Purple Gradient Butterfly Nails

Hello everyone,

I couldn't go through the summer without using the beautiful Nailz Craze butterfly stamping plate at least once! This time, I decided to use it over a glittery purple gradient.

I love coming up with different combinations to use the butterfly plate with!

I began by painting two coats of China Glaze's In a Lilly Bit. I created the gradient by mixing and sponging In a Lilly Bit with China Glaze's Lotus Begin and Tart-y for the Party. Once this was dry I applied one coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust.

I think this is so pretty just like this!

This picture better shows the gradient.

When that dried I used Konad's Black Pearl to stamp the butterfly images from Nailz Craze's NC01 plate and used a dotting tool with Wet n' Wild's White Cream for the dots at the tips. 

What do you think? 

Thanks for stopping by!

New Plate!! MoYou London's Greek Mythology 09

Hello everyone,

I recently received some new plates from MoYou London! I know my collection is still small compared to others, but these plates are so versatile and beautiful that I haven't gotten tired of them yet, haha.

This is my newest plate, Greek Mythology 09.

The plate above is my first full-image plate. It has opened up lots of opportunity for creativity as the images are not already cut to fit on the nail. Using this plate, so far I have created two different manicures; one being bright and fun, the other being more subdued yet pretty.

This manicure was created using two coats of China Glaze's Petal to the Metal and stamped with Essie's No Place Like Chrome.

 I couldn't choose from the massive amount of possibilities on this plate, so each of my nails are different!

This is the more crazy manicure. I began with two coats of Color Club's Silver Lake on every finger except for my index, which is two coats of China Glaze's At Vase Value. I used: China Glaze's Peonies & Park Ave and Petal to the Metal for the stripes and dots; Peonies & Park Ave for the gradient and the heart stamping; and Konad's Black Pearl for the rest of the stamping. My pinkie, middle, and index fingers have a coat of China Glaze's Fairy Dust on them as well.

What do you think? What manicures have you tried with this plate?

Thanks for stopping by!

New Plate!! MoYou London's Bridal Plate 04

Hello everyone,

Over the summer I have gotten new plates from MoYou London and I have created quite a few manicures with them so far. This is my first manicure with the Bridal 04 Plate:

This manicure was created using 2 coats of China Glaze's Peonies & Park Ave and stamped with Konad's Black Pearl polish.

I really like this design, I think it's different from most full-nail designs because the images connect from nail to nail.

What do you think?
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Fingerpaints Gel Polish Art-hur Loves Me Review

Hello everyone,

I recently purchased the materials to complete gel and shellac manicures at the request of my family and friends. I decided to try the product on myself before I began on others and this post shows the results of my experience.
I bought the Fingerpaints line of shellac polishes including a beautiful red called Art-hur Loves me (all of the names in this line have art-related titles). Here is how the manicure turned out:

Art-hur Loves Me shown in natural sunlight

 This polish looks very jelly-like. I really love how it sparkles! There are beautiful mini red glitter pieces in the polish, but my camera wouldn't cooperate...

Art-hur Loves Me shown up close.

 The application process for this manicure went very well. The polishes come with an instruction booklet and mistakes are easy to clean with an orangewood stick. The pictures here are after all of the steps and two coats of the coloured polish.

What do you think? Have you ever tried these polishes before? 

Thanks for stopping by!

*These polishes were purchased myself for review

An Unexpected Holiday with OPI's Where Did Suzi's Man-Go and Nail Art

Hello everyone,

The past few weeks have been really busy what with school ending for the year and beginning summer work. Over the last few days of the school year my mind was drifting towards thoughts of summer. Here is what I came up with as a tribute to summer:

For this manicure, I applied two coats of OPI's Where Did Suzi's Man-Go? to all of my fingers except my ring finger. For my ring finger, I applied 3 coats of Layla's Mermaid Spell. For the pinky and index fingers I sponged OPI's Love. Angel. Music. Baby on the tips and for the ring finger I painted a curvy line and filled in part of my nail with the polish to create a beach. For the middle finger, I stamped the tropical flower design from MoYou's Pro Plate 08 with Konad's Black Pearl polish and coloured in the flower with China Glaze's In a Lily Bit using a dotting tool. On the thumb, I free handed the palm tree with Wet 'n' Wild's Black Creme.

What do you think?

I should be posting more frequently again now. I have lots of pictures to share! Thanks for stopping by :)