Showing posts with label stamping plates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stamping plates. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2013

December haul/ gifts


Hello everyone!

December 2012 hauls/ gifts


These are the things that I got in December. My mother gave me money for Christmas, and I used it to buy most of these nail polishes on sale between Christmas and New Years Eve. The rest of the money covered a large part of the stamping plates (that I already had bought). I also got Deborah Lippmann Let's go Crazy and the OPI nail polish remover for Christmas. And when I won the Chit Chat Nails Bundle Monster Giveaway, I used my 30$ coupon code to order the 2012 stamping plate set and 5 glitter wheels from Bundle Monster :-)

Nail polish:


I didn't take extra photos of the CND Solar Speed Spray, and the OPI nail polish remover, but let's start with the nail polish!


Gina Tricot:


Gina Tricot: Aspen gold, Flirt with me

From left to right: #17 Aspen gold, #88 Flirt with me


Pieces: 

Winter Purple, Pine Green, Cognac.

Midwinter daylight:

Pieces: Winter Purple, Pine Green, Cognac 

Ott- lite:

Pieces: Pine Green, Cognac, Winter Purple

Yellow light:

Pieces: Pine Green, Winter Purple, Cognac
This is the most color accurate of Winter Purple:

Pieces: Winter Purple


H&M:

H&M: Pink Macaroon, Pink bling bling


H&M: Honey I'm Home, Chica Boom Boom, Nerd, It's Meant To Be
Honey I'm Home,Chica Boom Boom, Nerd, It's Meant To Be

(I think these were 80% off)



Other brands:

Deborah Lippmann: Let's go Crazy, IsaDora: Orient Express, Nostalgic nail lacquer: Date at Midnight with Nosferatu
Left: Deborah Lippmann: Let's Go Crazy (multicolored glitter in purple base)
Middle: IsaDora: #743 Orient Express (used in BLING Nails- Polish Days December)
Right: Nostalgic Nail Lacquer:  Date at Midnight with Nosferatu (also used here)

I felt that the IsaDora polish was free, because I needed base coats, and they had a "buy two, get one free" sale



Stamping plates:


HB 23:
The diameter of this stamping plate is 6 cm, but the snowflakes are small and beautiful. They are in different sizes, but most of them are around 5 mm.


HB23

HB23
Messy Mansion:

MM02 (also used here)
This is a limited edition New Years plate. The diameter is 7 cm, which is bigger than the other stamping plates. (Konad and Bundle Monster are 5,7 cm.) With full nail images of this size, it's possible to use different parts of the image so that all the nails don't look identical. The other images are also big; Big Ben is 1,9 x 5,0 cm. The text is 1 x 0,8 cm. The clock is 1 cm in diameter. The balloon image is  0,9 x 1,1 cm.

Messy Mansion MM02


Messy Mansion MM02



KONAD:

Konad stamping plates

My 8 first stamping plates from Konad :-) Sorry about the snow, but I hope you can see the images. It was difficult to get one photo of them all inside without reflections.

Konad: m 57, m59, m63,
m65, m66, m69,
m77, m78





Bundle Monster:

Bundle Monster 2012 stamping plate set, nail art wheels


There are 25 stamping plates in the Bundle Monster 2012 set. Some are with small images, and some are for french manicure, but most of them cover the entire nail. Most of you have probably seen these plates. If not, click here. These nail art wheels are a nice starter set for me. Now I can try these different things, and see what I like.
These are the things I chose when I won the Chit Chat Nails Bundle Monster Giveaway :-) Thank you Marta!


I still need tiny brushes, but what else would you buy if you were building up a nail art and stamping plate collection? Do you have any brushes to recommend?


Lani

Sunday, January 20, 2013

November hauls and snowflakes


Hello everyone!

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November 2012 hauls

Today I'm going to show you what I bought in November. I know it's a little late, and some of the polishes are probably not available any more. But I'll just show you anyway. This might seem like a lot, but this year I tried to make a deal with Santa, so that I could buy my own nail polish presents, and get money for Christmas. Also these are mostly low price polishes in small bottles. So I feel that I got a lot for the money, and I had fun testing them all on nail wheels. I'll start with what you haven't already seen in the first photo! :-)

Messy Mansion:

Messy Mansion stamping plates MM01, A39, my one stroke mani


Christmas stamping plates: MM01 and A39. I love the images, but sadly some of them are for those with larger nailbeds than mine. I chose these plates because of the dromedaries, snowflakes, trees and the lghts, and wish I could use the large images to. Messy Mansion is an Australian brand. The diameter of the plates is 7 cm (and that is bigger than many other well known brands). One more picture to show you the images on A39:

Messy Mansion stamping plate A39


Flakie, Base- & Top Coat:

IsaDora #600 Clear, Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat, Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French


Pierre Reneè: 

Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French


Pierre Reneè: #11 Transparent French (orange- green flakies)
I used this flakie in the one stroke mani. I was very curious of this flakie. Then I found out that I didn't need it, and gave it away. (I already own Nubar 2010... and Nfu- Oh #49... I also couldn't find Pierre Reneè on the animal organizations' cruelty- free lists...)

