Color Club Stamping Plate Review with 40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Lemon/Peach

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Hey there!  Today I have a review of a few of the stamping plates from Color Club's new line that I was sent by Color4Nails.  It's always fun to try out new brands of stamping plates and, for today's post, I even snuck in this week's 40 Great Nail Art Idea prompts.  This week we're doing "lemon/peach" and I was given the personal prompt of "tribal".  It just so happens that one of the plates I was sent was the Africa plate which has tons of great tribal images.  I was also sent Flower and Puzzle and, while I really like a lot of the images that these Color Club plates have to offer, the Africa plate is probably my favourite of the three.  Keep reading to see the manis I came up with along with a more extensive swatch stick test that I did.

UberChic Beauty Op Art Stamping Plate Review

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Hey there!  Today I have one of UberChic Beauty's latest stamping plates to share with you.  This Op Art Magic plate is right up my alley for the type of images I like.  I did have to ask Brittany why it was called Op Art - it's a mix of Optical Illusion and Pop Art (I so should have been able to figure that out on my own).  I love this type of swirly optical illusion images.  I love them so much that I did three manis already using this plate, all sparkly and all worn out into the real world as full manis.  That, in itself, speaks volumes about how much I like this plate!

KBShimmer Color4Nails Exclusives Review

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Hey there!  Today I have swatches of a couple of polishes from one of my all time favorite brands - KBShimmer.  These two gorgeous shades are exclusive to Color4Nails, a great international stockist. I have been a fan of Color4Nails and KBShimmer since almost the beginning of my nail polish hobby so it's great to see them pairing up for these shades.  Both are very pretty, very wearable colors so I hope you keep reading to hear my thoughts.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Inspiration

Hey there!  This week our 40 Great Nail Art Ideas theme is Inspiration.  I remembered that UberChic Beauty has a lot really inspirational phrases on her plates so that's where I headed to be inspired.  After going through all of my plates, I decided that there could be no better inspiration than a simple reminder to be happy.

The Digit-al Dozen does August Birthdays: Pop Art Nails

Hey there!  The Digit-al Dozen has started a new tradition to celebrate each other's birthdays.  Each month, the birthday girls will join up and pick a piece of art to inspire our nails.  Unfortunately I had to miss last month but I'm in for this month.  This month, it is our friends Amanda from Lady Maid Nails and Tamara from Canadian Nail Art Fantatic (my fellow Canadians!) who are celebrating.  Happy birthday ladies!  I hope it turns out to be a great year for you!

The Digit-al Dozen does Negative Space: Day 5 - Orange Tie Dye

Hey there!  Yesterday I mentioned that I tried to combine the fifth and final day of The Digit-al Dozen's Negative Space week with my prompts for 40 Great Nail Art Ideas.  This week we're all doing orange manis and I had the personal prompt of tie dye.  Do you know how hard it is to combine tie dye and negative space and orange?!  Let me tell ya, it's really freaking hard.  But I tried and here's what I came up with.  It did end up growing on me as I wore it but these are two themes I hope to never have to combine again...

The Digit-al Dozen does Negative Space: Day 4 - Negative Space Stamping

Hey there!  Today is totally my cheat day for this month's Digit-al Dozen theme.  We're doing negative space manis which should mean there's naked nail showing but, since I'm always going on about how much I like negative space stamping, particularly UberChic Beauty's negative space images, how could I NOT include one this week.  Plus, as a confession, I may have done this one back in February and just hadn't posted it yet.  Since I've been so busy lately, having to do one less mani this month definitely made my decision for me!