Retro Baby Pearls

Good morning everyone! It's Thursday already so the time is flying by, only two more days to pass and then it's weekend. For me the upcoming weekend also means vacation time and I'm really really really looking forward getting some rest, fun and sun.

Like you can see above today is another Bundle Monster plate design, this time from BM plate 19. The design looks kind of retro to me and I can imagine it looks really retro when you combine it with orange and muddy green. However, with the colours I chose it looks kinda futuristic. So it's a design you can do lots of different styles with.

My base colour is Ciaté Refresher, a great pale light blue. I stamped with China Glaze Sci-Fi, again from the Khrome Collection (cause we all know how awesome they are with konad stuff). After that I used the sweetest baby pearls every and placed them in the centre of the circle. My baby pearls are from the Dollar Nail Art store which is really awesome. I definitely recommend it to you if you're looking to start off with tiny amounts of glitter, rhinestones, foils and more.

That's it for today. Thanks for stopping by!

Striping Tape Part 2

Hi dear reader!

How was the start of your weekend? Mine started with a nail polish hunt in Germany, Oberhausen to be exact. I've spent my day in CentrO with Michèle and Daph and scored some nice goodies!

I've also tried something else with the striping tape. I've got a few tips and after spending a little time with it, this is the result:

The base colour is OPI's Ogre-the-Top-Blue and the striping tape is from Dollar Nail Art. I've also placed one baby pearl in the centre of each nail because I like baby pearls haha. My second try worked out a lot better but it's still not perfect. I'm a terrible picky person and I'd hate it when the striping tape is cut off too short, so now it's a little too long for my nails. I'm still trying to succeed having the perfect length of tape on my nails!

About Ogre-the-Top-Blue: perfect bright medium blue. Application was fine - at least better than Shrek and Fiona! Those were very streaky and I needed four (!) coats to even it all out. I'm wearing three coats in the picture. I'm also having a top coat issue, my OPI RapiDry gets all bubbly. :(

That's it for today. Have a great weekend!

Michelle

Striping Tape?

Hi dear reader!

Today I want to talk to you about striping tape. The tape I own comes from Dollar Nail Art - Natasja didn't used it so I took it because I wanted to try so bad. Everytime I see art with striping tape my heartbeat races, it can look soooooo good!

I've read about this on numerous sites and they all told me it was easy peasy. So I thought nothing could go wrong with clumsy me! Guess again... It's not because I'm clumsy or impatient, it's the tape that ruins it all! I seriously needed three coats of top coat to make it stick and after that it still looked kind of weird. Here's the result:

I used China Glaze - Liquid Leather as my basic black and the gems come from the Essence Nail Jewels set. It looks okay. The striping tape looks pretty good after the trouble I had from it but the gems are a little too much for me.

Do you have any experience with striping tape? Any tips or suggestions?

Have a nice evening!

Michelle

Tiny Two Sets Giveaway

Hi dear reader!

I've got some goodies to give! You're all very sweet and supportive and I want to thank you guys for that.



The first set includes Sleek - Mud Pie, Essence nail hardener, yellow topaz rhinestones and two sorts of golden stars.



The second set includes two Art de Lautrec polishes( 01B and 13B), gold laser lace and hyacinth coloured rhinestones.

The details:
1. Be a follower of my blog.
2. This giveaway is open international!
3. You can earn extra entries by: reposting this on your blog, follow me on twitter and tweet about it.
4. You can enter till the 10th of april, 11:59 pm CET.
5. I'll use the Hat program to decide the winner!

Don't forget to include your emailadress and your set preference in the comment!

Good luck and thanks again!
Michelle