Nails: Blue Marbled

I used the saran wrap / clingfilm method to get these nails to look a bit like marble.

Maybelline - Cool Blue 651
Barry M - Blue Grape 317

Sunday Stamping: Music Nails

Music nails for World Music Day.

Base Polishes:
Jess Polish - Midnight
Angelica - Twilight
Barry M - Matt White

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - 205
Stamping Polish: MoYou Nails - Special Nail Polish Black

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 301 (BM301)

This stamping plate is from the third Bundle Monster set, from 2012. It is backed with branded lining to stop it from being sharp. This is useful, without it it is easy to slice open your fingers and palms which I have been known to do accidentally in the past with other stamping plates.

On this stamping plate there are 3 full nail images and 3 single images, all of these stamped well and I like the gradient image as it saves on the clean up you have to do if you were to do a sponge gradient.

Here are a couple of nail art designs I have done using this plate:

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All of the nail art I have done using this stamping plate can be found HERE.

Swatch: ELF - Light Red

Colour: Light Red

Finish: Cremé

Opacity: Two Coats

Brush Type: Standard

How Much? 10ml

GOT: Free Choice

With it being summer I thought I would go for something neon. I used two Color Club's Twiggie and Wham Pow which are both from April 2012. I used the bag dab / cling film / saran wrap method, the colours were so neon my camera had problems picking them up.

Review: Square 4mm Studs - Born Pretty Store

 

I got these for Christmas and thought I would share my thoughts on them. I haven't tried nail art studs before but have used rhinestones. These might work well on denim nail polish too.

Both sets (black and silver) are in 4mm and are square studs, they are hollow and stick to the nail around the edges of the stud rather than the way a traditional flat back rhinestone would.

As much as I like the black studs, they don't obviously show up over black polish. Which is why I was also glad to receive some of the studs in silver, these of course show up really well on black polish.

Inside each pack are around 100 studs and depending on how you remove them they are reusable which is always a good thing!

Nails Inc / Kate Spade - New York Noir
BK - #20 (Neon Orange)

I wanted to do some nail art using these studs, as I didn't have any in orange to pop over the black polish I just painted a couple of the silver studs with an neon orange polish and that worked really well and was quite effective.

Black Studs
Silver Studs