Berry decals

Heyhey :) First things first, fosterkittens! I have sooo much pics already but haven't gotten to sorting them, feeding and caring for those 4 eats up a lot of time! But they're doing great, except the smallest one, he hasn't had any bowel movement yet and it's taking too long :( I have to help them by massaging (normally their mum would do so) but it's not working with him, so he's got some meds now to help with that. Hope it'll help very quickly and I can be all yay about that, haha, else he'll have to go to the vet I'm afraid. Until I get to sorting pics, I did post a few on my Instagram already, so I'll just be lazy and post those here now too:)

Here are all 4 of them, 3 came with a different ribbon around their neck to keep them apart, lol! They're starting to show more personality now, which helps, but if I don't see the ribbons I still end up mistaking one for another at times. Their age is estimated, and according to that, they were exactly 1 month old yesterday! :)

Here's a closer pic of one that I took when I just got them, the rest went to sleep in the basket straight away, while he was sitting in the front looking around a bit. They still have the blue eyes, wonder what color they'll end up with!

And here's the smallest one which I'm a bit worried about now. Please send some positive thoughts to this little guy! :)

But enough of those oh so adorable bundles of joy for now, I have to feed them soon again, so back to nails! =) When BornPrettyStore mailed me the items I've been showing recently, they also added some decals, so I ended up doing a quick mani with one of the sets.

Essence Very Berry with BPS decals.

The polish color is most accurate on the first pic, but the 2nd shows the purple of the decals better. Really enjoyed the look of these little flowers on my nails! :)

 Above you see the sets that I received, but I don't see myself using the blue sheets as quickly, so I figured to show them here as well. For my mani I only picked the purple flowers, but there are enough decals on the sheet to apply 2 to each nail.

If you're not sure how using water decals works, here's how I applied them and here's where you can find the decals over at BPS! These flower decals cost $2.86, but as always, you can use coupon code ABJ61 for 10% off.


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Sea bubbles!

Goood afternoon! I'm glad I have some manis ready to post, because the shelter contacted me this morning and I'll be getting new fosterkittens today! It'll be the first ones of the year for me, and they're younger than what I usually foster. But this year they already had a lot of really young, motherless kittens :( The shelter uses crisis fosterhomes for those, they take care of them until they're at least old enough to eat on their own, then move to new fosterhomes if needed. But the crisis homes are full already, so the kittens that I'll be getting are from one of the crisis homes and are now around 3-4 weeks old. They still need to be bottle fed but luckily not around the clock anymore! Of course I'll be showing them here sometime soon, and I'll do my best to update my fosterkitten blog as well. But for now you'll just have to do with pics of my nails instead of adorable fuzzies! :D

OPI What's With The Cattitude? sponged with A England Galahad, China Glaze Aquadelic and Essence Chuck, stamped with Konad White and MASH plate 43.

This was one of those manis that turned out how I had in mind, and then some! I loved it straight away, hope you'll like it too! :) It was easy as well, I started with the light blue base, then sponged on the darkest blue, followed by the other 2 colors, all overlapping a bit. Stamping, top coat, done!

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend ♥

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Simply studded

Hi all! Today's mani turned out a bit different than what I had in mind, I planned on a finer black line and having the studs more to the side of my nails, but oh well, happens! My background is a bit different as well, Sue insisted on being all cuddly on my lap while I was taking pics :)

Catrice Put Lavender On Agenda with China Glaze Bump In The Night and BPS studs.

I guess I don't need to explain why I have cathair on my fingers, haha! They weren't as obvious irl, I noticed them afterwards on the pics, oops :) I didn't make a cute cat pic to go with this post, I tried but Sue was throwing herself at me so I ended up with a bunch of blurry moving photos :D

Anyway, here's some more info about the studs that I used! I chose the 2mm black studs from BPS, but when I received them, I realized they were the same as the ones I had in a wheel of studs that I bought a while ago, also from BornPrettyStore.

I think it's nice that they offer so much studded variation, if you love a specific type of studs, go for a bag full of them, but if you rather have all kinds of studs, they have a bunch of mixed wheels in different colors, sizes and shapes as well. You can find their full range of studs here!

On the left you can see the studs up close, they're a bit hollow but that isn't an issue at all. I just placed them on my wet top coat and they stuck perfect!

The studs shown here can be found here. They cost $4,84 for the bag shown above, and you'll get 10% off with code ABJ61.


Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely day :)




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Messy Mansion and Lily Anna plates!

Morning! Messy Mansion recently released 5 new plates and Lily Anna also added a new one to the collection. I hadn't tried these brands before (I only drooled over their images), so I felt very lucky when a package from Messy Mansion landed on my doormat, allll the way from the other side of the world! :D I already showed you an image from one of them in my previous post, and here's a mani with a softer result:

Let's look at the plates! I received 3 of the new MM plates and the LA plate, they all come in a plastic cover and the front has a protective blue cover as well. There's nothing on the back of the plates, but they weren't sharp either.

Lily Anna 09 (you can click the image for an enlargement).
You can find the Lily Anna plates here, they're $10 each. I'm sure it doesn't come as a surprise that this is totally my kind of plate, loving such images! :)

Messy Mansion plates MM33, MM37 & MM38.
Check out the whole MM series here! They're $7 each. Aren't these totally unique? Not only the plates are bigger than your average plates (please note, I don't have a real platefolder but these did not fit in my cardfolder!), look at the size of some of these images, they're huge as well! A perfect brand for girls with longer nails :)

This was the plate I used for my previous mani, aren't those rockets cute? I think it's great how the MM plates that I received all have a specific subject, if you're into something, you won't end up with images of something else that you might never use!

Arrr! They be some great pirate-y images for yer stash, aye! ... Yeah... I'm sorry, I couldn't resist! :D If you're into pirates, this plate is so perfect for you, it has it all!

Owlllllll! (Thanks to zefrank I can't say owl anymore) Look at the size of that bottom image, woah! I like how this plate offers adorable owls in various styles, from cute to more realistic :)

W.I.C. By Herôme Örebro with Catrice Be Pool and Lily Anna 09.

The quality of these plates is great, I got nice, clean transfers on the images that I tried so far, and I don't expect anything else from the other images :) And here are these plates added to my comparison, but as you could see above, the full nail images vary a lot in size! So it's really the average of them, not all images on the plates are as big as shown here.

Thanks for looking and take care! :)


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Constellations on my nails!

Howdy all! Lets see how this blogging thing worked again =) I'll post a little update on the bottom, but this is a nail blog of course, so let's start with that! I recently received some great plates from Messy Mansion, and I'll post more about those soon, but here's a mani done with one of them already :)

Essence Black Is Back sponged with Catrice Times Square At Midnight, Catrice En Vogue, Essence glitter top coat, Smitten Polish Radiantly Royal, 2True no.2 and a nameless 2B polish, then stamped with Konad White and Messy Mansion plate MM33.

It doesn't show as well on my pics, but it looked so sparkly irl, couldn't stop looking at different angles! ♥ I started with a black base and I wanted the image to be the main thing here, so I sponged some spots with a dark blue and a dark purple shimmer, then sponged more spots with a subtle silver glitter, a blue glitter, a silver glitter with purple shimmer, and a blue/green/yellow fine glitter.
I've never done galaxy nails before, but for the real galaxy nails I'd use brighter polishes and sponge a little less subtle, this mani got me eager to try that sometime :)

These are the sponges I used to create little spots, they're from BornPrettyStore and work great for any kind of sponged mani! I used the pointy side of a sponge for the spots, for gradient nails I'd use the bottom part. And I'd just cut off the used part, so these sponges will last for a while :)

They cost $0,99 for 3 of them, and you can find them here! Don't forget to use coupon code ABJ61 for 10% off!


Thanks for looking! :)

 
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Personal update below:

Right, so here's a little update as to why I haven't been as active lately (and have less active periods here and there). The last 6 months or so have been pretty weird, and even though I find it scary to share a bit, my blog is almost 4 years now (next month! :)) and I'd like to open up a bit here.

When I was 18 I had some quick tests and within a day I got a diagnose, but because of who ordered those tests, we never really doubted the diagnose or questionned how the tests were done. But throughout the years I started questioning things more and more, I kept encountering issues that weren't part of what I was supposed to have, and things from that diagnose didn't match with me anymore, but getting tested again scared me big time. Last year I read a bit about a form of autism, and I found myself crying because it was all so very familiar. So I finally took the step, and got tested again. This time they were much more intense, my family got involved in the tests as well, and it took a lot more testing, questions, forms to answer, etc.
The result was that my old diagnose wasn't correct and instead I have PDD-NOS, which is one of the Autism Spectrum Disorders. A lot of things fell into place, and are still falling into place, not just for me but also for my family, all the way back to when I was very young. At the same time, I had to get used to the new diagnose, and learn what's a part of that, and what's a part of me. I also felt that that old diagnose, which I had for 13 years, was kind of hopeless, and now all of a sudden I have possibilities, things that can be improved, worked on, ... My future has brightened up a lot, which is awesome but well weird at the same time! :)
So I'm very happy with the new (and how I feel it, finally correct) diagnose -as far as you can be happy about a diagnose of course :P- but it also took me a lot of "what if I got the right one from the start, what would my life look like now"-thinking. That's going better now, but still a thought that pops up at times.

