Another Nail Mail

I received my package from my friend Michele a long time ago, but since I was neglecting my blog for some time (I know, I'm guilty as hell) I just had the opprtunity to post...

Well, Michele is known for preparing the best swap packages in the world, ever!!! And she is such a wonderful lady, she accepted to mule some lemmings for me as well...

Here's the whole package!

Let's start with the polishes...

Zoya Awaken Collection Dillon, Monet and Rebel...

Pizie Dust London! Long time lemming...

A classic for nail art lovers, OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls...

Magical Pixie Dusts!!!! Cosmo, Vega and Lux!

La Bella Vernices Michele muled for me... Feeling Shameless and When the Stars Go Blue...

An Iphone cover with my name on it!!! Awsome!!!! I loved this one!!!!

Yummy chocolate!

Magnetic notepads...

Stationary for my daughter...

Another muled item, my Pueen plates...

And another stamping plate. Cheeky European Romance!

I loved everything about this package!

Thank you again Michele... <3

Pueen Stamping Buffet Plates

Thanks to my wonderful friend Michele, I am now the proud owner of Pueen Stamping Buffet Plate set...

The set consists of 24 round plates. They come in this gorgeous pink case.

The plates are covered with our old friend "the blue plastic". :) The back is coated, so you don't accidently cut yourself, which I have before, and believe me, it hurts like hell...

What is different in this set is, there are not single images. The whole plate is one big image so you get to pick which part to use. This is great for two reasons; one, you have an endless choice of patterns and two, it doesn't matter if you have long nails or nubbins, the images will surely fit.

Here are the plates...

"posh" ???? Love it!

This is the only plate that doesn't make sense to me...

These flowers are huge!

Awsome!

That is one huge chick! :)

That girl is so lovely!

As you can see, some images are fairly big for people with small nails. Even I won't be using some of them, and I have chubby thumbs... LOL But still, the images are nice and I like most of the patterns... :)

The images are etched nicely, I haven't had any problems picking them up, like all my Pueen plates.

What do you think? Will you be buying this set?

Welcome Spring - Week 3

Hi!

I am late to post my Spring mani for week 3, I know... Nowadays I just can't find time to finish my daily chores... I blame spring for this... I feel teribbly tired and I'm having a hard time getting up. More time in bed means less time for manis and blogging... I just wish days were longer... :D

Anyway, for week 3, I decided giving freehand roses another try. Do you follow Paulina's Passions? She does incredibly beautiful freehand rose manicures and I really love them. I tried to make some roses according to her tutorial and I really liked the outcome... :D

I started with 2 coats of Essie First Timer.

Then I stamped some lines using OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls. The stamp is Gals GA21. As you can see, my nails are at their longest these days (thank God). So the Gals images hardly fit on the tips... Well, since I was going to cover them, I did not care... :D

And here comes the challenge!

I grabbed my daughters dear acrylic paints and started making my roses. I used dotting tools. I know they are not perfect, but from a distance, they look like roses... LOL

And here is an awkward hand pose to show my thumb... Honestly, I loved how the thumb turned out.

Golden Rose 113

Nudes seem t atract me nowadays... Normally, I don't prefer nudes, but I notice myself looking at manis with nude bases, even I'm starting to like the nail trend where you make designs only on clear basecoat, you know what I mean?

Anyway, here's today's mani.

This is Golden Rose 113. I bought it, because it looked like a very light grey on the web page. But it turns out that it is a very light taupe, or mushroom color...  Not to bad for my taste...

I have two coats on. The application was easy. It gets streaky on the first coat but second coat was self leveling.

The image is from Cheeky Jumbo European Romance, by the way...