Green plaid nails

I saw so many plaid nails on different blogs that I feel in love with this style. This is why I wanted  a great stamping plate that has several textile patterns on it. I found one on the Born Pretty Store that has various plaid and hounds tooth designs from I can choose. Here is my interpretation for this nail art style.  

I used the following nail polishes: Yves Rocher black for the base on three of my nails which I topped with the NYC Rock Muse Smoky top coat - Green Day 006. On two of my nails, as base for the plaid pattern, I used a BPS light green multi-glitter nail polish, I bought from quite a while called KR 600. It is an extremely sheer nail polish, and I had to layer up 4 coats. It dried super hard. After a quick dry top coat I stamped the plaid pattern on it with a black stamping polish. The image transferred nicely and each design from this plate is very well carved in. This stamping plate has no plastic back as the other BPS plates, but the quality of it is very good regardless of this detail! I enjoyed to were this fun nail art and soon I am going to try the other pattern too.

I hate the horrible smudging. I bought my usual Golden Rose Quick Dry top coat that never smudged...until now and this happened :( Maybe they changed the formula, but this new one does not work anymore for stamping and even on decals. The water decals melt underneath a thin top coat.  I definitely have to look up for another top coat brand!

If you like this stamping plate, you can find it here and you're welcome to use my bellow seen discount code.  Just check the Born Pretty Store site for several nail art stuff and more!

Thank you Born Pretty Store for sending me this great plate for review! 

Hop into Spring

Sorry for my absence here and in the social media sites. I will try to schedule some new post from now on and show you the new goodies I received for review.

I prepared this manicure for the usual Saturday challenge but I couldn't post it, because personal problems. The theme was to make a spring manicure. For me this new season means freshness, new beginning and a whole lot of flowers. This is why for this theme I used some untried flower patterned sticker sheets from the Born Pretty Store. 

It was kind of a struggle to use them because they are super thin and sticky. I worked with the help of a tweezers but I had to throw away a few parts of this stickers because they trimmed very fast before I could place them on my nails. This is why I used them as accent nails. As you can see in the pictures these stickers are put on a foil and must be cut at nail size before use. They stick very fast to the nails and can not be replaced. As I mentioned before, they are extremely thin and need a thick top coat to resist on the nails!

I combined the stickers with a deep purple shade from Maybelline and on my ring finger I used one layer of Sally Hansen Lavender Cloud on which I put just a stripe from the flower decal.

I seek for this decals on the Born Pretty Store, but I couldn't find it, maybe it is sold out, but you can find a lot of nail stickers and decals here and you're welcome to use my bellow seen discount code for any of your purchase. 

Reverse french nails

I have today an elegant nail art to show you made with a gorgeous matte nail polish from Golden Rose matte collection #15. This polish is a dream, has a wonderful matte/satin finish and a lovely emerald green shade that I love. I really don't know why I kept this beauty so much in my stash without using it.  

On two of my nails I made a revers french nail art with the help of a chrome nail polish called Aquamarine Chrome by Sally Hansen. I like very much the combination of the shiny chrome effect together with the elegant matte one. 

Natural light

Direct sunlight

After a while I thought to stamp on my nails an elegant pattern from my new #Qgirl-057 stamping plate I received from the Born Pretty Store as a gift. This is my first plate from the 'a Qin An' collection, but I can tell you that compared with the usual BPS plates it is no difference. Maybe just the fact that it is packed in a simple see trough cardboard package. The plate is very well carved in and the design transfers easy and crisp on the stamping head. As you can see, this plate contains very elegant and delicate patterns which look very nice on the nails.

If you like this stamping plate you can find it here and you're welcome to use my bellow seen discount code. 

I am curious, how do you like my manicure better, with or without the stamped pattern?