KBShimmer Snow Flaking Way

This is KBShimmer Snow Flaking Way, from Christy's Winter 2013 collection.  More pics and info after the jump!

KBShimmer Snow Flaking Way

January BHB Mani Swap

Mani Swap with my nail thread buddy Scoutie!  You can find her on IG as @manimaninails.  Go check out her page, she's very talented and has some great video tutorials posted!

I chose to recreate her ruffian roses mani, but with a little twist of my own.  More pics and info after the jump!

Antique Style Roses in a Ruffian style mani

Bear Pawlish Cold Never Bothered Me with stamping

Here's a beautiful polish I purchased during Bear Pawlish's B2G1 free sale in the beginning of January!  It's called Cold Never Bothered Me and it's inspired by who else but Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen!  More pics and info after the jump!

Bear Pawlish Cold Never Bothered Me stamped mani

Bestie Twin Nails Meets The 90s

I was asked by one my best nail friends Megatuce (IG@megatuce; blog: megatuce.com) to do Bestie Twin Nails and I said absofreakinglutely!  Read on for more pics and info!

90s Inspired Bestie Twin Nails

ILNP Mutagen and Flakies Stamped Mani

I'm in love with this mani!  So much that I've had it on for five days!!  I'll be sad to see it go.

Dual-purpose mani, trying out my new ILNP polish (Mutagen) and new MoYou London plate and stamper, and painting for a football playoff games challenge.  More pics and info after the jump!

Fluff: More Nail Mail

Nail mail!!  I finally got my Bear Pawlishes in from the promo Tennessee ran at the beginning of January, and I dove in and ordered some new stampers from MoYou London too!

Nail Mail!! from Bear Pawlish and MoYou London

Tennessee, owner of the Bear Pawlish indie brand, ran a Buy 2 Get 1 Free promo.  I've had several of her polishes on my wishlist so I certainly couldn't pass up such a great deal!  Her shop is currently closed, but once she works through everything from this promo she'll be back up and running.

Bear Pawlish indie brand polishes

As for MoYou London, they just recently released some new squishy stampers.  I currently own several stampers (Konad double sided firm, BPS double ended XL squishy, two Cici&Sisi squishy stampers from the jumbo sets) but I've been itching for a good marshmallow stamper for my collection.  From the reviews I've seen, the people that have purchased these stampers from MoYou London had some good things to say and they claimed they were both marshmallow squishy sticky stampers.

MoYou London stamping plates and squishy stampers

I found that while the rectangular squishy stamper is a marshmallow, sadly the double ended one is not.  It's still squishy, probably a little less so than my BPS one, but certainly not a marshmallow.  Never fear, I'll find a use for it!  Both stampers came with their own plastic scraper.  Woo hoo!!!

I've also had the Explorer plate 22 on my wishlist forever, since Debbie (@ladyandthe_stamp on IG) received one as a prize from MoYou London.  Since I was ordering stampers, I figured I may as well put this baby in my cart too.  I was not disappointed!!

MoYou London Explorer collection plate 22 and rectangular stamper and scraper

Now for my testing of the stampers.  I used an image from the Explorer plate and Sinful Colors Black On Black polish.  I first tested them unprimed, then I primed a little, then I primed some more until I got a good image.  I primed the stampers using a dry Mr. Clean Magic Eraser and lightly buffed in circular motions until the head was no longer shiny.

The first picture is my double ended stamper.  (Sorry, I can't directly link it right now because it is out of stock.  I'll edit my post once they are available again.)  The top box is where I used the larger end of the stamper, and the second box is the other slightly smaller end.  The smaller end stamped better than I expected unprimed, but once I primed it twice it was good to go.  The larger end took a little extra priming until it was perfect.

MoYou London Double Ended squishy stamper

This second picture is the rectangular squishy stamper.  This actually worked pretty well unprimed, but I thought it may be even better if I primed it a bit.  I stamped twice more after I primed it to make sure it wasn't a fluke.  I'm thoroughly impressed with this stamper and I think it moved to the top of my favorites list.

MoYou London Rectangular marshmallow stamper

Do you stamp?  What is your absolute favorite stamper to use?

KBShimmer Deja Brew and In Bare Form Mani

So, I stepped away from my multichromes for a hot minute, but still went right for my indie drawer... (btw, collection pics coming soon!!)  I came away with some beautiful holos from KBShimmer, this time Deja Brew and In Bare Form.  More pics and info after the jump!

KBShimmer mani