Lacquer or Leave Her!: The Digit-al Dozen

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Friday, December 13, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen does accent nails, Day 5!

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Hello!

Today's the final day of The Digit-al Dozen's accent nail week, and today I decided to go over-the-top Christmas!

UberChic Beauty Holiday Spirit over Supernatural Lacquer Santasaurus

Base Polish(es): Supernatural Lacquer Santasaurus and Zoya Tanya
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Holiday Spirit
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Essential White & Pure Black, BeautyBigBang Gold, Colour Alike Warm Sand

For this one, I used the base polish, which is a specialty polish in a jelly base, also for the color of my reversed-stamped accent nail tree. But a polish like that won't show up well over even a medium color like the red, so I used a little trick--after I filled in the stamp with the base polish, I went over it again with a light green so that the specialty color would pop. If you have the UberChic Beauty Christmas Companion Layers plate, you can also stamp the background to the tree in that color, and then put the reversed-stamp image over it.

So that's it, the final day of accent nails...Do you have a type of accent nail you prefer over the rest?

Don't forget to check out the other ladies' manis, linked below. :)

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M. xoxo

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Thursday, December 12, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen does accent nails Day 4!

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Hello!

I'm back with my day 4 of the Digit-al Dozen's accent nails week...for today's mani, I wanted to do a different type of accent nail mani, this time where all the nails have the same background, but the accent nail has a little something extra:

Base Polish(es): Supernatural Lacquer Santasaurus
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Jingle All The Way
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Ker-Minty Frog Here & Fire-Engine Red; UberChic Beauty Essential White and Pure Black

That cat just makes me happy, and I love this ugly sweater look!

I'll be back tomorrow with my final accent nail mani--in the meantime, check out the other ladies' manis, linked below. :)

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen does accent nails--Featuring UberChic Beauty Christmas Companion Layers

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Hello!

This month The Digit-al Dozen is doing accent nails, and I figured I'd start out by featuring a new plate I'm absolutely obsessed with--UberChic Beauty's Christmas Companion Layers plate. Basically this plate turns images from all of UberChic Beauty's Christmas plates into layering images, and I've been having a blast going back and playing with my plates.

Here's the video review of I did of the plate and a couple of others:

Here's the plate:

And here are some swatches I did:

But on to the new nail art!

For my first one, I wanted to do a string of Christmas tree lights, with an accent nail that was an up-close of lights in a different color:

UberChic Beauty Christmas plates over Supernatural Lacquer Santasaurus and Zoya Jett

Base Polish(es): Supernatural Lacquer Santasaurus and Zoya Jett
Stamping Plate(s): Uberchic Beauty Christmas Companion Layers, Holiday Jingle, and Holiday Spirit (Christmas 01)
Stamping Polish(es): Moyra Silver, UberChic Beauty Essential White and Moonflower Polish Aquamarina layered over Hit The Bottle The Huntress Awaits

For the second, I wanted to do one that featured a combo of two accent nails:

UberChic Beauty Christmas Plates over holiday polishes

Base Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Snow Place Like Home and Meet Me Under The Mistletoe
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Jingle All The Way and Christmas Companion Layers
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Essential White, Hit The Bottle Polish Purple Reign, and a gradient stamp with Kaleidoscope Pink and Girly Bits Forget Me? Not!

I'll be back Thursday with another accent nail mani--in the meantime you can pick up these plates now at UberChic Beauty, and you can check out the other Digit-al Dozen manis linked below. :)

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Thursday, September 19, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen Wood & Copper: Featuring UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 4

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Hello!

Today we're going to take a look at UberChic Beauty's Lovely Leaves 4 plate, which I'm going to also use to finish up my Digit-al Dozen Wood & Copper manis.

First things first--here's the quick video I did with a few test looks:

And here's a look at the plate itself:

UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04

On to the manis! For the first one I really wanted to hit the combination of wood and copper one last time:

UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04 over Zoya Foster

Base Polish(es): Zoya Foster
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 4
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Copper-Haired Beauty; Kaleidoscope by El Corazon Black and White

And then I focused on tree leaves as my representation of 'wood':

UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04 over Zoya Etta

Base Polish(es): Zoya Etta
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Holo There Beautiful

For this one I wanted to capture a bit of the transition from summer manis to fall manis:

UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04 over UberChic Beauty Electric Pumpkin

Base Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Electric Pumpkin
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04
Stamping Polish(es): Messy Mansion Bisque

And, finally, you've actually seen this one before, but I thought I'd include it again here since it's from the same plate:

UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04 over The Lady Varnishes Avada Kedavra

Base Polish(es): The Lady Varnishes Avada Kedavra (no longer available, but check out her other beauties!)
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Lovely Leaves 04
Stamping Polish(es): Beauty Big Bang Gold

I enjoyed the summer, but I'm so glad fall is coming! This plate is on sale in UberChic Beauty's shop now. :)

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Wednesday, September 18, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen does Wood & Copper: Day 2!

