Lina Nail Art Supplies Make Your Mark 09 Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

 It has been years since I have purchased any Lina Nail Art Supplies stamping plates.  Apparently it was 2018 when I last posted any of their plates on my blog.  As you can image there has been quite a few releases in that time (including other products like nail polish) so when I went to make a purchase from Hit The Bottle I thought I would scroll through the Lina plates.  I have always been a huge fan of a few of their collections, one of which is the Make Your Mark collection.  I grabbed all the plates that are missing in my MYM collection so I will have plenty of swatches and reviews coming.  Starting with today.  Today we have the Make Your Mark 09 stamping plate to share with you.

Image from Lina Nail Art Supplies

When I was swatching Three Hearts Polish Lushess Lavender, I thought it would look amazing with some metallic stamping over the top.  My picture really doesn't do this justice.  It really looks so pretty in person.  I do wish that I also mattified the base colour too.  

  

This next mani was a collaboration with my daughter and her best friend.  They both said to do a neon rainbow and selected the zig zag image of the plate.  This was really fun to wear and made for some really easy nail art.  For my base I used polishes from Grace-full Nail Polish and stamped using Hit The Bottle's As Black As Night.

  

I am a huge fan of this plate.  I think there are some really awesome images (although I don't know if it's because I have been doing nails for such a long time or not but I feel like I have seen quite a few of these images before).  All that said I do love this plate and can see me grabbing it out again and again.  I really want to use those layered butterfly images.  Just need to work out what it is I want to do with them.  Let me know what you think I should do.

Uberchic Beauty Business Chic 02 Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

OMG!  Get excited people - I have nail done some nail art again!  Yay!  And bonus points for me that this isn't a press sample.  I do realise that lately I have been posting a lot of press samples but honestly my nail time isn't what it use to be and I do prioritise things sent to me over the things I purchase.  Anyway, a couple of months ago I purchased a bunch of plates from Hit The Bottle to help me get back into the swing of doing some nail art.  So I am kicking starting with Uberchic Beauty's Business Chic 02.

Image from Uberchic Beauty

One of the things that I have always loved about Uberchic Beauty is their full sized images.  They not only look great with a multicoloured base but they also look amazing just simply stamped over a base colour.  Really I should do more basic stamping when I am time poor.  Anyway, for this mani I used Emily de Molly Ugly Mood and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

  

  

When I first saw Three Hearts Polish Poppin' Pastel Collection I knew that I needed to use them in some nail art and now was the perfect time.  I love how this mani turned out.

  

I love this plate!  The plate is full of really awesome full sized images which I love and I know I will grab for this plate again and again and again.

The Business Chic 02 Stamping Plate is available now from Uberchic Beauty and Hit The Bottle.

MoYou London Trend Hunter 02 Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Happy Monday everyone (although maybe it is still Sunday where you are)...it's definitely Monday here in sunny Melbourne.  I am so happy that the weather is starting to warm up.  We had the announcement that we will remain in a Stage 4 lockdown for a couple more weeks and then the restrictions will slowly start to ease....providing that everyone does the right thing.  Keep your fingers crossed for me that our lockdown will be over soon.  Anyway, enough about that let's talk stamping plates - in particular MoYou London's Trend Hunter Stamping Plate.

Image from MoYou London

New polish plus a new stamping polish equals a gorgeous mani.  Polishes used are Emily de Molly Element Of Strange and MoYou London Black Knight.

With the warmer weather I have been kinda craving some brighter polish and what better way to do that than with a neon polish?  The neon polish is from Emily de Molly (my bottle isn't labelled and I can't remember what it is called), the white polish is Emily de Molly Bright Retreat, the black polish is MoYou London Black Knight, and the glitter is China Glaze Night And Slay (which if I was smart I should have taken sunshine pics so you could see the beautiful holo in all it's glory).

 

 

I love this plate.  I think there is so many options of manis that you can do with it.  Plus I am such a sucker for full sized images.

Trend Hunter 02 is available now from Moyou London.

What's Up Nails B051 I Just Want Sushi Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Today I have the last of the What's Up Nails that I was sent to review.  I have had a lot of fun and found some new favourites with these products.  I definitely can recommend both stamping plates and stamping polishes from What's Up Nails.  Let's take a look at the I Just Want Sushi stamping plate shall we?

