Today I have some designs to show you that I created using Moyou London's Crazy Cat Lazy 05 plate. The second I saw the collection I knew that I needed to buy 05... I love accent nails and reverse stamping and I knew that this plate would be perfect for both!

The plate has 18 designs of different cats, each is a full nail sized cat and the designs are just the outlines - so absolutely puurr-fect for reverse stamping. I've had a ton of fun colour these designs in. All of the cats are a cartoon-y style, and are dressed in cute outfits

The designs just scream accent nail to me, I love the look of just one or two of my nails with these designs on and the rest a solid colour. (The fish pattern behind one of the cats is a design from the plate Sailor 04, so you could put that design on some and the cat on one as an accent).

The 05 plate is designed for smaller/short nails, like mine... If you have bigger/longer nails then 06 have a lot of the same designs but on a bigger scale to fit better on bigger nails.

Nails I did using this plate:

You can buy this plate and the rest of the Crazy Cat Lady plates for £6.99 each HERE.

- N :)

Today I have Beauty Big Bang's XL-017 plate to show you. Which is an awesome geometric-themed plate.

The plate has 14 large, full nail sized designs. I love the variety of designs on this plate. I am a big fan of geometric patterns on my nails and this plate is great for that. A lot of these designs don't necessarily lean towards reverse stamping, but I think most of them would look awesome done as a gradient, but I prefer these designs a simple one colour stamped over another. If you're a fan of geometric nails then you should definitely consider looking at this plate. 

Designs I created using this plate:

You can buy the plate for £2.77 HERE

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Beauty Big Bang order to use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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Today I have Beauty Big Bang's XL-012 plate to show you. Which is an absolutely adorable owl-themed plate.

The plate has 7 large designs and 16 small-medium size designs. I love owls so this plate was one I knew I needed to try. The designs are all super cute. I love so many of the designs on this plate that I can't pick a favourite. The individual owls and owl eyes would be great for mix and match nails. The designs are perfect for year-round, if you like owls then this is definitely a plate you should consider picking up.

Designs I created using this plate:

You can buy the plate for £2.77 HERE

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Beauty Big Bang order to use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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This post I have a really cute plate to show you by Beauty Big Bang, which is XL-024. I got sent this by BBB and instantly loved it. The plate has 14 full nail size designs which are all a combination of a pattern and a flower. I really love the possibility of this plate for people with short nails, like me. With most of the designs, I can pick up enough of just the pattern section (without the flower) and fit it over my entire nail. That being said this plate is great for most size/length nail, not just short.

The designs have great to mix and match with, some are awesome for reverse stamping and make great accent nail designs. Depending on the colour polishes you choose to use with these designs, they are perfect so every season.

Designs I created using this plate:

You can buy the plate for £2.73 HERE

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Beauty Big Bang order to use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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Today I have Beauty Big Bang's XL-026 plate to show you. It's part of Beauty Big Bang's Halloween plate collection for this year and I think it's awesome. 

The plate is skull-themed and even though it's technically a Halloween plate, you can definitely wear these design all year round. The plate has 14 full nail size designs and there is a variety of styles of skull designs on the plate. From more realistic to cuter and cartoon-y ones. A lot of the designs are repeating so they work really well on any size nail (even short like mine), and the ones that are a single big design are easy to split across multiple nails or you can choose to just use a section of the design.

Designs I created using this plate:

You can buy the plate for £2.73 HERE

Oh, and don't forget, if you want 10% your Beauty Big Bang order to use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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The final Halloween plate I have from Born Pretty is R003, one of the small, round plates.

There are a lot of small designs scattered on this plate, and there is an awesome variation for such a small and cheap plate! Skulls, pumpkins, buildings, skeletons, cats, bats. If you have short nails, like me, then some of these designs might even fill the majority of your nail (I know some did for me), but if you have longer nails these design would make for some great accent nail designs or repeated into a pattern.

Here are a few designs I created using this plate:

You can buy this plate for £1.20 from Born Pretty's store HERE

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Born Pretty order... use my discount code: NMYX31

- N :)

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I have another Born Pretty Halloween plate posts today, this time it's L006, another of the rectangular size plates.

This plate has twelve full-nail size designs, each design features a stylised woman (some Halloween-y, some not as much). They are beautiful and although this is part of Born Pretty's Halloween collection, I think a lot of these designs would be great all year round. The designs are a lot bigger than my nail size, but I still managed to get a good portion of the design onto my nail and I enjoyed taking smaller elements from several designs to put together.

