Cinderhellie Nails

Hello Lovelies, I hope you have all had an amazing Easter Weekend with your friends and families and got treated to lots of Easter Eggs! Today I have swatches of one of the new Creative Shop plates I recently brought from Rainbow Connection and has I loved one of the images so much I have a quick tutorial on how I created the accent nail for my recent manicure. **I will leave all links at the end** So this is the plate I got and it has some really cute images on it I love the Creative Plates because they are full of such unique and quirky images, they have so much detail and are really well etched. The image sizes are a really good size too which means if you have long nails these plates would be fine for you. For the Swatches I used - 2 in 1 Embellished Clear Stamper Painted Polish - Midnight Mischief I was so happy with how well the images from this plate picked up - I used my usual gentle scrape with a firm scraper and rolled the stamper over the image, ...

Hello all my lovely nail friends, I am back...I am still struggling with my health and off work but I'm trying to get myself back and with that trying to find my nail passion again so I thought blogging again would be a good place to start. I have also made some changes to my Facebook page as I'm still not working it is my swatch and review page at present, I am also attempting short video tutorials and will hopefully be venturing into YouTube soon!!! So today's post is a review of the new 2 in 1 Crystal Embellished stamper the lovely Annette from Rainbow Connection sent me. This stamper has 2 large stamping heads with see through barrels and can be stacked for easy storage, it has a lid to protect the stamping head and crystals in the bottom. Each head is different 1 is domed and firmer while the other is flatter and slightly squishier (I prefer this one) although it is not as squishy as my all time favourite!! As with my previous reviews I chose to swa...

Happy Christmas Eve Everyone. Yesterday I posted Part 1 of my Christmas Day mani and today I have the rest of it. I decided I wanted to create some Icy Blue nails that resemble luxury wrapping paper. All the products I used for the rest of this mani were purchased from  Rainbow Connection  and some are still available. I started by painting 2 coats of Cirque Colours Idyllic on my ring and middle fingers and Reflektor on my index and thumb (Reflektor is no longer available) These colours were perfect for my icy look and definitely look luxurious on the nail - they dry quite quickly too. Once dry I put some latex around my middle and index ready to do a sponged gradient. You can get Zap from RC but I have a big bottle from Ebay which I use. Let the latex dry. *Please don't use liquid latex if you have a latex allergy - you can use tape around the nail instead* Using a cosmetic sponge (I have a bag from the pound shop) apply 2 stripes of your polishes onto the spon...

Happy Sunday Lovelies, I hope you have all had a great weekend. I have some swatches today of another Creative Shop Plate the lovely Annette of  Rainbow Connection  sent me. This is plate 25 which is full of tropical/summertime images and my eye was instantly drawn to several of the images. Now I have been stamping for a while now and while I wouldn't say I'm an expert I have tried a lot of brands of plates and stampers and in my opinion Creative Shop are some of the best I have used. When I got my 1st plate I tested it with a range of polishes and stampers and I had perfect results everytime, it is all in a previous post which you can find  here . Here is the plate I am swatching today - These plates have a clear protective film that you need to remove before using. There are 14 images and they are a good size so perfect for my long nails and would work for slightly longer nails too. These plates are really well etched which you can tell from the pick up ...

Hi Lovelies, Hope you are all well. The lovely Annette from Rainbow Connection sent me some plates to swatch recently and I was very excited when I received them as I haven't tried the Creative Shop plates yet so I was keen to do a thorough swatch and review. The plates each have 14 good sized images and they are big enough for my longer nails which is always a bonus (I have just filed my nails a bit shorter though) Some of the images had very thin intricate lines which can sometimes be trickier to pick up so I was keen to see how these did. The plate I'm showing you today is 22 which has some beautiful floral images - its a very feminine plate in my opinion and I really like it. I also found when I took the clear film off the images were well etched.  I decided to 1st test the plate with various polishes and stampers to see if there were any combinations didn't work. I tested with the following polishes - EDK - Teddy EDK - Carina Colour Alike - B a Venu...