Long time, no see!

Hey guys! Wow, I can't believe my last post was waaaay back in January, when I got selected for my current job. With a working schedule of 10hrs a day it's been hard to find time to blog as I used too, mainly because I used to rely in indirect natural light for my pictures (and since I get home at 7-8pm every week day that's no longer possible lol).

Bu the other day I was talking to a friend about how much I missed blogging so I decided to get a proper light and work out some kind of setup for taking pics. And here we are! I can't promise a very regular schedule because I only paint my nails once per week and sometimes it's a big fail lol, but let's see what comes out of this.

I started with a base of Lime Crime Parfait Day, a beautiful pastel medium pink that was opaque in two easy coats. Then I used the dry brush method to add strokes of Essie Play Date and Barry M Green Berry.

Finally I stamped the chevron print with Moyou London Fashionista 05 and Essence's white stamping polish, a recent purchase. I have to say I don't like it as much as Konad Special White, which is what I had been using for years, because it's not as thick, but I'll try leaving it open for a couple hours to thicken up and see if that makes stamping more opaque.

On my accent nails I used a base of Green Berry and then added a dabbed coat of Emily de Molly's A Certain Shade of Green. I think the green and lilac glitters compliment the colors of the dry brush nailart well and I loved this nailart for the week I had it.

And that's it for today. I hope you liked it and my new setup for pictures (though it's still a work in progress...). See you on the next post!

Subtle Stamping Inspired by a Pen

Hi girls! Today I want to share with you a subtle stamped mani that I did a while ago, just before I found a job at an office. In fact I used this polish for the interview and stamped it in the afternoon (then I got called in a couple hours later lol!).

If you've been reading for a while you may know I love writing with fountain pens, it's one of my biggest hobbies along with nail polish. A few months I participated in a nailart contest on instagram from @pensandpolish, which is run by my friend Cheetarah. The subject was doing a manicure inspired by a pen, it was right up my alley and I was so lucky to be chosen winner.

My prize consisted of a fountain pen, the Lamy Al-Star in Champagne, a set of ink cartridges a notebook and a Essie polish (a franken Chee made).

It's here the #pensandpolishgiveaway :) Win this Lamy Al Star Pearl Fountainpen (Limited edition 2013), Essie LimoScene custom mix nailpolish (customized it personally to fit the shimmer of the pen), Pussy Delux Notebook and a pack of Lamy Neon Coral fountainpen cartridges. How to enter: post a picture of your fave fountainpen and nailpolish combo (bonus points if you do a pen, polish and ink combo!), tag it with #pensandpolishgiveaway and tag @pensandpolish in the picture. Winner will be announced on october 12th! Good luck!! #fountainpen #nailpolish #giveaway #girlswithfountainpens #pensandpolish #peninkandpolish #inkandpolish #coral #pearl #lamy #alstar #pussydelux

Una foto publicada por Cheetarah (@pensandpolish) el Oct 2, 2014 at 6:33 PDT

For my mani I used 3 thin coats of the Essie polish, which is a soft-white jelly with a veeeeeery subtle pink shimmer (I can see it in the bottle, but it's impossible to distinguish on my nails). It was very easy to apply and on its own very flattering.

Then I stamped over it with Wet n' Wild Steel the Spotlight which is a gold-silver foil with kinda resembles the color of the pen, using my Moyou London Artist 02 plate.

Overall this was such a subtle mani that I didn't feel the need to change it even though I started my new position on the next day. It wore super well, around 5 days with mininal tipwear.

And here we have a small writing sample using the items from my prize. I paired the Champagne pen with the Lamy Neon Coral ink cartridge which makes for a very fun combination, in my opinion. I used a 1.1mm italic nib to get some line variation and show off the color better.

