Swatches: OPI 'Advent Calendar' 2017

OPI 'Advent Calendar' XOXO Love OPI, had five doors and behind each door was a tray of five mini OPI polishes. I got the collection for Christmas and this post is swatches of all 25 polishes.

A collection that emphasises bold holiday reds, unique pearls, metallics, sultry purples, charcoal hues and blacks.

Taupe-Less Beach // Samoan Sand // The Color That Keeps on Giving // Snow Glad I Met You // Alpine Snow

You're Such a Budapest // Lucky Lucky Lavender // It's a Girl // This Cost Me a Mint // One Chic Chick

Taupe-Less Beach

Samoan Sand

The Color That Keeps on Giving

Snow Glad I Met You

Alpine Snow

Lucky Lucky Lavender

You're Such a Budapest

It's a Girl

This Cost Me a Mint

One Chic Chick

Black Cherry Chutney // Bogotá Blackberry // A-Rose at Dawn, Broke By Noon // Strawberry Margarita // Princesses Rule

Feel The Chemis-Tree // Wanna Wrap? // Sending You Holiday Hugs // Adam Said "It's New Year's, Eve" // My Wish List Is You

Black Cherry Chutney

Bogotá Blackberry

A-Rose at Dawn, Broke By Noon

Princesses Rule

Strawberry Margarita

Feel The Chemis-Tree

Wanna Wrap?

Sending You Holiday Hugs

Adam Said "It's New Year's, Eve"

My Wish List Is You

Holidazed Over You // Coalmates // Top The Package With a Beau // Gift of Gold Never Gets Old // Ornament to Be Together

Holidazed Over You

Coalmates

Top The Package With a Beau

Gift of Gold Never Gets Old

Ornament to Be Together

Swatch: OPI - This Cost Me A Mint

Colour: Mint Green
Finish: Cream
Opacity: Three Coats
How Much? 3.75ml

Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster Holiday Collection H05 (BMH05)

Back on to the Bundle Monster 'Holiday Collection' which consists of 25 different plates.

BM H05 is Celtic themed.

This stamping plate is backed with branded backing, so it doesn't have sharp edges, each plate has six images on them. This particular plate has two full nail images and four smaller images.

All of the images stamped across really well and I particularly like the Celtic knot designs.

Here are a set of nails I did using this plate:

You can see all of the nail art I used this plate in here.

#NailCraziesUnite: Rainbow Watermarble

Water marbling isn't something I am very good at. I managed to use the yellow to create a bit of a swirl pattern then added dots in red, orange, green, blue and purple.

Black | Barry M - Black Forest
Red | ELF - Dark Red
Orange | Nails Inc - Optic Flame 2014
Yellow | Color Club - Almost Famous
Green | Collection 2000 - Electric Dreams
Blue | Nails Inc - Optic Wave 2015
Purple | Yes Love - K033

Dotting Tool
MoYou - Stamping Mat

Swatch: Barry M - Oasis (Coconut Infusion)

Colour: Purple
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: Two Coats
Brush Type: Flat, Wide, Rounded Cuticle
How Much? 10ml

Review: MoYou Workshop Silicon Placement Mat*

MoYou have came out with a silicon nail mat, it measures at 29.7cm x 21cm. It comes wrapped in a plastic pocket which is useful to keep it lint free.

MoYou say;

"Are you tired of ruining every surface you use with nail polish remover and colours? Do you have to wait for ages to make reverse stamps or stamping decals using your stamper? You don’t need to with our nail art mats. Made of soft silicon, our mats are the perfect companion for any kind of nail art you can imagine"

The mat itself is large enough to work on a couple of different designs at the same time. It has sections for different shaped nails, French tip areas, as well as sections for dark and light stamping so you can see if your stamping polish shows up over the background you plan on using.

MoYou Stamping Nail Polish in White shows up over both a light and dark base;

I used the mat to create these rainbow nails;

To clean the mat you can use a lint roller for bigger areas, peel off pieces of polish or use acetone as the mat is designed not to melt with acetone use.

Overall I like this stamping mat, I find that it stands up against acetone which is important. The size is big enough to do multiple designs with. I like how there are dark sections as well as light sections, no more having to swatch a black and a white polish, waiting for those to dry and then seeing if the polish you want to use would show up or not.

It is quite large and so to store it I roll it up inside of its plastic packaging and put it inside an empty kitchen roll, and that makes storage easier.

MoYou - £7.99