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Lady Queen is an international beauty shop, selling nail art,make-up and tools, jewellery, fashion bags etc. They offer free shipping all over the world. Here is a link to their nail art department where they have tons of nail art related items: stamping plates, glitters, rhinestones, dotting tools, brushes, foils and many other items.

As I mentioned in my previous post I personally think that they offer the biggest selection of nail decalls, but besides that they offer a wide variety of stamping plates. On of those I'll review in today's post.

Today I'm going to present you hehe 050 stamping plate,where it currently costs 2,99$, but with my coupon code you can get if with 15% discount for 2,54$.

Here is a picture of the stamping plate:

Since it is an all over design there is a lot of different options, and you can create many looks with this plate.

Here are some technicalities:

Size of the heart:

width 2,1 cm

height 2 cm

Whole design

width 5 cm

height 5 cm

Inscription (Valentine's day)

width 1 cm

height 1 cm

No protection on the back (lightly sanded edges that are not too sharp)

Light weight

Well engraved

Good transfer to the stamp

Hard peace of metal and can not be bent or broken

My opinion:

I tried 2 different designs with this plate and I had no problems with stamping. The image transferred well, and didn't smudge. I tried to stamp all parts of the plate and I haven't notice any "bad" spots, so I can say that it is really well engraved. Because it is an all over design I had a lot of options in my mind. Because the heart design is too big for my nails I used it a bit differently (as a V shape stamping), This is a big advantage because if you regularly want to stamp this way you have to protect the rest of the nail with a tape or liquid latex. It is relatively cheap comparing to some other stamping plates.

Here are my manicures:

I used BarryM Boots a Bikinni and Konad Black

I used Ciaté Ahoy Sailor and China Glaze Deviantly Daring

I really like how many options this plate offers. you can make a Gothic design with bold colours or something delicate and girly with light colours. I think it is a must for every woman to have this plate in her collection.

For all of my readers Lady Queen offered a coupon code for 15% discount. Use WEXS15 at the checkout.

This product was sent to me for reviewing purpose. See my disclosure.

Hi!

Today I'm going to show you a manicure I made with Nail Vinyls NS02 from Born Pretty Store. I think you all know Born Pretty Store, but just to make sure, here is a link to their nail art department where they have tons of nail art related items: stamping plates, glitters, rhinestones, dotting tools, brushes, foils and many other items.

Now on to the vinlys. Here is how they look:

Size: Width: 1,0 cm

Lenght: 2,8 cm

They are a bit too narrow for my nails, but because I made a delicate gradient this transition is not visible.

The use is pretty simple. You just stick them to your polished nails, you just have to make sure that the base polish is REALLY DRY! If you are careful you can use one sticker more than once.

You can polish over the sticker or sponge to get a gradient effect. I haven't tried stamping over this, but I'm not sure how would this work out, because there are small butterflies, and the stamping pattern wouldn't stand out the way it should.

For this manicure I used:

Born Pretty Store Nail Vinyls NS02

Revlon Peach Smoothie

P2 french kiss

China Glaze Strike a Rose

They were kind to offer 10% OFF code for my readers, just use COLLX31 at the check out.

Have you tried vinlys yet? This was my first try, and it was really easy!

*This item was sent to me for a review*

Hi!

I was supposed to publish manicures from Untried Polish Challenge on Fridays, but lately my plans are not working out the way they should...but I'm still glad that I'm sticking with this challenge because it is a really good way to try out some untried polish. This manicures means I reached the middle of the challenge which makes me even more proud, since it's been a long time since I managed to keep up with my derisions for more than a week or two =). Enough of my rambling...

For this part of the challenge I had to use my newest untried polish, this was easy since you always remember which one you got last. This week I got 7 new nail polishes in a swap with a lovely girl named Sabina, which made it a bit harder to pick out one, but in the end I decided for Kiko 494.

I must say that this polish is really not meant to be mine! Firstly I applied it on Friday, but I managed to get a big dent in my manicure before taking pictures. Because I was busy I wasn't able to reapply it before Saturday evening ( at that time I was tired and lazy and I really didn't feel like taking pictures). Well than on Sunday morning I went to work and managed to get chips. Now I'm finally writing my post with the third application of this polish this week. They say thee times a charm, and I must say that it probably works for this polish too.

I must say that it looks amazing, but it chips really fast and that is not common for Kiko. I must say I'm slightly disappointed.

For the pictures I applied 3 coats of Kiko 494 without top coat.

Isn't the shimmer in this one amazing?

I really love the colour, but the wear time is just a big disappointment.

I spiced it up a bit with a gradient and some stamping.

I used;

China Glaze Emotion

Pueen SE04Bimage plate

What do you think? Like it or not?

Hi!