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Hello!

So as I mentioned, lol, due to a small miscommunication, a number of us Digit-al Dozeners were under the impression that this month's theme was Wood & Copper, rather than *wool* and copper...But either way, we're celebrating DD's 7th anniversary with some creativity-stretching manis. :)

The first thing I thought of when coming up with ways to combine wood and copper is something California is famous for--our Redwoods. The bark is dark and red, with a copper-y feel, so I knew I had to do a Redwoods mani! In fact, I was so excited about doing this mani I asked Carleigh of Lantern & Wren if I could give a sneak-peek of an image from on of her upcoming plates...

Lantern & Wren ?? over Stella Chroma Cinnamon & Spice

Base Polish(es): Stella Chroma Cinnamon & Spice
Stamping Plate(s): Lantern & Wren mystery plate not yet released...
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Copper-Haired Girl

I love how subtle but pretty this is! I really do feel like I have redwoods on my nails.

We've had some technical difficulties this month so we don't have a link up, but check the other ladies' blogs for more manis!

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Monday, September 9, 2019

The Digital Dozen Does Wood & Copper with Supernatural Lacquer Do You Be-Leaf In Magic

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Hello!

Today I have another gorgeous polish to show you, this one available only as the Impeccably Iridescent Facebook group custom for September. Take a gander at the gorgeousness:

Supernatural Lacquer Do You Be-Leaf In Magic

Supernatural Lacquer Do You Be-Leaf In Magic

Coverage: 2-3 coats; I got full coverage with two but put on three thin coats to rock out those flakies!
Formula: Gorgeous application, excellent dry time. Shiny finish without topcoat, but I'm wearing topcoat in these pics because that's just how I roll...

This polish is a grape-cabernet-type purple jelly filled with glitter and multichrome flakes that go from predominantly copper/gold to green and blue at the edges of the range. This polish looks like someone took a vat of fall and poured in a box of sexy. This manages to be elegant and vampy all at once, and it makes me feel like I have bits of fall leaves on my fingers.

I mentioned The Digital Dozen at the beginning of this post...this week the Digital Dozen is celebrating its 7th anniversary, so we're doing a wood-and-copper anniversary...but, you might be thinking, isn't the 7th anniversary the WOOL and copper anniversary? Um, yep. But a couple of us did wood, so it's gonna be the wood/wool/copper anniversary now! Anyway, the point is, this week I'll be bringing you wood and copper manicures. Which is why I wanted to show you this polish today, because the copper flakies in it are so stunning...but of course I'm gonna do some nail art that ups the copper quotient in honor of the theme, by doing a little stamping with a rich copper polish:

Moyra Vanity over Supernatural Lacquer Do You Be-Leaf In Magic

Base Polish(es): Supernatural Lacquer Do You Be-Leaf In Magic
Stamping Plate(s): Moyra 23 Vanity
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Copper-Haired Girl

To get this beauty, you need to be a member of the Impeccably Iridescent Facebook group; in the group you will find a link that will take you to the shop and generate the discount code so you can buy it--and for only $12. The polish will only be available from September 8th through 30th, but it's a preorder system, so there's enough for everyone who wants a bottle. I love it when everyone gets to be happy!

I'll be back tomorrow with an attempt to combine copper AND wood...

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

The Digit-al Dozen Does Patterns--Day 2!

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It's day 2 of The Digit-al Dozen's Patterns theme, and for today's mani I played with using a layer on its own, and layering it with another image. Here's the glossy version:

It Girl Nail Art IG123 and IG111

And here it is mattified:

It Girl Nail Art IG123 and IG111

Base Polish(es): Zoya Darby
Stamping Plate(s): It Girl Nail Art IG123 and IG111
Stamping Polish(es): Messy Mansion Spring Green and Forest

To me this looks like the shores of a lake surrounded by forest...Summery and outdoorsy and relaxing. What do you think?

I'll be back tomorrow with another pattern mani...in the meantime you can find my day 1 manicure here, and see what the other artists created below!

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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