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.

What's Up Nails Botanical Garden Stickers (Pink & Holo) - Swatches & Review

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Happy Monday everyone!  I hope the weekend was good to you.  This week is my first full week of remote learning/home schooling or whatever you want to call it with my daughter so let's hope it goes nice and smoothly.  Anyway, today I have the last of the What's Up Nails stickers to share with you.  This time I have the Botanical Gardens stickers in Pink and Holo.

Image from What's Up Nails (Holo)

Image from What's Up Nails (Pink)

If you saw my other post with the other What's Up Nails Sticker (you can see that here if you aren't too sure what I am talking about) then you will know that I have trouble with stickers actually sticking to my nails.  With that in mind I thought I would have more success using a small solid sticker.  I tried sticking them in different spots on my nails to see if that made a difference.  I think the result was a little better but they still don't stick done fully.  I do love the colours in these stickers and would love a polish that was like this so I could paint my nails fully with it.  For my base I used OPI Suzi Shops & Island Hops.

I love these holo stickers!  The holo of them is insane!  Sadly I didn't have to correct weather for these babies so you will just have to trust me when I say that the holo is insane!  As you can tell from my picture these leaves do not stick to my nails at all.  I even tried to stick it down with a sticky base.  Polish used is Grace-full Nail Polish Mintie.

 I really wished that these stickers would have worked for me because the colours are so pretty.

The Botanical Gardens Stickers are available now from What's Up Nails.

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 Dripping Flames Stickers (Blue & Orange) - Swatches & Review

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It has been a loooooooong time since I have used any form of sticker, vinyl or decal on my nails (I don't even recall the last time I have done it).  What's Up Nails sent me some their stickers to try.  I was sent two colours of the Dripping Flames stickers (which I will be sharing with you today) and two colours of the Botanical Garden stickers which will share in a few days.  

Image from What's Up Nails (blue)

Image from What's Up Nails (orange)

You can't have orange flames and not use those can you?  I love these colour and shift of these stickers and I think they look really cool but they just don't work for my curved nails.  I'm not sure if you can really tell with this particular mani (but you can definitely tell in the next mani) but these don't stick fully to my nails.  My nails are curved which is usually the issue but these stickers may be a little too ridge or maybe not sticky enough for them to stay on.  I used two really thick coats of Seche Vite for this mani.

I really like the colour of these stickers.  I wished that there was some magical polish (and not a gel related product) that I could have this colour and shine as a full mani.  That would be amazing!  As you can see by my mani I couldn't get these stickers to stick to my nails at all.  Again, I'm not sure if it because of the curve on my nails, the stickers are too ridged or they aren't sticky enough.  Perhaps it's a combination of the three.  For my base I used China Glaze Born To Rule.

I really want to like this stickers but sadly they don't work well for me.  They do look cool and the colours are awesome so if you have flat nails then you might have more success than I did.

The Dripping Flames Stickers are available now from What's Up Nails.

Uberchic Beauty Simply Organic Stamping Plate - Swatches & Review

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Uberchic Beauty are back with some new stamping plates.  Spoiler alert - I love them both!  I haven't even started playing with one of them yet but it is definitely right up my alley.  I will have that plate on my blog very, very soon.  Today I have the Simply Organic Stamping Plate to share with you.

Image from Uberchic Beauty

This plate has so many awesome designs that I really didn't know where to begin or what to do first.  The images scream gradients, and lots of colour but I thought why not go nice and simple to begin with and let the image do the talking.  For my base I used Emily de Molly Fade Into Black and Powder Perfect Gold Stamping Polish.  I also added Picture Polish G'day Matte just to finish off the look.

I couldn't resist neons with this plate!  For my base I used Emily de Molly Bright Retreat and dry brushed using Orly Glowstick, Beach Cruiser and Skinny Dipping.  Stamping is done with Hit The Bottle As Black As Night.  I didn't add any top coat to this mani because I love how it looked without it.  It's definitely a favourite mani of mine!

I think all of the images on this plate are so cool!  I am beyond excited to keep playing with them.  There are soooooo many different ideas and ways to use this plate.

The Simply Organic 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.

Dance Legend Binary Fall 2019 (Part) Collection - Swatches & Review

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Daylight Savings ended for us on the weekend and I'm struggling to adjust to how dark things are at the moment.  That probably doesn't have anything to do with Daylight Savings but more the fact that we have had cold and wet weather for the last few days.  It's been getting so cold that I have had to turn our heater on already.  Definitely not looking forward to winter.  But with the colder weather I am kinda liking the idea of breaking out some of the darker polishes....or these types of colours from Dance Legend Binary Fall 2019 Collection.

LE25 Ella is described as a greyish beige creme with a green undertone.  I like this colour in the bottle but I am not convinced I like it on my nails.  Maybe with some nail art over the top it would be better for me.  With that said the formula is fantastic!  You could get away with using one coat but I used two coats for my swatch.

LE26 Inessa is described as a dusty olive green creme with a beige undertone.  This one is definitely much better on me and perfect for the cooler weather.  The formula is fantastic and is close to being a one coater.  I used two coats for my swatch.

Both of these polishes are good polishes and the formulas are fantastic.

The Binary Fall 2019 Collection is available now from Dance Legend.