Korwegian Drama Queen : SdP 40

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Friday, August 24, 2012

What a week...

This week has been so stressful trying to stay calm and exited for my 6 year old for his first day of school. Then all the meetings with teachers, assistant principal and so on. And dealing with all the mood swings he's had since then, from happy to exited, to sad and scared. And all of that with a 20 month old who is glued to mommy or wants to run around like crazy.

TGIF so I decided to get some glam on my nails with some stunning glitters and stamping. So I did a black French tip with WnW Black Creme and Essie's Sugar Daddy, then applied a coat of China Glaze Techno over the black tips. Then I pulled out my Dashica SdP 40 with stars and Mickey Muse image on it, and decided to use those two images. I used WnW Black Creme to stamp with. And sealed it all with Poshe Fast drying topcoat.

Techno is stunning over black polish, just love it.

The youtube tutorial for this mani

Have a great weekend.!!

Friday, March 30, 2012

Golden Friday??

Here in Utah I can't do like many of you get lottery tickets and hope to win that HUGE jackpot, so I do the next best thing. A gold mani with some stamping nail art.... Hahahaha, I know it's not really the same, but if I had some sushi and sake it would be a party.
Besides I need something to cheer me up with all the stress and having my grandmother in law in the hospital and all. Not easy to see someone you care about in pain. But the doctor said she's doing better today, and she may be coming home soon. So I get to play nurse again for a while. I have the greatest respect to the people who work in health care, I wouldn't be able to. She has been a handful to the nurses and her doctor tho, she doesn't like the side effect from medications so she keeps vital information from them. So my husband have been the source of information about her medical history and such. And they can hardly get her to eat, she has a few soda crackers here and there. She won't like that we have to change her diet, she's going to have a fit about that big time. Not looking forward to those discussions at all. But anyways back to the mani.

Since I couldn't use Pure Ice Jaguar for stamping I decided to use it as base color, so applied 2 coats. Then I pulled out one of my Dashica plates again SdP 40 and Konad special polish in Chocolate to stamp with.
I have noticed on the Dashica plates I don't need as much polish on the image, if I do too much it smudges when I stamp it on my nail. That's a good sign tho, my polishes will last longer (always a bonus, more money on new nail stuff.)

And I went over to 7 eleven to get a snack and the girl there really loved my nails, YAY!!!

Hope you ladies have a great weekend.
Happy stamping.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Dashica Image plates haul.

So for a while now I have been drooling at the image plates from Dashica Beauty Shop, a online beauty shop based in Netherland. And after playing nurse in January for my husband after he got out of the hospital, he agreed that my reward would be Dashica image plates. I finally got ready to order, but had several questions and concerns so I wrote an email to Shirley with my questions. She replied back the next day, since she's in GMT time zone and I am MST. So after a few emails back and forth I was ready to place my order. I waited for 10 business days for my order to arrive, the package was wrapped up really well. And she had also added 2 tiny gifts a plastic scraper and 1 sheet of water decals. I was super impressed when I saw the plates. They all had good back stickers to them, so the edges aren't sharp. Even some of my Konad have sharp edges, so I've been nervous when my kids has taken a closer look at them.
I liked the fact that the full nail images are bigger than Konad's so I won't have problems getting the image to cover my nails. Something that was driving me nuts with Konad's was that even tho they are $6.99 a plate and that you would think that you wouldn't have any problems getting the image to your nail. But I have a few plates I can't get the whole image to stick on my stamper.
So with that in mind I tested the Dasica plates and with very fine detailed designs I had no problems at all getting the whole image on the stamper and then on my nail. An other thing I love about Dashica plates is that they have a lot of paired images, meaning the same image but they're mirrored for designs for both hands.

And the SdP plates have more images than Konad. has on their plates. A Dashica SdP plate costs 3.80 Euro's that converts to about $ 5.00 US.
Yes, you have to pay for shipping too. But I think it's worth it, for the quality on the plates and the stamping results on your nails.

Oh, and the plastic scraper I got as a gift..... I LOVE IT!!! It's way better than my Konad plastic scraper that I have to scrape 2-3 times over the images. I am so ordering some of those for back ups next time I decide to get more plates, and mark my words I will be ordering more plates later on. I am hooked on these plates, so many pretty images on each plate.
Here are the items I ordered, I hope you enjoy.