Origami Cat!

When I was little, I used to do a lot of origami. It is fascinating how you can make a piece of paper into all kinds of animals, flowers, etc.

I used the origami cat design from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL216 for this look! Isn't it cute?

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Winning Streak (dusty purple). I stamped the origami cat design and double triangle pattern from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL216, using MoYou London White Knight (white) stamping polish. 

Essie Winning Streak is another polish I purchased from Essie Wild Nude Collection. I love 5 colors I bought from this collection! 

I kept this design pretty simple. Do you like origami designs?

Love,

Little Dot

Grey and White

Grey and white classic look for you!

I love grey. And this is my go-to grey polish, Essie Petal Pushers!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Petal Pushers (grey). I used a design from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL220. The stamping polish is MoYou London White Knight (white). 

I like this stamp design a lot! I might try stamping all of my nails with this design to see how it comes out. 

Do you like grey and white combination?

Love,

Little Dot

Love Hearts!

Sweet and cute look for you!

This is the design I had on Valentine's day actually. Instead of pink and red, I chose to paint my nails blue!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Mint Candy Apple (light blue). I stamped a few designs from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL201, using MoYou London Black Knight (black). 

Simple but I like this design quite a bit. 

Do you like simple and cute look like this?

Love,

Little Dot

Shopping Haul and Storage Solution

Over the holidays, I bought a lot of stuff!

I ordered quite a few design plates and stamping polish from MoYou London. I ordered a few plates and clear stampers (not pictured above) from Bundle Monsters. I also ordered a refill bottle from HK Girl Top Coat (not pictured above). Those Black Friday sales are dangerous! 

And if you remember, I bought quite a few MoYou London polish from my local Trade Secrets store a few months ago... I had so many bottles on my table and didn't know what to do! 

And I found this!

The perfect storage for my MoYou London stamping polish! I found this drawer organizer at a local dollar store. It is just the right size to fit twenty bottles of MoYou London polish! 

Now I can see all the colors easily and just turn it 180 degree to see the other side for more colors! I love this so much that I'm just staring at it like a kid in a candy store! 

By the way, I'm on no-buy this month now after all the holiday spending...

Love,

Little Dot

Happy New Year 2017!

Year 2016 was a very hectic year for us.  My beloved daughter says it was the worst year. I don't think it was a bad year but there were a lot happened and a year just went in a blink of an eye! I wish for a happy and a little more relaxed new year in 2017!!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Petal Pushers (blue-toned grey). I stamped arrow design from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL216, using MoYou London White Knight stamping polish. I also used OPI Gaining Mole-Mentum to add a little rose gold glitter bits. 

Essie Petal Pushers is one of my favorite go-to grey polish. The little rose-gold scattered over it is so lovely! I think I had OPI Gaining Mole-Mentum for a while but maybe this is the first time I used it? I usually stay away from glitters but I like how this design looks!

By the way, I bought a lot of nail stamping plates and polish over the Black Friday sales. Bundle Monster plate BM-XL216 is one of them. I really like this arrow design!

Have a happy new year, everyone!!!

Love,

Little Dot

Merry Christmas!

A quick post to wish you all a very merry Christmas!

This is a bit different version of the previous Christmas nail post here. I used the same Bundle Monster plate but this time went for a black and white look. 

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Cashmere Bathrobe (dark shimmery grey). I used images from Bundle Momster BM-S219 for stamping. I used MoYou London White Knight and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep as stamping polish. 

I like the simple look very much!

Which look is your favorite?

Happy holidays!!

Love,

Little Dot

Christmas Garland!

I will be posting a few Christmas nail posts in the next bit.

I got this cute Christmas garland plate from Bundle Moster and I was dying to use it! Did I go a little overboard? Oh well, it's Christmas!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Stylenomics (almost black dark green). I used Bundle Monster plate BM-S219 for stamping. I used the direct decal method so that I can color ornaments. The outline stamping polish I used is MoYou London Pink Clay. I used Nails Inc. Chelsea Bridge Road (gold) and Sally Hansen Silver Sweep (silver) to color in the designs. 

Isn't the gingerbread man so cute? I had to add the face and the buttons with Essie Stylenomics because the outline was a bit hard to see after coloring it with MoYou London Cappuccino. I guess Pink Clay and Cappuccino were kind of similar colors...

What kind of Christmas design would you wear?

Love,

Little Dot

Elephants!

I love this pale pink polish, Essie Go Go Geisha! I wore this polish before here. This time, I paired it with Essie Kimono Over!

Both Go Go Geisha and Kimono Over are from Essie Fall 2016 collection. And I've been using the colors from this collection constantly!! 

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Go Go Geisha (pale pink) and Essie Kimono Over (dark purple). I stamped elephant design and tribal print design from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL202 with Nails Inc. Chelsea Bridge Road (gold foil). 

I really like the contrast of pale pink and dark almost black purple. And the gold looks really sharp. 

By the way, this image plate is designed by Marta of Chitchat Nails. I follow her on her blog and Instagram!! I like this tribal elephant image a lot! 

Do you like this tribal elephant look?

Love,

Little Dot

MoYou London Stamping Polish Review!

I picked up a bunch of MoYou London stamping polish recently at a local store!

I have been using MoYou London image plates for some years now but I never had a chance to try their stamping polish. I haven't tried all these colors yet but for the some I tried, I am very impressed. 

Here you see our twin creation (my beloved daughter's and mine!) On the left, I used MoYou London Malibu Tan to stamp forest animals. On the right, I used MoYou London Bora Bora to stamp paisley design on my daughter's nails. 

See how clear and opaque the images are? For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Playing Koi (reddish orange) and stamped animals from Bundle Monster plate BM-S163, using MoYou London Malibu Tan (tan). 

For my beloved daughter's nails, I first painted her nails with Essie Kimono Over (dark purple). I stamped designs from MoYou London Flower Power Collection 15, using MoYou London Bora Bora (turquoise). Some of the nails even look like having the green background polish. But it is the stamped color! Very bright and opaque!

I like the fact they are like regular polish in consistency. Very easy to apply without any stringy feel to it. Yet very clear and opaque!! Love!!!

Have you tried these?

Love,

Little Dot

Cats!

I bought a few Bundle Monster plates recently and one of the purchase was this cat plate, BM-S162!

I wanted to get this design plate earlier but whenever I was going to order, it was out of stock! Finally, I got it!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Kimono Over (dark purple). I used Bundle Monster BM-S162 and Konad white for stamping. 

Essie Kimono Over is from Essie Fall 2016 collection. And if you have read my previous few posts, you know how much I love this collection! 

I love cats! Are you a cat person?

Love,

Little Dot

Japanese Kimono

Continuing with Essie Fall 2016 collection polish, I used Now and Zen, Kimono Over, and Playing Koi for this design!

I actually love love love this look! It kind of reminds me of Japanese kimono!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Now and Zen (grey). I stamped a design from Bundle Monster plate BM-XL155, using Essie Kimono Over as stamping polish. I used Direct Decal Method to stamp some flowers from Pueen 72 on a few nails. I used Konad white for outlines and colored in with Essie Playing Koi (orange red).

Essie Kimono Over is great as stamping polish! And I like the look of layered stamping! 

I wore this look for a little over a week and I didn't want to take it off!!

Do you like the design like this?

Love,

Little Dot

Koi Fish

I love the colors from Essie Fall 2016 collection! I ended up buying almost all colors!! I used my first pick, Go Go Geisha, in this design here. This time, I used Udon Know Me and Playing Koi!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Udon Know Me (dusty blue) and Playing Koi (orangy red). I used koi fish design from Bundle Monster plate BM-725, using Essie Kimono Over as stamping polish. I added a little more color after stamping, using OPI Chromatic Orange and OPI Primarily Yellow. 

I found all these colors to be well pigmented. I was able to use Essie Kimono Over as stamping polish and I might want to try stamping with other colors from this collection!

I am so happy with this collection and I am sure I will be wearing these colors a lot this season!

Have you tried any color from Essie Fall 2016?

Love,

Little Dot