Glam Polish Deceptive Practice & MoYou London Artist 01

Good morning beauties! Quick post today because I didn't get to play with my nails last weekend and I want to play with them now. Here's Glam Polish Deceptive Practice stamped using MoYou London Artist 01 in Mundo de Unas Fuchsia and Purple. 

Sea Shell-icious

Hi lacqueristas! Today I have a quick summery mani to share with you that totally makes me want to go to the beach. Speaking of going to the beach, Mr. HeartNAT and I are going to Tahiti in September! We're even going to stay in an overwater bungalow. It's going to be a dream vacation and I can't wait! I'll share more details in a few months =]

For this mani I used Glam Polish Catch Me If You Can and stamped using MoYou London Sailor 05 and Sailor 07 in Mundo de Unas White. You guys already know I love MoYou London plates and the quality is top notch, but these images blew my mind. Look at all the tiny details that all transferred! I'm even more impressed than I already was. What's your favorite brand of stamping plates?

Mint Green with Silver Polka Dots

Happy Mother's Day! Today I have a mani from last month and this one has a little story to it. I did this mani on Easter even though I already did an Easter themed manicure for my blog. I used a pastel color since I was still in the Easter spirit. During the week that I wore this, I found out the night before that graduation pictures were the next day. I didn't have time to change it up, so now this is the mani in my graduation photos. I wish I knew ahead of time, but in the end I guess it's not a terrible thing. I'm happy I actually had my nails painted and used gel so it my polish didn't have any chips.

I used OPI GelColor That's Hula-rious and stamped using Konad M79 in Mundo de Unas Silver.

Here's my grad pic with this mani! I just have one more paper to turn in and in 2 weeks I'll officially be done with school! Yay!

Gelish I'm Brighter Than You & MoYou London Tropical 02

Good evening friends! Hope you all had a great start to the week. I did! I've been playing with that app called "My Idol" all day and it's super addicting and fun lol. Today I have a mani to share with you that I did a little over a month ago. With all the swatches I've been doing I've been holding onto my regular posts for quite awhile before I share them here. I used Gelish I'm Brighter Than You and stamped using MoYou London Tropical 02 in Mundo de Unas Black. The black polish is OPI GelColor Black Onyx.

Glam Polish Death Defying Acts & MoYou London Pro XL 14

Good morning lacquer heads! Today I have a pretty rainbow mani to share with you. I used Glam Polish Death Defying Acts and stamped using MoYou London Pro XL 14 in Mundo de Unas Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, and Purple. I'm glad I have so many Mundo stamping polishes now because I can do things like this. Also this was done a whole 2 months ago--I love having things saved up to post (which is usually not the case)!

Glam Polish Escape Artist & MoYou London Sailor 05

Happy Saturday! Hope everyone is enjoying the beautiful warm weather if it's warm where you are. I'm currently selling stuff at a garage sale so I'll make this post a quick one. Here's Glam Polish Escape Artist stamped using MoYou London Sailor 05 in Mundo de Unas Neon Blue. The studs are from Born Pretty Store. I'll be graduating soon with my bachelors in nursing and also moving in just over a month so I'll be quite busy over the next month and a half or so. No worries though, I'll still be posting weekly!

Glam Polish Sorcerer's Apprentice & MoYou London Kaleidoscope 10

Happy Saturday folks! Quick post today. I did this mani while swatching Glam Polish's Master's of Illusion Collection. I used Glam Polish Sorcerer's Apprentice and stamped using MoYou London Kaleidoscope 10 in Mundo de Unas Black. The studs are from Born Pretty Store. Rachel from Glam Polish actually asked me to swatch the last 4 polishes from the Master's of Illusion Collection so be on the lookout for those swatches next week!

Happy Easter from the Easter Bunny!

Happy Easter! Today I have an Easter mani to share with you. I did a pastel gradient over a white base using all China Glaze polishes: Peachy Keen, Light As Air, Lemon Fizz, and Re-Fresh Mint. Then I stamped using Bundle Monster BM-H09 and BM-H10 in Mundo de Unas White. This was so hard to photograph with all of the light colors, but I'm sure you guys get the idea.

Glam Polish The Prestige & MoYou London Fashionista 11

Good morning friends! Quick post today. I have to finish up some homework and then do some Easter nails. Yesterday I shared my Glam Polish Master's of Illusion collection swatches. For today and my next few posts, I'll be showing you those beauties with some nail art!

