Polish My Life - Classic Cremes Collection Winter Edition

Hi all!

It's about time I finally wrote this post. A while ago I read this review by Peachy Polish about the Classic Cremes Collection Winter Edition by Polish My Life. It's not often that I read a polish review which makes me want to order an entire collection right away. This one did. These are my first PML polishes and they are Ah-ma-zing. For me they're nearly 1-coaters and they stamp beautifully as well!

I'll show you two mani's I did with these in the past month as a lovely palette cleanser.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Vail 
• Polish My Life - Tahoe
• Polish My Life - Telluride
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

And I used Born Pretty Store stamping plate BPL-029 item 21815.

Base: 2 coats of Vail (if you have smoother nails than I do you could get away with one thick coat). Next I stamped a rose image with Tahoe first and Telluride next. Clearly they are amazing stamping polishes as well! Ended with my favourite top coat Elemental Ward.

It's very subtle, but I love it anyway. Felt very sophisticated.

Onto my second mani with the remaining polishes from this collection.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life -  The Rockies
• Polish My Life - The Alps
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of The Rockies (again 1 coat is possible with smoother nails than mine). With a nail art brush and The Alps I added roses. Elemental Ward last of course.

All in all, pretty good introduction to this indie brand, rather refreshing to see lovely cremes for a change. Also, packaging was lovely as you can see here. Have you tried any Polish My Life polishes? What do you think?

Born Pretty Store kindly gave me a discount code to share with you all! If you use code BBL91 you get 10% off your purchase! You can find their nail art products here! And they offer worldwide free shipping!

Love, Brethil

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - New Year

Hi all!

Quick post... hope you had a lovely Christmas! I know I did! Anyway, New Year means sparkles... hence a holo glittery gradient for this week.

Polishes:

• Cien - 7 Frenchlook Rose
• China Glaze - 551 Fairy Dust
• Essence - LE Superheroes - 04 Super, Man!
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of Frenchlook Rose to hide my discoloured nails and make it appear like I've got naked nails underneath the gradient. Next I added one coat of Fairy Dust. Then I sponged on Super, Man! to create the gradient. Add Elemental Ward and done.

I love the sparklies!

I thought this was rather sparkly... but an order from L13L came in the mail last Thursday (when I was wearing this mani) with a new and even sparklier polish... watch the sparkly here.

Love, Brethil

More New Year related mani's down here!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas

Hi all!

It's only a week until Christmas! Time goes so quickly, and I never seem to have enough of it. Today's mani started out differently... but the peelable base coat and my nails don't mix. Must be nail chemistry doing it's work, because the polish on my index fingers popped off within 2-3 hours after application. This was all before I actually started on any nail art... the rest I lost within the next 24 hours after application. Also, Go Elf Yourself! used to be a white crelly... but that was 2 years ago. Some green glitters have bled their colour into the base, hence it's now soft green.

Polishes:

• Lekker Lacquer - Go Elf Yourself!
• Essence - 159 the green and the grunge
• China Glaze - 1198 Running In Circles
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward
• Ünt - Ready For Takeoff (peelable base coat)

Base: 3 coats of Go Elf Yourself! except for my index finger, that's one coat of green & grunge with 1 coat of the CG.  I added top coat before I added the gold stickers (item 10481 over at Born Pretty Store). Then more top coat.

Born Pretty Store kindly gave me a discount code to share with you all! If you use code BBL91 you get 10% off your purchase! You can find their nail art products here! And they offer worldwide free shipping!

Love, Brethil

More Christmassy nails down here!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Winter

Hi all!

I'm back with a Winter mani. And winter means snowflakes. I love snowflakes, they are so pretty.So it's no surprise I took this as an excuse to wear snowflakes. The weather here hasn't been that cold (not freezing) here at all.

Polishes:

• Sinful Colors - 101 Snow Me White
• NYC - 032 Blanco
• Barry M - Gelly - GNP21 Sugar Apple
• Gothic Gala Lacquers - Greyscale
• Born Pretty Store - #18 (item 22338)
• Lucky 13 Lacquer

I used two different stamping plates for my snowflakes this time. VL006 by Vivid Lacquer and Festive Collection 02 by MoYou London.

