Today I have a special post for you, introducing a design made with one of my new Nailz Craze stamping plates. This is the new Nailz Craze NC06 Tattoo plate, with various tattoos designs.

For this post I made a vintage style tattoo inspired design, featuring the LOVE letters and the rose from the NC06 plate.

I know that a lot of you are very curious to see the new plates in action, so I will do my best to create and post several manicures with the plates so you can get a better idea of how the images will look on the nails.

For this designs I started with a light beige base - Barry M Lychee, one of the new Gelly Hi-Shine polishes which I absolutely adore. As most of the polishes from this collection, it had a great and opaque creamy formula, super shiny finish and quick dry time.

To create the half moons at the cuticles base, I used French manicure tips stickers and applied Barry M Pomegranate, which is a rich creamy red. 

To stamp the LOVE letters I used Konad's Black and the Nailz Craze NC06 plate.

To create the rose I used the stamping decal method, which I will explain in my next post. It's a simple technique in which you transfer the image from the plate to the stamper, and then paint the inner part before transferring it to the nail.

The colors I used for the rose were Barry M Pomegranate and Barry M Watermelon.

Once I was done with the design, I sealed it with my favorite to coat - Poshe.

I was very pleased with this design, it's always exciting for me to use the plates I create for the first time and see my ideas for manicures get executed. This finished design was even prettier than I inagined it to be, so I hope you will like it too.

Thank you for reading, I hope to share with you some more of the new designs soon!

Today I have another nature inspired post for you ladies, this time with some pretty pink flowers.
To create this designs I used a few flowers designs from a stamping plate and a gradient stamping technique, which I will explain below.

To start this design I applied two coats of Lime Crime Milky Ways, a delicate vanilla shade, one of my favorite polishes which I used over six times that I can recall.
For the stamping I used 3 different designs from a Born Pretty Store stamping plate QA61 (item #6459).
The quality of the stamping plate is really good, and the designs are quite large so they even covered my nails entirely (except for the thumb, no complaints about this since there are only a few brands which I can get a full coverage with). I'm always looking for nice flowers designs in stamping plates, and these designs were pretty to my eyes.

To create the gradient stamping effect I chose to work with three colors; GA-DE Rodeo Drive (red), Barry M Grapefruit (pink) and Life 304 (peachy orange). I applied one drop of each color at the outer line of the design on the plate, and scraped it a couple of times so the colors blend into the gradient look. Believe me, it's much easier than it sounds, just try this and if you need any help you can check youtube for some great tutorials. So yeah, it's that easy!
I sealed the design with one coat of my favorite Poshe top coat, and there you have another lovely flowers design, super easy to execute and looks great.
Thanks for reading! ♥

To purchase the flowers designs stamping plate I reviewed in this post, visit the Born Pretty Store, and also check the large range of stamping plates and nail art supplies at the store. 

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So I thought I should post about something more cheerful than my last post, and I decided to share with you my current mani.

This is a design inspired by the exotic Dragon Fruit (also known as Pitaya). This is a beautiful and colorful fruit, I've tasted it before but can't recall the taste so much because it was a long time ago. I remember it being delicious and refreshing, not too sweet nor sour, but really nice - so if you have a chance to taste this, do it! :) I know I will keep an eye for this one.

Actually this nail art was created sort of by accident, I was going for a subtle look as a base for some nail art, but then realized I probably picked a bit brighter color than I originally intended to. I realized this too late, I already had the gradient ready and it was a shame to remove it. Then I rememberd I wanted to do a design inspired by the Dragon Fruit once, so I took advantage of this opportunity.

To create this design I started with a white base, then created over it a gradient with Barry M Grapefruit and Wet n Wild French White Creme. I applied one coat of Out The Door Northern Lights which is a very delicate holo micro glitter, it is really hard to see at all because the matte top coat over it kind of kills the holo effect, but if you look up closely you can see tiny silver glitter.

To recreate the black seeds look I used black and silver shreds nail polish by Modi 48 (Korean brand).

At first I sealed it with one coat of Poshe which also helped smooth the rough surface of the shreds, but then I thought I should try a matte top coat (Revlon) and I really liked the look with it, so I kept it this way.

I think this came out pretty nice for an unplanned design, it was actually a nice surprise. This is such a lovely inspiration, I would love to make another fruit inspired nail art again and of course share it with you. 

Would love to hear your thought about this mani, and if you might have any ideas for new fruit inspired manis, please feel free to share!

It's been a while since my last post, just was a bit busy these past few days, but I wanted to share with you this mani I did a week ago.
I wanted to try my new Brazilian nail polish by Impala for a while now, and I decided to go for a simple design with an accent finger.
I applied one coat of Wet n Wild Black Creme on all fingers except for the ring finger, and then added one coat of Impala Na Mira 3D, which contains dark silver holo glitter in black jelly base. It was quite sheer on it's own so I decided to layer it over the black base.

The formula is really good and the glitter coverage was great, but I was a bit disappointing that it was so sheer. I was hoping not to use a base coat for it but when I realized it would be a bit too sheer for me even after 3 coats.

The holo glitter was sooo sparkly and beautiful in the sun, it was a delight to look at it. In shade it was less impressive, it looked plain silver without the holo effect, but still pretty.

For the accent finger I applied one coat of Barry M Pomegranate which has really great coverage. I used striping tape to create the triangle shape, painted this part with black and once dried, I aligned the striping take around the existing triangle and painted over the black part with the holo polish. Once all dried I applied one coat of Poshe to seal the design.

I love how simple and pretty this came out, and you can never go wrong with a holographic polish, right? :)

I wanted to share with you some swatches I did of the gorgeous glitter by OPI - Polka.com
I've been eying this gorgeous polish for a while now, and I was super excited when I finally got it!
It's so pretty and delicate, colorful yet subtle, and I think it can be paired with so many colors and still look fabulous!

Polka.com is a mix of fuchsia, purple and teal hex glitter in two sizes in a clear base. It's probably the most interesting polish from OPI's Euro Centrale Collection, and defiantly my favorite one!
I love how these three colors combine into a beautiful mix, and I can't wait to try it over other colors - I have a feeling it will look gorgeous every time! The formula was great, and it was very easy to spread the glitter in just a few strokes to get this look.

From swatches I've seen, I really liked how it looked over OPI Suzi's Hungary Again, but since I don't own this polish in my collection, I decided to pair it with a similar color I have by Barry M - Grapefruit. For the pictures I used one coat of Polka.com over two coats of Grapefruit, and topped it with one coat of Poshe.

Today's NOTD inspired by Lana Del Rey song Blue Jeans. I wanted to make this design for a while now, so I was happy to try the zipper decals I received from Born Pretty Store to create this design.

To create this design I started with one coat of Barry M Denim which I think is the perfect polish to recreate the Jeans look. The formula was really great and super pigmented so I only needed one coat. the polish dried a bit matte, which actually added to the denim effect. Once it dried, I applied the Zipper water decals which were also very easy and fund to work with (instructions on how to apply them will be posted below). This was my first experience with water decals and I have to admit I really loved it and will be using it again. Once it was all dry, I applied one coat of Poshe.

What I liked about the zipper decals is that they are very thin, and once a top coat is applied, you can't even feel any bumps or anything, the surface is really smooth. Another thing I liked about them is that I wasn't afraid to smear the design as I am with stamping. Application was very easy and fast, and even after using the decals on both hands, I still have some left for another design to be used as accent nails.

Instructions and tips on how to apply water decals:

You will need these tools: Water bowl, scissors, tweezers, tissue paper.

1. Cut the decals and remove the protective film. 

2. Place the decals in water for 10 seconds.

3. Once soaked, pull them out of the water with the tweezers, and slide/pull the decal aside from the paper. Use a tweezers to place it on the nail.

