly!
Happy 4th Y'all. Although a day late =) This design was created for Designernailvideo's nail art contest. The theme of course was 4th of July. I really went all out for this design because I really want to win this contest!!! Check out her channel and online store, she has some very great products.
For this design I used red white and blue glitter acrylic to create a different flag inspired design on each finger. On the thumb I only used red white and blue small round hexagon and shred glitter. To decorate the nails I used red & white hollow and tiny stars and red white & blue star rhinestones. I didn't post pictures of the products because I will be posting a haul with pictures this week that has most of the items I used.
