GRFC Challenge - Blue And Silver

We are halfway through the Getting Ready For Christmas Challenge prepared by lovely Elsa from Like a Candy Shop...

Today it is blue and silver...

Going through my stash of blues, I realised that I haven't still used my precious Zoya Pixie Dust Sunshine!!!! Being a navy blue with silver sparkles, it surely is the polish of the day... :P

Here it is with all its glory... Two coats with a base coat underneath...

 Then I grabbed my good old Gals 27 plate with the christmas tree looking image and using Essie No Place Like Chrome, I stamped my nails...

Simple yet gorgeous mani that got me a lot of complimets... :) :)

Andddd coming up... Snowflakessss!!!!

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 14 - Stamping

Well, I've been using my nail plates since the begining of this challenge, so this particular day of stamping has not been that challenging to me... :) 

Wanting to use the design from my new GALS plates, GA15, I panited my nails with Depend Holographic in Denim Blue, a polish I got from swapping with the lovely Marianne...

Then I stamped with Barry M Silver foil and GA15. The quality of Gals plates is amazing. They are perfectly etched and you pick an excellent image every time... This image looks like the one on Konad S6. But this one has thicker lines... 

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 10 - Geometric

Geometric Nails... Over a holo base... Hmmm....

I used 17 holo nail polish in silver for this mani. It was the first time I tried 17 polish and I liked it. It has a great holo effect and it is easy to apply. It dries to a semi matte finish, but I used a topcoat anyway..

Well, for geometric design, I had a lot of choices, thanks to Gals plates... I picked GA03 and used the 2 similar designs for this mani...

The New 31 Day Challenge - Day 7 - Ombre or Skittle

Well well, today we are making ombre or skittle nails... I chose to do a skittle, because I love how cute it looks... To make it cuter, I picked some pastel colors and polka dots!!!

With famous polish brands coming up with Spring 2013 collections, I can see that pastels will be a hit for spring. Look at Zoya, for example... All pale, pastel colors. I think I'll pass on that one, because it looks like nothing special to me...

Anyway, on to the mani: I used Pastel 310 for the thumb, 100 for the index finger, 97 for the middle finger, 95 for the ring finger and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Mellow Yellow.

And finally stamped the polka dots with Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White on...

And that's my skittle mani... :)

Another New Years Mani and Catherine Arley Order

First I'd like to tell you that Catherine Arley websotre is open!!!! YAY!!!!

It was such a shame to have such a gorgeous polish brand in Turkey but not be able to find it domesticly...:( So finally, the guys at Catherine Arley decided to open an online store and I took advantage of it immediately... :)

You must have heard about CA holos. I did, too. So I went ordering the whole series (well, except the 2 nudes) to begin with...

They were really resonably priced and the shipment arrived the next day. :)

Here's what I got!!!

Yeah baby, all holos... :)

666 - 667 - 672 - 673

676 - 677 - 800 - 804

805 - 807

Well, I tried the red one first, #800, since it is the season for red... :)

Daylight

 And with my new Gals plates being delivered, it was inevitable for me to do this mani!!!

Oh, God, I've seen this design everywhere! It is my favorite design from the Gals sets so far and I've been waiting for this day to come for a month!!!!

Here's Gals 27 with Catherine Arley 800 (2 coats), stamped with Essie Good As Gold and topped with Catherine Arley Glitter topcoat 726... Just perfect!

By the way, Gals plates are really good quality. Look at the stamping... :)

Gals Princess and Fairy Plates

My Gals plates finally arrived!!!

Most of you already know but for those who don't know, Gals is the sister company of Cheeky... When I heard that they were coming with two set of plates, I knew I had to get them, because I'm highly satisfied with Cheeky quality... And I knew these would be the same...

Anyway, my order was from Amazon.com and arrived in 28 days exactly... Just in time for New Years... 

EDIT : Here's the Amazon link for those who would like to buy them!!!!
Gals Princess
Gals Fairy
Just a small note, international ladies like me, you have to click "2new" button under the price and get them from Cheeky. Fulfilled by Amazon choice does not send to all countries, but Cheeky does... 

Moving on to the plates...

They come in black boxes. Not as pretty as Cheeky's Vibrant or Summer collection boxes. But I will be putting them in my plates folder anyway, so the boxes are not that important...

Fairy and Princess Sets

Each box has 25 plates covered with blue plastic.

  

The backing of Princess plates are black and pink, while the backing of Fairy set is black and green...

Here are the images you'll get... The Princess Set is plates 1 through 25 and The Fairy Set is plates 26 through 50...

Princess Set

Princess Set

Princess Set

Princess Set

Princess Set

Fairy Set

Fairy Set

Fairy Set

Fairy Set

Fairy Set

It was impossible for me to try 50 plates so I randomly stamped a few and I can say that they stamp well. Classic Cheeky quality....

The only thing is; the full nail images seemed a little small when I first got them. When I measured them, they were 1,5 cm high and 1,3 cm wide. They look like they are the same as MASH plates but however, the halfmoon design makes them actually shorter. 

What I mean is, if you are not a halfmoon fan like me, you'll end up trying hard to make the images fit. Please note that I have large and long nailbeds... 

Other than that, I'm highly pleased with the quality and the variation of the images. Some of them look familiar but, hey, if you have 10 sets of plates, you cannot blame the company for duplicates, can you? LOL

And last but not least, here's a plate comparison I made for myself using all the plates I own. I measured each one and made this size chart for full nail images... Feel free to use it, but please give me credit if you share it or use it in your blog... :)