12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge | Day 6 | 12 Days of Christmas Song

Today's theme for the Challenge Your Nail Art's 12 Days of Christmas Nail Art Challenge is any line from the 12 Days of Christmas Song. I struggled with this one from the beginning on what to do. Then when I decided, It didn't go as planned. I choose to go with "7 Swans a Swimming."  My initial idea was to hand paint 7 swans which actually would have ended up as more of a valentines designs. Wrong month!!!! So as I was going through my stamping plates I found a cute little swan stamp. Let me just say that stamping hates me. When I got my first set of stamping plates my boyfriend actually stamped better than I did. Shhhh! Don't tell him I told you that. Anyways, I'm not at all happy with how these turned out but I wanted to share them anyways. Hope you like them more than I do.

Items Used:

Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure - Wedding Glitters

China Glaze - White on White

Sally Hansen Hard as Nails - Cold as Ice

Gals Stamping Plate GA3 from the Princess Set

LA Colors Rapid Dry

The only thing I love about these? I actually stamped!!!! I was excited that they actually looked the way the plate looked. That's never happened before. Small steps I guess.

Still to come....

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Born Pretty Store Review | Stamper and Sequins

I was sent a few items from Born Pretty Store to review. I have a stamper/scraper set and some glitter sequins to show you.

First up I'm going to show you the stamper/scraper set. I am extremely impressed with this stamper. The stamper itself is so squishy and works 100 times better than my old one. I will definitely be using this one from now on. It is double sided with a larger stamper on one side and a smaller stamper on the other. The scraper is just as good. I finally have an all plastic scraper that will not damage my plates.

The only downside to the squishy-ness is you get dust and hair and everything else attaching to it. Nothing a cotton ball and some polish remover cant help with though. I just wiped it before each use.

Below you will see the difference the scraper makes. I used to get so mad after seeing all the scratches on my plates. Not Anymore!

Scratching caused by old scraper

Here you can see no scratching.

 Now for some stamping. I want to point out that I LOVE the idea of stamping but hated stamping. I just could never get it to work. I found my problem after trying this. It was the stamper, Not me!

It picks up the entire image smoothy and transfers great. Expect to see more stamping from me coming up.

Now for some sequin glittery goodness.

I have never used these before so I cant exactly compare them to anything but I can say it extremly fun to use these. There are so many different things you can do with them. I was half expecting the shine to go away after applying top coat, but as you can see...They still shine! I love these. I will be using them more coming up.

I've got one more item from Born Pretty Store to review, but I'm going to leave that for another post. I have a 3 piece brush set to show you next time. Until then you can check out Born Pretty Store by using any of the links below.

You can find the stamper set at this link---> Double Sided Stamper Set 

Here you can find the Glitter Sequins---> Shiny Glequins

Bornprettystore.com

Born Pretty Store on Facebook

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Let It Snow Challenge | Day 11 | Snowflakes

I have officially made it halfway through this challenge and I couldnt be happier. Today is Day 11 with the theme of snowflakes. Hope you enjoy!

Accent snowflake was hand painted.

Polishes Used:

Sinful Colors-Cinderella

Sinful Colors- After Party

Wet N Wild- French White Creme

Topped with Glossy Glam By Rica

Acrylic Paints:

White

Tools Used:

Gals Stamping Plate-GA41

Nail Art Brushes

Make-up Sponge

Check out other snowflake designs by using the links below.

Let It Snow Challenge | Day 10 | New Years!

I hope everyone has had a great Christmas! Are you all ready to start a new year? 2014! Wow a year goes by pretty fast. Here is Day 10 of the Let it Snow Challenge with the theme of...well what else? New Years! Hope you enjoy.

Polish Used:

Sinful Colors-Silver Screen

Sinful Colors-Queen of Beauty

Sinful Colors-Ice Dream

LA Colors-Wired

Pure Ice Super Star

Topped with Glossy Glam by Rica

Tools Used:

Gals Stamping Plates-GA44, GA14, GA40, GA39

You can see other New Years designs by using the links below.