Anyway I hope you enjoyed reading today's post and thanks again to Cheetarah for chosing me as winner to this amazing giveaway :D

Nordic Stamping

Hi girls! Today I wanted to share with you my latest stamping nailart. I know my nails are super short and ugly right now, but I love blogging too much and I hope you don't mind the shorties for a while. Anyway, let's get to it :)

I recently got the Pueen Buffet plates from a friend and a little before I got the OPI Nordic minis so I thought about using them together for a mani. I've been obsessed with the Buffet plates since my friend got them so it was time I had my own set lol.

I started with a gradient base of Do You Have This Color in Stock-holm? and My Dogsled is a Hybrid, which were the two shades that mainly caught my attention from this set and I was so glad both were included in the mini kit, yay!

Then I left this to dry for a bit before stamping over it with a silver chrome polish fom a local brand and the Pueen 59 plate from the Buffet set.

Overall I'm really happy with this mani, even though it's not very summery (funny how that happens). These two colors from OPI Nordic's collection go so well together and the silver stamping adds something to it.

Thanks for reading!

Nail Mail: Julep and stamping plates

Hey girls! How are you doing, getting into the holiday spirit yet? Today I have some nail mail to share with you. These are small buys that I did with some friends from a local group within a span of a few weeks. We live in different cities so when we do group buys we pile it up a bit and then the other girls ship us our stuff (which is cheaper than paying separate international shippings). And look who's making another appearance on the blog, my Pom named Puchi (pronounced Poo-she)

We are big fans of stamping in my group so when the girls wanted to order Sugar Bubbles and Vivid Lacquer I jumped at the opportunity to try some myself. I got SB022 and SB025. You know I love japanese patterns and the kokeshis were so cute! I also want to do a mani with the lady blowing the dandelion seeds, it was really popular on stamping groups a while ago. Then we ordered Vivid Lacquer of which I got VL024 and VL028 (steampunk patterns!)

And then I got some polishes too. These are my first Julep plus a new addition to my Butter London collection. The polishes are (L-R): Kimberly, Love, Kayla and Chuffed (the new version).

Anyway, I look forward to sharing these with you soon, maybe for January since I already decided to dedicate December to winter/christmas nailar :)

Thanks for reading!

Moyou 30k Recap

Back in the first week of November Moyou London announced yet another nailart contest on their Instagram account in honor of hitting 30,000 followers. The challenge was to upload a nailart inspired by a character from Alice in Wonderland, each week during November. This obviously seemed more manageable than the Rainbow Challenge, which was a daily thing, so of course I had to try my hand at it.

Today I'll be sharing with you my four entries for this challenge (which you might already seen if you follow me on Instagram).

First week was inspired by the Queen of Hearts. I was inspired by the design of the character from the classic Disney movie and added some partially painted white roses. I used mainly the Pro 04 plate with a little addition of Fashionista 05 and Topa Topa 04. As bases I used OPI My Vampire is Buff, Sparitual Spellbound and Colorama Amarelo Sol. For stamping I used Konad Black, White and Spellbound,

The next week was dedicated to the White Rabbit. I don't have any rabbit or clock images from Moyou so I had to get creative to get close to the theme. I used an image from Kaleidoscope 02 and free handed some arms to turn the image into a clock. I also used Hipster 02 for the bowtie and patterns from the Tourist 07 plate as backgrouds, everything else is freehanded.

Third week was dedicated to the Mad Hatter. I drew inspiration mainly from the character from the Tim Burton film portrayed by Johnny Depp by representing different parts of his outfit on my nails.  On my index I depicted the hat, with the baroque pattern and peacock feathers, on my middle nail I represented the bowtie. Then I added the famous 10/6 by hand painting and a hat pattern. For this nailart I used Tourist 07, Artist 02 and Hipster 02 plates.

And finally, we have Alice! I used mainly pastel yellow, light blue, black and white for this soft and cute nailart. I represented Alice herself, her outfit and parts of her journey in my entry. I used Artist 02 for Alice's face (which I painted in as a stamping decal) and for the backgroud swirls on my ring finger, Hipster 02 for the bow and hair in my index and the tea cup in my ring finger and Pro 04 for the roses.