Besides that, I also had to say goodbye to my dear Bindi not long after the diagnose, you guys have been such a great support back then which I'm still very thankful for! I still miss Bindi so much, and saying goodbye to her had a big impact on my life. Add some trips to Sweden, having to do some big things in the house, and that I wanted to wear polish that I felt like (instead of thinking, I already posted this, lets not wear it) and maybe you can understand a bit why blogging was at a low spot in my life for a while! I think it will be more often, it's one of the first things that I'm less active with when it's not going as well with me or when I have other things on my mind, which has happened in the past as well. Ah well, now you know :)

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Blue giraffe and a huge stamper!

Morning :) After a great trip to the always lovely Sweden and being hooked on Diablo 3's expansion, I figured it was time for some nails in between! BornPrettyStore send me some more items for review, including a doublesided stamper with scrapers. A big stamper was on my wishlist for a while now, I have some images that are too big for my beloved Konad doublesided stamper, and my thumbnails are usually a bit too big as well, so I have to double stamp them. A big stamper would solve those things, so I was eager to try this one out! Here's what I did with it:

Look at the size of that thing, lol! Let's have a closer look at this stamper/scrapers set:

The small part of the stamper is the same size as Konad's small stamper, but the big one is obviously not the same size! One thing I noticed straight away though, that big stamper is very shiny, and I had doubts it would work well like this... More on that below!
The scrapers that come with this set are slightly bigger than Konad's scraper (the scraping part, that is), 1 has a thicker scraping part, the smaller one has a thin scraping part.

First I tried the scrapers, but let me start by saying that I always use a metal scraper! I know a lot of people use old creditcards and things alike, which won't damage your plate like metal scrapers do, but that just won't work for me. So the results that I got with these plastic scrapers might be my fault though, if you're used to plastic, they might work great for you!

Left is the smallest scraper, I tried it several times, but it didn't feel fully smooth so it left thin stripes. They're also on the image, so getting a clean transfer would be quite tricky for me with this one.
Middle is the bigger scraper, wobbly wobbly! I tried several times but kept getting the same result. But again, that might be my inexperience with plastic scrapers :)
Right is 1 swoop with the Konad metal scraper, I often scrape a few times but as you can see, with just 1 scrape I already get the best result.

Left: I already mentionned above that the big stamp looked way too shiny to me, and here's how it transferred, not well at all! However, I always advise to give new stampers a gentle filing to roughen the surface a little (just once, before the first use only), with this one I filed just a little bit more than usual, and with a bit coarser file. The shine disappeared and it looked like the usual rubber after that.
Middle: and the difference is quite clear! It now works great, and the image is from a DRK plate, the biggest images in my collection. I didn't aim well, but it's clear it fits fully, yay!
Right: I have miniature nails compared to that thing! :P It'll be perfect for my thumbs, for girls with longer nails and for those big images :)

China Glaze Seahorsin' Around with China Glaze Little Drummer Boy and DRK-A.

I just stamped on the mani that I was wearing, Seahorsin' Around, which is a bit beyond my camera. But I have a new phone, and tried out that camera as well, and I think the results were quite good! I suspect it might be better than my usual cam if I get a nice app and play a bit more with it, so I'll go look at apps sometime. Suggestions are always welcome for Android :)

These 2 pics were just some quick testpics taken with my new phone, they're still not fully color accurate, but I'm definitely loving my phone even more now ♥ If you have these polishes, try them together sometime, I think they work well like that :)

Anyway, back to the stamper and scrapers! You can buy the set for $4,46 at BornPrettyStore, don't forget to use couponcode ABJ61 for 10% off!

What do you think of stamped textures? I think they work best with coarser images like tigerstripes of these giraffe spots, and I'm really enjoying the look of it :) Thanks for stopping by!


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Radiantly Royal

The last polish that I received from Hypnotic Polish is a Smitten Polish color, and it's a sparkly and oh so squishy blue!

Smitten Polish Radiantly Royal.

I'm wearing it without any undies on my swatches, and this is 3 coats with top coat. If you don't like the visible nail lines, you could of course just layer it! But I didn't mind it here, it's so squishyyyy! And that sparkle is just beautiful :) It really matches its name!
It's a sheer, bright blue base (as you can see, it looks quite a bit darker in the bottle) packed with very fine glitter, it applies easy and you get good glittery coverage. It did need a little top coat to get a smooth result, but it's no top coat eater at all.

Lovely color! And I have to say, they were all new to me but I enjoyed every brand that Hypnotic Polish send me :) I'll be afk the next week or 2, take care for now and hopefully cya after! ♥


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