Time for the third manicure out of 40 planed in my Nail Art Wednesdays challenge. This time not only that I did some nail art, I also chose all of the polishes from my untried polishes box. I really rarely or practically never wear green on my nails (the only 2 colours I avoid more are yellow and brown), this is why I really don't understand how it is possible that I have about 10 green polishes in my untried pile (OK, I do understand why they are untried, but I do not understand WHY I BUY THEM???).

For this manicure I used:

Kiko: 32 Lime green

Sinful Colours: Happy Ending

Peripera: Metallic green

China Glaze: Jolly Holly

stripping tape and cosmetic sponge

Essie Good To Go

You can see that my manicure cracked on my ring and middle finger. The reason for that is that I applied fast drying top coat on top of my manicure very sloppy

You can see that I did and awfully bad clean up, I really have to start thinking about buying liquid palisade or something similar.

I just had to add a different picture in my post, a little close up on the gradient.

I really like it was on my nails for 4 days and this rarely happens! It looks like I'm TURNING GREEN =)

Hi!

I had a lot of really old manicures that deserve to go public, but since they are so old I managed to save only a picture or two of a manicure

The first one is China Glaze Ahoy stamped with Bundle Monster 221 over a pale pink ( I don't know the name of the nail polish since this picture is about 4 years old).

I was never a pink person until I met Ivana from Ivana Thinks Pink, but even now I'd pick purple or blue over pink any time. But when it comes to Ahoy! the story is completely different. I really can't remember where or when I got this one, but it was love at first sight and now I own 3 bottles of this gorgeous colour =).

In this picture there is S-he stylezone 155 stemped with China Glaze Ahoy! and BM plate no. 019.

The last one is Essence Style me Love from Nails in Style LE.

I stamped it over with Konad special nail polish in black and stamping plate m57. Although I'm not a fan of animal print, I really LOVED this one. I'm already thinking about recreating this manicure.

Do you have some old pictures waiting to be publishes on your flash drive?

Soooo...

it's been a long time ( more than 2 years to be more precise ). I suddenly got an urge to write something on my blog which needs a serious update.

This time I'm going to show a beautiful dark red shimmer-a classic from China Glaze, China Glaze Short & Sassy. This was probably one of the first nail polishes from China Glaze I liked and is probably the reason why my love for China Glaze emerged.

This pictures are from my archive and are at least 3 years old (sorry for the awfully dried out cuticle)

You can see how it comes to life in the sunlight. I never regret putting this one on my WL, the only thing I regret is that I wore it only once! (I know, shame on me)

I also played with some stripping tape, but it is more of a fail than a success. It looks like I'l have to play with tape more often.

I wish you all a lovely day and happy bogging!

Hi!

I see striping tape manicure everywhere all the time, so I decided ( a while ago) to try it out, and I must say that I really LOVE what I ended up with.

I used striping tape I got from ebay, I'll make a review post in the near future (this time I mean it)

For this manicure I used China Glaze Millennium as a base and China Glaze Deviantly Daring on top. Each was applied in one coat =)

The only downside of this manicure was that it started chipping in less than a day! But at least I got to change my nails =)

Do you like it?

Have you tried striping tape manicure?

Hi!

Time to post my soft manicure!

I'm really sorry I'm so late, I'm really working on it =)

For this manicure it was obvious that it wasn't meant to be a success =).

In my imagination it looked great and it probably would look great if I used a different nail polish, sponge more carefully and pick a different TC =)

I should explain a bit the last sentence =)

I should pick a bit more darker purple so the sponging effect would stand out more, the next mistake was that because I really wanted it to be perfect I sponged on to many layers and I ended up with bumps. Because I picked to light colour the stamping turned out too subtitle (even for a soft manicure), an the last mistake was TC, I used essence gel look TC, which made bumps make even bigger. Pictures don't flatter my manicure ether =). I definitely love the idea so I'll probably recreate it, but with different polishes =)

I used:

Catrice: Lucky in Lilac

China Glaze: Light as air

and some random stmping plates =)

What do you think?

Would you like to see another version of this manicure?

Here are all the other girls that participate in three challenge

( and most of them published their last manicure today)

all stars could be brighter

Imagination In Colour

aydii*- Girl with pink lipstick

P.S. I'm really sorry for such a depressing post 2 days ago. I was really down, and tired, but I'm really working on things that are going on in my head, and I promise that I won't whine about things like that on my blog, especially because doing nails makes me happy and I want to keep this blog a happy place =). For me and all of my sweet readers =)

Thank you all for your support! Sometimes I just couldn't done it without you!

It's time for the third manicure in three challenge

For this part of challenge I had to make something futuristic looking. I found one interesting piece of clothing in the Internet, but I failed recreating it on my nails.