Overall, I'm not really happy with how many of these turned out. Even though I had some nice ideas (like turning the Kaleidoscope image into a clock) my execution wasn't the best as I kinda rushes my manis because I didn't get any inspiration until the last minute. Honestly, at some times it felt more like a chore than a fun thing. However, I love my Alice mani because of the color scheme and how the stamping turned out, I think I did well in representing the character too.

Do you participate in nail art competitions? I try to participate in Moyou's contests whenever I have the chance, even though I haven't won anything -so far- I like that it makes me *really* look at my plates to come up with ways to acommodate the theme. 

Thanks for reading and see you on my next post!

Summer Nails

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo un nailart estampado un poco adelantado a la estación jajaja. De bases usé Barry M Gelly en Green Berry y Emily de Molly Setting Sun (un precioso coral con efecto holográfico). Luego sobre la base de Green Berry agregué una capa de Polish Me Silly Freckles, un topper surtido de glitters neon en distintos tamaños y colores. Luego agregué el estampado con los esmaltes Mundo de Uñas Aqua y un coral que mezclé usando Geranio y Rosa Mexicano. Los dos diseños estampados son de la placa Topa Topa TP01, una marca francesa indie que hace placas con diseños preciosos y que encargué hace poco. En fin, espero les haya gustado y muchas gracias por leer!

Though we're in the middle of spring where I live, I have summer on my mind. Specially since I recently received my new Topa Topa plates, one of which features some fun and summery designs. I took like a million pics of this mani and loved them all, which hasn't happened since I lost my old softbox. I had the hardest time narrowing down the pics for this post. After months of struggling, it seems like I finally found a setting that works for my pictures, yay! Anyway, on to the mani.

I started with a base of Barry M Green Berry on all my nails, except for my index. Green Berry is a very bright blue-green (slighly leaning toward the green territory) creme that was easy to apply and opaque in two coats. I really love this shade of green and it kinda reminded me of Picture Polish Chillax.

For my accent I used two coats of Emily de Molly Setting Sun. This is a coral shade with a soft holographic effect. It goes on very well and is opaque in two coats.

Then I added a coat of one of my favorite glitter polishes to the Green Berry base, Polish me Silly Freckles which is an assortment of neon hexagonal glitters in different sizes and colors in a clear base. It's a great topper for neons and neutrals alike, love it <3 br="">

Then came the stamping part. I used my Mundo de Uñas stamping polishes, but I didn't have a coral color to stamp with, so I mixed my own with Mexican Pink and Geranium to create a shade similar to Setting Sun. On my accent nails I simply stamped using MdU Aqua.

Both the hibiscus image and leaves are from the Topa Topa TP01 plate. The plate is very well etched and picking up the image was no problem.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with how this turned out. I seriously can't stop looking at my nails. The combination of coral and aqua looks so bright and summery it just makes me happy. Althoug I really prefer how my accent nail came out so you'll probably see that as a full mani at some point.

Thanks for reading!

Halloween Stamped Nailart

Hola chicas! Hoy les traigo un nailart de Halloween que usé la semana pasada. En general no hago nailarts para las fiestas y menos para Halloween porque no es muy popular donde vivo, pero tuve un chispazo de inspiración así que hice uno rápidito. De base hice un degradé con holográficos (como no tengo un holo naranja hice uno mezclando Zoya Arizona, Hits Hefesto y OPI I'm never Ambarassed). Luego estampé con Konad Special Black y la placa Cheeky Happy Holidays y ta-dá! Nailart de Halloween. Se supone que son murcielágos, pero más parecen rayas de zebras jajaja.

Hello girls! Today I have for you a quick Halloween nailart I put together. I usually don't do seasonal nailart, specially Halloween because it isn't very popular in my country, but I had a spark of inspiration and decided to go with it.

