UberChic Beauty Love & Marriage

Hi guys! The last of the 4 UCB single plates that got released recently, is the Love & Marriage plate, and today I have my review of that plate for you. And I used it for a swirly girly mani with pink and glitters!

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This plate truly offers anything Love & Marriage related, from lace and swirly designs to wedding bells and love potion nr. 9. The only thing that I can come up with that's lacking here, is a "will you marry me?" design. Having said that, in most relations it's the guy that proposes, and I have a feeling those guys wouldn't often go for the stamping route to do so =) The plate does offer options to announce your engagement, to have a matching mani for your bachelorette party, and also a bunch of designs that would work beautifully on the big day itself. I think a lot of brides go for a classic French mani? Imagine just a very subtle stamping with a swirly design, or a bit of lace to go with the dress perhaps, or bridesmaids with matching manis? But this plate also offers plenty for wedding guests, or for anyone that simply likes romantic designs of course!

For my mani I started with a matte pink as base, and stamped on the bigger design that matches the weddingdress image, both are near the top left corner of the plate. I then took a silver tip painter and a small dotting tool, and added tiny dots of sparkle to the circle endings of the swirls. No top coat, just a cleanup, I like it just like this :)

Essence Hola, Guapa with Konad White, Essence Silver Sparkle and UberChic Beauty Uc Love & Marriage -01.

You can find all the UberChic Beauty plates on their website, and you can find them on social media like Facebook and Instagram. Thanks for stopping by ♥


The product(s) in this post was/were send to me for review. For more information, please have a look at my Disclosure Policy.

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Diagonal stamping with Messy Mansion's Accessories Kit

Good morning :) I blogged about the Accessories Kit 2.0 the other day, and here's a mani I did with it. I started with a simple design: I used the triangular shape of the template, picked up the image and lined up one of the sides of the triangle to the side of my nail. Easypeasy diagonal stamping! ^^ The image that I used is a big one from UberChic Beauty, so I could stamp a different, yet matching design on each nail. You can see the plate in this post. You can win that entire plateset in my UCB giveaway, but don't wait too long with entering, because it'll end later tonight!

Dance Legend Julia with China Glaze Millenium, Messy Mansion Accessories Kit 2.0 and UberChic Beauty plate UC-3-02.

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Random Dance Legend swatches (including black peel off!)

Recently I received another awesome Dance Legend package, and here's a bunch of those polishes already :)

Starting with 2 beautiful cremes, both perfect as nail art bases! This is #03 Olga from the Binary collection, which looks darker and a little more muted green than my pics show. A great color that covered in 2 easy coats, no top coat.

Next we have Enamel Gel Effect #1031, a lovely coffee cream that covered again in 2 easy coats, no top coat. I'm so impressed by the Dance Legend cremes, even these lighter colors cover great and apply wonderfully, without streaks!

This is #03 Olga with 1 coat of #02 Lissome from the Leo Skin collection. Lissome has leopard spot-shaped glitters in gold and black , and irregular shaped and sized glitters in what seems to be 2 shades of gold. I finished with 1 layer of Dance Legend Go Fast top coat (more on that one in a future post). This polish did need some fishing, there's plenty of the leopard spot glitters in the bottle, but with the size of them I didn't expect much else tbh. Some found their way to my nails with the normal application, but I also placed some glitters myself.

Another Leo Skin collection polish, #4 Savage, shown on Glitter Base Black. This polish will give full coverage in a layer or 2, but since the glitters already stand out a bit, I figured it would look better to not have them pile up or any, so I started with a smooth base. Savage is packed with golden glitter, which leans a tad bit to the green side, and has lots of golden leopard spot glitter. Again some glitter found its own way onto the nail, some I fished a little for and placed myself. And finished with 1 layer of Go Fast as well.

I do really like the idea of such an easy leopard mani, but since my nails are quite curvy (some nails more than others), they easily make larger glitters like these stand out. Compare the glitter on the top of my pinkie with the glitter on the bottom left of my ringfinger, one stands out a lot, one is almost fully smooth. So I think these will be better for flatter nails, or really placing them all manually and placing them along with the cruves of the nail (like on my ringfinger), not in the opposite direction.

Next we have 2 polishes of the Eden collection, these are clear layering polishes. However, the silvery/white one can probably give full coverage as you can see above. On those 4 swatches, I used 1 coat on my index/middle, and 2 coats on my ring/pink. Full swatches of them below.

Here's 1 coat of #1 Creation Of Man layered on Enamel Gel Effect #1031, finished with Go Fast top coat. Creation Of Man shows mainly as silvery/white on the nail, but it has a hint of gold in there too. The Eden collection has 10 layering beauties, and they're an easy way to add a little extra to a mani :)

Oh my! This is #6 Forbidden Fruit on the Glitter Base Black, finished with Go Fast. Yes, this collection has some delicious duochromes as well! The main colors in Forbidden Fruit are pink and orange, but you can see a little golden, and even a hint of green and brown in there as well. And what I really like, is that they apply so even! This is the result of 1 coat. Shown on a black base, because that makes such colors stand out most, but this looks fantastic on a lot of other colors too!

And here's a brilliant invention, a black peel off base! Black is probably the most used color for glitters and flakies, it makes colors pop, and it just combines so well with everything sparkly! But oh, the hassle to remove them... We already discovered the peel off basecoat, but why not skip that step and go for a colored version? I like the way you think, Dance Legend!

It can give full coverage in 1 slightly thicker coat, but I'm showing 2 coats of Glitter Base Black here (no top coat), since I found that it peels easier with 2 coats. I did notice it tends to crawl up your tips a little bit, but wrapping the tips solved that easypeasy, just like with any other polish shrinkage. Cleanup is a bit tricky (afterall, this isn't just polish, it feels like a mix of polish with peel off, and the clean up of the latter is a bit tricky as well), but it applies so easily that I didn't really have an issue with that :)

And here's how it peels, showing it here with one of the manis that I showed above, but it works just as well with all glitters that I tried so far. The remains are simply removed with a little remover, and it's not as sticky and glue-y as well, the glue-in-disguise peel off. Lovelovelove it! :D

What's your favorite of this post, and do you prefer smaller posts with swatches, or more swatches in a single post like I did here? Thanks for stopping by and take care!

You can buy Dance Legend in their own webshop and in various other webshops, and you can also find Dance Legend on Facebook and Instagram.


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Subtle sparkling doublestamping!

Hi guys! Here's a mani from the vault, while I'm still cheering on my nails to quickly reach this length again :) I used Captive Goddess as one of the stamping polishes, which is one of the 4 polishes you can win in my A England giveaway!

I started the mani by stamping the first color, and switched the image on each nail (normal and upside down). Then I went over it in the same way with the purple stamping, but then again in the opposite direction of each nail. The blue flash of the bottom stamping and the subtle sparkles give this combo just that little bit extra! The plate is one of the BornPrettyStore plates, which I showed you recently. Don't forget, you get 10% off your BPS order with code ABJ61 :)

China Glaze Sweet Hook with A England Captive Goddess, A England Lady Of The Lake and BornPrettyStore plate BP-L015.

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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! :)


The product(s) in this post was/were send to me for review. For more information, please have a look at my Disclosure Policy.

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