Here is a picture of the dress:

Source

Interesting right? I would never wear it, but it really looks futuristic. doesn't it? =)

To continue with my nails

I wanted to use striping tape to create clear lines, but my nail polish wasn't completely dry and I ruined everything in my first try so in my second try I decided I'll just do everything with free hand. I won't count how many new grey hair did I get because of this manicure, but I'm pretty sure it was quite a lot and in the end I was really happy that at least I have something to show you, although it turned out far more worse that I ever imagined.

Here it is:

My futuristic manicure=)

It's really not what I wanted to create, but at least with this colour combination and metallic colour everything looks futuristic, don't you agree?

Items that I used:

China Glaze :Millenium

Catrice: Hot or Not?

Beauty UK West end girl set: beige colour

and unknown light grey

Here are all the awesome ladies that also created something futuristic today =):

all stars could be brighter

Imagination In Colour

aydii*- Girl with pink lipstick

As promised I'm going to show you what I bought this week

My first purchase was on Slovenian store ličila.si. They had the last summer action and I got quite a lot of items for free, but about the price I'll tell you later. Here is what I bought:

Sleek: Oh so spacial palette

I've had Sleek Oh so special palette on my WL for more than a year, and since Storm is probably the only MU product I use, I decided to buy this one for me too =). I'm not used to taking pictures of eye shadows so they lack in quality a bit.

Price: 11,95€

Here is a picture without names, I already used some before photographing, because I'm just too curious sometimes =).

What do you think about the colours?

BeautyUK west end girl

This set looked like a great set for fall and I think I was right. The shades are really fall like. Because I already have one set from BUK at home I knew that they are really good and shiny.

Price: 9,95€

from L to R:

BarryM retro: Lady in Red (4,45€), BarryM: Peach Melba (4,45€), BarryM foil: Lilac Limited Edition(6,25€) and BYS: Pink Maniucre( 3,55€)

And the last item!

Beauty UK midnight mix.

I got this one as a gift

I was doing some math in the end of my purchase and I realised that I spend 1,9€ per a polish which is almost as cheap as Essence.

Was it a good bargain?

My second purchase was from Slovenian web store ZaPikoNaI.

Here is what I got:

From L to R:

China glaze: No Plain Jane(8€), China Glaze: Deviantly Daring(8€), Konad Specila polish in pastel pink ( 7,30€), OPI: Dutch Ya Just Love OPI (11€), Orly: Pure Porcelain (5€)

Quite pricey right? But that's just because of the shipping and taxes. I really hate this, but I can't do nothing about it.

I'd like to say a few words about this store. This week I needed a little help with a purchase, because I wanted to gift my friend something special but I don't know nothing about MU, and I sent them a mail asking for help. They were really friendly! They asked their MU artist Petra for advice and she was so kind she sent me a mail with her perfect choices. I'm really grateful for that.

Petra is a great MU-artist that has quite a lot quality videos on YT, they are in Slovenian language, but I think that language isn't a limit when it comes to MU =)

Here is one of her latest MUs:

What do you think about my purchase?

Have you ever had such a lovely experience with a seller?

Which polish would you like to see on my nails first?

I was supposed to publish this yesterday, but I've had a really busy day yesterday and I really didn't manage to prepare any posts, so I postponed them for today.

For this part of challenge I had to prepare something ultra modern. I really struggled with that one, and I must say that I'm really not pleased with what I came up, but I must admit, it is not a complete fail as well.

I decided to go with this combination because:

I really think that this bundle monster design reminds me of something really modern
because I've never combined purple and green in my life, and since people really wear this combo it probably is modern ( or it's maybe modern only to me)

natural light

artificial daylight

Items I used:

Orly: Pure Porcelain

Bundle Monster 203 with Bichun(purple) and CG Jolly Holly

Stamping on this manicure is really crappy, but what the hell! This was my only idea and I really didn't have any spear time to correct it.

What do you thing about my representation of ultra modern? Am I "altmodisch"( old-fashioned) ?

P.S. I'm really sorry for the horrible state of my cuticles. I'm really working on them( I was a bit to nervous on Tuesday)

Here is the list of other girls that joined this wonderful challenge:

all stars could be brighter

Imagination In Colour

aydii*- Girl with pink lipstick

This is a bonus picture showing one of the reasons why I wasn't able to prepare a post

My best friend finished her diploma yesterday with 10, so we celebrated with cocktails. They were really delicious!!!

Hi!

I'm a bit late with my second manicure, but I've had a hectic week and I didn't manage to make it on the assigned date.

I also didn't have time to plan this manicure so it turned out to be the way I didn't want, but I'm still sharing it, because it is not a complete disaster too =).

I used:

BarryM: Indigo, Berry IC Cobalt blue and Bright purple

Maybeline NY: baby blue

China Glaze Adore