UberChic Beauty Fairytale: Sweet April with BornPrettyStore stamping polish

Hi there! As you may have seen on my social media, I have new foster kittens, 2 babies of just 2.5 weeks old. Because of that, I won't blog as much in the coming days or even weeks, they still need to be bottle-fed round the clock! I do have a few hours in between, but my head isn't fully into polish right now and I also don't want to risk having wet polish on my nails if one of them needs unexpected help :) I hope to post more of them on my foster blog sometime today, but I might just go for a nap instead, haha. Anyway, now you know why my blog might go a little quiet, but here's a quick review post in between!

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I'm starting with this image plate by UberChic Beauty. This plate has an illustration from a very old book called Dream Boats and Other Stories, and UberChic Beauty turned the illustration into a Special Edition plate. How cool is that! This plate is so unique, and I think it's such a sweet and special image. I'm curious to see if there's more images like this in the UCB future! The plate has the usual UCB platesize and it worked like a charm, nothing new there from this brand :) I planned on a part of the feathery image on the right on some nails, and those tiny stars from the top on a few other nails, but I found myself going for the cherry tree designs on the left and right, near her feet. Those stars and feathers will have to come some other time! I see several parts that I'd like to see on the nail sometime, including the border, that slightly rough line could be turned into great designs on the nail. Do you have a favorite illustration from a book that you'd love to see turned into a plate? Here's a direct link to this plate on the UCB website, the plate costs $14.99.

The stamping polish that I used for this mani is from a brand that's sold by BornPrettyStore, it's called Ya Qin An and the color that I used here is #16. It's a sandy light grey color, beautiful! I was impressed by how well it works on both light and darker colors. It's a real stamping polish, which already becomes clear when you open the bottle. Stamping polish often smells a bit different, this one does too, and you can see on the brush that it's a little thicker and very pigmented. The only 'downside' I can come up with, is that the square bottle wasn't easy to hold for my photos :D They have some lovely colors (currently there's 10 colors to choose from), and it's definitely a brand I'd like to try more of! You can find this stamping polish here, a bottle costs $6.06 for 18ml. Coupon code ABJ61 will give 10% off on your order!

Catrice Grey's Kelly with BornPrettyStore Ya Qin An #16 and UberChic Beauty Special Edition Fairytale: Sweet April.

Thanks for looking, and take care for now! ♥


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UberChic Beauty Collection 4

Besides the Uber Mat, which I blogged about in my previous post, UberChic Beauty also released a bunch of new plates! A new collection and 2 loose plates, and today I have my review of the collection for you :)

The plates have the usual UberChic Beauty size, and so do the images. And yes, they have the protective back and blue foil too, I'm sure that didn't come as a surprise! I like the size of the UCB images, when my nails are a bit shorter I can even stamp them sideways as well, offering even more options. I recently updated my stamping plate size comparison, you can see how big these images are on this blogpage. Here are the plates in the 4th collection, all plates are clickable for an enlargement!

These plates really have that UberChic feel to them, don't you agree? I'll tell you straight away, it's yet another lovely set by UCB if you ask me! What I like a lot is that several images can be combined beautifully, because they're based on the same design, as the bottom right images show well. Or the loose flowers in the middle, that match the full nail image in the middle right. And that full nail image left of 'Indie ♥' reminds me a lot of an image of UCB plate UC 1-03 (the image on the middle of the right row), I think they'll match well to get a design stamped on normal and in the opposite way!

The 2nd plate offers more of that typical UCB mix, floral, swirly, some really fine lined flowers, some geometric designs... That rose near the middle almost looks fiery! The image above that is the one that I used for today's nails, love it! If you looked closely and are wondering, the bottom left image in the corner has a little bit blue foil residue on it, nothing a little remover won't fix! I just noticed it later on :) And speaking of that image, I think those thick lines can create a nice balance between the stamping and a 'heavier' base, like a glitter or holo (instead of a more neutral, calm creme). With such thicker images it's easier to not have the base overpower the stamping.

The last plate of this collection has a lot of designs that straight away jumped out to me, from the fine lines and the wider, more swirly lines (both around the middle), to the flowers with matching small flowers, and of course the wobbly net design and the one below those thicker lines (2nd row from the left, 2nd from the bottom). Such images like the last one can be tricky to get even on all nails, and I can be way too much of a perfectionist for such things. But with the reversed stamping, it's so much easier!


These nails were done with that same technique, I applied a thin layer of top coat to the Uber Mat, stamped the design in black and took a bunch of holos from the good old OMG collection, and colored the design with a pointy dotting tool. So easy, yet with a lot of effect! The grey nails were done with a matte polish, but it didn't dry as matte as I'd like, so I added some extra matte top coat.

Catrice Pebble Beach with Dance Legend Top Satin, accentnails of A England Camelot with Konad Black and UberChic Beauty plate UC4-02, with China Glaze LOL, DV8, BFF, QT, IDK and TTYL.

