Today I have another Born Pretty Store stamping plate to show you. This is plate BP-58, which is available here for $2.99. As you can see, this plate has lots of cute birds, and some lovely individual feathers.
I did two looks with this plate, one with a full nail design and one with an individual feather.
This first design has a grey base of Nella Milano Mercury Haze. I then stamped using the birds on a wire part of the plate and Barry M Silver Foil.
The plate stamped really well, apart from that one spot on the tip of my index finger - that was my fault though, not the plate's.
The second look I did was with the peacock feather in the centre of the plate. I started with a base of Chanel Peridot, which is a polish I just love for its gorgeous greeny gold finish. I had initially planned to stamp using a bright turquoise metallic blue, but apparently none of my polishes were suitable as they just didn't show over the gold. Nothing to do with the plate, it was just the polish wasn't pigmented enough.
Instead, I used China Glaze Don't Make Me Wine, which is a gorgeous dark metallic reddy purple. This stamped beautifully, and I love how this looks! Don't look at my poor stumpy thumbnail! It broke badly across the corner a week ago, and is still not really presentable.
This looks fab in the evening sunshine!
I think this is a really nice stamp, and I can definitely see this one getting a lot of use. I think the cute cartoon birds in the heart would make a lovely spring or Valentine's mani.
The plate is currently $2.99, but you can get 10% off using my discount code.
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Today I have another new brand for you! Nella Milano is a new company - you can see their website here, where all their polishes are for sale. I love the range of colours on offer - they look so bright and zingy and pretty!
I have two to show you, Mercury Haze and Chestnut Road. Strangely, out of all the colours I already have, both of these are sort of unique in my collection! First up is Mercury Haze, a pretty grey.
This is really nice grey. I think it has a greeish edge to it, which makes it quite different to other greys I've tried. It's a very slatey grey, which I like!
This is two coats of Mercury Haze. I added topcoat, because I wore it to work for a day, but it didn't really need it, as it's really glossy already.
I also wore this for another three days with stamping over the top (see my previous post), and I can confirm it wore really really well, no chips, peels, tip wear or anything else.
My second colour is Chestnut Road. I first thought this would be a blood red vampy colour, but with the second coat it's definitely more of a rich chocolate brown, with reddish tones.
Isn't it gorgeous? This colour really is right up my street!
This was almost a one coater, although I did two for perfection. This is with topcoat, but again, it really doesn't need it.
The bottles are nice - they look elegant and simple, and I like the swirly pattern on the lid. The brushes are really nice - narrow (which is definitely my preference) and quite firm, and comfortable to use. The formula on both of these was excellent - thin, without being runny or streaky, no pooling round the cuticles, no lumps, bumps or splodges. Both were beautifully even and smooth, and dried very quickly. I'm really impressed! These sell on the Nella Milano website for £8.95 each, which is in the OPI/China Glaze price range. They don't have the colour range of either of those brands (yet) but of course, this is a brand new company. I think the quality of the polish is just as good though, and the brush is definitely far nicer for me than the OPI one, which I find far too wide.
You can follow Nella Milano on Facebook here, where they have just released a special offer! For the next 5 days, you can get 50% off any order! I think that's a total bargain, so I've got my eye on quite a few colours there!
You can also follow Nella Milano on Instagram, Twitter and Pinterest.
These polishes were provided for my honest opinion. See my Disclaimer section for more details.
Just a quick post tonight - I've been pretty lacking in nail mojo so far this year!
This is a base of a pretty grey creme from a new brand, Nella Milano. This is two coats of Mercury Haze. I'll have a full review of this and another colour coming up in the next few days.
I stamped over this using Barry M Silver Foil and the MoYou London Pro XL 06 plate, using the pretty filigree design.
I really loved how this came out, and have worn this for three days.