Here's Glam Polish The Prestige stamped using MoYou London Fashionista 11 in Mundo de Unas Violet. I love this plate because it's one of those with a continuous design covering the whole plate so each nail is different, but still ties in with the rest of the nails.

OPI Do You Take Lei Away & MoYou London Tropical 01

Happy Friday beauties! I'm so happy that Spring is here because that means lots of colorful manis and floral prints to come! Here's my first one using one of the polishes from the OPI Hawaii Collection.

I used OPI Do You Take Lei Away and stamped using MoYou London Tropical 01 in Mundo de Unas White.

I added some gold glitter in the center of the flowers to make it pop. You probably can't tell, but I made this into a gel manicure with Gelibility. I love having my stamped manis last me all week at work now. I just need to figure out a way to use studs with gel and get through the week without them falling off. I've already tried anchoring the stud with gel topcoat, curing, then adding 2 coats of topcoat and curing. Any suggestions?!

OPI Cement The Deal & MoYou London Fashionista 04

Hello beauties! This weekend just flew by and I still need to do a St. Paddy's day mani. Yikes! I might just wake up early and do my nails before work. Today I have a grey and yellow chevron design to share with you. I used OPI Cement The Deal and stamped using MoYou London Fashionista 04 in Mundo de Unas Pastel Yellow. I really like how this turned out, but the grey gave me lobster hands as grey polish always does to me. *sadface*

Glam Polish Hypnotize & MoYou London Fairytale 01

Hi friends! Quick post today because I have some homework I should be working on! Here's Glam Polish Hypnotize stamped using MoYou London Fairytale 01 in Mundo de Unas White. Sorry I didn't post last weekend, but I have a couple posts ready for this weekend! I'll also try my best to squeeze in some St. Paddy's Day nails next week! I hate missing a holiday or "special day" mani because I have so many stamping plates with images for every type of holiday and I hate waiting around for the next year to use them. Let's hope I have good time management this weekend!

Black & Blue or White & Gold? Inspired by "The Dress"

Hey loves! I usually post on the weekends, but the dress with questionable colors is such a hot topic right now that I just had to post this sooner. I wanted to do this as soon as I saw Tam from ohmygoshpolish do a mani inpired by this dress. I'm sure you all have seen the photo of the dress over the weekend in which some people see as black and blue and others see as white and gold. I saw the dress as white and gold, but apparently the real dress is black and blue! 

For my index and pinky I used OPI Eurso Euro and stamped using MoYou London Pro 01 XL in Mundo de Unas Black. For my middle and ring I used Color Club On Cloud Nine and stamped using MoYou London Pro 01 in Mundo de Unas Bronze. So what colors did you all see when you saw the dress? And more importantly, what color are my nails?!

Bundle Monster Secret Garden Stamping Plate Collection--Review

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Good morning beauties! Today I have Bundle Monster's new Secret Garden stamping plate collection to review. There are 25 plates in the set and unlike any of their other plates, these are buffet style. Instead of individual rectangular images, the designs take up the entire plate allowing you to choose what part of the design to use. As always, the plates came with a blue protective film that you remove before use and thick paper backing to prevent any cuts while using the plates. Here's a look at the plates. Click to enlarge.

Here's a couple of manis I did with the plates.

Glam Polish Mesmerize stamped using Bundle Monster BM-719 in Mundo de Unas Pastel Yellow, Pastel Pink, and Spring Green. 

Glam Polish Charmed with stamping decals made using Bundle Monster BM-716 in Mundo de Unas Black. The flowers were filled using OPI Suzi Shops & Island Hops and Color Club On Cloud Nine.

I would've had a 3rd mani to show you, but I had trouble picking up and transferring some of the images. I was going to do orange koi fish from BM-725 over a blue base. I tried it over one of the Glam Polishes I swatched and I had trouble with that. I thought it might have been because I had topcoated the polish for swatches (which doesn't typically give me issues) so I tried starting over with an OPI polish for a base color with no topcoat and I still couldn't get it to transfer. I'm not sure if it was just that plate or not because I did have trouble with the purple mani as well and had to remove and re-stamp a couple of nails over. I'll just have to play with the plates a bit more!

You can purchase these plates here for $20.50. Bundle Monster offers free standard shipping to the US for orders over $25. Use code "JOLLY2014" for 15% off your puprchase. Valid through March 31, 2015. 

Delicate White Lace Stamping

Happy Friday my friends! Sorry I didn't get a chance to post last weekend. I went on a last minute little getaway to Angels Camp, a cute little city here in California. I did a lot of swatching of Glam Polishes over the past couple of weeks so I'll be sharing those with you guys soon! Today I have a mani I wore a couple weeks ago and I love how it turned out.

