UberChic Beauty Business Chic 01

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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. :)

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M. xoxo

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UberChic Beauty's Love & Marriage 05 plate!

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Today we're going to look at this year's Valentine's Day offering from UberChic Beauty, their Love & Marriage 05 plate. Of course I did a quick video review, with swatches for you:

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

UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05

This is a versatile plate with a little bit of everything--some layering images, some complementary images, great background images, and beautiful lace screaming to be used in a French mani look.


Let's jump into some manis! For my first I wanted to do something sweet for a pretty Valentine's look that tested out one of the layering images:

UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05 over Glam Polish Don't Go Breaking My Heart

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Essential White and Kaleidoscope Pink


For my next mani, I wanted to go a bit different...I'm not a huge Valentine's Day person, I love the celebration of love, but some of the other stuff that gets put onto it can be a little much for me. So here's an alternative type of Valentine's look:

UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05 over Sally Hansen Get Mod

Base Polish(es): Sally Hansen Get Mod
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05
Stamping Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Pure Black and Moyra Silver

I should note: these images are not specifically designed to be layered, and don't fit perfectly. But I love the way they go together to show three colors, so I had to play with them. :)


For my last mani I went back to a more traditional Valentine's mani, featuring one of my current favorite red polishes:

UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05 over Zoya Tanya and Sally Hansen Get Mod

Base Polish(es): Zoya Tanya and Sally Hansen Get Mod
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage 05
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Fire-Engine Red and UberChic Beauty Essential White

This plate is on sale now in UberChic Beauty's shop, and wherever else you buy your UberChic Beauty plates.

Stay tuned for my review of their new stamping polishes, and of their St. Patrick's day companion layering plate...

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UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque

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Today we're gonna take a look at one of the two new plates from UberChic Beauty, their Damask & Baroque plate. As always, let's start off with my video observations about the plate:

Let's take a look at the plate:

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate

I think this is an excellent plate for all skill levels, even beginners--you can get beautiful images easily, with no fancy techniques, and without having to worry about fine lines or bold areas. If you are a beginner and want to play around with looks, I suggest playing with color--check out the swatches I did in the video above to see some examples of that.

But let's jump on into the manicures!


For my first look, I wanted to give an example of mixing and matching these images with other plates; I think a lot of these images are similar to lacy snowflakes:

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate over The Lady Varnishes Paradise For A Day 

Base Polish(es): The Lady Varnishes Paradise For A Day
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Cosmetics Ker-minty Frog Here and Forget Me? Not!!!



For the second mani I wanted to play with color, so I did a stamping-polish gradient:

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate over Glam Polish Rocket Man

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate over Glam Polish Rocket Man

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Rocket Man
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque
Stamping Polish(es): Messy Mansion Royal Purple, Blue You Away, Hydrangea Blue, and Chalk



And for my final look I wanted to give an example of mixing the smaller elements with the larger:

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate over Glam Polish Saturday Night's Alright and The B%$&# Is Back

UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque plate over Glam Polish Saturday Night's Alright and The B%$&# Is Back

Base Polish(es): Glam Polish Saturday Night's Alright and The B%$&# is Back
Stamping Plate(s): UberChic Beauty Damask & Baroque
Stamping Polish(es): Color Alike Hot Sands, UberChic Beauty Pure Black

This plate is on sale now in the UberChic Beauty store, and I personally think it goes beautifully with the Love & Marriage 05 plate (all of the Love & Marriage plates, actually), so check that one out while you're there. :)

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M. xoxo

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The Digit-al Dozen does accent nails Day 4!

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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. :)

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My Halloween Costume Nails!

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Since today is Halloween, I thought I'd show you the nails I'm doing with my Halloween costume. I actually already did this once, for a party I went to, so I have all the pics ready to go!


I went (and am handing out candy) as a voodoo priestess:

I wanted a manicure that played up the feathers and the animal skulls in the costume, and of course included a voodoo doll...

