Peacock Foil, Review for Born Pretty Store

Hi guys,

I have another review today and it is for the peacock foil from the Born Pretty Store.

You can go directly to it, via this link or search itemnumber #21775 on the website.

The foil comes in a plastic container and as you can see in the first photo, you can do a lot of nailart with one roll of the foil.

Because I didn't know what the best color nailpolish would be as the basecolor, I just painted my nails in 4 colors: blue, green, gold and silver and then added nailglue and when this was translucent and sticky, I applied the nailfoil.

This is the nailfoil over a darkblue base. 

 This is the nailfoil over silver nailpolish.

This is the nailfoil over green nailpolish.

This is the nailfoil over golden nailpolish.

I decided I liked the nailfoil over the golden base best, so I painted my nails with a golden Catrice polish and applied the nailfoil on 3 nails. On my accentnail I stamped a Peacock from stampingplate BP-004, also from the BPS.

What do you think? Is Gold also your favorite color under the nailfoil, or would you have chosen another color?

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You can use your code for the nailfoil, itemnumber #21775 or for the thousands of other products.

See you next time!!

                           

Stamped Ladybugs over Golden Flowers

For this Ladybug-design I've made a pictorial of all the steps I've made.

And I am back to nubbins, because of a nasty break in my middle-finger. But with this design I don't mind rocking them ;)

First I've painted all my nails with Essence ''Wonder Wow! Man!', a gorgeous golden polish that is opaque in 2 coats.
When the basecolor had dried completely, I started with the first stamping layer.

For the flower-image I used stampingplate JQ-L18 (bought on AliExpress) and Catrice '(S)Wimbleon', a light aqua/teal greenish color, that stamps wonderful!

The nail stamped with the flowers looks like this, after cleanup. I topcoated with Seche Vite, because I mess up my decals a lot, so with a layer of topcoat it is easy to remove the decal or stampingimage.

For the ladybug I use a cute image of a stampingplate by (I think) Shany, but I cannot find the plate anywhere, so I can't tell the plate number.
As you can see, the whole image didn't transfer correctly, but I don't mind, because nobody is perfect ;) Even precious ladybugs.... (or I am just making excuses) 
I've used multiple stampingheads, so I can make more decals at once.

When the black stampingpolish was completely dried, I filled all the body's in with a bright red.(Dashica 'Pure Red' in my case) Because of my multiple stampingheads, I could immediately fill the images with the red, when I finished stamping the ladybugs.

The red took a little more time to dry, but within 10 minutes, I could start with transferring the ladybugs.

Because the images are not to big, I just placed the stampinghead on my nail and the ladybug had no problem being transferred to my nail. (except for the tiny little feet)

I am really pleased with how this design came out and those nubbins.... they will grow and before I know it, I have long(er) nails again. But until that time: #embracetheshorties !

Cuticle Tattoo, review for Born Pretty Store

Hi guys!

For today I have a review for you. I was contacted by BornPrettyStore.com if I wanted to review some products from their site and I could not say no ;)

So i choose 3 products and these Cuticle Tattoos are the first I will review. 

The Tattoos i used for this review are NCT-008 with itemnumber #19807

I've seen a lot of people use temporarily tattoos in their nailart and when i saw these, I wanted to try them out! 

When I received my package, I wanted to try these tattoos first.

I've made a neonpink and white base with Catrice LE 'Bright, Brighter, Brightest' and SinfulColors 'Snow me White' 

Then I stamped with BPL-018 and Dashica stampingpolishes 'Neon Pink' and 'White'

I topcoated the design, so I could be sure the polish wouldn't be affected by the water from the decals.

When the topcoat completely dried, I cut the decals and peeled off the plastic sheet and placed them on my nails.

With a q-tip with water I saturated the paper and held the paper on it's place on my nail. 

After a couple of seconds the paper started to move, the sign that the waterdecals transferred to my nail. 

I slided the paper off and the waterdecal was good and firm on its place.