I wanted to do an orange to magenta holo gradient, but since I own no orange holos (I know, blasphemy!) I decided to franken-layer one. So, I started with a base of two coats of Zoya Arizona, added Hits Hefest for the holo sparkle and then finished it with a thin coat of OPI I'm Never Ambarassed. Then I added Smitten Polish's Radiant Orchid to the tips using a makeup sponge.

The mani up to this point was already very Hallowen-y to me, but I decided to add some black stamping to it. So I went to browse through my plate collection, and choose the bat print for the Cheeky Happy Holidays jumbo plate.

Overall, I'm happy with how it turned out even though it's not really obvious these are bats, because my nails are so tiny, this looks more like halloween zebra print, lol.

Did you wear any Halloween nailart this past weekend? Would love to read about it in the comments :)

Watercolor Birds

Hola chicas! Hoy les traigo un nailart estampado que hice con dos de mis placas nuevas: la Moyou London Mother Nature 02 y la Konad Square 01 (que mi hermana me envío desde Santiago). Para empezar apliqué dos capas de un esmalte rosado pálido y luego estampé con un diseño de la placa Konad con esmalte Konad Blanco. Añadí color a este estampado con los OPI Sheer Tints y para finalizar, estampé distintos pajaritos con la placa Mother Nature. Me encanta como ha quedado, es muy primaveral en mi opinión. Espero les haya gustado a ustedes también, gracias por leer! :)

Hi girls! Today I have a stamped nailart to share with you, using some of my newly arrived plates. I was inspired by some manis I found while browsing Pinterest that used stamping under layers of jelly polishes to create a sort of watercolor effect and when from there.

I started with two coats of a very soft pink polish (from a local brand, not the OPI pictured) and left that to dry. Then I stamped using the Konad Square #1 plate using Konad Special White and added some splashes of color with the OPI Sheer Tints mini set. This gave me a base with a subtle effect to finally add my stamped birds from the Moyou London Mother Nature 02 plata, stamped with Konad Special Black.

Overall I'm really happy with how looks. I am super happy the birds on the plate are tiny so they can fit my nubs. Double stamping is such a fun technique, though it can be a bit time-consuming (waiting for all the layers to dry and everything).

Thanks for reading!

Breast Cancer Awareness Mani

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo un nailart que hice por el Día de la Prevención del Cáncer de Mamas, el que se conmemoró el pasado 19 de Octubre, y por la Corrida por la Vida a la que asistí ese día. Como inspiración tome una de mis mas recientes compritas, el Hare Flight of the Flamingos, que usé en mi meñique. En mi dedo medio y anular hice un jelly sandwich con un rosa pastel y un glitter dorado sobre el cual estampé usando la placa BM-321 y un esmalte Mundo de Uñas (Mexican Pink, que misteriosamente cambió de color cuando le puse topcoat jaja). En mi índice (y pulgar, que no se ve en la foto) hice una "pond mani" que es básicamente un jelly sandwich repetitivo, usando You Drive me Coconuts de China Glaze y Papier Maché de Finger Paints (inspirado de este post de Adventures in Acetone). En fin espero les haya gustado, al final les dejo también una foto de la corrida, estrenando mi nuevo look. Gracias por leer!

Hello girls! Today I have a Breast Cancer Awareness to share with you, that I did recently for the BCA Running event that I attended on Sunday Oct. 19th. Let's go to the mani, then.

My new Hare was the inspiration for the mani, which I used for an accent on my pinkie. On my middle and ring finger I did a jelly sandwich with a sheer pastel pink and a gold glitter then stamped using BM 321 and Mundo de Uñas Mexican Pink (which interesting enough turned into a neon pink when I topcoated with Gelous). Finally on my ring finger I did a pond dotticure inspired by this one from Adventures in Acetone, using China Glaze You Drive me Coconuts and Finger Paints Papier Maché.

Overall, I'm really happy how this turned out. At first I was a bit bummed I didn't have a matching stamping polish, but then my MdU suddenly changed color with Gelous and it was a perfect match. Happy accident :) I haven't noticed this change of color with my usual topcoat (Essence Better than Gel Top Sealer).

