Lacquer or Leave Her!: nail stamping

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01

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Hello!

Well...my next two posts are gonna be a little bit ironic, lol! Today we're going to take a look at a recent release from UberChic Beauty, their Business Chic plate. So it's a little ironic since many of us are working at home right now...but if you're still going in to work you definitely want to look cute, and if you're working from home, this plate will still allow you to flash cute fingers over Zoom!

As always, I did a video discussing the plate and showing some sample looks:

And here's a still look at the plate:

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01

I love the variety of patterns on this plate, all classy, all versatile, and so much mix-and-match potential. Use the for backgrounds, single pass, reversed stamp--all the things!

On to the manis! For y first one I wanted to do a simple single-pass with it:

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01 over Zoya Aurora

Base Polish(es): Zoya Aurora
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01
Stamping Polish(es): Moyra Silver

For the second mani, I wanted to play around with a little mix-and-match magic:

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01 over Zoya Leif

Base Polish(es): Zoya Leif
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Just Lucky

And finally, I wanted to show how easily you can make a bold statement with a little reversed stamping:

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01 over Zoya Tanya

Base Polish(es): Zoya Tanya
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Pure Black and Girly Bits Saffron, Saffroff

UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01 is on sale now in the UberChic store, and other places where UberChic is sold. :)

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Sunday, April 26, 2020

Two Spring Manis!

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Hello!

I hope your spring is off to a wonderful start in our current crazy times...Going outside (safely and briefly!) and watching beauty transform the earth has been really cleansing for me right now. And in line with that, I've done a couple of bright, fun spring manis to share with you...

First up, a celebration of cherry blossoms, which always make me so happy:

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Glam Polish Something Sensational

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Something Sensational
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring
Stamping Polish(es): Kaleidoscope White, Hit The Bottle Polish Everyday I'm Truffling, A Rose By Any Other Name

For the second, I wanted to celebrate a bolder version of spring flowers:

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Glam Polish Something Sensational

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Something Sensational
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Once Upon A Time and Moonlit Stroll

Happy spring! Stay safe and healthy,
M. xoxo

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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

PPU Alert: Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular

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Hello!

This month's Polish Pickup theme is Aquatic Wonder, and Stella Chroma's contribution this month is based on a pet I always wanted to have--the turtle! Okay, I guess I actually wanted a tortoise, 'cause they're the ones that are on land, right? I can't ever keep those straight...Anyway, let's take a look:

Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular

Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular

Coverage: I'm wearing 2 coats
Formula and application: Easy, breezy, beautiful
Description: This polish was inspired by the Honu of Hawaii, floating in the crystal blue waters of the North Shore. It's a sandy nude glitter crelly with sapphire blue and emerald green holographic glitter, with a few matte turquoise glitters thrown in, and a little bright green shimmer for good measure!

This polish looks like a beautiful day at the beach to me, like foamy waves washing back out to the sea, in that moment when the blue and the green dance on the sand...Since I can't go to the beach anytime soon, this polish is going to get me through until I can. I have a feeling you'll be seeing it reappear on the blog with some beach nail art...

Stella Chroma also has a sugar scrub as part of the sale this month, called Cool Reef:

Stella Chroma Cool Reef Sugar Scrub

I don't know about you, but I'm washing my hands about a hundred times a day right now, and when I finish off the end of the day with a little of this, it leaves my skin soft and hydrated rather than dry and cracked. I love the minty-eucalyptus scent to this (I love hanging out in eucalyptus groves), and the hit of citrus makes it bright and happy.

On to the nail art! First, something a little fancy:

Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular stamped with Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or not to Love

Base Polish(es): Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular
Stamping Plate(s): Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or not to Love
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Everyday I'm Truffling

I wanted to play up the beige base of this, so I accented it with a brown. And I love these two patterns together--they have sort of a Victorian wrought-iron fence look to me.

For my next one I went light and fun to play up the beach look:

Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular stamped with Creative Shop 93

Base Polish(es): Stella Chroma Turtle-y Tubular
Stamping Plate(s): Creative Shop 93
Stamping Polish(es): It Girl Nail Art Sapphire

This one is obviously meant to look like clouds, but when I look down at my nails, the curves also look like waves washing over the beach.

Both Turtle-y Tubular and Cool Reef will be on sale during April's Polish Pickup, from April 3rd through 6th. It'll sell for $12 for a 15mL bottle, with no cap. In the meantime, check out Stella Chroma's other beauties, here. :)

Stay safe and healthy,
M. xoxo

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Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Happy St. Patrick's Day, 2020 Style...

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Hello!

Well. Yeah.

