Kiko 336 - Royal Blue

Hi!

I've visited a Kiko shop in southern France on our holiday, a couple of weeks ago.
I've bought 6 really pretty polishes, and Kiko 336 is one of them...

Let's take a closer look...

Kiko 336 is a bright in-your-face royal blue which applied very easy. 2 coats give me perfect coverage.

Well... I got a lot of compliments, because I happen to have a jacket in this exact same colour and it matched perfectly together! ♥

Source: Google images

I'm actually more of a pink girl, but while I was wearing this polish I could not stop staring at my own nails... ALL THE TIME! :)

I'm glad I have 5 more polishes to test and swatch :)

Kiko is available in Europe, but unfortunately not in the country I live in (NL) :( and are often sold for €2,50 per bottle.

Do you have Kiko polishes in your stash? Do you like this colour as much as I do?

Thanks for reading!

My newest stamping plates... Yes I'm addicted!

Hi girls,

Recently I bought a couple of Born Pretty Store stamping plates, because of their nice and cute designs...

Let's take a look at the plates, shall we?

I bought this one because of the cute bows...

Isn't that lace cute?

I almost like all these designs :D

Hello Kitty...
I guess I'm her oldest fan *blush*

You can never have enough animalprints, can you? :D

Love the flower designs...

Aaaand more lace...

... some more lacey-designs :)

Ofcourse because of the Louis Vuitton-design (and also the 2 cute heart images)

Lace, animal print, flowers... *sigh*

These angled images are so cute!

I ♥ roses too...

Curly wurly designs... I ♥ them!

Aaahhh Aztec and the triangle-design!!!

I've actually tried only one plate, and that's probably the plate with the smallest designs: QA25 (click here).
So your nails have to be a bit shorter to fit them well.

These plates are available at Born Pretty Store for $2,99 each, but some of them are on sale now for $1,99 or $0,99!

And... what do you think about these plates? Do you have Born Pretty imageplates in your stash?

Thanks for watching!

China Glaze Textured Unrefined

Hi girls,

Today I'm wearing China Glaze Unrefined from the Textured collection...

I really like textured nailpolishes... I also have two textured polishes from Barry M (click here), but this polish has a bit more of a gritty texture than the Barry M polishes have. Their texture is a bit more fine...

I actually really like Unrefined because I like this texture better than Barry M's because it's a bit more rough...

And the colour is awesome! I'm a real girly-girl and a pink-lover ♥

I'm wearing two coats here with ofcourse no topcoat to keep it gritty and matte...

Recently, I bought a couple more textured polishes from OPI en Essence, which I will swatch later.

What are your thoughts of textured/sanding polishes? Do you like them or not?

Thanks for watching!

Review: Born Pretty Store stamping plate QA25

Hi!

That's a long time ago... I don't know why exactly, but I just felt not like blogging lately...

But here I am with a nail stamping post, yeeeyy! Also long, long time ago since I posted about stamping!

I've bought a lot of nailplates from Born Pretty Store lately, and I tested one out recently...

My zebra nails

QA25, I believe it stands for Quilty Addition, is a plate with 5 animalprint designs.

This is one of the plates I recently bought. What I didn't noticed, was that these 5 images are a bit smaller then the full nail images on the other QA-plates which I already own. 

Ah well... There's only one solution to make them fit my nails: cut them! SHORT!

What I did:

♥ 1 layer of my favorite basecoat: Orly Nailtrition

♥ 2 coats of OPI Bride's Bouquet

♥ 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat

♥ Black no brand-polish from "Action" + QA25 zebra design

♥ 1 coat of Seche Vite topcoat

As you can see on the picture above, the design is -despite the fact that I cut my nails real short- still too little/narrow to fit my thumb :(

The polish that I used is actually no stamping polish, but it is opaque enough to stamp with.
Unfortunately the design is not as crisp as I expected it to be, but the polish was worth trying :)

Next time I'll try a better polish to stamp with.

I'm not really used to designs that are that obvious as this is, so I didn't wore this manicure very long...

This stampingplate is available at Born Pretty Store.com for $2,99 but it is currently on sale for $1,99.

Do you already have some of the QA-plates in your stash?

Thanks for watching!

*  I purchased this stampingplate with my own money. *

OPI You're Such A Budapest + Born Pretty Store Glitter Stars

Hi!

The last couple of days I've been wearing a polish from the Europe Collection from OPI:

You're Such A Budapest

You're Such A Budapest is a lilac periwinkle shade. At first I planned on using it when my hands got a little bit more tanned, but I just couldn't wait, so I used it right away :)

Only thing is... I can't remember if I put on two or three coats...

Then, a couple of days later, my order from Born Pretty Store arrived :)
I ordered some falsh lashes and some glitter star stickers in silver:

You'll get 12 sheets for only $5,99! They adhere perfectly and with a decent coat of topcoat over it, they stayed on for more than 8 days! Great quality it is... The only downside is that they don't remove very well. 

I use lint free nailwipes and had to use much pressure and nailpolish remover to get the stickers off.

Nevertheless are they cute and worth it!

I liked this manicure that much that I wore it for over a week.

My nailroutine is:
♥ Orly Nailtrition (1 coat)
♥ Orly Bonder (1 coat)
♥ OPI You're Such A Budapest (2 of 3 coats)
♥ INM Out The Door (1 coat, and later after applying the stickers another coat on ringfingers and thumb)

How long do you wear your manicure most of the time?

Thanks for watching!

China Glaze VII

Hi!

Here I'm wearing an older polish from China Glaze, called VII from the Anniversary X Collection of 2007.

 China Glaze VII

VII is a brownish dark plum colour which sometimes (in some lighting) looks deep brown. I find it very classy. I'm wearing two coats here but if you're careful enough you can get away with one coat; it's very opaque. I also ♥ the fact that it is very glossy. Even after wearing it for a week it stays glossy!
How it that possible!?

I recently ordered VII with 50% discount (for about €3) and I really love this polish!

Although is is springtime in the Netherlands, the sun doesn't show up much and that's the reason I've painted my nails in a way darker colour than I normally would in this time of year.

Are you wearing springcolours yet?

Thanks for stopping by!

Golden Rose Jolly Jewels # 110

Hi girls!

Last week I bought a bunch of new nailpolishes which I will show you all soon...

Today I'm wearing this happy polish:

Golden Rose Jolly Jewels # 110

Jolly Jewels # 110 is a white milky based glitter polish with red metallic hexagons and small blue glitters.

I ♥ it!

The Jolly Jewels collection from Golden Rose contains 17 (!!) bottles of happy, festive glitterpolishes!
Aren't they cute?

I got myself two of these cuties; # 110 and # 115, which I will show you later.

Application was simple: two thin coats were enough to get an even and opaque look.

What do you think about these polishes? Do you have them in your stash?

Thanks for watching!