The Running for Life event was my fourth 5k event. I'm still struggling to run the whole way, but getting better everyday. This was the first event I managed to convince a friend to attend with me, so yay for running buddies! Also new haircut, you like?

Anyway I hope you enjoyed today's post. Thanks for reading and see you in my next post!

Random Nailart Spam #3

Hola chicas! Hoy traigo la tercera versión del potpurrí de nailarts que he hecho en las últimas semanas. Debajo de cada foto dejaré los detalles, espero les gusten, gracias por leer!

Heeeey guys, how are you doing? Today I bring you another edition of nailarts I didn't have enough pictures of to make a full post. Today's edition is mostly stamping, so on we go!

For this one I used NCLA Cookies and gold as my base, then stamped using Esteé Lauder Midnight Metal and the Pueen Buffet 59 plate. The accent is Colors by Llarowe Delirious.

Here I used ILNP Princeton, a minty blue/green soft holographic shade, as my base and stamped over it with Gals GA37 with Mundo de Uñas Purple.

 This one was for a nailart contest that I sadly didn't win, but I liked it so I thought I'd share it with you too. Base for the nailart was Model's Own Purple Blue and hand painted my little fox with Zoya Arizona, Finger Paints Papier Maché and a couple accents with Colorama Black. The sparkly accents are donde with Model's Own Southern Lights.
Finally, here's a mani I did with one of my favorite collections, the OPI Euro Centrale. The gradient was done with OPI You're Such a Budapest and Can't Find my Czechbook. The accent on mi pinkie is 3 coats of OY-Another Polish Joke and finally for the decal I used My Vampire is Buff as a base and did the decal with BM-401 plate and colored in with the other 3 colors. This was my first ever succesful decal, yay!

And that's it, hope you liked them. I think my personal favorite is the last one :) Thanks for reading and see you soon!

Moyou London Rainbow Week

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo un mega-post con nailart hechos con placas de estampado Moyou London, las que hice para participar en un concurso que hicieron en Instagram la semana pasada. El concurso se llamaba Desafío Arcoiris, a cada día de la semana se le asignó un color y la idea era subir un nailart inspirado en el color correspondiente. Así que aqui se las presento todas de un viaje, los detalles para cada mani (como esmaltes y placas utilizados) estarán listados debajo de cada foto. Les dejo las primeras 3 manis aqui, para ver las demás solo hagan click en "Read More". Muchas gracias por leer y espero les gusten! :)

Hi girls! This past week Moyou London held a contest on Instagram called the Rainbow Challenge. Basically, each day was asigned a color and people were to post nailarts inspired by the color of that day. So today I'l be sharing with you all the 7 colored inspired nailarts I made to participate in this contest.

For Monday (Red) I used OPI My Vampire is Buff as base and Sally Hansen Gem Crush in Cha-Ching! as an accent. Then I stamped over my lighter base with Zoya Sookie and the Tourist plate #07.

Tuesday was Orange, and I went for a combination of Zoya Arizona, OPI Jinx and white. I love orange and white combined as it reminds me of an ice cream flavour that is very popular in my country called "Chirimoya Alegre" (or Happy Cherimoya which is cherimoya and orange ice cream combined). I stamped with Konad White using Pro #04 plate.

Next we had Yellow and though I'm not a fan of this color (I only have two in my collection!) this mani is one of my favorites from the week. I used OPI My Vampire is Buff, Lime Crime Crema de Limón and Colorama Amarelo Sol in combination with the Hipster #02 and Pro #04 plates.

If you want to see the next few days, click on Read More. See you there!

Pueen Encore Leadlight

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo una mani que hice con la técnica "leadlight" la que consiste en estampar una imagen sobre una base blanca y pintar por encima con esmaltes translúcidos o "jellies" lo que da un efecto acuarelado. Para mi mani de hoy usé de base OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls y estampé varios diseños de la placa Pueen Encore SE04B con esmalte para estampar negro de Konad. Después de que secara un poco procedí a pintar por encima con los distintos tonos de los OPI Sheer Tints (en retrospectiva recomendaría usar topcoat entre el estampado y el color, para que no se les corra el estampado como a mí). Para terminar a las flores les agregué un puntito en el centro con OPI Hot & Spicy.

