Snowflakes

I was going through my stock of polish bottles to decide on what winter appropriate colors to use this week... I picked up Essie Parka Perfect, which is one of my favorite dusty blue to use in colder season. To compliment that, I paired it with Essie Mind Your Mittens!

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Parka Perfect (light dusty blue) and Essie Mind Your Mittens (dark navy blue). I stamped a design from Lily Anna plate 08, using Color Club Harp On It as stamping polish. 

Color Club Harp On It is such a great holographic color on dark base. I can never capture the true beauty of it in pictures... But definitely a must-have polish!

On my right hand, I changed things up a bit and left one dark nail unstamped. 

I love these two winterly blue combination! Do you have favorite blue to wear this season?

Love,

Little Dot

Dragonflies with Lily Anna 03!

I am still excited about my Lily Anna plates! This time I used dragonfly design from plate 03.

For this look, I first painted my nails with Essie Mint Candy Apple (light blue), Essie Bobbing For Baubles (navy) and Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pearl Up (white jelly). I stamped the dragonfly image from Lily Anna plate 03 with Color Club Harp On It (holographic) on navy nails and used Essie Bobbing For Baubles on white nails. I also wanted to try jelly sandwich method, so I painted light coat of jelly polish on top of stamping for white nails. It gives softer grey on white look instead of stark black and white. 

The holographic stamping is so pretty but it's very hard to picture it. It gives rainbows of colors! 

I wish I can capture the holo effect better...

Do you like holographic stamping? Have you tried jelly sandwich method?

Love,

Little Dot

Red Flowers

I bought quite a few image plates recently from Nail Polish Canada. They had this awesome sale of $1.49 (Canadian dollars!) for Bundle Monster and Pueen single plates!

I used this flower design for this look. When I look at this design, I get Asian feel from it somehow... Is it just me? 

For this look, I first painted my nails with OPI My Vampire Is Buff (creamy white) and OPI Innie Minnie Mightie Bow (red). I used BM-224 for the flowers and BM-225 for the Chinese character (it means "love") for stamping. I used OPI Innie Minnie Mightie Bow and Color Club Harp On It as stamping polish. 

I usually buy plates by sets because the price is better bundled that way. But I haven't bought some of older sets because I didn't think I would use a lot of designs in the sets (specially the ones contain a lot of French tip designs, which I hardly use...)  So this was the great opportunity for me to purchase the only plates I love! 

I was also very impressed by the customer service of Nail Polish Canada. A few plates I received didn't work well. I emailed them and they sent me the replacement right away! Very prompt service!

Do you get Asian feel from this look? Have you bought products from Nail Polish Canada?

Love,

Little Dot

Kiko Polish From Europe!

My beloved daughter finally came back from her vacation trip to Europe! And she brought me home some goodies from there!!

I tried the base coat and the blue polish right away. :)

I used Kiko Ultra Long Post Stress Treatment Base Coat as the base. Then I painted my nails with Kiko blue polish (I'm not sure the name of the color... Maybe number 337??) and OPI Where Did Suzi's Man-Go? I used Bundle Monster plate BM-308 for orange design and MoYou London Princess 09 for flower design. I used Konad white and Color Club Harp on It as stamping polish. 

I never used Kiko polish before. It was very opaque and easy to apply. 

Have you tried Kiko polish or nail care products?

Love,

Little Dot

Mini Minnie Review

I bought this mini set quite a while ago but didn't have an opportunity to use it until now.

I am not a huge fan of red polish (I find them to be too much for me!) and that is probably the main reason I didn't try this set for this long. But my inspiration called for red polish this time. 

For this look, I first painted my nails with OPI My Vampire Is Buff (creamy white), OPI Innie Minnie Mightie Bow (red), and OPI Magazine Cover Mouse (red liquid sand finish). For stamping, I used a floral design from MoYou London Pro Collection 07 plate. I used Essie Size Matters as stamping color on white nails and Color Club Harp on It for red accent nail. 

This set includes A Definite Moust-Have, Magazine Cover Mouse, Chic from Ears to Tail, and Innie Minnie Mightie Bow. I only used two colors from this set but both of them had very good coverage. One-coater pretty much but I used two coats. 

My inspiration is from this cushion!

You can see one of my cute kitties in the picture as a bonus!

Have you tried any polish from this collection? 

Love,

Little Dot

Trip Around The World - France

This week I felt like doing French themed nails... 

I used Essie Mezmerised (blue) and OPI My Vampire Is Buff (creamy white) to paint my nails. Originally I was also going to use red to represent French flag but it just looked a bit too much of color! I used Bundle Monster BM-419 image plate to stamp the designs, using Konad Black Pearl stamping polish. The word "Paris" is a part of the Eiffel Tower design on the plate. This design itself would be too big for my nails, so I only used the word on this nail. 

For my thumb, I was able to stamp a good portion of this Eiffel Tower design. I used Color Club Harp on It as stamping color. Harp on It gives such great holographic effect. The color sparkles like a rainbow! 

I have a few stamping image plates that I can use to represent different countries. So I am thinking of doing a trip around the world nails. I am hoping to come up with another one sometime soon!

What objects or colors represent certain countries for you? 

Love,

Little Dot

Butterfly Nails

We are having such a long harsh weather this winter in our area... I just can't wait for nice spring to arrive. So, to send my wish to the universe, here are my butterfly nails!

For this look, first I painted my nails with Color Club Harp on It and Essie Blue Rhapsody. Then, I stamped butterfly wing design from Nailz Craze plate NC 01 using Konad Black Pearl stamping polish. I used a dotting tool to place little dots on tips with Harp on It and Sally Hansen Extreme Wear White On. 

I wore a butterfly ring to complete the look!

Color Club Harp on It is very beautiful holographic polish. I just got this polish and I am hoping to use it as a stamping color very soon. I think it will look wonderful over dark polish!

Which holographic polish is your favorite? 

Love,

Little Dot