Base: 1 coat of Snow Me White as undies for 1 coat of Blanco (Blanco needs 3 coats to be opaque and this way is faster). Next I started stamping. First with Sugar Apple and my VL006 plate. Then with Greyscale and the MoYou plate and finally with Born Pretty Store stamping polish and the MoYou plate. Finally a coat of Elemental Ward to seal it all in.

I really like the subtle layer underneath, it's barely visible, but still...

Born Pretty Store kindly gave me a discount code to share with you all! If you use code BBL91 you get 10% off your purchase! You can find their nail art products here! And they offer worldwide free shipping!

Love, Brethil

More wintery nail art down here!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Flakie Mosaic

Hi all!

I'll keep it short, because I'm late with this post. Must not leave mani's to create at the last minute... Anyway, this week we have double prompts! Everyone has the Glitter Topper or Flakie prompt, and my personal one is Mosaic/Stained Glass. Flakies and Mosaic it is.

Polishes:

• I Love Nail Polish - A.C. Slater
• Foxy Paws - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
• Catrice - Million Styles LE - C04 Shake It! Flake It
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Gamma Burst
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Supernova
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Aurora Borealis
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of A.C. Slater. Using a striping brush and Gimme I divided my nails in fragments. Next I used a nail art brush to fill in some of the fragments with the different flakies, but leaving some bare to show the base. Ended with top coat.

I absolutely love flakies. They make your nails so much fun to look at.

Do you love flakies as well?

Love, Brethil

Be sure to check out the other ladies down here!

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Cartoons and Comics

Hi all!

So this week's theme is Cartoons and Comics. My inspiration comes from the logo of Brainfreeze Coffee 'n Comics, which is opening in Sint Niklaas, Belgium tomorrow. As the name suggests it is a comic store combined with a coffee place, owned by a friend of mine. Of course I'll be going today/tomorrow to attend the grand opening day and have a good coffee.

The Polishes:

• Sinful Colors - 101 Snow Me White
• Catrice - 030 My Café Au Lait At Nôtre-Dame
• Catrice - 400 Blue Cara Ciao
• NYC - 294 Lexington Yellow
• Essence - 114 fame fatal
• W7 - 54 Roast Chestnut
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Dark Matter
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of Snow Me White. I made the superhero as a decal. Everything was done with a nail art brush and the polishes listed above.

I wish my friend the best of luck with his new business, and if you're ever in the neighbourhood, go visit it!

Love, Brethil

The Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Monochrome - Greens

Hi all!

My third monochrome mani is in all greens. I love greens personally and really enjoyed wearing this, I wore for 6 days....

Polishes:

• Catrice - LE Hip Trip - C02 Green Days
• Catrice - 10 I'm Not A Greenager
• Essence - 160 deep sea, baby
• China Glaze - 1300 Grass is lime greener
• China Glaze - 1198 Running in circles
• Lucky Lacquer - Elemental Ward

And I used a Born Pretty Store stamping plate, plate BPL-027 (item 21813).Yes, again. But this time I made decals with the stained glass like image, bottom row, second from right.

Base: index and little finger: 2 coats of I'm Not A Greenager topped with 1 coat of Running in circles. Other nails have 3 coats of Green Days as a base. My decals were stamped with deep sea, baby and then I used the other greens to fill in some blank spots. I spent quite some time on making these decals, had to have enough for both hands... I added the decals to my nails with a still drying top coat underneath to get them to stick. Then I added another layer of top coat to melt them in.

Up close you can see some minor air bubbles, but there were not visible really.

Born Pretty Store kindly gave me a discount code to share with you all! If you use code BBL91 you get 10% off your purchase! You can find their nail art products here! And they offer worldwide free shipping!

How do you feel about green polishes?

Love, Brethil

More monochrome mani's

40 Great Nail Art Ideas - Grey + Colour Scales

Hi all!

Another week with double prompt. When I thought up this mani the polish looked more grey. So, I messed the prompt up a bit, forgive me. Also, I did this back in September, when my nails were still long.

Polishes:

• Lucky 13 Lacquer - You Can't Rave in A Raincoat
• El Corazon - Matte Effect - 141 neon
• El Corazon - Matte Effect - 144 neon
• Ünt - Ready For Takeoff (peelable base coat)
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of You Can't Rave. Added top coat and then scales on some nails. I simply used a thin nail art brush and added the yellow scales first, pink second. More top coat to finish.

In this photo it looks more grey....

Love, Brethil

More greys down here!