Image from What's Up Nails

I love the dragon image on this plate so it was definitely the first thing I needed on my nails.  It is quite large which unfortunately meant I lost a fair bit of it on my nails but I do like the result still.  For my base I used Emily de Molly Fade Into Black, Moyra's White Foil Stamping Polish and their Gold Foil.  I then topped it all off with Hit The Bottle's Water Tight Top Coat.

I was considering doing a gradient with one of the scene images but I couldn't quite decide how I wanted to do it so I decided to use the little sushi image instead.  I mean you can't have a sushi plate and not use the sushi image can you?  For my base I used OPI Love Is On The Cards and Don't Speak and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

This plate isn't a favourite of mine but there are some great images for the theme.  It also stamps beautifully as well.

The I Want Sushi Stamping Plate is available now from What's Up Nails.

Hit The Bottle Stonewashed & Windswept Polish - Swatches & Review

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Let's kick today's post with a little bit of a spoiler.  Don't worry you won't be seeing anything today (although I am pretty sure if you go into the Polish Pick Up group you will see the polish) but I was sent the upcoming Polish Pick Up shade from Hit The Bottle.  Along with that I was also sent Electro Candypop (which you can see here) and Stonewashed & Windswept which I will be sharing with you today.

Stonewashed & Windswept is a pale grey with a warm blue tinge to it.  This polish can be worn as a regular polish or as a stamping polish.  How awesome is that?  I love a polish that is a two in one.  The formula is a little on the thick side (which obviously is better for stamping) but it applies easily when wearing it alone.  I used one coat for my swatch and stamped using Hit The Bottle's To Love Or Not To Love stamping plate.

I love this polish!  I'm not sure if I love it more as a stamping polish or a regular polish.  It's definitely awesome as both.  It also stamps beautifully over black and white.  I'm a huge fan!

Stonewashed & Windswept is available now from Hit The Bottle.

What's Up Nails B039 Geometric Trance Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Hello!  I feel like it has been ages since I sat down and blogged.  Really it hasn't been that long but I have been behind in painting my nails (life has been really busy that by the end of the day I either don't have time to do my nails or I just can't be bothered).  So to make up for lack of nail time I have had recently I spent the full day on Saturday swatching away like a crazy person.  I now about a hundred pictures to edit.  Yay for me!  Anyway, today I have the Geometric Trance Stamping Plate from What's Up Nails to share with you guys.

Image from What's Up Nails

I love this image!  I thought it would look cool with a really shifty base.  I love how this turned.  Next time I will definitely try it with a gradient base because that would look awesome too!  For my base I used Emily de Molly LE130 and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

                      

I actually had a couple of ideas for this next image.  I think even though it is really simple in its design that it has so much potential for some awesome manis.  For my base I used Color Club East Austin and double stamped using Hit The Bottle's Snowed In and As Black As Night.

I am a big fan of this plate.  There are some really great images on it (I do love geometric nails!) and I am excited to play with it some more.  The images all pick up and transfer well to the nails.

The Geometric Trance Stamping Plate is available now from What's Up Nails.

Moyra Stamping 88 Love Love Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Last year I welcomed some Moyra stamping plates into my collection and I fell in love with them!  So much so they all landed in my end of year favourites last year.  Now I have another one of their plates - the Love Love Stamping Plate to add to my collection and of course to share with you guys.

Image from Moyra

Technically my first time using this plate was when I was swatching the Neon Pink stamping polish from Moyra so I may as well pop that swatch in here too.  I do love this image.  I think it would look great over a glitter base or even with some lead lighting/reverse stamping.

When I sat down to do this mani I really hadn't decided which of the full sized images I was going to use but I am so happy that I went with this one.  I think it is so fun with the bright coloured background.  For my base I used Color Club Tic-Tac-Toe, Players Gonna Play, Schoolyard Crush, Extra Credit and All Dolled Up and stamped using Hit The Bottle's As Black As Night.

This image I absolutely love!  I think it would look amazing as a simple black and white mani.  In fact, that's what I had originally planned (or just using it as an accent nail in black and white).  At the last second I decided to use it over Emily de Molly Here We Go Again (because I have been dying to put this polish back on my nails).  I love how this image looks with this polish.

