UberChic Beauty Collection 26, plus Digit-al Dozen Day One

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Hello!


I hope you had a good weekend--I went on a writing retreat with several friends, up to the trees in the hills to sit in the sunshine and write. Very relaxing!


Today we're gonna take a look at UberChic Beauty's most recent collection, Collection 26. Here's the video review I did of the collection:

And here's a closer look:

UberChic Beauty 26-01

UberChic Beauty 26-02

UberChic Beauty 26-02

UberChic Beauty's full-nail images are 1.7 x 2.1 cm.


Here are some sample looks I put together while testing out the plates in my video:

UberChic Beauty collection 26

Although I'll be back with more looks using this set, today I'm going to show you two manicures that fit with this month's Digit-al Dozen theme, "In My Garden." We have several types of flowers in my garden, including my favorite, roses, and my husband's favorite, gerbera daisies. So here are two manis to represent those.


For the first, I started with a base of Zoya Saldana, then stamped the negative-space rose image with Messy Mansion Sterling, then the outlined rose images with Messy Mansion Royal Purple:

UberChic Beauty 26-03 over Zoya Saldana

And I had to see how it would look matted (I prefer Sally Hansen Big Matte topcoat):

UberChic Beauty 26-03 over Zoya Saldana, matted

For my second look, I started with a base of Moonflower Polish Lemon, and Zoya Snow White and Wyatt. Then I stamped with Messy Mansion Banana Bender, Chalk, and Spring Green:

UberChic Beauty 26-03 over Zoya Snow White, Wyatt, and Moonflower Polish Lemon

And here it is matted:

UberChic Beauty 26-03 over Zoya Snow White, Wyatt, and Moonflower Polish Lemon

What do you think? Do you like one better than the other?


You can find this collection on sale now in UberChic Beauty's store, and you can stalk them around the interwebs here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uberchicbeauty/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uberchicbeauty/

UberChic Geeks Fan group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150090828353009/

I'll be back tomorrow to share a little more of my garden with you; in the meantime, please check out the other ladies' offerings below. :)

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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For-Fun Contest: Fix My FAIL returns!

Hello!

It's time to take another shot at 'Fix My FAIL'!  ::crowd goes wild::

The premise here is that I will show you one or more manicures where I tried to make a pretty manicure and failed utterly, and you will have the opportunity to show me what I should have done to create a better mani.

This is a 'for fun' contest, meaning there is no prize, it's just for fun. Send me your attempt to improve my manicure(s), and I will pick the ones I like best and feature them in a future blog post, including links to your blog/Facebook page/Instagram/etc.

When I did this previously, I had people post their entries to my Facebook page, but some people don't have access to Facebook that wanted to enter, and couldn't. So this time I'm going to do this a couple of ways. You can:

1) Post your entries to my Facebook page, which you can find find by clicking here.
2) Create a blog post, tweet, or Instagram of your entry, and link it in the comments below. Only links to entries will be allowed; any other links left in the comments section will be deleted.
3) If you don't have any of those media, you can e-mail your entry to me at lacquerorleaveher@gmail.com.


Okay, let me show you the two manicure FAILs I have for you to fix, and then I'll talk a bit about the rules. First up, my Zoya Blaze FAIL:

Zoya Blaze

Zoya Blaze FAIL

Aphrodite Lacquers Margarita FAIL:

Aphrodite Lacquers Margarita

Aphrodite Lacquers Margarita FAIL

In both cases, I took a really pretty polish and managed to completely ruin it with my disasterous design, lol. I'm sure you can do better--so show me!

What are the rules? Basically, there is only one rule, and that is that some element of my original manicure must make it into your manicure. For example, you might:

1) Keep the base color (it doesn't have to be the exact same polish, just a similar one), and do something different with it. For example, you might take Zoya Blaze as your base polish (or another similar sparkly red), and decorate it very differently.

2) Keep one or more of the design elements. For example, in the Zoya Blaze FAIL, you might decide you want to do something with green glequins. In the Margarita FAIL, you may decide you want to use the same stamp I used, but change everything else.

3) You only have to do one of the two manicures, but you can do both if you want to. :)

Of course, the more of the original design elements you can keep and come up with something awesome, the more impressed I will be and the more likely you will win. So maybe in the case of the Zoya Blaze FAIL, you decide you're gonna use the same polish, green glequins, and silver bar glitter, but you have a way better idea about how to put all three of them together. That would be awesome and amazing and I would love it!

So, submit your pictures of links to me by the end of the month; the deadline is June 1st at 12:01am. And good luck!!

Peace and love,
M.

NOTD: Lucky 7

Hello!!

Today is the next installment of my Cheeky Girl Challenge twinpost, where Dina (from Secretary's Nail Art) and I use an image from one plate per week from the Cheeky summer plates. This week we're on Cheeky 39, and we agreed to use the slot machine image:

To make this, I started with a base of Kleancolor Metallic Green on three fingers, and covered them with Spoiled Call You Later, a green & gold glitter. For the ring finger, I used a base of Julep Sophie, but it ended up a bit more muddy than I wanted it to be, so I put a layer of Aphrodite Lacquer Terre over it; this is a milky-gree polish with green glitters in it.

For the stamped image, I stamped with Konad black, and then filled in the images with Sally Hansen Lightning, Lickety-Split Lime, Pure Ice Siren, and China Glaze I Herd That.

This will be the last Cheeky Girl Challenge twinpost for a few weeks, because of holiday plans...but we'll bring it back sometime in January. Don't forget to visit Dina's post to see what she did. :)

Thanks for looking!!

Xoxox,
M.