Lady Queen Beauty Water Decals

Today I want so show you some water decals Lady Queen Beauty offered me for reviewing purposes. Thank you so much, Lady Queen Beauty!





The decals come in a single sheet without any pre-formed cutouts, so you have to cut them yourself. They come in two rows, each 2cm high and 5.6cm wide. If you want to wear them as a full mani, you need quite narrow nails, as the 5.6cm aren't much for five nails. Mine are too wide, so I decided to use the decals as accent nails only. On my middle and ring finger, I applied the water decals over a white base (two coats of Essie Blanc). Application was easy, just soak the decal in warm water (remove the clear protection foil first), slide it from the white protection paper, apply it to the damp nail, pat it dry with some tissue and topcoat it. These flower decals have a quite delicate print, rather translucent, so a white base really is mandatory.

On my other fingers I chose a polish in the same color range, Pahlish Nodding Violet, a muted lilac holo. It needed three coats for opacity. I added one coat of KBShimmer Cleary On Top to protect the decals (and the polish).






 If you like the water decals, you can get them here for 2.32$ a sheet. There are various color and pattern choices available, the ones I'm wearing are number 004. If you're looking for water decals or various other nail art items, feel free to use my code "MNLC15" for a 15% discount.

The nails wraps were offered me for reviewing purposes. Thank you so much, LadyQueen Beauty!



Pahlish polishes are available on Bigcartel (where I bought mine) and at Overall Beauty.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas: 3 Shades of Red / Orange

Splatter is my personal pattern prompt with this week's three shades of red or orange.





I started with three coats of Essence Juicy Love, a tomato red creme. For the splatter I used two OPI shades, German-icure By OPI (dark burgundy red shimmer) and Wocka! Wocka! (cherry red shimmer) One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top gave the mani an even and shiny finish.

An InLinkz Link-up

Lacke in Farbe und bunt - Mittelgrün / Medium Green

Lacke in Farbe und bunt is a weekly nail polish challenge by Lenas Sofa and Das Jahreszeitenhaus. Each week they have a new color scheme, and this week's color is medium green.

My green polish is Catrice Skies' Force (Feathered Fall Limited Edition), a grassy green jelly polish with lots of blue iridescent shimmer particles that gives it a slight duochrome effecct. I used three coats for the pictures.











On top of Skies' Force I dabbed one coat of ILNP Gaia, "a pure and refreshing beauty! This wonderful new Ultra Chrome Flakie radiates crisp blues and refreshing greens at every angle" (Source: ILNP).One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top finished this mani.

ILNP polishes are available on Etsy and at their own shop.

Rendezvous With Melody Malone

Another Pahlish polish for today!





My base color is Pahlis Melody Malone, one of their Doctor Who themed "River Song" collection. Meloday Malone has a slightly grey leaning lilac/light purple polish with small pink flakie shimmer. I used three thin coats.

For the stamping I used China Glaze Rendezvous With You and Bundle Monster plate BM-XL209 (Collaboration with Lucy's Stash). One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top finished this mani.

Pahlish polishes are available on Bigcartel and at Overall Beauty.

40 Great Nail Art Ideas: Animals

Animals are this week's challenge theme. I not only love dogs, as you can see on my profile picture, but also cats, so I chose the tiger for this mani.





The base color I used is Manhattan 10V, a burnt orange / copper glitter polish, I wore three coats.







The stamping plate I used for my accent nail and as well for my other fingers is Bundle Monster BM-613. For the accent nail I also used Manhattan Palm Leaf (green), Essie Blanc (white) and Catrice Paris (nude). As usual, I finished with one coat of KBShimmer Cleary On Top.

An InLinkz Link-up

Lacke in Farbe und bunt - Flieder/lilac

Lacke in Farbe und bunt is a weekly nail polish challenge by Lenas Sofa and Das Jahreszeitenhaus. Each week they have a new color scheme, and this week's color is lilac.











My polish is Pahlish Hello Sweetie (There Is A Song Collection), a "lilac jelly with silver flakes and soft violet-blue shimmer" (Source: Pahlish). I used three coats and added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Pahlish polishes are available on Bigcartel (where I bought mine) and at Overall Beauty.