I am a big fan of this plate.  I really like the full sized images in particular and some of the smaller images are nice but as we know I don't really do small images.  All of the images stamp beautifully as well.

The Love Love Stamping Plate is available now from Moyra Stamping.  Don't forget to use my code TRACYMOYRA for a 10% discount on your order.

What's Up Nails B047 Everyday Is Caturday Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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The important questions in life - are you a dog person or a cat person?  I personally like cats better than dogs.  Don't take that to mean I don't like dogs because I do, I just like cats more.  We have two cats in our family.  Max and Sampi.  Both equally as adorable and have very different personalities.  Anyway, I am getting side tracked here.  Today I have the Everyday Is Caturday (which it very much is in my house) stamping plate from What's Up Nails to share with you.

Image from What's Up Nails

This first mani is kinda inspired by my cat Sampi.  She is a beautiful tortoiseshell cat with lots of black and browns/nudes.  She also has a similar looking face to the cat with the black patch on its face.    For my base I used Emily de Molly Faux Creme and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

Now you can't go past the magical caticorns can you?  Such beautiful magical creatures.  For my base I sponged on Pretty Serious Cosmetics Fluffykins, Bunny Foo-Foo, Doodlebug, Cutie Patootie, Little Duckling and Peachie Poo and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

I think this is a super cute plate but it's not one that I would grab for on a day to day basis.  It's just not my style.  The images themselves stamp beautiful.

The Everyday Is Caturday stamping plate is available now from What's Up Nails.

What's Up Nails B045 Simple Shapes Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Happy May everyone.  I feel like this month may be quite an interesting one but not necessarily in a good way.  But hopefully I am wrong.  Anyway, today I have another plate from What's Up Nails called Simple Shapes which as the name suggests is a plate full of simple shapes.

Image from What's Up Nails

For this first mani I couldn't go past the zig zags/chevrons.  I think these types of patterns are some of my favourite types to wear on my nails.  I kept it nice and simple but OMG I love this mani!  I wore it for few days because I simply didn't want to take it off.  For my base I used Grace-full Nail Polish Blue Oasis and stamped using What's Up Nails Jay For A Day.

I was in a bit of a nail funk the day I did this mani.  It was one of those days where I needed/wanted to do a new mani but had no clue what to do.  I couldn't decided if I wanted something simple or something a little more 'fancy', some bright or dark, glitter or no glitter....anyway I eventfully went for Color Club Modern Pink, Emily de Molly Bright Retreat, China Glaze I'd Melt For You and A-England Merlin.  I LOVE this mani and think it will be staying on for a few days.

While this isn't the type of plate that I would normally gravitate towards I actually love it!  Yes you can do some really fancy stuff with it (think like gradients and layering) but I really love it for the simplicity of the designs.  I can see me grabbing for this a fair bit.

The Simple Shapes stamping plate is available now from What's Up Nails.

What's Up Nails Mixed Stamping Polishes - Swatches & Review

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After a few not so happy blog posts about What's Up Nails stickers (if you haven't seen those posts then long story short - the colours are really cool but the stickers don't stick on my curved nails so I personally can't recommend them) I have some awesome things to talk about - their stamping polishes!  I was lucky enough to be sent eight of their stamping polishes in a few finishes and I am so impressed!  Like with my other stamping polish posts I have stamped each polish over a white base and a black base so that it hopefully gives you an idea how each of these perform over light and dark polishes.  Stamping image is from What's Up Nails Geometric Trance.

Buff Is The Stuff is a beige creme stamping polish.  I love this one!  I think the colour is fantastic and it stamps beautifully over both white and black.

Fab Cab is a yellow creme stamping polish.  Again this is an awesome stamping polish.  It's great over both black and white.

Hotter Than Red is a metallic red stamping polish.  This is definitely so much better in person than in my swatch.  It is a stunning red!  While it stamps well over both black and white I do prefer it over the white.

Jay For A Day is a blue creme stamping polish.  Seriously love the colour of this one!  It doesn't look the greatest over black but OMG it is amazing over light colours (especially blue!  You'll see that mani soon).
   

Purrple Kitty is a purple creme stamping polish.  Seriously in love with this one too.  Again, it's not the greatest over black (definitely not terrible) but it's so good over white.

Roses Are Gold is a rose gold metallic stamping polish.  This is absolutely stunning both over white and black.