Hi girls! How are you doing? I hope summer is treating you well :) Here it's winter and I'm still unemployed, so I'm using my time to try new things. I've been doing Blogilates since March and I just signed up for a 5k run (my local version of The Color Run). I've been training daily with an app that has a Couch-to-5k program and so far so good! I'm not a runner by any means, not even an active person, so this is a great challenge for me. I'll let you know how it goes!

Anyway, today I wanted to share with you my latest mani that I did on our weekly get-together with my nail polish buddy Ann. She had just gotten her Pueen Encore stamping plates and set of OPI Sheer Tints and we couldn't help but try the leadlight technique right away.

The "leadlight technique" is basically coloring over a stamped image with sheer or jelly polishes. So I started with a white base, two coats of OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and then stamped over it with Pueen Encore SE04B plate and Konad Black.

I loved how the plate offered different options for small and large nails, depending on what you wanted to achieve, and that I got a different image for each nail but still with a cohesive style. The plated I used was well etched so stamping was a breeze with my usual squishy-firm XL stamper.

Then I filled in the flowers with the shades that came in the Sheer Tints collection. These are like very sheer jellies, which makes them perfect for this techique. I also liked the colors, they reminded me a lot of watercolors (my favorite painting medium). To finish it off I added some dots with OPI Hot & Spicy.

In retrospective, I should have added some topcoat between the stamping and the coloring, as you can see I have some smearing, but I have this problem too with watercolors, so I'll live with it lol.

Also, yes, my nails are super short now. I had a random break during a car trip and had to nub down. Why is it that I always break a nail when I'm not remotely near my nail repairing kit? Seriously, I passed my fingers through my hair and I felt them get caught up and boom, mayor break. I hope you don't mind the shorties for a while.

Have you tried a new technique lately? Would love to hear about them to add to my never ending list of manis to try :) Thanks for reading!

Nailart Spam #2

Uff, no planeaba publicar dos posts recopilatorios seguidos, pero he estado tan poco inspirada en pintar mis uñas y sacar fotos, que me cuesta encontrar una foto decente, menos voy a tener 3 para un post completo. Así que las dejo con una muestra de lo que he usado ultimamente en mis uñas, casualmente son 3 looks que se enfocan en usar diferentes tonos de una misma colección. Los detalles iran debajo de cada foto, espero les guste y gracias por leer! :)

Wow. Sorry guys, I didn't plan on writing 2 of these kind of posts in a row, but I've been uninspired to blog about my nails lately and when I take pictures I hardly find one that I like, let alone 3 for a full blog post for one mani. I also recently broke a nail on a trip and filed them all down, so that's not helping my motivation either :( Anyway I hope you like some of my latest attempts at nailart and I hope to be back with a full post soon.

This one was an experiment with a holo gradient and I used three shades from the Color Club Halo Hues: Eternal Beauty, Miss Bliss and Cosmic Fate. On the accent I stamped with Cici and Sisi #12 with Konad Black and a bit of dotted Nails Inc Baker Street.

Next my Hipster Nails with one of my new Moyou London plates! For the watercolor background I used three shades from the China Glaze Sunsational Jellies collection: You Drive me Coconuts, Are you Jelly? and Keepin' it Teal and followed this tutorial for the effect. Then I stamped with the Moyou Hipster 08 plate and Konad Special White.

Not my best stamping but I'm happy by how completely hipster this mani turned out.

Some freehanded nailart inspired by MrCandiipants using the OPI Euro Centrale collection. For the base I used My Vampire is Buff and for the lines I used the colors that came in the mini kit: Cant' Find My Czechbook, Suzy's Hungary Again, You're such a Budapest and OY-Another Polish Joke (plus a random navy blue we can pretend it's Eurso Euro *wink wink*).

