Zodiac stamping plate!What's your sign?

Do you believe in astrology? I am pretty skeptical about this but I must admit I fit in the pisces stereotipe good qualities: imaginative, kind, sympathetic and the bad ones too: secretive, indecisive, lazy.

This being said, I find a zodiac stamping plate a great idea, it has stars and constellations (my favourite subject for a nailart!) and you can make very personal and customize nailart with your sign, ascendant, or your partner one.


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This plaite is the Harunouta Nail Stamping Plate id code # 46677
The plate is made of high quality stainless steal which ensure the high quality of the product.
Deep and precise carving give  better stamping effect than normal stamping plates.
It has two images for each sign, one more stilized, just an outlined drawing and the other ones a full figure. It has the constalation for each sign and also some sky and universe related images.

For stamping I used BP-WT04 called "The noon sunshine". It is the perfect "blue Tiffany shade" a light blue with a touch of green. Very delicate and bright at the same time.

Here it is how it looks if used as a normal polish, still gorgeous!

Spider gel! So fun!

Hello!
Today I would like show a very unique product!
The company Born Pretty Store contacted me in order to try some brand new products on their collection.
I wanted to try the spider gels so I give it a go, they have it in many colours: silver, blue, white, gold red and black the one I got. The brand is Nicole Diary and the id code is # 46022.

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The product came in a pot with the brand name and the colour, It looks like a really thick gel, and then when you put a little toothpick or something in it, you can draw out a string of the stuff, and drape the gel on the nail. You can draw the finest lines and create geometric designs or you can create some random lines and your nails are instantly transformed in a modern art masterpiece.

You can use a dotting tool and when you took a bit of product it forms a line, it can be thicker or smaller depending of how much product do you use.

Almost an invisible line here. You can strecht it a lot.

It is a gel so you need a UV lamp to use it.
You have to use it over a cured base and a no wipe top coat, don't make the mistake I made to use it over a wet base (the lines will broke and flow, which an interesting effect but not the desired one).
I have decided to apply a no wipe soak off top coat over it.

Just before the spider gel decoration I used some iridescent # 41059 and crome flakies (id # 40147) from Born Pretty Store

I am really curious to try other colours, maybe the metallic ones

Marble effect, super easy with stamping!

Hello!
Marble trend is  a thing!
Marble design has been enjoying a moment in the design and fashion spotlight for a little while now.  Marble’s use in architecture, art, and design dates for thousands of years to early Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures.
The use of the marble stone has been reinventing from architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, art, homeware, and clothing to styling. Nothing material speaks sophistication and luxury as marble.
Nailartists also gave this new trend a try!

Italian architecture and sculpture is full of marble stone so I had plenty of inspiration.

Most marble stone nail art are handpainted. I have to be honest I had a lot of fun  hand painting marble stone on nails, it is one of my favourite free hand designs but it is very time consuming and you are never sure what really will it look like untill the end.

This year many brands created some stamping plates with botanical or natural designs and al least one or two were expecially made for marble designs.

When I saw on the Born Pretty Store online shop this stamping plate from Harunouta I thought I wanted to have it!
They were so kind to send me some product to test and show you.


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This plate is number L079 ID code is # 46675

You can get a 10% discount at @bornprettyofficial using my code RASX31

As you can see from the picture the plate has a wide range of patterns, 14 patterns that go from the famous water marble effect, to a geometric intricate lines design. Some of them remind me of modern art and paint dripping but most of them are prefect to layer and recreate marble designs with foliate veins and swirls for a naturally elegant manicure.
You can use different colours for endless possibilities, you can layer some of them to give your art some dimensions and variances.

I decided to use a delicate pink as base and then add some sheer white and some more pigmented white. As final touch I added some gold and rose gold veins.

I have made two versions one with a glossy top coat. The amazing No smudge top coat from Born Pretty Store.

And the other one with a matte top coat.

I hope you'll love this!

Magnetic sticks and how to use them!