Seche Vite:


Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat
Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat
This is now my favourite top coat. I have been very pleased with it, except for the day I made my one stroke mani, and it made the hobby lacquer I had used crackle. This top coat really is fast drying, and it makes a thick seal.

Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat



IsaDora:


IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat


IsaDora #600 Clear extra long lasting quick dry base- & top coat
This is my favourite base coat, although it actually is a top coat too. I love the wide/ double brush, it's easy to apply, and it dries fast. I only wish the bottle was bigger than 6 ml or that the price was lower. Luckily these were on sale before Christmas.

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

Cala:


Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel, my Bling nails


Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel. These were easy to apply, because they are like stickers, but they need a top coat to stay on your nails. I bought them for my Bling nails mani.

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M):


Zipper plastic bag with nail clipper, cuticle pusher?, file, and Frangipani fantasia hand cream, which smells good. (I carry this little bag with me everywhere. Together with a little box of nail polish remover pads, it's my emergency nail stuff.)

H&M: Nail polish kit:
H&M Nail polish kit


Metall Me, Purple Potion, Golden Days, Nude Dude, Peacock Green, Purple Sparkle
H&M Nail polish kit

Thank you H&M for naming your mini bottles! These are 5 ml. I fell for the two glitter polishes with holographic glitter on each end of this kit, and also liked the purple.

H&M Nail polish kit: Metall Me, Purple Potion


Red glitter 2- pck:

H&M 2- pck: Super Red, Super Glitter

Super Red (red cream), Super Glitter (clear, with small red glitter that needs a good top coat). These are 6ml bottles, and I guess they are meant to be used together.

Star shaped mini bottles:
H&M: Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish


Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish 
These are 4 ml, so they are actually much bigger than they look in real life!

H&M: Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie  

Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie. These 8 ml bottles are all with gold shimmer.


Did you notice the SNOWFLAKE in the picture above? The snow was full of big visible snowflakes when these photos were taken!!! :-D  It's easier to see it when I zoom in:

H&M nail polish bottles in the snow

Snowflake! :-) and H&M: Antique Gold


Look at the big snowflake above to the right!!!

H&M: Purple sprinkles, H&M: Fabulous Nails Honey
Fabulous Nails Honey (brown) 9 ml bottle

H&M: Purple sprinkles



Purple sprinkles: clear base with lots of small hexagonal purple glitter, holographic string/ bar glitter, and very few big hexagonal blue glitter. Although it looks small, this is a 12 ml bottle :-)

It has a similar length to the Orly (Be Brave) bar glitter, but the H&M bar glitter looks thicker. Each H&M bar is more visible, but the Orly bar glitter is more dense. Over black the bars look mainly silver, and over white they look holographic and can shift to any color of the rainbow when you move the nail wheel. But I think I see green more often than other colors. I tried to capture it in these 4 photos.

H&M: Purple sprinkles
H&M: Purple sprinkles


Gosh:


 GOSH: Nero



Gosh: Nero  I really needed a black creme.

GOSH: Nero


China Glaze: 

Ghina Glaze: Magnetics II magnet

Magnetix II: magnet with 3 designs. I have already used it twice: here and here.

Catrice & Color Club:

Color Club: Cloud Nine, Catrice: Heavy Metallilac


Catrice: #800 Heavy Metallilac is a medium purple metallic with pink shimmer. The bottle is 10 ml.


Color Club #900 Cloud Nine is a light pink strong linear holographic. I have used it on it's own, and for stamping in my new year's eve fireworks mani. I'm very glad that this bottle is 15 ml :-)

Orly:

Orly: Be Brave

Orly: Be Brave: Pink holographic bar/ string glitter in a clear jelly base. This bottle is 18 ml :-) It's my third from the Flash Glam FX Collection.

Gina Tricot: 

I bought two sets with 5 ml minibottles i November, and of course these were on sale in December :-(

This first set is called Nail Polish Pack 2:
Gina Tricot Beauty Nails: Pack 2: Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

I wish this photo was much better. Holographic multi has pink shimmer, and Holographic blue is a little darker, and has green and pink shimmer, and Holographic green looks more green. These look interesting in the bottle IRL, but I found out that the green is slightly linear holographic. The others are not holographic. So, because of the names, I got disappointed.

Nail Polish Pack 3:
Gina Tricot Nail Polish Pack 3: Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

A few more photos to show the shimmer in these:

Gina Tricot: 3D, Iris
Gina Tricot: Shimmer, 3D, Iris


I love purple, so of course I bought these. When I applied the first coat of Iris, I could see the blue shimmer. But it disappeared :-( I could see it again when I applied top coat, but the shimmer disappeared again when it dried. But luckily the pink and blue shimmer in Shimmer was visible on the nail.


I don't think I needed all of these, but I love to try new polishes, and I really love some of them, and when I look at some of them I can't understand how I used to survive without them.


Did you buy these nail polishes too? What do you think of them? Do you want to see what I bought in December now, or should I wait a few days?


Lani