And here's how that looks in the sun :)

I guess it's clear that I'm getting the hang of the reversed stamping, I'm starting to enjoy it more and more! ^^ What are your thoughts on this mani, and UberChic Beauty's Collection 4? I'll show the 2 new loose plates soon too if you're interested in seeing those. You can find all the UCB products on their website, but you can also find them on Facebook and Instagram. Thanks for stopping by and take care ♥


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UberChic Beauty The Far East

Yesterday I showed you UberChic Beauty's The Wild West plate, today it's The Far East's turn! I'm sure you straight away get some images in mind with a theme like that, let's see below if the plate has those as well...

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From bamboo to a koi, from a little panda to watery images, this plate offers plenty. And with that theme, it won't come as a surprise that there's dragons and symbols and writing as well! The plate combines traditional images with images that feel more modern to me, and it combines intricate designs with designs that'll work just as well as little details or for doublestamping. I think it's a perfect mix of Asian themed designs :)

The plate looks a little smudgy on a few spots, and in case you're wondering: the protective blue foil got a bit stuck on this one (not sure why, the warmth?), it came off easily but left some sticky residue, which I noticed later on the photo. Nothing a little remover won't fix though! And the quality of the plate is just as great as every other UberChic Beauty plate. In fact, I stamped 5 nails at once with the lettering design, without cleaning the plate in between ♥ I started with stamping the text in Dorian Gray, then stamped over that with the image that's on the top row, 2nd from the left, with Virgin Queen. And here's how that turned out:

OPI My Vampire Is Buff with A England Dorian Gray and Virgin Queen and UberChic Beauty plate UC The Far East -01.

You can find all the UberChic Beauty plates on their website. Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful evening!


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Dance Legend Pure Manicure (liquid skin protector)

Lately we've been seeing more and more liquid skin protecting products, they're a great invention and Dance Legend also has a version, called Pure Manicure. Time to put it to the test, and I did so with a sponged manicure finished with some stamping with a real stainer. I'll tell you straight away that I LOVE this stuff!

Pure Manicure is a minty green, thin liquid that comes in a 15ml bottle and applies easily. It's a little runny and it has a small brush to help get a precise application. A little goes a long way! It's quite clear on my image where I applied it a bit thicker than needed, but that doesn't matter at all for the peeling effect. You can apply it just around the cuticles, or if you'd use this for watermarble, you can use it all over your fingers. I also used it below my nails here, it wasn't needed for this manicure but especially when I wrap my tips with polish, it's easy to get a bit on your skin there as well.

Pure Manicure dries fast and peels so easily, it comes off in 1 go and I just really enjoy that peeling off! :D On my picture below, you see some tiny bits and pieces of polish on my skin after peeling, but that's all loose and quickly removed with the final cleanup. I have used my peel off basecoat in this way a few times before, but that wasn't really doing it for me. It's stickier, it dries to a clear layer, it's thicker, it doesn't have a handy brush... the real thing just works a lot nicer! I can definitely recommend Dance Legend's Pure Manciure, it's such a nice tool for all kinds of nail art! You can find it in their webshop where it costs $9 (and various other webshops sell it as well).

And here's how that mani looks after applying top coat and doing the cleanup (and photographing with better light, haha!). I started with a light grey polish, sponged on a red & sheer purple polish and finished with the black stamping. Reds can look a bit pink on the first coat, and adding that sheer purple also changed its color, so the result looks a lot more pink with a hint of red on some spots. The sheer purple that I used is Chagall, one of Dance Legend's Top Aquarelle polishes, and I really like how you can build it up a little to create some darker spots as well! I hope you'll like this look, thanks for checking it out and have a great weekend :)

Essence Enter Wonderland sponged with China Glaze Ruby Deer and Dance Legend Chagall, stamped with Konad Black and UberChic Beauty UC3-02.

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Bundle Monster Traditional Polynesia stamping plates

Hi lovelies! I hope you're not tired of stamping plate reviews yet, because I have yet another awesome plateset to show you: the 'Traditional Polynesia' set from Bundle Monster! There are 4 Polynesia themed platesets, each set contains 5 plates. The images are all XL, but if that's not big enough for you, the other sets all have some fully covered plates as well! More on the plates below, first I'll show a mani I did with them :)

The plates come with a plastic back and the usual, easy to remove blue foil on the front. The images on these plates are 1.5x2.2cm, which is a lovely size for me (no issues with my thumbnails when they're a bit longer) and of course they're added to my comparison as well! And you know I love full nail designs, so plates packed with them? Yes please!

Bundle Monster has brought us themed sets before, and just like those sets, all 4 of the Polynesia sets match the theme SO very well! And this theme must've been quite inspiring them them, because they managed to fill up a whopping 20 plates with it :D You can find the 4 sets on their website. As mentionned above, the set that I received is the 'Traditional Polynesia' set, and here are the 5 plates of this set! You can click the images for an enlargement if you want.

