Snowflakes

Nothing says winter themed manicure like some snowflakes, last year I did two snowflake manicures this one, which was OK, and this one on Christmas day, which I absolutely loved.

I was hoping to sort of recreate the one I loved but I could not for the life of me find which plate I used (I've since worked it out and added a note to the blog post from last year) so I ended up using a combination of two other plates, BM-H02 from their recent holiday collection and HB23 a Bunny Nails Plate which you can see HERE.

I don't mind how it's turned out, I love the colours but would prefer different snowflake positioning, I'd say it's better than my initial attempt but not as good as last year's Christmas day version which I loved.  Still quite pretty though.

I used a white nail art pen to stamp the snowflakes, here's a quick shot of the plates:

Funny Bones

More Halloween nails today, this time a skeleton theme...

 

 

I used a white nail pen to stamp with as I find it gives the most opaque white colour for stamping.

 

I used two different plates, both of which I purchased from Bunny Nails, you can read about them HERE.

 

Here's a close up of the plates I used:

 

 

I'm pretty impressed with these plates and how well they stamp my one issue is that the images are quite big for my nails, my nails are particularly short at the moment but even if they were a bit wider I would struggle to fit a lot of them on.  If you don't have tiny dinky nails they're fab though.

Candy Canes!

Another Christmas manicure, and this one is probably not anything new, there have been versions of it all over the web lately.  I decided to make mine slightly different by accenting the regular candy cane nails with a little stamp.  I also cheated a bit and stamped my stripes using a Bundle Monster plate as my free hand stripes would have been a disaster:

 

First off, a festive shot with the tree:

 

I used the same combo of Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Blood Orange and Models Own Scarlet Sparkle that I used last week to create the red base, this works amazingly well and you only need one coat of each to get a really bright sparkly finish.

For the white stripes and stamping I used the polish from a cheap nail art striper that I got in Spain, no idea of the brand, sorry!

I love how this turned out, especially when you catch it at certain angles under bright light and the glitter really pops through the matte white stamping.

Stamped Snowmen

This month of Christmas manicures is really not going how I had planned it, I had another disater last night which left me at 10pm with naked nails after three attempts at various different ideas I had.  By the time I'd had three goes and it got to 10pm I was not in the best of moods so I decided to do a super quick one coat paint job and stamp on top, this is the result:

 

 

 

One coat of Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine in Blue Plum and stamping with barry M Silver Foil. 

 

Blue Plum is definitely being relegated to the stamping only pile from now on, the colour is nothing special and the tip wear is horrible (this time it's definitely tip wear and not the fault of Seche Vite as I used No7 topcoat) but it does gain points for being fully opaque in one coat.

 

 

 

I used another Bunny Nails HD plate (HD10 this time) for the stamp, again, as with the others I've tried, this plate stamps beautifully, I can't wait to try out Santa and the reindeer next.

 

 

So, again, not my most succesful set of nails but considering I did them in about 20 minutes fairly late on last night they turned out not too bad, let's just hope Blue Plum hasn't stained my nails too badly, it looks like it might have the potential to!

Christmas Baubles

This is another Christmas themed manicure, and sadly another manicure which didn't turn out as I'd hoped.  I applied this in a mad rush on my way out and looking back a bit of planning might have made the difference.  The idea was for the baubles to look like they were nestled on a Christmas tree, the end result wasn't quite so pretty...

 

First off the plates I used; Bundle Monster 225 and Bunny Nails HD07 (two versions):

 

 

Both the Bunny Nails plates have baubles which you can layer over each other, the plain circle first and then the cut out version over the top, sadly I am not quite coordinated enough to manage it as the pictures demonstrate.  The right hand is not too bad, although it's far from my best stamping work.

 

 

The left hand looks more like some sort of Chinese decoration, I think, and the double stamping of the baubles definitely needs some work.

 

 

So, not the most successful of Christmas themed stamps so far but at least now I have a better idea of what to do next time.

Bunny Nails - HD Plates - HD06 - HD10

Today I have part two of my recent haul from Bunny Nails eCrater store.  This is set two from the HD series, plates 6-10.  The HD series features holiday themed designs like Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas. The second set focuses mainly on Christmas with a Thanksgiving completing the set, the only one from the collection I have tried so far.

 

On to the close ups!  Again I have left the protective film on the plates in these photos, that needs to come off before stamping.

As an added bonus with this set you get 2 free plates, as far as I know they are ones which Bunny wasn't totally happy with and so had remade, they are duplicates of two of the other plates with a few small difference, mainly the size of the images (most are too big for smaller nails).  I'm sure there are some I can make use of though and really who doesn't love a little bonus freebie?

I am so glad these were in stock and arrived before Christmas, there are so many cute designs I want to use over the holiday period.  Look out for a selection of them coming to the blog soon.

I have already used the Thanksgiving themed plate, which you can see here.  It stamped beautifully and if the quality is the same across all the plates I'll be delighted, it was so easy to work with.

As with the other times I ordered from her Bunny Nails' service was great; good prices, great communication and fast shipping considering they come from the other side of the world. So if you're looking for something to do your spooky themed or Christmas stamping manicures with then I suggest you check her store out.

Bunny Nails - HD Plates - HD01 - HD05

Today I have part one of my latest haul from Bunny Nails eCrater store plates 1-5 from her HD series.  The HD series features holiday themed designs like Halloween, Thanksgiving & Christmas.  The first set focuses mainly on Halloween.

 

 

I WISH these plates had been delivered in time for Halloween in the UK, I don't think I can wait until next year to use the designs, they are so cute!  Thankfully, as well as being suitable for Halloween a lot of them are just generally spooky themed and could be used all year round.  I can definitely feel a zombie manicure coming on at some point in the future...

 

Now, on to some close ups of the plates!  They still have their protective film on for now, I find them a bit easier to take photographs of that way.

 

 

The final plate in this set is the first Christmas themed one and will definitely be getting an outing very soon, I can't wait to try the little stag and the snowflakes.

 

 

I've yet to use any of the plates from this set but I have tried one from the other half of the series (HB06-HB10) and it stamped beautifully so I have high hopes that the rest are of similar quality, I'm sure they will be.  Obviously I will report back as soon as I have tried them out.

 

As with the other times I ordered from her Bunny Nails' service was great; good prices, great communication and fast shipping considering they come from the other side of the world.  So if you're looking for something to do your spooky themed or Christmas stamping manicures with then I suggest you check her store out.