Here are a few designs I created using this plate:

You can buy this plate for £2.26 from Born Pretty's store HERE

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Born Pretty order... use my discount code: NMYX31

- N :)

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I have Born Pretty's Halloween L003 plate to show you. It's the first of three I have from Born Pretty's 2018 Halloween plates.

Born Pretty have released several plates in different sizes and styles for the Halloween season and this is one of my favourites.

L003 has six large, full nail size designs and a ton of smaller designer that you can use as accents or repeated around your nail. The plate has lots of different types of designs: spiders, ghosts, mummies, bats, pumpkins, etc. It's super fun and I love so many of the designs on it...

Here are a few designs I created using this plate:

You can buy this plate for £2.26 from Born Pretty's store HERE

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Born Pretty order... use my discount code: NMYX31

- N :)

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Today I have swatches of two stamping polishes I recently got sent by Beauty Big Bang which I'm super excited about! I really enjoy trying out Beauty Big Bang's products, and BBB's stamping polishes are becoming my go to's when I do stamped designs. Until now I had only tried their solid colour stamping polishes (black, white, green & yellow), so I was excited to try a couple with different formulas.

I tried one of their duochrome stamping polishes and one their holographic stamping polishes. I own a lot of duo chrome and holographic polishes, but they're not formulated to be used for stamping so I was excited to try ones that are.

The duochrome collection and the holographic collection each have five shades (you can buy them as a set of individually). I decided to try a blue/purple shade from each collection - because I'm just automatically drawn to blue shades. (Both are 9ml bottles)

Duochrome

First I have 005 from the Duochrome collection, which is a darker blue shade that shifts to purple (it also has a gold shift in the bottle, but that doesn't show up as much on the nails are the purple and blue tones). Unlike the creme formula stamping polishes from BBB it is not a one-coater, it did take two coats to be opaque on the nail. The shade is a lovely medium-dark blue and is a great winter shade and I will probably wear this more as a base shade than a stamped shade.

I stamped this over a white based and absolutely loved the result, it doesn't stamp as opaque as the creme shades (which I guessed would be the case based on it needed two coats in my swatch), but over white the design was completely visible but had an almost translucent look to it, which when I put a matte top coat on looked grainy and beautiful.

Holographic

Next is 005 from the Holographic collection and I was instantly in love with it. It's a kind of blurple shade (somewhere between blue and purple, I can't decide which it's more of so it's blurple). The shade is vibrant and is a linear holo. It took two coats to be opaque on my nails. It has a shiny finish (though it looks just as beautiful with a matte top coat).

It stamps great on both dark and light shade base polishes. It does have a different look depending on the light or dark base, but I love it both ways. On the white base the base of the polish was super vibrant, on the dark base the colour was less vibrant but the holo glitter came through about better than on white.

Both of these polishes are absolutely beautiful and if you are looking to add some variation to your stamping polishes collection then both of these polishes and I'm sure the others in both collections would make a lovely addition to your nail polish collection.

You can buy these polishes individually for £3.45-3.49 from Beauty Big Bang: HERE

Or in the sets for £15.20 per collection

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Beauty Big Bang order... use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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I have been using Beauty Big Bang's Peel Off Liquid Latex for a few weeks now and I love it. I usually use peel-off glues that are not actually latex based, and I had no idea what I was missing out on. 

The liquid latex comes in a 12ml bottle and in various shades. I chose the 002 shade (it's the cheapest for some reason - no idea why). The 002 shade is the darker of two blue shade. Obviously, the shade you get is a just personal preference, it doesn't affect the results of the product or your end nail designs. I just wanted a dark colour so I could clearly see where it was on my skin.

The bottle comes with a standard size and shape brush applicator, which is rounded to make application super easy. It dries super fast - much faster than I thought it would - so you don't have to faff a bunch while doing your nails. 

You just a apply a thin layer around the skin surrounding your nail and once it's dry do you nail (I recommend using this or an alternative whenever doing: stamping, water marble or sponged on gradients). Once you finished your design simply peel it off, it comes off really easily and doesn't leave any residue behind on your skin.

Being a latex based product, it does have a distinct latex scent (like most latex products), but the scent it mostly contained to the bottle itself. It's a strong smell when you first open the bottle but it doesn't leave any scent behind on your skin after using it.

You can buy this individually for £1.51 or £2.27 (depending on the shade) HERE

Or as part of a trio with black and white stamping polishes for £8.36 HERE

(I love the black and white polishes! You can read my swatch & review post about them HERE)

Oh, and if you want 10% off your Beauty Big Bang order... use my discount code: NIME10

- N :)

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