Digit-al Dozen - December Birthday Mani

Hi all!

Welcome to my first Digit-al Dozen post! First of all, Happy Birthday to fellow Digit-al Dozen ladies Kristi, Cathy & Kerry who had their birthday in December. For the birthday mani we get an inspirational image, and this month's is so cute with the cats and hearts.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Pumpkin Mashup
• Maybelline - LE Bleached Neons - 241 Sun Flare
• Barry M - GNP13 Papaya
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Dark Matter
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

Base: 2 coats of Pumpkin Mashup. To create the cats, heart and musical notes I used a thin nail art brush and a dotting tool and the other polishes. Topped with Elemental Ward.

My freehanding skills are not that amazing, but I do like how this kitty turned out.

I'm rather enjoying having freehand nail art on my nails, I should do this more often.

Love, Brethil

More birthday nails down here!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Christmas childhood memories

Hi all!

This week is about Christmas childhood memories. I don't really have specific memories of Christmas when I was a kid, but I do remember we always had soft pink Christmas tree ornaments. So, that's why I'm wearing a soft pink mani for you today.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Icon
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 81 bisque
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 01 black
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 22 silver
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

I also used two new stamping plates by MoYou London, the Enchanted Collection 16 and Festive Collection 57.

Base: 2 coats of Icon. I stamped with Bisque first using a few images from the Enchanted 16 plate. Then I stamped snowflakes from Festive 57 with Black. Added a few silver dots with a brush here and there. Top coated with Elemental Ward.

These snowflakes are just so different from the usual snowflake images, and they are so dainty.

I have been wearing snowflakes for weeks... hope you don't get fed up with them yet *winks*

Love, Brethil

More christmassy mani's!

Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Winter/Christmas - Penguins

Hi all!

For my second Winter mani, I did some stamping decals. Cute penguins all the way.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Grey Slay
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 01 black
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 02 white
• Essence - Be Loud - 02 Orange is the new black
• China Glaze - Fairy Dust
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

I used stamping plate BP-137 (bought myself). Those penguins are just so cute.

Base: 2 coats of Grey Slay. I made stamping decals on my stamping mat. I stamped the image with the black Kaleidoscope, filled in the bellies with the white one and feet and beak with the orange essence. After I applied the decals to my nails I added some Fairy Dust for some holo magic. Elemental Ward last.

For some reason I didn't make a thumb photo that was in focus. So you get sparkly holo.

I think I wore the penguin nails for about 5 days....

Love, Brethil

Need more winter/christmas inspiration? Check the others down here!

Born Pretty Store review - tropical flamingo stickers

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Hi all!

This post has been about 3 months in the making... I just keep forgetting to post this. Born Pretty Store sent me some tropical decals to review, item 40606 here, pattern 247. I just had to use the flamingo stickers.

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Birthday Suit
• Polish My Life - 1950's Mint Fridge
• Catrice - 19 Johnny Deep
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

 

Base: 2 coats of Birthday Suit. I tried to emulate the flamingo patterns here and here. But I did not really like my accent nails that much. The green is just off. The stickers are cute and easy to use, but do need 2 layers of top coat.

After a day I changed out my accent nails to just plain pink. The pink polish is essence 97 flamingo.

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

Nail Challenge Collaborative presents: Winter/Christmas - Snowflakes

Hi all!

As usual I'm starting this month in the second half... I never mean to, usually my mani's are done in time, it's just the post writing part that I slack with. Winter means snowflakes to me, I just love the different snowflake patterns. We had snow last week over here, but it just causes troubles in traffic. Rain washed it all away already.

Polishes:

• Boulevard - Denim Style - blue (unnamed)
• Essence - Colour Boost - 11 instant match
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 02 white
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

I used two stamping plates: Born Pretty Store BPL-032 and MoYou London's Festive 02.

Base: 2 coats of the blue denim style polish. I stamped with instant match and BPL-032 first, and then with white and Festive 02 next. Top coated with Elemental Ward.

On my thumbnail one of my favourite snowflake images, it's just so delicate.

Would you wear snowflakes all winter long? I would!

Love, Brethil

More Winter/Christmas nails down here!

26 Great Nail Art Ideas - Insects and/or bugs

Hi all!

Posting too late, but here is my insect mani... dragonflies!

Polishes:

• Polish My Life - Perfect Nightcap
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 14 fuchsia
• Kaleidoscope - stamping 88 vinuous
• China Glaze - Fairy Dust
• Lucky 13 Lacquer - Elemental Ward

And I used Vivid Lacquer's VL014 stamping plate.

Base: 2 coats of Perfect Nightcap. I gradient stamped with the 2 stamping polishes. Added Elemental Ward, didn't like the result and added Fairy Dust to make it better. More Elemental Ward to seal it in.

Hope you liked the dragonflies even if it didn't turn out like I wanted to.

Love, Brethil

More insects or bugs down here!