Showing posts with label Sally Hasen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sally Hasen. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Blue & White checked...

This week I decided to try one of another of my new bundle monster plates I received the other week.  Seeing as I've now got over 50, figured I should start trying to make my way through them :)  Ended up using the same one as last week tho haha...

I used one of my older polishes for the base coat - Loreal Jet-Set quick dry in Jet 415.  Sadly cause it was old it was kinda gluggy & took a while to set.  On the plus side it only needed one coat.



I started off with the pretty looking leaf pattern (lower left), but as sometimes happens with these stamping plates, it looked better on the plate than on my nail (still pretty, just not what I was looking for ;)



So I changed to the plaid looking pattern (middle top).  Turned out pretty cool.  Had a few comments at work, with most people thinking it was the stick on nail polish. Sigh.  Stamping maybe a wee bit harder but it looks cooler & is way cheaper.  Those Sally Hansen stick on nails cost NZ$20!

I used the Konad special polish in white for the pattern.


The finished result.




Have a great week - its finally started to warm up here & feel like summer.

Nikki
:o)

Monday, January 16, 2012

Pink & Yellow plus new plates...

So yet again its been a few weeks, due to me going away on my days off.  Today will be a double post, with two sets of nails to make up for missing last week.  Also other exciting news is I finally gave in and brought the other set of plates from Bundle Monster.  These were their original set of 21.  The whole nail designs are slightly smaller (so have to double stamp the thumbs) but there are more small pictures on the plates including a cupcake (which as some of you know how much I love baking, is almost the sole reason I brought the plates;)

Anyway here is a pic of the plates


So many designs to play with.... I now have over 50 plates... good thing I do my nails every week :)

My first set of nails was using my favourite pink, Maybelline Express Finish Fushsia Fever as the base Coat.


Then used Bundle Monster plate BM-224


(the top flower design)

in Konad Special Polish in White


And used a Sally Hasen Nail art pen to fill in the dots on the flowers


Here's the final result





Now for the second set of nails.

I started of with one of my new nail polishes.  They're in pharmacies here and only $4 each.  I found 4 for $10 in Hamilton the other day and couldn't resist :) sadly I already had a very similar colour to the yellow I've used but you can never have too many shades right :P


 They are Miki & in cute little sizes.

Then I used one of my newest bundle monster plates, M19


The pokadot design down the bottom.


With Konad special polish in Wine Red 

And the end result






Pretty pokadot nails :)

I finished off my designs with a new top coat, by Orly which from the looks of other blogs is a pretty good nail polish brand in the USA.


It's called Sec 'n Dry & dries all the layers quickly according to the label. It seems to work really well, perfect for those times I only just finish my nails before :)

Have a great week
Nikki
:o)