Hi Everyone! Happy Friday! I've got a lot of pep in my step today mostly because Messy Mansion has some new plates!!! I love Messy Mansion plates, they are always very original and they stamp like a boss! Julia and LilyAnna asked if I wouldn't mind doing quality assurance and then reviewing these babies and I said ABSOLUTELY!
First up quality check every single plate I was sent stamped just great! I really love how they do check them first before releasing them. Not all plate makers do that and they often rely on customers being their quality assurance which isn't always the best route to go especially when there are issues. Before Messy Mansion opened these up in the shop for sale they made sure they stamped well.
I received 10 plates in total for this new release and today I have manicures done with 3 of them. I will be showing off more mani's tomorrow and Sunday though as well. Naturally I'm anxious to use them and see what I can come up with.
First up I did my first ever blobbicure and paired it with the Dino Skeleton plate MM47
I used Rescue Beauty Lounge Footpath for my basecoat and the blobbed with OPI Every Month Is Oktoberfest
This is a fun plate! The Dinosaur skeletons are soooooo cool!
Here's a quick collage
I love how my thumb turned out!
Here's the plate!
I can't wait to try something with the full images on the bottom! That's next up for my what I want to do with this plate.
Next I have a super cute cat manicure! Woot! You can't go wrong with cats. And the best thing about MM50 is it has skelly fish on it! Anyone who knows me knows I absolutely LOVE skelly fish!
This time I did some water marbling with some of the China Glaze Electric Nights neons. I did love how they turned out because I used a base of yellow instead of white, so stamping over them made it perfect!
How freaking cute is this??!
I water marbled with Daisy Know My Name, Treble Maker and DJ Blue My Mind
I really love this cat plate! It has a ton of cute cat images on it. Cat lovers NEED this plate!
My final mani to show off gave me a lot of trouble! I was trying to do a radial gradient and here's some things I learned about them. First off I suck at them and second they are NOT easy! I know many people think I have nice and wide nail beds but the reality is my nail beds and not that wide. I'd say they are medium or normal which honestly makes for trying a radial gradient hard for me. I tried for three colors--again from the China Glaze Electric Nights collection and in the end it only looks like purple and orange came out to plate when in fact yellow is supposed to be in there too LOL!
I went with the lovely MM46 which is a beautiful flower plate over my radial gradient of China Glaze Daisy Know My Name, Home Sweet House Music and Violet Vibes
Of course it rained all day yesterday when I did this so these are all indoor in the shade but still sort of need some light to be able to get good pics of freaking neons!
Honestly stamping over this gradient saved it I think
I absolutely adore this plate though and now I will use it a zillion times!
Here's the plate isn't is awesome??!
So where can you get these awesome plates? Well you have a couple of choices you can find them through Amazon.com or you can find them on Messy Mansion's site http://www.messymansion.com.au/. In all there are 10 new plates added to the MM series and believe me when I say there is something for everyone!
What do you think of these new plates? I would have to say as much as I love the cat plate my favorite mani I did with these three is actually what I thought was the biggest failure at first--my radial gradient. It just goes to show that stamping DOES make everything better!
Thanks for stopping by!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! I forgot to post this on the blog yesterday! Yikes! I've got a cool one to share with you. My sweet friend Ashley from Ashley Is Polish Addicted help me find an RBL 360 on Storenvy. Story of my life I end up falling in love with a color way late and by the time I want it, it's usually too late or way too expensive.
I decided to pair my RBL 360 with Elevation Polish's Definition: The Vivid Unknown. I pulled out one of my Marianne's plates as I rarely use them and this is what I came up with
I stamped with Mundo de Unas Aqua using Marianne's N01 pretty cool!
Here's a pic of the beloved 360--thanks to Ashley's keen eye!
It's a total 'me' color!
Here's Elevation's Definition: The Vivid Unknown
Another totally 'me' color!!!
