Ms. Sparkle's White Christmas Collection

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Another Christmas Collection from Ms. Sparkle this year, she's going all out! This is the White Christmas Collection:

Ms. Sparkle "Old Mother Frost" - November PPU

These products were sent to me for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

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Polish Pickup is going on right now and I completely forgot about it! Here's Ms. Sparkle's beautiful wintery contribution to this month's lineup, "Old Mother Frost", inspired by The Brothers Grimm's "Frau Holle":

Ms. Sparkle "You Are Enough" - PPU November 2018

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Hope you all had a lovely Halloween. Today a new month has started and that means a new round of Polish Pickup is near! Starting tomorrow, you'll be able to empty your wallet on all kinds of custom polishes inspired by bad-ass women, both real-life - from Dolly Parton to Ellen DeGeneres - and imaginary - from Éowyn to Khaleesi. 

The Digit-al Dozen does White - Black and...

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Another month, another Digit-al Dozen challenge and this month it's all about white. So for my first entry, I submit white and it's opposite:

The Digit-al Dozen's 5th Birthday - Cocktail Party

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Piña Colada, Blue Hawaii, Matador, Painkiller, Zombie and a Singapore Sling. What am I speaking of? Cocktails baby! The last party I'm throwing is a cocktail party and all the aforementioned cocktails happen to contain pineapple. Pineapple is a very popular cocktail ingredient... and a wonderful excuse to use that awesome BP-L076 stamping plate ;-)

The Digit-al Dozen's 5th Birthday - Greek Party

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Today, for The Digit-al Dozen's 5th birthday, I'm hosting a Greek party on my nails!

The Digit-al Dozen - Get to know ME! - Holland

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Part 4 of 'Get to know ME!' focuses on an important detail about me, on which I have touched every now and then,  during the past years: I'm Dutch!

Potion Polish "Desert Moon"

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Boy do I have something pretty today: "Desert Moon" from Potion Polish. You've got to see this ethereal beauty! Beware though: I took too many pictures and I couldn't choose between them. I'm sorry.

Although this is simply described as a 'pale mauve with silver holo flakes and silver holo glitter in various sizes', this is one hell of a complex polish, you guys! Two coats with glossy top coat; look at it!

I wondered what it would look like matte as well, so I applied some HEMA matte top coat.

I like it, but the glossy version is more magical!

Now of course it had to be stamped as well. For this I used an image that I have used many times in the past few months. It just happens to be a timeless pattern that looks good with almost everything! And I just love it. Can't help it. Below is the design stamped with BPS silver stamping polish over matte:

And for completion, also the glossy stamped version!

So now I have two questions for you: 

1. Polish - glossy or matte?

2. Stamping - glossy or matte?

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Dandelions & Unicorns

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To further celebrate Ms. Sparkle's birthday week, I did some double stamping over "Now THIS is Unicorn 2.0"!

Ms. Sparkle July Duo

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Another month is drawing to an end, which means it's time for a new birthstone/star sign duo from Ms. Sparkle! And this is a super special one, since it's Simone's (the creator's) birthday month as well. So these polishes are extra festive, with party names ;) 

Simple Sophisticated Summer Florals

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Today I have a simple, but sophisticated summer look for you, using 2 indies! LynbDesigns "Golden Marigold" is the polish and I used Svenja's nail vinyls for the nail art!

More Wedding Pics!

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Remember my friend, who got married, whose nails I did? She sent me two wonderful photos that were taken by their photographer Tiemen Eskes. Rather than adding them to the previous post, I felt they deserved their own post. Now although the pictures are not mine, I still added my watermarks, because you know, sometimes people steal and the work displayed is still mine ;) But I gotta say, it pained me to alter these beautiful photos a lot...

Friends on Friday - Weddings, weddings, weddings!

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I have done a few wedding related manis for friends recently and I'd like to show you! Let's start with the bride. She was so beautiful. And I am so honoured that I got to do her nails! She wanted something subtle, since she never wears nail polish. [Unfortunately, I didn't get to take pics, you know how those days go, too much is going on and there are too many guests. It's ok. Afterwards, the bride sent me phone pics. Super sweet!]

With a cherry on top

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I'm currently recovering from a tonsillectomy, which is way  more painful than I had imagined, lol! And I'm way too impatient, I have things to do and nail polishes to put on, but I just can't, since I can hardly eat... Luckily I had this post done already. It's some simple nail art, revolving around a cute little charm that I randomly encountered on Ebay:

Wedding Wednesday - Silk & Lace Bridal Manicure

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Wedding season is in full swing again! And it so happens that I was approached by a rep from lover.ly and asked to do some wedding manicures, possibly based on their wedding and bridesmaid dresses. So I looked and looked and got a lot of inspiration and this is one of the results:

Ms. Sparkle Sailor Moon Collection - Artemis

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Ms. Sparkle created a Sailor Moon collection, so to you fans out there, feast your eyes! I myself am not familiar with this fandom, but I read up a bit on wiki and I think the whole world sounds magical and adorable, lol!

BP-02 stamping & bridal mani!

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Today I would like to show you some stamping I did with BP-02 from bornprettystore.com, one regular stamping mani and one negative space bridal manicure! Let's start with the latter ;)

Ms. Sparkle "Yes, I Do!" Collection - swatches & review

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Sorry for having been MIA for a while, I took a bit of an hiatus, because I was busy with god knows what not ;) To make it up to you, I present you a limited edition by Ms. Sparkle, that started out as a custom order and turned into a collection. It is the "Yes, I Do!" LE, that is all about, oh yes, weddings! Right up my alley this year, as I have (had) 3 weddings this summer, the last of which will be this Friday and all of which I am (have been) the designated nail stylist (whoohooooo!). See here for example.

The collection is inspired by the poem for brides, with instructions to what they should wear for good luck:

Something old, 

Something new, 

Something borrowed, 

Something blue, 

And a silver sixpence in her shoe.

So let's start with Something Old and work our way through the rhyme:

Essence "Bejeweled" Bridal Manicure

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So check out this pretty! It is Essence "Bejeweled", a sheer pearly white with iridescent glitter:

Swatch-It Sunday: Delush Polish "Cirque Fantastique"

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This year's first Swatch-It Sunday features another Delushie, named Cirque Fantastique. Let's have a look at this one-of-a-kind pretty: