Diagonal Gradient Nail Art

 Hi guys! Today I have another nail art post for you all. This time its for a dual challenge.

I had to do a diagonal gradient technique challenge for #tnttech (part of the Those Nails Though group on Facebook) as well as the #tnttwinnails challenge. So since I'm super lazy I decided to combine both the challenges in one nail art.

As part of the Twin Nails Challenge I got paired with Krystal Moore (@queenofnails83 on instagram) She is one of the admins at Those Nails Though and is the one responsible for inspiring me to get back to nail art with her fun challenges!

 The technique challenge was to do a diagonal gradient. And the twin nail challenge was to replicate a nail art done by your partner. So here is the nail art that I did this week.

Diagonal Gradient Nail Art

The base was created using sponging with 3 different polishes. To create a diagonal gradient all you have to do is sponge the nail in a diagonal manner instead of horizontally. I used two color show polishes and one local polish in teal.

UberChic Beauty XL Stampers - Review

UberChic Beauty stamping plates changed the way I looked at stamping as a nail art technique. And when I came across the XL Stampers from the same brand it amped up my stamping skill to a whole new level!

UberChic Beauty XL Stampers - Review

The XL Stampers from UberChic Beauty are non-sticky stampers. One set came with a single metallic holder and two stamper heads. They come packed in a cute little metallic box along with a flexible plastic scraper that works great to scrape off excess polish from the stamping plates. The stamper head pack contains one dark grey stamper head, useful when stamping with lighter color polishes. And, the other is white so that you can clearly see the designs when stamping with darker nail polishes.

The stamper heads do not need any priming and can be used straight out of the box.

The UberChic Beauty XL stampers are so squishy that I enjoy the whole process of stamping. The stamped designs come off clean from the stamper without leaving any residue. But this is not it, the best part is that cleaning these stamper heads in-between stamping of different nails is so darn easy! All you have to do is roll over the stamper on a piece of paper and any left over pattern of the stamped design comes off clean. I am so thrilled that I no longer need to worry about cleaning the stamper head in between different nails. It save me so much time!

Price: USD 11

Uber Chic Stamping Plate Collection 5 - Swatches and Review

It seems like ages ago when I actually used the collection 5 stamping plates from Uber Chic (remember when I did the review on the Uber Chic Uber Mat?) Well due to a lot of reasons blogging had to take a back seat and there is a huge long list of pending posts. 

I hope I can keep posting regularly now and share all the different products I want to tell you about (lot's of makeup reviews are pending too!)

Uber Chic Stamping Plate Collection 5 - Swatches and Review

Uber Chic Stamping Plates Collection 5 consists of 3 stamping plates each of which has 22 large patterns along with 6-7 smaller patterns. There are a few designs which are what I call 'landscape' designs that give you a lot of creative freedom.

Below are the sample stamps of all three plates. I tried to cover as many designs as possible. I have yet again used a local black polish for stamping and in some designs I tried the Oriflame The One polishes (colored patterns that you see)

UberChic Beauty Far East Stamping Plate - Reviewed, Stamped

Hello friends, here is a review of a nail stamping plate I have used in almost all my recent stamping posts that I have shared on instagram. Finally here are the details about the Uber Chic Beauty Stamping Plate Far East.

As the name suggests this plate has designs that represent the eastern countries of China and Japan. From dragons to fans this plate covers a lot of images. There are 14 XL designs, 14 smaller designs and one big rectangular area. There is also one big dragon that is about 2 XL areas put together.

UberChic Beauty Far East Stamping Plate - Reviewed, Stamped

Here's a look at all the designs stamped with a local black polish. Some images did not stamp completely because I had the air conditioning on while stamping. The temperature was soaring when I stamped these and I just couldn't bare the heat.

UberChic Beauty Far East Stamping Plate - Reviewed, Stamped

I stamped using the same polish over Elephantine Pink from OPI. This is one design. The designs are quite big for my nails so I was able to break a single image into two different patterns.

Uber Mat by Uber Chic Beauty - Create Your Own Nail Decals/Stickers - Bumble Bees

A few days back I received my Uber Mat from Uber Chic Beauty. I did a tutorial on Reverse Stamping Nail Art in March and how I wish this Uber Mat was available at that time!

Let me tell you what the Uber Mat is first. Uber Mat is well a mat BUT its no ordinary mat. This is a specially designed mat for nail art enthusiasts. Uber Mat is a large 16 inch by 12 inch mat made of a silicone type rubbery super flexible material - actually I have no clue what its made of but its is extremely flexible.

Uber Mat by Uber Chic Beauty - Create Your Own Nail Decals/Stickers

The mat has marking for 10 fingers, 5 each of an oval and square nail shape. The mat is meant to ease your life if you are fond of creating stamping decals also called nail stickers. Normal reverse stamping requires one stamper head per nail decal which means either you buy lots of stamper heads OR you work with your Uber Mat - I counted and I believe I can easily fit 50 XL stamper sized decals on this mat.

Now I know a lot of you might think that working with zip lock plastic bags can also serve the same purpose - well it can but hold on till I tell you rest of the uses of this Uber Mat.

1. You can create stamping decals

2. The mat is acetone and polish safe - this means that you can even use it to test out all possible nail art ideas for which you would otherwise require practise wheels.

3. It is large enough to act as a base mat for all your nail art - no more worrying about extra newspapers or other things to protect your table or work surface.

4. The surface is smooth and the mat is non slippery, plus it won't fly away like your normal zip lock bags

5. You can fold it and store it away

6. It can easily be cleaned with a regular polish remover or acetone (I have used pure acetone and it worked fine)

7. This is the most important - I personally struggle with removing my decal from the stamper in a single piece - but the flexibility of the Uber Mat comes in handy here - I simply bend the mat under the decal and it simply lifts off (check the image in my nail decal picture)

8. The Uber Mat has predefined nail images that act as guides - when you are creating your decal you can see how you want to place the final image over your nail. If you have tiny nails like mine you can also mark your own nail over the mat as a guideline for the decal. This is very useful for people who have tiny nails like mine - it helps you see how the decal would look like on your nail.

I am sure if you use it once all other methods of creating decals are going to seem worthless. 

It is priced at $14.99 and is available at http://uberchicbeauty.com/

I created the below nail art using Uber Chic stamping plates from collection 5 (I will review them soon) and the accent nail has a nail art sticker or reverse stamping decal that I created with my Uber Mat.

HPB Presents Neon Star Attack

Before I show you what I did for this months HPB link up, let me confess that I do not use neon on my nails at all. Only to show you swatches if ever. The reason is it makes my hands look extremely dark (and you'll see that in the pics)

But, this months theme was Neon. And so I picked out the most neon looking polish I have - Madam Glam Mint Cocktail.

I did a simple mani for this months theme, simply did some stamping using Uber Chic Stamping Plate 02 from Collection 2. The polish I used for stamping is from Oriflame called Purple In Paris

HPB Presents Neon Star Attack

UberChic Stamping Plates Collection 3 and Marc Jacobs Perfume Inspired Nail Art

UberChic Stamping Plates Collection 3 and Marc Jacobs Perfume Inspired Nail Art

Daisy Dream by Marc Jacobs is one of my favorite perfume. And I absolutely adore that bottle! Inspired by a perfume bottle I did my nail art this time.

The nail art was super easy to do thanks to my new plates from UberChic - this is the collection 03 and I love the designs. Each plate has 24 big designs and around 10 to 12 small patterns & text.

UberChic Beauty Stamping Plates Collection 02 Review

Hello everybody! Have you seen my recent nail art posts on instagram? If you have, you would've noticed that I am doing stamping using the new UberChic beauty stamping plates. So here is my review on these plates.

I have collection 02. This collection has 3 plates. Each plate comes with the standard blue protective covering. The plates are smooth at the edges.

UC2-01 is based on the theme of coffee, party and some optical illusion patterns.
UC2-02 has mixed designs from floral, optical illusion, and love.
UC2-03 is all about travel.

Each plate has 24 large patterns and many tiny text and images. All the designs have been created so that even if you have small nails like mine, you can still get the image to show up on your nails. The designs are 17 x 21mm. Each plate is 9.5cm by 14.5cm.

I stamped some of the patterns from each plate very quickly using a Maybelline ColorShow Black Out (this is not a stamping polish but is a very affordable polish a Rs 85 that stamps well)

UberChic Beauty Stamping Plates Collection 02 Review

All the images stamp very well.  I love how the images are very finely etched. When I was trying these plates out I just felt like stamping had all of a sudden become very simple - except for the world map image, all others were so easy to stamp.