Finally, for this look I used two Picture Polish shades: Imperial and Douceur (from the 2013 Collaborative Shades) and then stamped over them with Essie Penny Talk and Pueen 72 (from the Buffet collection)

And that's it for today's edition of what's been on my nails lately :) I just realized that all of these focus on using several shades of one collection, which is something I like to do, even though I don't usually get a lot of shades from one collection (unless they come in minis).

Do you own a full collection of polish? I do, but only two: the Lime Crime Les Dessert shades (loved those colors) and the China Glaze Sunsational Jellies (because, jellies! lol).

Random Nailart Spam

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo un popurrí de nail art que he hecho en los últimos meses y que no me convencieron mucho para sacarles más de una foto. Detalles de cada mani irán abajo de la foto correspondiente.

Hello girls! Today's post is an assortment of manis that I've done these past couple weeks that were a little bit too sloppy to take more than picture of them for a full post. Still, some of them are kinda cute and I enjoyed them while I had them on.

This first mani is the oldest and was my first ever attempt at stamping with a squishy stamper. I used Ninja Polish Passion Shift for the base and stamped using Moyou London Suki 04 plate with Konad Special Black polish. Oh, my cuticles were in a sorry state then :/

This mani was for a challenge on a Facebook group, the theme was "gradient", plain and simple. I used Lime Crime Once in a Blue Mousse and Pastelchio for my gradient ad added the stamping with BM 423 and Konad Special Black since I had just received this replacement plate

This one was also for the weekly nailart challenge from the Facebook group, we were to try newspaper nails, I decided to take a spin on it taking some inspiration from a makeup bag I saw in a store that same week (it had the newspaper print on the outside and a beautiful blue lining and a red hearts print). I used Finger Paints Papier Maché and this Koh Baby Blue polish as bases, then transferred the newspaper print (following this tutorial) and added freehanded hearts with a dotting tool and Zoya Sooki. Crappiest hearts ever, lol.

Finally, this was my take on the Adventures in Stamping Sunday weekly challenge, it's also is my first skittlette. As bases I used: China Glaze I Herd That, ILNP Undenied and OPI Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI? Then I stamped with Konad Special Black using BM 205 and BM 424.

And that's it. I hope you liked these, even though they're not my best for many reasons, I still liked them (even if I only liked *the idea* of them and would like to redo them sometime).

Purple Peacock Nails

Hola niñas! Hoy les traigo un nailart simplecito con este nuevo OPI que mi madre me compró en DBS :D Se llama Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI? y es de la colección Holland de 2012. Es un morado medio tirando para oscuro con tono cálido y un precioso shimmer dorado/rosado que desgraciadamente es invisible en la uña. Luego estampé sobre el una imagen de la placa Nailz Craze NC02, como la imagen era muy grande para usarla en una sola uña hice una especie de mosaico poniendo una parte en cada uña. El dorado que usé para estampar es Color Show Bold Gold.

Hey girls! Today I bring you a very quick nailart I did with a recent acquisition. This is my first time using a large stamping image across all my nails and it was quite fun... on my right hand. My left turned out... not so well, let's say! But you live and you learn and I loved this one while it lasted.

I started with two coats of OPI Dutch 'Ya Just Love OPI which is a medium warm toned purple with a beautiful pink/gold shimmer that -sadly- was almost unnoticeable on the nail. The formula was good and self-leveling but the invisible shimmer bothered me, if I see it in the bottle, I want it on my nails.

Then I stamped over my base using Maybelline Color Show Bold Gold (currently my favorite gold for stamping) and using the Nailz Craze NC02 stamping plate. I stretched the peacock feather through all my nails, which made for an interesting effect.

Above you can see how my nails looked in their normal position. Overall, I really liked this mani, but I wish the shimmer in the OPI color was more pronounced. Do you have a tip for fixing invisible shimmer? Please let me know.

Thanks for reading!