Guest Nails: Tiffani

I did my friend Tiffani's nails :) I haven't really felt like doing mine but I had fun doing hers. 

No Flash

With Flash

I used China Glaze Limbo Bimbo and Art Deco art polishes in white, black, silver and silver glitter. I'm pretty happy with the way they came out, particularly the right hand. I generally don't try to do abstract stripes lol. Just a quick post today, I'm gonna do my nails soon, I swear!
As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Guest Post on Frugal Polish!

Hi lovemuffins! Sorry I haven't been around much, lots going on lately. I did a gues post  on the amazing Alyssa's blog Frugal Polish today. So head over and check it out!

Guest Post: Pinked Polish

Today we have a guest post from Melissa over at Pinked Polish! 

Hi Dolls:) This is Melissa from Pinked Polish, if you haven't checked out my blog you should!!! I have some really great things coming up in the near future!!!! I am super excited to be doing the guest post as it is my very first one:) I wanted to try something totally new for you guys, so I decided on gradient with a stamp. Well my hubby chose the colors for this beauty, and says if he ever gets that '71 chevelle ss he is gonna paint it this blue, China Glaze "Frostbite". I ♥ this color, it is the perfect Pepsi blue!!!!

 The green he chose is China Glaze "Cha Cha Cha" and it is equally noteworthy!!!! 

I then stamped Cheeky plate CH16 in Silver on all my nails :) 

All followed with a coat of SV (Seche Vite). Hope you guys like!!!! And a Special THANKS to Lena for letting me Guest post!!!!

I totally love it Melissa! Thanks so much for sharing with us! 

Born Pretty Store Update

So I promised an update on my issues with the Born Pretty Store and here it is! I wrote the last post (read it here) because I was SICK an TIRED of trying to get them to fix my problems. I had ordered plates from them and most of them were defective. After emailing them they gave me the run around and just kept sending me videos on how to stamp correctly. Well that, as you can imagine, only served to make me mad. I'm not a novice, I know what I'm doing and I had informed them of that fact. (I mean really, take the plastic off? No, I thought it was SUPPOSED to stay on there!) Ahem...sorry I still am a little angry lol. 
Where was I? Oh yes, they weren't fixing my problems and they weren't timely about emailing me back. Finally I decided to post about it which made me feel a little better but mostly I didn't want anyone else to go through what I was. I also did a review on their site and posted mine on their Facebook wall. I got so sick of everybody's sponsored reviews saying how great everything was when I kept hearing stories just like my own. 
As you can imagine, it didn't take long after that to hear back from them. They were "depressed" that I called the customer service horrible, they try to make sure they do everything they can for the customers, blah blah blah. 

Finally, after many more emails back and forth they said they would replace my defective plates. After I sent them pictures of the plates (what is a picture going to show? No idea.) But I took the pictures and even circled the working images in Sharpie lol. They agreed to send the plates out ASAP for me. It took quite a while (since they ship from China to the US I was expecting that  this time), but I finally got them. To my surprise I found they had replaced my whole order (12 plates and the scraper and stamper). I've tested all the images out and they seem to work good except for the Hello Kitty image. Now, I'm not sure why that image doesn't work, it IS better than last time for sure but it's still just really light and not great. I really can't say I care that much about one image though to raise another huge fuss. 

So, is everything forgiven? Not really. And it definitely won't be forgotten that's for sure. I know there are others who have never gotten their issues taken care of. I kind of feel they only fixed mine because I made a huge deal of it and I took it public. I know in the future I don't foresee taking the chance on buying something that is defective and having to go through this all again. 
Full disclosure: I did try to get them to let me review their new acrylic molds to easily make your own embellishments but they said I don't have enough followers (I need 500). I figured I woulda had fun playin with the stuff if nothin else lol. 
Overall the new plates work and my problem was (eventually) resolved. I still think the customer service sucks and I highly doubt I will buy anything from them again after this experience. 
As always, thanks for stopping by :)

Gorgeous but difficult *pic heavy*

Today I have what I think just might be my favorite mani I've ever done! Its gorgeous but a HUGE pain to try to get good color accurate pics. Lets jump right in shall we?

Inside sunlight

Inside Flash

Inside no flash

These are the most color accurate and the only ones I didn't try to mess with the colors. All I did with these was stick the text on there.

Kleancolor Metallic Aqua 

For this mani I used only Kleancolor polishes. I'm super in love with them can you tell? This is 2 coats of Metallic Pink. It was completely opaque in one coat but I did 2 only because I wanted to wrap my tips and fix a couple of my imperfections. I used Born Pretty plate M72 to stamp the super cute flower in Metallic Aqua. The little stones were sent to me by my friend Sherry (see posts here and here). And I don't think pictures do this justice at all. Its so pretty, I can't stop staring at my nails!

You might be saying what?! I thought you had all kinds of problems with your Born Pretty plates? I did and I will do an update post tomorrow :) But I'll tell you now they fixed the problems. 

Anywho, all my Kleancolor polishes (and I've got quite a bit) I have got from Copious (if you don't already know they are giving out another $10 in credits this weekend see here). Speaking of which, I am off to hurry up and spend mine before they expire ;) Come chat with me on Facebook if you feel so inclined. 

As always, thanks for stopping by :)