I really like the combination between softer, tropical floral, geometrical and bold tribal on these plates! And then there's images that I think will look fantastic in various ways, like the image that's 2nd on the top left. Imagine that in a subtle tone-on-tone, or as a black on holo design! That specific design jumps out to me, together with the bottom row all the way left, and the 2 designs on the bottom right. Oh! And the other floral design, maybe in a darker green reverse stamping, fill in the leaves with a lighter green? (I seriously lack time for all the ideas in my head, lol!)

I've already used the bottom left image, but the 2nd from the top left image calls for me as well! Or how about top left, black with various colors perhaps?  And again some cute floral designs :)

This plate focusses more on geometrical designs, and it does that very well! I have some diamond shaped glitters, they might look great as details in that image with the stripes with diamonds!

I think a lot of these images will absolutely rock in bright colors, but the image that I chose for the mani in this post, shows well that you can take it in any direction. I bet it'll look so different stamped in a bright red or some! These plates offer some scenery designs, like top left, but it's images like that tribal on the top right that straight away got my attention. 2 images to the left of it, another tribal-y image that I like a lot! And those cute little berries :) The image that I used today is one of my favorites as well!

Last but certainly not least! From a kiwi bird to a design made of turtles (bottom row, 2nd from the left). I can already tell you that the tribal-ish image in the middle of the bottom row looks fantastic on the nail :) And if you're looking for more specific designs, these plates clearly offer them as well!

Femme Fatale Cosmetics The First Northern Witch with Konad White and Bundle Monster BM-XL114.

All in all, I think these Polynesia platesets are great, and also perfect for this time of year, they feel so tropical! We have the matching sun right now, now where's my cocktail ^^ What do you think of this plateset? Wishing you a lovely sunny day as well, take care!

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Femme Fatale Cosmetics The White Witch Collection

Femme Fatale Cosmetics is currently having the presale for this collection, and it's yet again a beautiful set of polishes.Here's what FFC says:
"The White Witch Collection comprises of several seasonal shades in a complimentary palette and with various finishes. Our palette is inspired by classic autumn and winter scenery, and the collection is themed to the White Witch (Queen Jadis) from the Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis."
The collection is packed with all kinds of goodness, from flakies to duochrome, from thermal to holo glitter. Curious to see them? Here they are! ♥

Heart's Desires

Heart's Desires is an old rose pink base, with fine coppery glitter and with the well known red-to-green flakies. I applied 2 thicker coats for this result; full coverage but with the flakies still very visible. What a unique combo, very pretty as well!

Her Imperial Majesty

Her Imperial Majesty covered in just 2 coats, and it's a purple base with magentapink microglitter that very subtle leans golden on the edges. Purple perfection :)

Hundred Years Winter

Hundred Years Winter is another 2-coater, a dark dusty mauve with a strong blue-teal duochrome. Unfortunately my camera mainly picked up the blue. I haven't seen a duochrome with these colors before, and it applied great as well!

Lantern Waste

Lantern Waste is another flakie, it's like a muted, grey-ish blue packed with the red-to-green flakies. It reminded me a little of good old Nfu-Oh #51, but then more mature, if that makes sense. I definitely prefer this one, love the basecolor! I used 3 thin coats here.

Lion's Breath

Time for thermal, and a very unique one that is! Lion's Breath is a rich, brown base packed with golden holographic glitter. I used 3 thin coats here. Above it's shown as cold, below is the transition to warm, and then how it looks warm. As you can see, it becomes a clear beige! If you dislike the clear part of it, you can always wear this with undies. Love the cold look!

The above macro also shows some visible nail lines, but that's not visible in real life when your nails are cold.

Moonlight Statues

Moonlight Statues has a purple and blue (leaning teal) duochrome base, packed with holographic glitter in different sizes. Yum! I used 2 thicker coats here.

The First Northern Witch

The First Northern Witch is more calm compared to the previous polish, but not less intricate. It's a grey base, filled with various shades of golden glitter (I'm seeing gold, silvery gold and bronze gold) and shimmer, from very fine to a bit larger, and it has some holographic microglitter as well. Another beauty that covered in 2 thicker coats.

The Secret Of Secrets

Pff, where to start! This one's extra tricky to describe, there's just SO much going on here! I'll give it a go: The Secret Of Secrets has a duochrome base, rose pink to green-golden, which can even look a bit muted grey. There's coppery pink flakies, and smaller bits of flakies in all kinds of colors. It surely matches it's name, haha! Just like most of these, this one's unlike anything I own, and it's definitely one of those polishes that just keeps pulling your attention! :)

As you probably figured, all my swatches are with top coat, they all gave a smooth result with just 1 layer of top coat (and I used a thinner one for my swatches). The presale for this gorgeous collection started yesterday and will run till the 5th of this month. So, if you want to grab any of these, don't wait too long! You can find them in various webshops like Shiro Cosmetics, FFC also has a Facebook group, and you can find Femme Fatale Cosmetics on social media like Instagram as well.

What do you think of this collection, and which one is your favorite? I can't choose, probably one of the red-to-green flakies or the thermal, but if you can pick a favorite, I'd love to hear it! :)


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