Red and Gold Chinese Inspired Nails

Today's manicure is inspired by the traditional red and gold Chinese fabric. I really love how this came out, and I love the fact that this was really easy to create thanks to the pretty floral stamping plate from Born Pretty Store.

For the base I applied two coats of Barry M Passion Fruit, which is an orange tinted red creme (It has a great formula, really good pigment and dries quite fast with a glossy finish. Love this collection!).
For the stamping I used Barry M Gold Foil (my favorite gold polish for stamping) and used the floral designs from the QA74 stamping plate from Born Pretty Store.

The QA74 plate has several matching floral designs, some smaller and some were large enough to cover the entire thumb, which was great for me since I have long and pretty wide nails. 

The patterns were etched nicely in the plate and they stamped flawlessly each time. I really loved this plate and I think it's a good find especially since it's only $1.99 now (don't forget to use my 10% discount code below). Even tho I have countless stamping plates with floral designs, I really loved this plate and I can see myself use it again with pleasure.

I hope you liked my Chinese inspired design, let me know what you think of it!

Thank you for reading!

The stamping plate I reviewed in this post can be found at the Born Pretty Store, along with a large selection of other stamping plates designs
and various stamping accessories.

Born Pretty Store also carry a huge selection of nail art related items and also nail polish in various colors and textures.

Be sure to check their store and don't forget to use my discount code that gives you 10% off your entire purchase at the Born Pretty Store (code PNL91), and also enjoy the FREE worldwide shipping on every purchase.

Touch Of Gold with OPI

This is one of the manicures I wore this week, it's a combination of two colors by OPI - In The Cable Car-Pool Lane from the San Francisco collection which I reviewed in the previous post, and the gorgeous golden flakes Goldeneye from the James Bond collection.

This was a really simple design to create and I think that these two colors flatter each other, tho In The Aable Car-Pool Lane was a bit more purple toned in real life.
The golden flakes are just stunning and I can't wait to use them for another design, this is absolutely one of my favorite OPI polishes so far!
Hope you liked this look, I would love to hear what is YOUR favorite OPI?

Ninja Polish - The Midas Touch - 24K Gold Flake Top Coat

Hello dear readers!

Today I want to show you some watches of The Midas Touch, a 24K yellow gold top coat by Ninja Polish.
A few days after wearing OPI St. Petersburgundy (read review here), I thought this gold leaf topcoat would look great on this red color.

It was couple of months ago that brands such as Zoya or OPI released topcoat with gold leaf in it. 

I thought it looked luxurious and beautiful, but I was not willing to spend $30 on any of these... I would rather buy a bunch of nice nail polishes ;)

Then, I was very surprised when Ninja Polish came up with their Gold Wasser collection for only  fraction of the price.

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I used 2 coats of  The Midas Touch to get this much gold flake. I really liked that I did not need to fish for the flakes, the brush delivered the right amount for every nail.

This topcoat is available at Ninjapolish.com for $15 each, they have a gold and silver version.

I will show you swatches of the silver version in an upcoming post ;)

Have you tried a gold leaf topcoat or would you like to try it?

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