4. Press the decal to the nail, use a tissue paper to remove access water and help it dry faster.

5. Once completely dry, apply a top coat.

You can find the Zipper water decals I used for this design on Born Pretty Store, they are available in two colors: Gold and Silver. Price for a set of 20 decals is $2.99 and shipping is free.

You can use this code to receive a 10% discount of your entire purchase on the site: PNL91

In today's guest post I'm having a good friend of mine from the blog Just For Fun, you should totally go check her blog for cute nail art! The designs she makes are always so cute and fun, every time I see her posts she makes me go like "Oh, now I want to wear this color/design too" lol.

Be sure to check her blog and to follow her if you would like to see more of her awesome nail art. Hope you will enjoy this post! :)

St. Patrick's Inspired design

This design was inspired by the upcoming St. Patrick’s day.
On all of the fingers I applied 2 coats of OPI – Live and Let Die from the James Bond collection, a dark green with a gold shimmer. One coat was pretty opaque but I applied two just in case. But on the ring finger I used the amazing Zoya – Storm. I love this polish! Here I used 2 coats.
For the stamping I used Barry M – Gold Foil, with Nailz Craze Stamping Plate NC01. I actually filled in the hearts on the ring finger, I used a very short and thin brush to paint within the hearts, and added  a stem to make it look like a clover.
I really like how this came out! What do you think?

I wanted to share with you my sweet mani for this weekend. I wanted to use this cute candy stamp from Bundle Monster set and never got to it until now (well, that's what happens when you have tons of stamping plates, but I guess you can relate to that).
I originally planned to stamp it over colorful gradient but then I saw this pink themed contest on Instagram and I decided to go with for pink instead.

For the base I used one coat of Barry M Pink Flamingo, then created a gradient with the same color combined with Essie Plumberry which is a dark pink. I added one coat of holographic top which I got in my latest awesome Christmas swap, I'm not sure what brand it is but it says Holo Top Coat 35, I think it's with the spectraflair effect. you can barely see this in the pictures but it added a nice holo shimmer to the gradient.
Finally I stamped this cute candy design from Bundle Monster BM306 plate and used Konad white which I really adore. I have only two of the Konad stamping polishes (black and white) and I just love them, the image stamps so well and crisp with them, it's awesome! As always I applied one coat of my favorite top coat - Poshe.
I really loved this design and the combination of the sweet colors, this can easily become one of my favorite designs. I'm looking forward to recreate it with different colors. Hope you liked it! :)

Today's design is inspired by a pastel galaxy nail art I saw a few days ago at Makeup Withdrawal post. It instantly reminded me of the Nailz Craze NC02 stamping plate that has these little sparkly stars on it, and the fact that I've been wanting to create a galaxy mani for a long time but never did it until now. So I decided to created this whimsical galaxy design with a few of my favorite pastel colors. You can see all the polishes I used for this design at the last photo.

I started this nail art with a lilac base Luci Darling 02. I applied one coat since the coverage was pretty good and I was about to layer other colors on top of it. Then I used a makeup sponge and applied light blue (Essence Sure Azure), pink (Essie Fiji) and gold (Barry M Gold Foil) polishes on the nails, tapping lightly on the nail. The first taps were a bit sheer so to achieve a deeper color I repeated this step once they dried a bit. Then I applied the gorgeous silver holographic glitter polish - Barry M Diamond Glitter, and stamped on top of it the sparkly stars stamp from Nailz Craze NC02 plate using Konad white (which was AH-mazing! First time I use this polish and stamping with it was just perfect!). On the thumbs I stamped the unicorn stamp, the whimsical part of this mani ;) I finished the design with one coat of Poshe.

I really love my whimsical galaxy nails and the unicorn is such a pretty addition to it. As it's winter time here, I could barely get these photos at a good light since it's raining all day, but I guess this will do. They sparkle much more than it shows and the colors are prettier in real life, you'll have to take my word on this one ;)