NOTD: Tropical flowers with UberChic Beauty 4-01

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Hello!

I recently reviewed UberChic Beauty's Collection 4-01 for you (you can see the full review here) and mentioned I'd do a separate manicure with each plate. I'm starting today with the first plate, 4-01 (the beginning is a very good place to start, someone once said):

There's a lot to love about this plate and this set, but the first thing that grabbed my attention were those beautiful Victorian-style flowers, particularly their potential for reversed stamping and lead-lighting. So guess what I'm going to show you today?

I'm in a very summery mood these days, go figure, but sadly do not have any plans to go to Hawaii anytime soon...so I decided to bring Hawaii to my nails.

I started with a gradient using Zoya Darcy, Zoya Jancyn, and Zoya Thandie:

Gradient with Zoya Darcy, Jancyn, and Thandie, with topcoat

Then I used reversed stamping to create decals with the flowers in the bottom right corner of the plate (you can see the decals drying in the background of the picture above, lol!); I used Julep Karissa and Zoya Darcy for the coloring. I'm loving how easy all of this was with UberChic Beauty's new Uber Mat (click here for my full review), I can't say enough good things about it:

Polish for the gradient goes right on the mat and I don't lose track of it!

Same thing here--polish right on the mat, easy to work from!

And here's how the final manicure looked:

Hawaiian flowers with UberChic Beauty plate 4-01

Hawaiian flowers with UberChic Beauty plate 4-01

I am so so so in love with this manicure it makes me feel like I need go book a weekend in Hawaii right now so the manicure can reach its full potential! Seriously, I have no idea how I'm ever going to take this off. Ah-mazing. Sigh...

You can buy this collection of plates and the Uber Mat directly from UberChic Beauty. :)

Happy stamping!
M.