They really look great together AND with this Mundo Aqua!
Tone stamping like this is still my favorite I think. How about you?
Thanks so much for stopping by!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day!
Hi Everyone! Wow if you're in the Midwest I hope you are all above ground and dry! Holy cow did we ever get some torrential rain last night. I was out with friends until pretty late and driving home felt more like motor boating home than it did driving! But it was SO worth it! I love getting together with my nail polish friends even if last night was all about stuffing our faces with yummy food and just talking about nails instead of doing nails LOL!
So how about that first day yesterday?! OMG what another great theme for us! I love being in a group of women who are very diverse, who have different talents for nail art, and who come up with some fan-freaking-tastic ideas!
Today I decided to show case my birth decade and do the 60's. During the 60's we saw a lot of the rigidity in our culture dissipate. We saw the Vietnam war reek havoc on our Nation and for the first time since the Civil War we saw Americans strike out against Americans because of it. John F Kennedy rose to great fame--an Irish Catholic President who was then savagely assassinated right in front of his wife. Not only did we witness the assassination of a president, Malcom X, Martin Luther King, Jr and Bobby Kennedy would all be assassinated in the 60's decade.
It was truly a time of unrest and the battle cry of the 60's became Make Love Not War. In a decade of free love war had never been more of out place. Today I'm showcasing my Make Love Not War mani
I had some help with this one from the lovely No More War from Rescue Beauty Lounge
I am a sucker for those "ugly" pretty colors!
I think Tie Dye and Camouflage represent the 60's quite well today what do you think?
Let's stop by and check out what decade everyone else had in mind for today!
Hi Everyone! I decided to shoot for something simple today to showcase that even something out of our comfort zone doesn't have to be large and all up in someone's face. Lately I've been obsessed with watching You Tube videos of all those fabulous talented ladies who are doing roses or flowers or just 3D art in general out of acrylic powder. They make it look SO easy. I thought about learning how to do it just for this challenge. Then after about a week of watching tutorials and feeling totally ready to do it I started laughing. I mean come on?! Who do I think I am?! I can't even free hand for crying out loud. There is no way I'm going to be able to do some 3D nail art with acrylic. So I bought some lovely rubber roses! Yes rubber! They look so pretty too, they have depth and dimension to them and I found they made this mani look really pretty despite being so simple.
I chose one of my new Rescue Beauty Lounge's to use as a base for this mani. Forgotten Road, it is SO lovely!
I think these little rubber roses which I found on Amazon are perfect. They are a blend of white and blue to give it some depth
I did have to use super glue to apply as just sticking these in seche vite didn't work, I lost one doing dishes!
I think this is really beautiful. What do you all think? Are you a fan of 3D nail art on nails?
Let's see what everyone else has done for today!
Hi Everyone!!! Happy Sunday! Packers are playing tomorrow night so I don't have anywhere to rush to be this fine afternoon. It's a bit chilly again but the sun is shining. I'm on a quest to find a couple of eye shadow palettes for my friend in Singapore and I'm on the hunt for some green tops and sweaters today. I have 2 absolutely gorgeous scarves I want to wear and the both are gradiented greens and I have no green tops at all! WHAT THE FRENCH?! So I'm on the hunt for something green for sure!
I've got a lovely green on today for my mani though! It's one of the pretty "ugly" colors. A color that you normally would not find striking or gorgeous or beautiful yet when you put it on you go WOWZA!
This is the very lovely No More War by Rescue Beauty Lounge
It's an incredible green. One of those colors I like to call pretty "ugly".
I was lucky enough to be given it as a gift from my sweet friend Stephanie. She's probably one of the nicest people I know right along with the third in our Polish Trio--Dani. I can't wait to get together with these girls again!
I stamped using image BM-H11. This mani is so simple yet might be one of my faves EVER!
Do any of you like those pretty "ugly" colors? If you do what polishes are your favorite??
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you all have a great day!
