Pueen Encore SE01B Collaboration With Lucie Aka Loving Nails

Lucie's nails to the left & mine to the right.

About two months ago I asked Lucie aka Loving Nails if she wanted to do a collaboration video with me for our youtube channels. She said yes, and we have been chatting on FB about what to do and what plates to use. We finally got got down to do the collab after we both ordered and got our Pueen Encore sets.
We agreed to use Pueen SE01B and 3 parts of the plate.

                                   

My youtube video tutorial of each step.

I painted all of my nails white with Orly Pointe Blanche, then I applied 1 thin coat of matte top coat and let it dry before I pulled out my acrylic paints. The acrylic paints I used was FolkArt in Lavender and Parisian Pink. Then I used my fan brush I got in a brush kit from Dashica and loaded the brush half way with each color and painted my nails with a side to side motion to create a gradient. When the acrylic paint had dried I pulled out the Pueen plate, my Dashica stamping polish in Black and my XL stamper with the marshmallow replacement head from Fab Ur Nails (that I ordered from llarowe). 10 minutes later I applied a thin coat of the matte top coat again and added some crystals with my Crystal Katana (by Crystal Ninja) on my ring finger. 

Lucie's nails.

My nails 

This was my 2nd collab nails in very short time. But both of them was so fun to do. I hope I get to do some again soon. And all the girls did amazing jobs on their nails too. 

I feel so blessed to have met so many sweet girls from around the world who loves nails just as much as I do. 

Thank you, Lucie for doing this collab with me.

Bestie Nails Collaboration

Since I joined Adventures In Stamping on facebook in 2012 I have met some amazing and talented nail buddies from all over the world.

I teamed up with my nail sisters Opal and Mariana to do some bestie nails. Opal has a youtube channel, she has some really great videos about stamping, water marbling and some free hand nail art too.Opal's youtube channel

And Mariana, a girl of my age and mother of two beautiful girls is a very talented blogger who has a Spanish blog about stamping. She has step by step blog post of her with pictures and text in Spanish. So if your first language is Spanish and you're on a hunt for a good nail blog you should go and check out her blog. Mariana aka Stamping queen's blog

So the 3 of us decided to do our first bestie nails on a black holographic base and use Pueen 55 (Buffet set) and the leafy image on that plate.

 I don't have a black holographic polish, but I made my own using Wet N Wild Ebony Hates Chris that I added some SpectraFlair too. SpectraFlair is a holographic pigment you can add to your polish to make your own holo nail polish.
I wanted to do a gradient stamping but it was clearly not my day for doing that, I kept messing up bad. Yeah, even tho I have been stamping for a few years now I still have bad stamping days.
So I decided to just go with one color, so I picked Dashica's Lilac stamping polish.
But I was happy with the result anyways, my base isn't as holo as the holo polishes from Color Club. So I think if I did the gradient the holo effect would "get lost" under the gradient image and wouldn't have had the same effect as I would have liked. But then that is my opinion and I know I normally have to kick myself in the butt before I do anything outside my comfort zone on my nails. I do not wear black polish that often, but since it's a holo why not.

youtube tutorial of my nails

So here they all are, and I have to say my 2 stamping sisters did an awesome job. Their nails look amazing. And I think I have to go ahead and buy one of these Color Club black holos for myself.

Mariana's Nails

Opal's Nails

Opal used: Color Club Beyond, Mundo De Unas stamping polishes in Neon Pink, Neon Orange, Neon Yellow, Green, Turquoise and Fucsia.

My Franken Black polish with SpectraFlair

(You can barely see the holo effect, but it's there but very subtle)

I want to thank my two stamping sisters Opal and Mariana for doing this with me, and hope we can do this again soon. This was so much fun.

As always thanks for stopping by.

Happy stamping!!!

Closer Look At: Pueen 2013 Nail Art Stamp Collection.

Here's a closer look at the Pueen 2013 Nail Art Stamping set.  The direct amazon link to this set: http://www.amazon.com/PUEEN-2013-Stamp-Collection-25F/dp/B00ANFYEQS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1368217283&sr=8-1&keywords=pueen

This set has 25 plates, the full nail images has the curved smile line like Cheeky. But the full nail images on this set is smaller than the ones on Cheeky and Dashica plates. They are a bit too small for my thumb nail and if I grow my nails longer, I have to double stamp. They come in their own case with plastic pockets, I like it way better than the simple box you get from Bundle Monster, Cheeky, Winstonia, Shany etc. But if I have to compare it to the case for my Dashica Dash set it falls a bit short. First of the plastic pockets in the Pueen case are really thin, so I think if you don't clean your plates and stick them back in the pockets they'll get stuck to the plastic from the inside. And because it's so thin I am afraid it's going to rip the plastic. Also because they are so thin the corner of the pockets fold up easy and it can make it difficult to fit the rest of the plates back in. The case it self is small so you can take this set with you when you travel, it won't take much room. These plates are numbered from Pueen 1-25.  Now let's move over to the pictures.

Case

Have a great weekend. Happy stamping.

Closer Look At: Pueen Love Elements Naill Art Stamp Collection.

This set has 24 plates and come in a case with plastic pockets to hold your plates. Here's the link to amazon's page: http://www.amazon.com/PUEEN-2013-Nail-Stamp-Collection/dp/B00CDGR29G/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1368217283&sr=8-2&keywords=pueen

The full nail images on this set don't have the curved smile line like the other Pueen set.  I also noticed that a few of these full nail images are in different sizes on some of the plates...... Anyways the first set was Pueen 1-25, the love elements are numbered Pueen 26-49.

See, three of these images aren't as wide as the one on the left....

The bottom middle one, not the same size as the other 3.

And same with the top middle one here.

But there are still quite a few images on these plates I can't wait to try. Idea going crazy, hehehe.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend.