ILNP Masquerade (H) & Pueen 83

Hi guys! Are you relaxing and enjoying your weekend? I am! So much that I almost didn't want to change my mani, but 3 days is long enough and I need to see something different on my nails. 
I broke out one of my untried polish, ILNP Masquerade (H). I bought this last year and forgot to wear it, that's what happened when I put away my new polishes in the melmer right away, they are forgotten. I pair Masquerade (H) with a simple stamping using Pueen 83 and Mundo de Unas Black. I love it! Quick and easy.

I always have trouble narrowing down pics when posting multichrome polish, so enjoy (or scroll fast). 

Masquerade (H) has a decent formula, a bit thin but applies easy and doesn't pool on the cuticles. I needed 3 coats for full opacity. The colour-shifting is not as strong as Sirene or Birefringence, but it's definitely there!

ILNP Masquerade (H)

ILNP Masquerade (H)

ILNP Masquerade (H)

ILNP Masquerade (H)

Have a great weekend! I'll be back on Monday :)

XO

Novi

Pastel Rainbow Roses

It's Friday again! So the nail art I'm sharing today is gonna be my weekend mani. It's another stamping decals combined with some free hand. I made the decals days ago, I knew I'm gonna want to wear this for more than a day or two. 

The rose image is from Pueen 80. I love the roses in that plate, and the rose image I used fits almost perfectly in my nails (I used the smaller rose image on the right side of the plate).
I stamped the roses with Mundo de Unas black, and filled in the decals with a small dotting tool and various pastel shades as follow, China Glaze Feel The Breeze, Strike a Rose, Shore Enuff, Sun Upon My Skin, Maybelline Day Glow Teal, Lime Accent, Color Club Pucci-licious. I added a coat of INM Norther Lights to make them look a bit magical ;)

I placed the decals over a white base, I used Cirque Carpe Diem. The rest of the nails are painted with China Glaze Sun Upon My Skin. I added some free hand leaves and vines using OPI Christmas Gone Plaid and Shore Enuff. Sealed the mani with HK Girl top coat.

This mani makes me wish for spring to come already! Have a great weekend guys, see you all on Monday! <3

XO
Novi

Pueen 82: Strawberry Nails

Hi everyone! I'm back this week with another stamping mani using a plate from Pueen Buffet Leisure. I've been meaning to do this all weekend, but I was enjoying my knitting project too much to do anything else. 

I think this ribbon'd strawberries image from plate Pueen 82 is so darn cute and perfect for making stamping decals, which what I did here. 
I use regular OPI top coat as the base of my decals, and stamped the design using Mundo de Unas black. The strawberries are OPI Fashion A Bow, and the ribbons are using Glam Polish Whirlwind, Below Zero, and Polar Lights. I use the smallest dotting tool I have to fill in the colours. The base for my mani is 2 coats of Cirque Carpe Diem (my new favorite white polish!). 

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I admit, it'd probably faster to just free-hand these, but stamping decals is another technique that I have began to enjoy. It reminds me when I was little and love to do coloring and tried to stay inside the lines. It's fun! 
Hope you enjoyed the post and see you on my next post!

XO
Novi

Enchanted Polish Majestic & Pueen 76

Hi everyone! Today I got my new set of Pueen Leisure plates in the mail. I was excited to try this set, it has quite a few plates that I want to use, so of course for today's mani I'm using one of the plate from this set. 

My base is Enchanted Polish Majestic. I'm pairing this beautiful soft shade with a blue gradient delicate image from Pueen 76. I used Mundo de Unas #5, 6, and 30 for the gradient. I sealed the design with one coat of HK Girl top coat.

For once I remember to snap a few shots of Majestic on its own before I covered it up with stamping. It's not a super strong holo, but I really like it. The base colour is a grey-ish lilac with a pink sheen that I couldn't really show in pics, it's really beautiful in person. I used 2 coats for pics below.

EP Majestic

EP Majestic

XO
Novi

Poinsettia Nails

Hi guys! Happy Friday! I have a holiday themed mani for you today. I created this mani for a nail art contest hosted by Pueen Cosmetics and Chit Chat Nails, today is the last day to enter, you can see the contest details here. 
I'm not very creative with my stamping, so I did what I can. I also tried making stamping decals for the first time here, which luckily turned out ok. I kinda misjudged the size of the images I used, and they almost completely covered up the pretty background. Which of course, I forgot to take pics of cause I was 'in the zone', haha. It's pretty much the same technique I used for the background of my stamping here and here.

For the background, I used polishes from NYX Love is in The Air set that I just got as one of my late birthday presents. I used the images from Pueen Buffet set plate SE01B & SE04B, OPI Christmas Gone Plaid for the green stamping. Mundo de Unas black as the frame for the poinsettias, and filled in the flowers with OPI What's Your Point-settia? and Good Grief!. I dotted a tiny bit of Fairy Dust in the center of the flowers, then sealed with HK Girl  top coat.

I am liking this decal method, now that I kinda know the tricks, it was fun to do! And fingers crossed that I win, would love to have plates with my name engraved on it. But there are many amazing entries! You should check it out on instagram #celebratewithpueen, or enter yourself :).

XO
Novi

Enchanted Polish Hot Chocolate For Unicorns - Swatches & Stamping

Happy Monday! My mani today is one of the new Enchanted Polish that I was lucky enough to grab during the restock three weeks ago. I wasn't sure if it's going to look ok on me, I don't wear brown shades much if you noticed, but I think this is one of the browns that I can and will happily wear. 
Hot Chocolate for Unicorns (what a cute name!) is a creamy holographic deep brown, that resembles the name, a hot chocolate, except that you won't find any sparkles in your cup :p. The holo is not the in-your-face kind but it's definitely there. I have no issues with formula, it applied well and opaque in 2 coats. The swatches below are 2 coats with top coat.

EP Hot Chocolate for Unicorns

EP Hot Chocolate for Unicorns

EP Hot Chocolate for Unicorns

I have been planning to pair this with a pink since before I got this, I love brown+pink combo! Though what I did here makes the pink take over the spotlight in this mani, but I still like it. I used the image from Pueen 37 (Love Element set) and stamp it with Mundo de Unas Mexican Pink. I also use one coat of EP Djinn in a Bottle before the final top coat.

XO
Novi

Marc Jacobs Secret Love With Gold Roses

Hello Monday! Today I am wearing a recycle mani from the weekend. I survived about a day and a half wearing a plain creme :p but no more than that. Had to add something to it!
Anyway, the creme polish I'm wearing, as you can see from the title, is Secret Love, from Marc Jacobs. A glossy, opaque eggplant purple creme. It looks darker on the nail, almost blackened. Nice formula, I used 2 coats here. 

For the nail art. I stamped a rose image from Pueen Encore set plate SE03A using Mundo de Unas #17 (gold). For my middle and ring nails, I placed several pieces of striping tape in random, and quickly layered it with Max Factor Fantasy Fire, OPI gold top coat (The Man with The Golden Gun), OPI 18K White Gold & Silver top coat, and a matte top coat. I removed the tape right away, and just leave it like that. It has a bit of textured finish, but not too bad since all the gold flakes lay flat. I layered the thumb with the white gold top coat. 

Hope everyone has a good start of the week!

XO
Novi

Girly Bits Our Lips are Sealed

Today I have another untried Girly Bits from the latest collection 80's Girl Bands, Our Lips are Sealed. I have had this on since yesterday, and I think this has become one of my favorite pinks! I don't have that many pinks that I'm really in love with, since most pinks seem to look weird on my skin tone. 
From the creator's description, Our Lips are Sealed is a fluorescent pink shimolo, pink holographic with violet and silver shimmer, and silver holo sparks. 
The formula is pretty great, although you might want to do less strokes on the first coat. I found that doing more strokes than needed on the same spot causes bald spots easily. However, the second coat self level really nice and fixed whatever patchy spots I had in the first coat. I used three thin coats and top coat.

Girly Bits Our Lips are Sealed

Girly Bits Our Lips are Sealed

This pink looks almost neon against my skin tone, and made me realize how tan I am now! My pictures here really don't do this polish justice. Under the sun, all the sparkles come out to distract you, the holo effect is not the in your face type, but with the shimmer combination, it's totally gorgeous. No kidding. 
Now here's the part where I regret messing with my mani, I should have just left it alone. I didn't really need to add anything to make it look pretty, i just couldn't help myself!
I stamped over it with Pueen Encore SE03A & SE04A and Mundo de Unas 21 & 56.

Girly Bits Our Lips are Sealed

Girly Bits Our Lips are Sealed

Do you own this polish yet? If you don't, well I highly recommend this pink! And you could buy this directly from Girly Bits or their retailer, you can find the list of distributors on this link.

XO
Novi

Orange in July

Hi everyone! As the last post in July, I'm working with a bunch of bloggers in the group I'm in, called Proud Beauty Bloggers of Colors, presenting 'Orange' as this month's theme. You might also find a beauty blog in the link up below. 

For my orange mani, I did a simple nail art, kinda an impromptu idea since my original one will incorporate more colors and I'm not sure if I can show orange as the star of the mani. Sometimes the unplanned ones are the one I ended up liking more. The orange shade I chose for this mani is OPI Where Did Suzi's Man-Go?

I did an orange+white gradient on three nails, and stamp over them using Mundo de Unas White and Pueen Encore plate SE04A. The two accent nails are a negative space using squiggle vinyls from Beyond The Nail. I used two thick ones and one thin vinyl in the middle. I have always avoided doing negative space because my nails are so stained it's horrible! Now they are in a much better shape, but just in case they're still showing the stain, and I don't want to hurt your eyes, I minimized the naked part by adding dots. They're kinda cute, don't you think? 

Hope you enjoyed the post! And also check out all the other bloggers of color below rocking their orange :)

XO
Novi

An InLinkz Link-up

Glimmery Flowers Stamping

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do today. I started my mani with a white base thinking I'm going to do some watermarble, but then I changed my mind, just wasn't feeling it. I took out and put back some polishes, couldn't decide what kind of colour theme I want to use. Haha.. sounds bad, I know, but this is pretty much what my process is like most of the time. Anyway, I decided to do this one stroke dry brush (kinda like what I did here) as a background for my stamping.

I used several shades for the dry brush method, and honestly, I randomly picked them and keep adding until I like what I'm seeing. The shades I used were piCture pOlish Peaches 'n Cream, Totes, Chillax, Hot Lips, Wisteria, and Metallic Mush. Then I layered them with 2 thin coats of Glam Polish Glimmer. 

The images I used were from Pueen Encore SE02A, stamped with Mundo de Unas #21 and white. I finished the mani with 1 coat of HK Girl top coat. Below is how it looked without the stamping.

I love how easy it was to create the background, and they seem to always turn out ok. 


XO
Novi

Pueen Encore Set

So, today's post is a little different than my usual posts, but I had a blast doing it! I recently bought this new set of stamping set by Pueen, the Encore set. This is my third set of Pueen plates, and since I'm pretty happy with the first two I got, I thought I'd do a review on this one.

This set consists of 4 double-sided 10x10cm square plates. Each plate has an individual plastic cover and blue film that needs to be peeled off before using. Pueen recommend to peel the center of the plastic cover, leaving it as a 'frame' for the plate. 
I didn't do mine that way. Figure that I would need to get the plate out of the cover anyway, I cut off the top so I can easily take the plate out and put it back in. 

I have more detailed pictures of the plates and some 'swatches' (I guess I can call it a swatch, right?) of the designs that caught my eye. Just click below for more :)

Ants Attack!

Hi guys! Yesterday I received my first Mundo de Unas (MdU) stamping polishes in the mail, 12 of them. So naturally I just had to try them right away. 

I started with a neutral base, using Lime Crime Milky Ways. I used 2 images from Pueen 45 for this mani, the one on top of the plate that looked like a cracked surface and the small ant on the bottom right. I thought those 2 images would be a good match. Just don't try to squish your screen, ok? :p

I used several colors to stamp the larger image. They are MdU #5, 16, 21, 39, and 50, and stamp the ant over it with MdU #2. Finished the design with my favorite top coat, HK Girl from Glisten & Glow. 

From this first try, Mundo de Unas lived up to expectation, the good and the bad. The good, stamps VERY well and very opaque. I tried to use as little as possible as suggested, and it still spread evenly. I have to try them over a dark base next time. 
The only bad is the smell. Although I have to admit, it's not as bad as I thought it would be, but still there's a weird smell. Kinda like gasoline but not as bad, it didn't bother me.

Pueen 59 & Colors by Llarowe "Oops"

Happy hump day! Today I'm wearing a simple stamp mani over a super gorgeous polish that's unfortunately is not available to purchase anymore since this is just a small batch prototype that didn't make it to the collection.

There are several version of 'oops' polishes, and I think this is the prettiest one (but I only have one haha). It's a color shifting base with scattered holo effect and holographic microglitter. The formula is a bit thick and dry gritty, I used 2 coats of top coat to smooth it out (before and after the stamp)

I used Pueen 59 from the Buffet set and Color Club Harp On It to stamp the design. Color Club holo never disappoint when used for stamping! Love them!

Close up look. Amazing, right?!

XO

Novi