Hello!
Today I want to show some simple design you can achieve with a magnet and a magnetic or cat eye polish!

The cat eye polishes are called like this because you can create a shiny strip down across the middle reminiscent of the piercing, beautiful eyes of a cat.

Magnetic polishes are a magical invention. With the power of a magnet, some pigments of the color are attracted to areas of the nail, and with movement and different viewing angles, shift colors and location on the nail for a futuristic 3D effect.

This is the most common effect for a magnet or cat eye polish, but with different kinds of magnet you can create many different nailart.

The company Born Pretty Store sent me two dueal ended magnetic stick to try.

The first one is a dual ended magnet stick for 3d effect.

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So this is the most bastic look you can create.

It gives a strong 3d magnetic effect and can be easly oriented to create the image that you desire.
No surprise it is a best selling on the Born Pretty online store!
It is long and easy to hold.
There is a rectangular magnet on one end, and a round magnet on the other. The side of the rectangle magnet can be used to create lines, while the round magnet can create more fluid wave and circle patterns (this is the best if you want to create a space nebula illusion).

The application is very fast and easy.You need of course a magnetic polish and then a darker polish as base. These kind of polish need a base, a darker base works better with them.

Hold the magnet over the nail for 10-15 seconds, without touching it to the surface of the nail.
You will see that the magnet creates a pattern in the polish color, due to the iron shavings in the polish moving in the presence of a magnetic field.


You can have a preview of the effect simply olding it over a magnetic nail polish bottle.
The polish is form the Pearlescent Cat Eye Nail Polish collection and the shade is BP-PM04 Lycoris Radiata.

For the ring finger I used the other end of the stick, the round one. I used it to create and S shape pattern that reminds me of a galaxy.

This round magnet creates a hole of dark colour in the polish, so you can use to create any round shape you want.

On the others two nails I used this other dual ended stick

On one end of the tool there is a flower shaped magnet.

This is how the desing look in the thumb

 On the other end there are 4 dots in a line.

For this one I wanted to try  to create an abstract pattern a sort of animalier  creating holes with the stick.

Last but not least I have created lines moving the stick across the nails for a few times.

Space nailart! With Born Pretty Store products

Hello!
Today I have a nailart for you!
I recently received some products from Born Pretty Store.

You can get a 10% discount at @bornprettyofficial using my code RASX31


I already talked about this magnific magnetic pearlescent nailpolish . the colour is  BP-PM04 Lycoris Radiata #45718. A beatiful grey with a touch of blue.

With this polish I used the cat eye dual ended magnetic stick

I thought this was the perfect base for a space nailart!
On 20 July 1969 the Apollo 11 landed at Tranquillity Base. Neil Amstrong made history by becoming the first person to walk on the moon. "If you believed they put a man on the moon".
I wanted to celebrate this important event with a space related nailart!

I recelntly bought this amazing stamping plate from Born Pretty Store Outer Space series plate number L001. It is so unique!
This plate is so whimstical, it has planets and the moon, kawaii desings of astronauts and even a cat and more artistic desings that feature space and stars, space background with animals.

I particularly liked the image of the wolf howling at the moon, on the middle finger it is in negative space and shows the cat eye blended effect of the polish and. On the pinky there is a similar design of a wolf in positive space but smaller.
 For the index and ring finger I choose some galaxies with planets and stars.

My favourite is the thumb:

A mountain surrounded by planets.

For stamping I used I used BP-WN03 black stamping polish.

As top coat I used the amazing No smudge Top coat. I really wanted to try this revolutionary product! And guess what!? big spoiler! It works! It does not smudge or ruin the stamping. Many top coats drag the staping polish ruining the image or making it dull. In fact I was avoiding using top coat on dark stamping polishes and for this reason the design chipped after a few days because the protecting layer was missing.
This top couat not only will add a shiny layer to your manicure but it will also protect it from chipping and make it last longer.

This top coat is also recommended for chrome/mirror polishes, holographic polishes and nail foil.