40 Great Nail Art Ideas - 3 Shades of Red/Orange

Hey there!  Today I have my weekly instalment of Crumpet's Nail Tart's 40 Great Nail Art Ideas.  This week's color prompt is 3 shades of red or orange which fit perfectly with my personal prompt of skittles.  I've read that skittle nails are defined as either the same pattern with different colors or different patterns using the same color scheme.  Since I already had to use 3 shades of orange or red, I went with the former.  I actually tried to use 5 shades of orange but some of them get a bit lost...2 look the same, one looks red.  Oh well, you're going to have to take my word for it that these really were different orange shades.

UberChic Beauty Coffee Addict Stamping Plate Review

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Hey there!  Just a few days ago I shared a design I did with the new UberChic Beauty mini Succulent stamping plate and today I have another one of the mini plates.  This plate is dedicated to all the coffee lovers out there - I know there's a lot of you!  I'm not a coffee drinker personally but even I know this plate is perfect.  I swear I really did put in a valiant effort into drinking coffee when I was an undergrad but all it did was make me jittery and weird.  So I'll stick with my good ole' Coca-Cola when I need a boost.  Luckily my nails did not have the same reaction to coffee as my brain did...no shaky nail in today's post!      

Creative Shop Ukraine Stamping Plate Review

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Hey there!  Last month Oksana, the creator of the Creative Shop Stamper messaged me asking if I'd like to try one of her new stamping plates and I jumped at the chance.  Knowing how good her stampers have been, I was willing to bet that she'd also be making plates of the same great quality and I was right.  The stamping plate I was sent is all about her home country of Ukraine.  Alberta, where I'm from in Canada, has a large Ukrainian population so I've always known some Ukrainian words and the food but not much else.  While I admit that I didn't know much about Ukraine before, I'm happy this plate made me do some digging to find out a bit more.  Keep reading to see the plate and the details about the couple of designs I used from it.

Celestial Cosmetics Rainbows & Unicorns Swatches and Review

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Hey there!  Today I have swatches of Celestial Cosmetics' new collection, Unicorns and Rainbows, currently available at Color4Nails.  These five shades were recently released and, in all honesty, the collection couldn't have a better name.  These are all holographic polishes (hence the rainbows part of the collection name) and, with the exception of Unicorn Fields, they're all pastel and shimmery and have an ethereal feel that really does feel like a world unicorns would live in.  Now, let 's get to all the details...

HPB Present Dusty Succulents with UberChic Beauty Mini Succulents Plate

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Hey there!  Today I have a bit of a 2-for-1 post.  When I saw the this month's Hobby Polish Bloggers' theme was Dusty/Muted Colors, I knew I wanted to do something with the UberChic Beauty Succulents mini plate that I had just received to review.  I love succulent plants, especially the ones that have that purple/green hazy look to them so that's what I've tried to mimic here with a smoosh marble for this months' link up.  I have no green thumb...like zero!  But when I was in grad school I did manage to keep a few succulents alive for a good long time.  I've always loved their squishy, firm look...and the fact that you barely need to water them, haha!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Animals

Hey there!  Today for 40 Great Nail Art Ideas, we have a fun theme.  Animals!  I've been itching to get to the cabin after a long winter away so I did some stamping of the great outdoors.  I've seen all the creatures I've put on my nails either at the lake or on the way to the lake (usually right in front of my car...yikes!).  Keep reading to see all the details.

UberChic Beauty Mini Itty Bitty Icons Stamping Plate and XL Clear Stamper Review

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Hey there!  Be prepared because today I have the cutest post I've ever done.  How, you ask?  Because my adorable 5 year old niece is being featured (with her and her mother's permission, of course).  When Brittany from UberChic Beauty told me she had designed a mini plate with small images and that I'd get to try one, I knew I had the perfect model.  Though this plate is designed with kids in mind, this plate isn't just for kids.  I easily came up with two ideas for my adult nails that I'm showing today, in addition to how my niece's nails turned out.  I also have the XL Clear Stamper to review today.  All the stamping I did for these was done with this stamper and it's specifics can be found at the end of this post.