Hello lovelies,

I'm majorly behind with posting new nail polish releases (you know, busy life and all ;) so you've probably seen this polish before but because it's very pretty I want to review it anyway!

So what polish am I talking about? A England Whispering Waves of course, one of the two new additions to the Heavenly Quotes line! Let's check it out first...

Whispering Waves is a turquoise blue  polish with fine holo finish. What's even more interesting about his shade is that it has a slight duochrome effect as well. In the right angle it leans towards denim blue and pink. For some reason my camera didn't capture the beautiful soft holo effect nor the full colour shift. BUT if you'll buy the polish you'll be very pleasantly surprised at how much prettier it is in real life.

The formula was the perfect buttery A England formula that we all so love. It applied very easily and two thin coats were fully opaque. The polish dried fast and smooth but I still applied topcoat for the swatch. The only problem I found was staining - I have had all nails with peel-off base with no staining and one nail where I haven't used any base coat and there I've experienced blue staining. So please use thicker base coat with this polish!

You really can't go wrong with A England. This is just another in a row of beautiful polishes and I'm so glad I got to try it. I'd also recommend you to check out To Emily Bronte collection, it's full of ah-mazing colours!

Whispering Waves and other collections are available at A England website or from one of the international distributors.

Hope you've enjoyed today's review and I'll see you soon! Lucie x

*Product sent for review

Hello lovelies,

Lately I haven't been feeling like writing anything so all the swatches, photos and everything else is just piling up waiting to be written about. Don't you just hate moments like these? Sometimes I wish I could just paint my nails and the reviews would magically write themselves!

One of the products waiting to be reviewed is the Bundle Monster Work It! collection* of stamping plates. There are three sets with five plates each and I was able to choose one and I really wanted the set with yoga images on them. I must admit, I hate exercising and currently don't do it at all but when I did exercise before my wedding I enjoyed yoga the most (partly because of all the awesome videos on YouTube channel Yoga with Adriene). So naturally I've used the yoga images first ;)

So let me show you Bundle Monster Work It! Set 1 - Gym Junkie. There are five themed plates (BM-XL171-175) with images ranging from yoga poses and patterns to power words and phrases. Each plate is the standard Bundle Monster rectangular plate with dark blue hard plastic backing. Plates come with the blue protective foil which' removed already ;) Images are the larger, XL size which suits me and my longer nails very well.

I've tested quite a few of images from each plate and so far all of them stamped nicely, there were no badly etched parts, no problems at all. I particularly like the variety of thickness of the lines. There are some very fine images in the yoga plates that I really liked. Sometimes plates are etched too thickly but luckily that's not the case here. I've created a gradient manicure with stamped yoga images and this is how they came out:

I have used Models Own Chrome Turquoise and Chrome Pearl for the gradient background. Next I've applied Bundle Monster Poli-Peel, a latex protector. Then I've stamped over them with Hit the Bottle As Black As Night. All sealed with Seche Vite topcoat. 

The plates worked great as you can see! The whole range of Work It! plates is available at Bundle Monster website for $19.99 per set of 5 plates. Plates can be purchased separately as well.

I have another nail art manicure that I've done with this cool set but that's for the next time... ;)

Have a lovely start of the week! Lucie x

*PR samples