I don't know how your St. Patrick's Day is going, but mine is definitely more home-centered than I thought it would be! But, the beauty of nail art is, the spirit of the day can live with you no matter where you find yourself. So, here's a little bit of elegant St. Patrick's day art--and here's hoping the luck of the Irish is will us all over the next few weeks!

Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or not to Love over Glam Polish Fires of Rebellion

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Fires of Rebellion
Stamping Plate(s): Hit The Bottle To Love Or Not To Love
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Taupe-lessly Devoted

This isn't your normal St. Patrick's Day mani, but I love it! Flirty, vintage, and sophisticated, it'll still keep you from getting pinched. You know, if you happen to find yourself close enough to another person that that could actually happen...>.>

Big hugs and please stay safe and healthy!
M. xoxo

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Check out The Dancing Girls, my debut novel, here!
And the 2nd Det. Jo Fournier book, Taken to the Grave, here!
And the 3rd Det. Jo Fournier book, Her Daughter's Cry, here!

Sunday, March 8, 2020

UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3

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Hello!

I'll tell you what...I want some corned beef, stat. No joke. The cravings are real.

In the meantime, let's take a look at UberChic Beauty's St. Patrick's Day 03 plate, perfect to get yourself all primped up for any of your festive Irish Celebrations...Here's a look at the video review I did for the plate:

And here's an up-and-close look at the plate:

This is another of UberChic's coolest new concept--plates that turn previous plates into layering plates! I love the versatility this gives you and I hope she keeps going with these. I also love that this one, while being a companion layering plate for her St. Patrick's Day 1 & 2 plates, there are several designs on this plate that are completely new. Particularly a layering argyle set that I adore!

Here are the swatches I did in the video--have mercy on me, I had some serious coordination isues that day for some reason, and multiple disasters happened--the struggle was real:

UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3

Okay, let's jump into the manicures! I already showed you one mani with this plate, and with St. Patrick's Day 2, here. For the next mani I did, I had to try out the argyle images (note how well the grid image works on its own for a background, and how you can use that in both a traditional argyle arrangement (below), or to outline your diamonds (above).

UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3 over Stella Chroma All Charged Up

Base Polish(es): Stella Chroma All Charged Up
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Just Lucky and Mint To Be In A Fairytale, and Beauty Big Bang Gold

I ADORE how this mani came out! This is one of those manis I couldn't bear to take off, and kept on several days longer than I should have, lol. And I you can bet I'll be returning to this exact same mani with all the different colors--purple, red, blue, white-black-gray...the possibilities are endless! In my opinion this plate is worth having for the argyle alone.

For my final mani, I couldn't resist doing a little bit of a French-Irish look, hee hee...

UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3 over Zoya Leif

Base Polish(es): Zoya Leif
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty St. Patrick's Day 3
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Essential White and Just Lucky

This plate is on sale now, available in UberChic Beauty's store, or wherever else you buy your UberChic plates.

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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Check out The Dancing Girls, my debut novel, here!
And the 2nd Det. Jo Fournier book, Taken to the Grave, here!
And the 3rd Det. Jo Fournier book, Her Daughter's Cry, here!

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or Not to Love plate!

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Hello!

Today we're gonna take a look at a new plate from Hit The Bottle Polish, the To Love or Not to Love plate! To kick things off, here's a look at the video review I did of the plate:

And let's take a closer look at the plate:

Hit The Bottle To Love or Not to Love plate

You guys--this is my kind of Valentine's plate! Love is wonderful, and I love the opportunity to celebrate it. But not everybody is feeling love on Valentine's day, and not everybody wants to celebrate love in a cute, cuddly way! Some of us prefer barbed-wire hearts to lace ones, and sometimes you just want to steampunk that holiday out! This plate gives you so many different ways you can go this Valentine's season, and I love that. Single this year? There's an image for that. Heartbroken? There's an image for that. Feeling so happy and in love you have to shout it from the rooftops? There's an image for that.

Here are a couple of swatches I did for the video:

And let's jump into some manis! I showed you this first one last time:

Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or Not to Love over The Lady Varnishes You Set My Heart A-Humming

Base Polish(es): The Lady Varnishes You Set My Heart A-Humming
Stamping Plate(s): Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or Not to Love
Stamping Polish(es): Hit The Bottle Polish Tangerine Scream and Make Mine A Mudslide

Sometimes a girl just needs a little edge with her hearts...

Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or Not to Love over Sally Hansen Get Mod

Base Polish(es): Sally Hansen Get Mod
Stamping Plate(s): Hit The Bottle Polish To Love or Not to Love
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Pure Black

I think this one would look amazing with the hearts in red, too...

And finally, because sometimes love hurts...