Because there was a bit water left on my nails, i used a q-tip to gently pat it off, but (as you can see in the pink close-up) the decal crinkled a bit.

So i let the rest of my nails dry on its own. 

On this close-up you can see the beauty of the waterdecals best. 

I thought I had placed them really nice in the middle, but I have to practice placing a bit more, but that's no problem, because there are still lots of decals left on the sheet.

I am really pleased with the Cuticle Tattoos. 

I didn't use them for my cuticles, but as you can see, they are perfect for nailart too!

There are 8 different designs to choose from, so you will find a design of your liking!

Born Pretty Store Cuticle Tattoos

*If you like these  Cuticle Tattoo Nail Art Stickers Water Transfer Temporary Decals Lace Flower Patterns, productnumber #19807, you can get this and a whole lot more at @bornprettystore and if you use my code, LWGK31,  you get 10% of your purchase*

What do you think of these decals?

Flakies!!! Who doesn't love Flakies!!!

Catrice's LE Million Styles Effect Topcoat C04 'Shake it! Flake It!' 

This will be a pic-heavy post, but look at the beauty of these Flakies!!!!

They deserve a lot of pictures to show you their gorgeousness.

The Flakies I've used for this design are in Catrice's LE Million Styles Effect Topcoat C04 'Shake it! Flake It!' 

I don't think you can buy them anymore, so i'm sorry if I made you want them.....

To make the gold-red-green shine pop, the basecolor I've used is Kleancolor 'Dark Red' a deep red that is opaque in 2 coats and is so dark, it almost look black.

 Close-up

Because Flakies also look very good when they are mattefied, I've used Essie "Matte About You' as a matte topcoat. 

As you can see, the Flakies are still gorgeous, but the colors are different. Not better or worse, just different. And i couldn't find the green effect when mattefied. 

But look at all that Flakie-goodness!!!

Mattefied with Essie "Matte about You'

This design was for a nailchallenge on Instagram, so I wanted to spice this mani up with a leave-stamping, because the Flakies remind me of a forest pond with all the leaves floating in it.

I stamped with Essence White Stampy and BornPrettyStore stampingplate BP-30 and now i think it really looks like a forest pond.

What do you think about these Flakies? Love them or hate them ;)

Magical Mushroom Forest

This is my first blogpost ever, so be gentle ;)

I am not new to painting my nails: 2,5 years agoI  had 5 bottles of polish, now I have over 500 and counting.

Trough searching the web, on sites like You Tube, Pinterest, Facebook and since september first '14 also actively on Instagram, I've learned so much of all the nailartists I could find.

I watched in awe how to make a watermarble (still a scary thing to me), how I should clean my cuticles, how to make better pictures and how to collect even more nailpolishes.

I'ts been and still is, a fun ride, with it's ups and downs, because I still make designs that I immediately want to trow away, loose it as my stampingimages don't do what I want or if my polish doesn't spread in the water.

But I think that everyone who is enjoying nailart, will have the same ups and down as me.

So that's why I wanted my first blog to be about a design I really like!

Basecoat

This is the base from which I started working.

I used 1 coat of Catrice Nickel Minaj as my base, over which I painted 1 coat of 'Don't Touch My Tardis' by Glitter or Die, a custom-made nailpolish that i love. 

It is a darkblue jelly with so much flakies and glitter and I think that it's gorgeousness come out better when it has a light basecoat.

Because I wanted my Forest to be extra magical, i added 2 coats of Essence 

'Night In Vegas' for some more flakie-action.

Magical Mushroom Forest

When the background was dry, I painted some red and white mushrooms with Kleancolr 'Red', SinfulColors 'Snow me White' and 'Jumpin' Jade by Sally Hansen for the grass.

The little fairy I made with stampingplate Xiuya-06 and white stampingpaint. 
I stamped her and then used the lead-lighting technique to color her in.
I forgot to make a close-up of the fairy, but I made 2 close-up of the mushrooms

I hope you liked my first blogpost and the nailartdesign I've made!

Leonie