Magnetic zebra traces

I am loving my animal print stamping plate by Essence! I used the stampy polish (by Essence too) which I always use for stamping purposes. The formula is extra thick so the prints are very clear. This nail polish is also inexpensive so if you don't know what nail polish to use for stamps.. Essence recommended!

What polish do you use for stamps?

Items used:
Essence nail art magnetics - #03 Magic wand!
Essence nail art stampy polish - #001 Stamp me! White
Essence animal print stamping plate

Review: Born Pretty dry dried flowers

Here is the second part of the Born Pretty review! If you haven't read the first part about the lace stickers, click here to go to that post.

Dry dried flowers
When you order this you get 12 different styles and colours of dried flowers. They are in individual clear jars with screw-on lids. Easy to open, easy to close. Born Pretty store says the combination of the flowers are determined by random selection. The design of each package may vary per kit, but you will always get 12 different flowers. If you really want a specific colour or flower you can always try to mention this in the comment box before checking out. The price for the 12 bottles is $7.08. So you could say one bottle costs $0.59 which is pretty reasonable in my opinion.

As you can see I received two different kind of flowers. The flowers with large leaves and the ones with ultra-small leaves. Each bottle contains three till five pieces of dried flowers. I think you will need tweezers for the small leaves because it's pretty difficult to take them up with your fingers. I used my nails to take them up and it was annoying. I don't have problems with the large leaves though. The flowers are very thin and they actually smell like flowers!

The flowers can be applied on natural and artificial nails. Here I used the small leaves to decorate the black tips (Essence - #85 Galactic black) on my natural nails. I applied them when the nail polish was still wet. After I applied the leaves I finished it with adding a glittery top coat (Essence glitter top coat) to set them.

I recommend these dry dried flowers for anyone who wants to add an elegant and unique touch to their nails. The small leaves might be a little struggle but otherwise it is not difficult to use them. Totally recommended!

Review: Born Pretty lace stickers

Yay, a review of Born Pretty store to start 2012 with! Born Pretty store gave me the opportunity to choose two items to review! I love nail art decorations but they have to be flat! I just can't stand 3D nails, I always tend to peel the 3D parts off my nails -___- So I chose white lace stickers and dry dried flowers. And today I'm going to review the lace stickers.

First of all I want to thank them for sending me these items! They are really kind and their service is great. Secondly, I want to compliment them because of the super fast shipping! I received the package in five days! I can tell you a shipping of five days from China to The Netherlands is really fast!

Lace stickers HL210
The price of the stickers is $3.66 which is totally inexpensive. First I thought it's $3.66 for one sticker sheet. When I opened my package I saw 10 pieces of stickers. I went crazy and thought: 'why do I get so many?!?' I went to their website and saw that it comes with 10 pieces in total. Lol, I'm so stupid that I overread that. So actually it's only 40 cents per sticker sheet. What a bargain!

At the back of the sticker sheet you can find a description in English and Chinese of how to use the stickers. You have to cut the stickers to fit your nails which might be a struggle sometimes. For me, one row is enough for four fingers. Too bad it's not enough for a whole hand but since it comes with 10 pieces I don't mind at all! In general they are easy to apply. But getting the stickers off might take more time. Overall I'm veryyyy satisfied with these stickers! Recommended!

Here I applied the lace stickers on top of Catrice - #450 Sand Francisco. They made my plain nails really more elegant! What do you think?

Click here to go to their store and here to go to this product. Follow me if you haven't yet and stay tuned for the dry dried flowers review!

Falling snow flakes

For this nail art I used a stamping plate from Born Pretty store.  I really like to use their stamping plates because they're easy and the prints are clear. Did you know they now offer stamping plates for only $1.55? Go visit their website here!

The time flies! I simply can't believe we're only one week away from Christmas. Too bad I haven't seen any snow in our country yet. Are you going to celebrate Christmas with presents, food and stuff? Cause I won't ):

Items used:
Gosh - # 547 Blue monday
Essence nail art stampy polish black
Born Pretty stamping plate m59

Floral stamping

My testweek is over yayy! It wasn't my best week though. Anyway, I have time again but I just broke the nail of my middle finger ): of both my hands! Cryyyy T__T

It's been a long time since I got short round nails. I cut all my nails short so all my nails are even. I really have to get used to it. I found it hard to decorate short nails but I think stamping is the best option. It's easy and you won't find a problem of the stamping print being too small for your whole nail. I guess you'll mostly find nail art for short nails in the next weeks until they've grown long again.

Items used:
Gosh - #003 Groovy grey (special edition)
Essence nail art stampy polish black
Born Pretty stamping plate m73

So what would you like to see on short nails?

Edit: A visitor asked me what nail polish I use for stamping plates. I use these Essence swatches which are specially for stamping purposes. Essence is an European make-up brand and is sold in de Dutch local stores. I don't have experience with any other stamping polish from other brands and I'm pretty satisfied with this brand.

Born Pretty's Twitter giveaway

Remember my post about Born Pretty having giveaways? There is a new giveaway already and there's a chance to win foil stickers! Born Pretty is going to host a giveaway on their Twitter on thursday 13 October. They are offering 1000 pieces of the foil stickers.

How to get the stickers?
1. Follow Born Pretty on Twitter and retweet this tweet about their giveaway.

2. Go to their website and find the foil stickers on the homepage.
3. Add the product to your cart and continue.
4. Choose non registered airmail which is free and paste the link of your retweet in the order comment.

5. Choose payment method (only Paypal available) and use the coupon FBREPLY2011. This coupon will be valid at 10 pm (New York time) 13 October. That's 4 am 14 October in the Netherlands and Belgium.

6. Check out. You don't have to pay anything! This is just to complete your free order.

Important: make sure you're one of the first 1000 people, cause they only give away to these first people!

Of course I'm going to enter this giveaway too! I already won the foil stickers once and I also tried them. But I failed ): I think this type of nail art can be very pretty once you applied them well. So I want to give it another try.

I hope you'll be one of the many 1000 people who are entering this giveaway too. Good luck!

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Born Pretty store

Bornpretty is an online store which sells all nail art related products for a reasonable price. The best thing is the free shipping!

They have regularly a contest where you can win different kind of items. So far I won the Hello Kitty stickers in the photo above, foil stickers and a Hello Kitty nail art plate. All free! Yes, also no costs for shipping! As I can remember, the Hello Kitty stickers were their very first promotion gift. After that they had other promotion gifts. Buttttt they gave people more chances to get the Hello Kitty stickers so they organized more contests where you could win the stickers again. Unfortunately, the contest for those stickers is over already. But stay tuned for more contests!

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Nail art fimo

Two weeks ago I ordered 100 pieces of nail art fimo at Ebay for $5. Cheappp! And I always wanted to try those so I ordered them :D They are so small and cuteeeeeee! I will try them as soon as all my nails are long again. The nail of my middle finger keeps breaking and breaking, it's annoying when your nails are long enough to do nail art except for one finger -___-" My nails are so boring now ): I will post the photos when I can finally use those cute fimo.

Also, the reason why my previous nails are from my right hand (normally I picture my left hand) is the short nail of my middle finger lol.