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23 May 2014

GUEST POST Butterflies by Nailallure

As the lovely Jade is on holiday I am honoured to do a guest post for her. Have a good holiday, Jade!

Since we've enjoyed some sunny days recently, I thought it would be nice to do a fun, bright and girly manicure. Pink butterflies seemed a good choice for a cheerful manicure like that!

Pink Butterflies Stamped Nail Art Manicure

For this manicure, I painted the pointer and little finger with Models Own Hypergel Cerise Shine. The middle finger and thumb are painted with Models Own Hypergel White Light. The ring finger has on Sally Hansen Sugar Coat Razzle-Berry, a blue textured polish.

I stamped the image with the butterflies from the Cheeky Jumbo Plate 2 - Tropical Holiday with Mundo de Uñas 2 - Black stamping polish. I used the lead light technique to colour the butterflies pink. This is basically using a dotting tool to colour in the stamped image with a translucent polish. I used a jelly polish Nails Inc Henley Regatta for this.

I added blue rhinestones to two nails and finished with topcoat. Hope you enjoyed the manicure as much as I did!

Oh my! these are so sumemry! Thanks Nootan and please pop over to see her blog and Facebook!

10 Aug 2013

Cheeky Jumbo Plates 2013. What a Disgrace!

Today I have a post many will be surprised by....

Last week i received my Jumbo 2013 plates from Cheeky.

I purchased them on +Amazon.co.uk but was informed on purchase that they would take longer to come. On delivery I found they had been dispatched from China. That's not a problem, I buy a lot of things from overseas with no problems.

When I opened them three of the plates had completely bent corners, and one plates edging was snapped. The one with the snapped edging didn't bother me as much as the plate itself wasn't damaged, but still not the point really as when you buy an item you want it undamaged lol

I was gutted :( I had waited so long for them to arrive....

The first thing i did was take pictures and contact them through Amazon.

No reply.

I waited about a week and then couldn't want any longer and tried to bend one back. That kind of worked but it meant that the full design in the corner would never be flat and will never work.

I then emailed them through their actual website.

Still no reply.

Frustrating!

I am very disappointed, I have ordered with them loads in the past with no problems. This incident has put me right off.

The designs on the plates are also far too big, even for me. So you end up with say half a cupcake.

I don't think i will be ordering with them again. And going by some of the reviews also on amazon neither will a few others.

Not the service we have all come to expect from Cheeky Beauty,

(sorry for bad pics! I took them, well, in a rage!)