Elegant Christmas glitter jelly stamping

I did more stamping YAAASSS how proud of me are you right now? So proud, mom.

Uber Chic Beauty threw the well known Uber Mat my way along with some other goodies including plates, stampers, and glitter dust (we all know about my glitter crack addiction) and I gots to playing and this semi-Christmas-but-not-really design emerged!

I got a 10% off code for you too, from anything from their shop! Use code SIMPLY on anything from the Uber Chic Beauty for 10% off! 

 

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Classy ivory lace over white gold flakie base

HELP I'VE BEEN KIDNAPPED AND SOMEONE SLAPPED SOME CLASSY LACE NAILS ON ME. I have no idea what happened srsly, where are the colours?? The gradients?? The in yo-face BOLDNESS?? Nope, it's not there. It's 'pastel floral' week for this week's weekly nail art challenge (WNAC) that I co-host on Instagram along with lovely ladies Kristin of Lacquerstyle and Tracey of MissBellaTracey, and obvious I was like WHY THE EFF DID I AGREE TO THIS I HATE FLOWERS AND PASTEL. So this was what I came up with... a very unusual interpretation of that theme, obviously.

WHITE GOLD CHROME FLAKIE + HOLO BASE MAKES THIS MANI ACCEPTABLE TO ME. I drew inspiration from a random Sephora make-up bag I got ages ago in some kit I got cause I thought it would make me glowy and flawless or whatever. The only thing glowy and flawless about me now is that I used FUN Lacquer's epic PayDay (H) white gold chrome flakie linear holo polish under the mani... ALDJF;JA;JA;F;JA' classy flashy bitch right hurrr.

 

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Chrome holo flakies from Painted Polish... it just had to happen

So we've thought we've seen every kind of flakie out there - the translucent colour-shifty kind, the multi-chrome/ultra-chrome coloured kind, the metallic kind, the chrome kind... but now I've discovered the FLAKUS MAXIMUS of the year by Painted Polish, which is a - get this - a mirror chrome flakie with holo glitters scattered throughout!! Waaattttt.

In doing these swatches I also tested a new product by the makers of my fav nail oil (Bliss Kiss), called Simply Peel. It's a latex barrier similar in composition to the numerous other brands of latex products for quick and easy post-gradient/stamping/watermarble/otherwise nail art mess removal (e.g., Liquid Palisade, Nail Veil, Mess No More, costume body latex products, etc.).

I often 'sponge on' my glitter and flakies directly onto the nail to maximize polish coverage and minimize clumpiness - the sponge actually absorbs the jelly in the nail polish thus allowing a smoother coat of polish to stick to the nail with less of the jelly. You can check out a video tutorial on how to maximize glitter payoff on YouTube here. But what a mess this causes on my skin, right?!? I used Simply Peel around my nails to help protect my skin from getting flaked out and I must say I LOVE THIS PRODUCT!!

Polling the people: Splatter mani comes out on top

Today on Instagram I decided to take the opportunity to unload some of my old unpublished mani's. I have quite a few... it's kind of stupid actually. I don't know why, I guess I never got around to posting them and then when I thought about it I was like ermmm.... these are fugly now. In other words, the mani's were done either when my nails/nail care was crappy, before I got my new camera, or after I got my new camera but had no idea how to use it.

So I threw together a couple looks, the theme being 'how to wear chrome', and asked my followers to vote for their fav mani out of the 4 looks that I would post by itself:

Source: @simplynailogical (Instagram)

Heavy metal belt

Good morning! Well, for me anyway, it's nearing 10am and I can actually see sun out my window. Today I have for you a heavy metal look, inspired by a belt and testing out more uses for OPI's new chrome polish from the Gwen Stefani collection.

I lost my stamping cherry in a bed of black lace

That's right, I stamped for the first time last night. I had actually bought the Pueen Love Elements stamping plates set over a month ago, but I quickly gave up out of frustration when I first got them because for whatever reason the stupid images wouldn't even transfer onto the stamper. I was (and still am) convinced that the particular plate I had tried was too shallowlly etched and so no polish was being picked up. I found myself with more patience to try it again last night and pulled out a different plate from the set and BAM it actually transferred! Amazed.

Originally I just wanted to see what OPI's new silver chrome polish from the Gwen Stefani collection looked like and I was so impressed! Here's a couple shots of that alone first: