Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 304 (BM304)

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.

This particular plate has 2 full sized images and 6 single images. All of the images stamped across really well, and I like how its a bit different which is always good. Below is a design I did using this plate, although my colour choices need to be re-thought!

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

Swatch: Claire's - Leather Look Black

Colour: Black
Finish: Leather Look
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 9ml

I have one other black textured polish, seventeen's rock hard nail effects. They look relatively similar but they feel different, Claire's is smoother and won't click tights where as the Seventeen one has a rougher texture.

Colour Me Crazy: Red

British Nail Bloggers have a new challenge, this one is based around colours and this week is the turn of the colour red.

Polishes Used

Nails Inc - Luminious Metallic Red

Ciate - Enchanted Rose

Jess - Midnight

Stamping Polish: Barry M - Silver Foil Effect

Stamping Plate: MoYou - 105

GOT: Lime

These watermelon nails were inspired by the Nailasaurus.

ELF - Gum Pink
Color Club - Twiggie

Acrylic Paints

Review: Leighton Denny - Crystal Nail File

I have done a comparison of the OPI one and the Leighton Denny one here.

This nail file has a rounded end and is exceptionally smooth, you could run this over the finest of tights and it would not snag them. You can use this on your nails and they won't be clicking off anything and everything.

Very gentle on nails, and seals the end of the nails against water getting in and weakening / damaging / splitting nails. I also find that this file having a rounded end is particularly useful, especially as I am a clumsy person, whereas I have stabbed myself accidentally numerous times with the OPI one.



The higher the grit, the less course the file is. This having a no grit means it takes a while to file down the length of your nails.  Leighton's crystal nail file doesn't have a grit rating as it is that fine. It is made by dipping the crystal file in to acid which eats away at the crystal causing the fine texture to it rather than with a glass nail file whereby the glass is sprayed with sand to achieve the gritted texture. As such the surface of a glass file wears away whereas with this crystal one it does not, you can simply wash it and the surface will be as good as new. The surface of the file is guaranteed for 25 years.

Comes packaged in a flip lid tin pack which is perfect for protecting the file.

The dimensions are as follows:
Length - 135mm
Width - 11mm
Depth - 3mm

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Pink, Purple and Green #2

Another round for the Tri-Polish Challenge! This is the second one and the colours are Pink, Purple and Green. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use all Color Club polishes, Twiggie, Warhol and Pucci-Licious.

Color Club - Twiggie

Color Club - Warhol

Color Club - Pucci-Licious