Nail Mail Monday

Hello!

Welcome back to another nail mail Monday. I've got hauls from Rainbow Connection UK and Bundle Monster to show you today.

These pretties were all from Rainbow Connection UK.

From Left to Right is Fun Lacquer 'Royal Chapel (H), Colors by Llarowe 'Blonde Ambition' (mmm that holo!) and 'Rare Orchid', Lacquer Lust ' Cherry Blossom' and Femme Fatale Cosmetics 'Crystals from clouds' and 'Sleighing through the Stars' 

I was really happy with all these polishes especially the Femme Fatales, Sophie is really knocking it out of the park with her polishes. I can't wait to see what 2016 brings!

I also got some more stamping plates this week. These are two of the blogger collaboration plates I purchased from Bundle Monster, 201 and 202. I'm really looking forward to using 201 for Valentines and I love that Star design. I think the Aztec Manis on 202 will be coming out for the Summer this year! I also got the Sugar Bubbles Plate SBS09 from Rainbow Connection UK.

Last but not least I got some new Stampers to play with from Rainbow Connection UK. The new Space Creative Shop Stamper and the new Fab Ur Nails Clear Jelly Stamper.

The new Creative Shop Stamper is much squishier than the original and also has an even larger surface area! It comes in light and dark side shades each with four different colours. I picked light and dark both with a blue shimmer. I'm hoping to have a full review of these up soon!

This is the new Fab Ur Nails Clear Jelly Stamper and is to help with lining up your stamping either for placement or straightness as you can see all the way down the holder onto your nail. It's less squishy than the other stampers I own but I used it today and it stamps perfectly and it really did help straighten my stamping which I've always had trouble with. I can't wait to use it some more and again hopefully I'll have a full review up soon!

You can find Rainbow Connection UK here. I already have my next order placed which will be revealed next Nail Mail Monday!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Dance Legend - Anna Gorelova - 'Morocco' with Reverse Stamping

Hello!

Today I've got 'Morocco' by Anna Gorelova for Dance Legend to show you. Dance Legend is a Russian brand and Anna Gorelova is a Russian Blogger who collaborates with Dance legend to create beautiful polishes every summer and winter. This polish is from her Summer 2015 Collection. Anna also has some of the most beautiful photography in the nail blogosphere so have a look at her blog if you get a chance.

Natural daylight

'Morocco' is a deep but bright raspberry pink polish with holographic sparkles. It is so pretty and when the sun catches it, it really sparkles. It kind of has a metal-like finish which I really love. The formula was so smooth, this was three easy coats.

Lacquer Lust Cottontail - Natural Light

My accent nail is Lacquer Lust 'Cottontail'. I love this polish, especially when I'm looking for a shimmery white base for some nail art. Again three easy coats.

Indoor Lighting

This was my first reverse stamping technique attempt. Reverse stamping is where you pick up your stamping plate image, leave it to dry on the stamper and then 'colour it in' before peeling it off and laying it on your nails. It's like creating your own nail decals. The method I used was to stamp the image onto my Uber mat and then colour it in. The full technique I followed was from the lovely Helen at Cinderhellie nails. Check out her blog if your looking for a full tutorial on the method. I'm hoping to do a full post on the Uber mat once I've used it a bit more, but so far I'm loving it!

Indoor Lighting

I used the butterfly design on my Uber Chic Stamping plate 1-02 and my Creative shop stamper. I used Konad special black stamping polish and used HK Girl top coat for my decal and top coat.

Indoor Lighting close up

Natural Daylight - Shade

All the Anna Gorelova Dance legend polishes come in this beautiful bottle. The owl is such a cute touch!

Natural Daylight - Direct Sunlight

You can purchase the Uber Mat and Uber Chic stamping plates from Uberchic. They have such a great range of stamping plates and tools.

'Morocco' was from the wonderful Rainbow Connection UK who stock lots of Dance Legend polishes and everything else a nail addict needs!

Natural Daylight

I'm so pleased with how these turned out! Hopefully soon I can do a full mani of reverse stamping!

Have you tried reverse stamping? Any tricks and tips? Let me know in the comments!

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx

Lacquer Lust 'Cottontail' & 'Spring in your step'

Hello!

Welcome to my first blog post! Today I've got some beautiful Lacquer Lust nails to show you.

I've been drooling over these polishes for ages and finally made them mine this week. If you haven't heard of the Lacquer Lust brand it's an Indie polish from California. They're well known for they're unicorn polishes and more recently for their beautiful one coat creams.

This is one coat of spring in your step over three coats of lacquer lust cottontail. For my accent nail I used different coloured striping tape to compliment the glitter shades. All topped off with HK Girl top coat.

The cottontail polish has a beautiful shimmer to it. It dries matte but the top coat really shows off the shimmer. The glitter pay off from spring in your step is also really good. 

Thanks for visiting,

Have a lovely day,

Helen xx