Voodoo Priestess Nails

Base Polish(es): Zoya Chantal, Kinsley, and Foster
Stamping Plate(s): Clear Jelly Stamper H-39, Dixie Plates Halloween 2019, and UberChic Beauty Fabulous Feathers
Stamping Polish(es): Kaleidoscope Black and White, Girly Bits Fire-Engine Red and Silver Bells, Moonflower Polish Cavernos del Rio Camuy

I love how it came out--the feathers add a gorgeous texture and the skulls are just creepy! I also love the little pop of red. This is when I love nail art the most--when you can create something truly original to make a cool day even cooler.

Happy Halloween!!
M. xoxo

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Dixie Plates Halloween 2019

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Today we're gonna take a look at another new plate from Dixie Plates, her 2019 Halloween plate. Here's the quick video review I did of the plate:

And here's a closer look at the plate:

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019

Skill level: This is an intermediate plate that stamps beautifully.
What I love about this plate: Haunted forest! Phases of the moon! Cool spooky ghosts! Bloody cleavers and a ouija board image! And the spookiest spider-riddled web you'll ever want to see.


Here are the test looks I did:

And now on to the manis! For the first one, I wanted to make a spooky haunted forest filled with nasty ghosts:

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over UberChic Beauty Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over UberChic Beauty Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun

Base Polish(es): UberChic Beauty Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Halloween 2019
Stamping Polish(es): Lantern & Wren Don't Run Upstairs and Moyra Silver


For this one, I had to play around with that infested tree:

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over Stella Chroma Hug The Road

Base Polish(es): Stella Chroma Hug The Road
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Halloween 2019
Stamping Polish(es): Lantern & Wren Don't Run Upstairs


And I've already shown you this one, but in case you missed it, this is my tribute to the urban legend of Bloody Mary:

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

Base Polish(es): 6 Harts Polish Riverdale Road Signs
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Halloween 2019
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Little Black Dress, White Wedding, Firebrick


And as a kitty lover, I wanted to show a sweet kitty going a little nuts when the moon is full...

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over Zoya Elliot and Alice

Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 over Zoya Elliot and Alice

Base Polish(es): Zoya Elliot and Zoya Alice
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Halloween 2019
Stamping Polish(es): Kaleidoscope Black, Moyra Silver

What do you think? Are there any images you really love on this plate?


This plate is available now directly from Dixie Plates, or anywhere her plates are sold. :)

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PPU Alert!: 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

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I've got another Polish Pickup polish for your viewing pleasure today: 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs!


You might remember that this month's theme is 'Urban Legends', which I think is super cool and fun for October, and I'm learning about a bunch of spooky urban legends I've never heard of before...I'm embarrassed to say I'd never heard of Riverdale Road in Colorado, which apparently is not just the basis for a single urban legend, but a whole cluster of them. Ghosts that talk to you and disappear, mysterious disappearances, the whole nine. But my favorite of all the stories is something that's most definitely not a legend--there are 'gates of hell' on the road, iron gates build by a man who lost his mind and burned down his mansion while his family was asleep inside! He was never caught...

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs

Coverage: 2 coats
Application and formula: Smooth as silk!
Description and review: Riverdale Road Signs is a silver metallic with red flakes and a spray of holo sparkle. I love this for the inspiration--the silvery white is like a ghost, and the red flakes are like the blood of the road's victims...And it could also be flakes of rust from those rusty gates of hell...


The polish also made me think of another urban legend, the Bloody Mary legend. When I was growing up, the legend was that if you said 'Bloody Mary' three times in a mirror, she'd appear--and possibly kill you! This polish looks to me like a foggy mirror with splashes of blood on it, so I had to do my very own Bloody Mary mani:

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs stamped with Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 and Autumn 03

6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs stamped with Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 and Autumn 03

Base Polish(es): 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs
Stamping Plate(s): Dixie Plates Halloween 2019 and Autumn 03
Stamping Polish(es): Girly Bits Little Black Dress, White Wedding, and Firebrick

I'm gonna just admit it--this creeped me out a little bit when I was editing it! That face, if you stare at it too long, is just spooky...


You can buy 6 Harts Riverdale Road Signs during October's Polish Pickup sale from Oct. 4-7th. It's a bargain at only $10.00, and there are only 80 bottles available, so SET THAT ALARM. In the meantime you can check out 6 Harts other beauties here, and come hang out with the Polish Pickup Pack here.

Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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