I used Essie Sugar Daddy and stamped using MoYou London Bridal 06 in Mundo de Unas White. The pink is OPI Suzi Shops & Island Hops and the glitter is China Glaze Glistening Snow--my favorite silver glitter polish!

Also, I never thought I'd say this, but my round nails are growing on me! I haven't had any breaks since I changed my shape and I was so busy last week that I didn't get a chance to file my nails, but the shape is still fine. When I had squares I had to re-file them every week. I even wore this mani to work all week and it's just regular polish and it lasted the whole week with no chips. I'm kind of amazed. I'll probably be keeping this shape for a long time!

Love on Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day my loves! Quick post today because Mr. HeartNAT took today off to spend the day with me. Here's Gelish Gossip Girl stamped using PUEEN 41 in Mundo de Unas Violet and Bundle Monster BM-H16 in Mundo de Unas White. I also have a new nail shape for the first time in forever! Work has been so crazy right now and I have to do stuff 100 mph so I rounded them off to have less breaks with my squares. I will probably go back to square when work slows down. Hope you all have a wonderful day! <3

Conversation Heart Candy Nail Art

Happy Friday my friends! Today after class I'm going to watch Fifty Shades of Grey. I did a Fifty Shades themed mani and I'll be sharing that with you lovelies on Sunday. Today I have another Valentine's themed design that looks like those adorable little conversation heart candies. I used 4 polishes from the OPI Hawaii collection: That's Hula-rious, Suzi Shops & Island Hops, Is Mai Tai Crooked, and Hello Hawaii Ya. I stamped using Bundle Monster BM-425 in Mundo de Unas Reddish.

Hugs & Kisses for Valentine's Day

Hi loves! I'm trying to get a good amount of Valentine's nail art posted before it's over and I can't use those stamping images for another year lol. Last year at this time I was so busy with my new job and I was taking my blogging break so I'm happy to finally put my Valentine's stamping images to use.

I made this gel mani with Gelibility, but my mistake was that I used a red crelly. From now on, I won't be using a crelly or jelly with Gelibility since mixing Gelibility dilutes the polish. It doesn't make much of a difference with cremes, but with OPI Red Hot Rio it took me 4 coats for opacity!

I used OPI Red Hot Rio, Zoya Pixie Dust Chyna, and Morgan Taylor All White Now and stamped using Bundle Monster BM-411 in Mundo de Unas Black.

UberChic Beauty Stamping Plates--Review

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Good morning Stampaholics! I'm sure a lot of you have heard about UberChic Beauty--the new brand of stamping plates that just launched about a week or so ago. Today I'll be reviewing them and sharing a few manicures I did with the plates.

UberChic Beauty is a small company based in Colorado. They sell stamping plates, glitter dust, and magical dust. There are 2 plate collections available right now. Each collection includes 3 plates. A collection is $24.99, which comes to about $8.33 per plate. I chose collection 2 to review. The plates come with the blue protective film that is to be removed before use.

Here's a size comparison next to a MoYou London plate. The UberChic Beauty plate is 9.5 cm x 14.5 cm. The UberChic designs are 1.7 x 2.1 cm (MoYou London designs are 1.5 x 2 cm). The plates have a paper backing to them kind of like what's on the back of a Bundle Monster plate. 

Here are a few manicures I did using the plates. 

Watercolor mani using OPI Sheer Tints (I Can Teal You Like Me, I'm Never Amberassed, Be Magentale With Me, and Don't Violet Me Down) over a white base stamped using UC plate 2-01 in Mundo de Unas Black.

China Glaze Liquid Leather stamped using UC plate 2-01 in A-England Princess Tears. Middle nail is A-England Princess Tears stamped using UC plate 2-01 in Mundo de Unas Black.

OPI I Sing In Color stamped using UC plate 2-02 in Essie Good As Gold. Glitter is OPI All Sparkly and Gold.

I didn't have any trouble picking up the images. The etching of the plates are great quality and didn't rip up my cotton when I cleaned the images. Some of the images are really large like the heart image on the 1st plate and the hibiscus image on the 3rd plate so you'll only be able to see a part of the image once stamped on your nail, but majority of the images are patterns so that wouldn't happen often. I was really pleased with the quality of these plates and there's a good variety of images available to choose from. You can purchase these plates here for $24.99. There is a $5.99 flat shipping rate on US orders and $15 for international orders.