Silver Ag-ent is a silver metallic stamping polish.  You can't go wrong with silver stamping polishes and this one is awesome.

Sundae Topping is a dark brown creme stamping polish.  I'm not particularly a fan of this colour over black or white (personal taste) but it is definitely a great brown for certain types of nail art.

I love What's Up Nails stamping polishes!  They have a great range of colours and finishes and they stamp beautifully.  You can purchase their stamping from the What's Up Nail website.

Uberchic Beauty Business Chic 01 Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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I'm back with the second new plate from Uberchic Beauty.  *Spoiler alert* I love Business Chic 01 just as much as I love Simply Organic (which if you haven't seen that plate then I recommend checking out my blog post here that I did the other day - serious love for this plate).  These types of plates that are predominately full sized images are always a favourite of mine and Business Chic 01 has some really awesome images on it. 

Image from Uberchic Beauty

While I think these images would look amazing with some multi coloured backgrounds or some fancy stamping I just can't help but go simple.  I don't know what it is about simple stamping (think like black and white manis) but there is something so magical in the simplicity.  Anyway, for this mani I used Emily de Molly Save Your Boredom (perfect polish for quarantine) and stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.  I am in love with this mani!  I wished I took more pictures of it in the different lighting so you could see all the colours that it shifts to.

As I mentioned before I think these images would look awesome a multi coloured base so I thought I would do a nice neon gradient.  For my gradient I used China Glaze Flip Flop Fantasy and Thistle Do Nicely.

I love this plate.  There are sooooo many awesome images.  I already have some more mani ideas for this plate.   Now just for some extra nail time...

The Business Chic 01 Stamping Plate is available now from Uberchic Beauty.

What's Up Nails B045 Sprung On Spring Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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I'm back with another stamping plate from What's Up Nails.  This time it's the Sprung On Spring plate.  This plate is perfect for Easter that is literally just a couple of days away now (great excited for all the chocolate) but it's all full of some other pretty images that are great for any time of the year.

Image from What's Up Nails

I'm not sure if this is something I have ever shared or not but I love butterflies and butterfly nails!  I don't think I have a single butterfly stamping plate in my collection that I haven't used.  So naturally I just had to use this pretty butterfly image.  It has been a loooooong time since I have pulled out any tinted polishes so I broke them out again.  For my base I used China Glaze I'd Melt For You (for something different other than using a white base - although a white base would have been awesome!) and sponged on OPI Chromatic Orange, Purple Perspective, Turquoise Aesthetic, Pen & Pink and Primarily Yellow.  I stamped using Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.

With Easter coming up I couldn't skip over the cute little Easter image.  I'm not sure if the second image I used for this mani is actually meant to be like an Easter egg or not but I think it works perfectly for the look I was going for.  For my base I used China Glaze Spring Jungle, Barre Hopping, Casual Friday, Water-falling In Love and Spring In My Step (over Emily de Molly Bright Retreat) and stamped using Hit The Bottle Snowed In.

This is such a pretty little plate.  I like that it has a little bit of Easter designs but it also has a lot of images that can be used any time in the year.  I had no issues with how these images stamped.

The Sprung As Spring stamping plate is available now from What's Up Nails.

What's Up Nails B015 Geo-Radical Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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If you follow me on Instagram than you will have seen that What's Up Nails have sent me a huge package of goodies to play with.  Be prepared for lots of What's Up Nails manis and blog posts from me over the coming weeks.  Starting today.  Today I have the Geo-radical Stamping Plate to share with you guys.  Let's take a look shall we?

Image from What's Up Nails

I love this image so it was the first thing that needed to go onto my nails.  For my base I used Emily de Molly Bright Retreat and did some free hand triangles using Pretty Serious Cosmetics Poppet and Bunny Foo Foo.  

This next mani was a complete fluke and I am in love with it.  I started with a gradient using Color Club All Fun And Games, Out Of Your League and Friend Zone and stamped using Hit The Bottle Black As Night.  I had originally planned on just using the one image on all my nails but then ended up using four different ones and I am obsessed with how this turned out.  I've never done a mani using completely different designs but I think I want to attempt to do it some more.

I love this stamping plate!  I think all the images are awesome and they stamp beautifully.  I can't wait to use this plate some more!

The Geo-Radical Stamping Plate is available now from What's Up Nails.