Saturday, March 7, 2015

ANOTHER DARLING DIVA

I might not look human yet, but the antibiotics are doing their thing. A lot of the swelling is gone. I'm hoping by Monday that will all disappear along with any remnants of the pain. Things are looking up!  

I might even try sleeping in bed tonight. A good night of real sleep is really needed.  If I can manage that, I might even have the energy to do nails tomorrow.

In the meantime, I have another Darling Diva polish from last week.  I absolutely love this one.
Darling Diva Dark Ritual

Darling Diva Dark Ritual
This one is described as a "blackened evergreen", and I can't think of a better way to say it. It is deep, rich and dark. It's got a strong holo which makes it a ton o' fun to look at. As always, the formula is fantastic and I've gotten several days of wear without any tip damage.

I did want to play with my new creative stamper and my new Bundle Monster plates, so I stamped on this with Nicole by OPI Mer-Maid for Each Other and the BM XL18 plate.
Darling Diva Dark Ritual, Nicole by OPI Mer-Maid for Each Other, Bundle Monster BM XL18 stamp
The design on this is a larger remake of one of their designs that was on the typical round stamping plate. It was nowhere near big enough for my nails which is why I was happy to get the XL plates from Bundle Monster.

As for the creative stamper, it's a life changer. It made completely  covering my thumb nails super easy. I'm not sure if the stamper material just stretches a bit when I stamp or what the deal is, but I was surprised when I looked at my thumbs and saw there were no bare spots.  It's a win.

I got mine through a group buy that a friend of mine did, but they have it in stock here.  I post that link because when I went to look at my Facebook groups to see where to get them, that's the first link that popped up. 

If you like to stamp or if you have a love/hate relationship with stamping, I recommend it. This sucker is life altering.

Well, as life altering as anything nail polish related can be, I guess.


5 comments:

  1. Love! Love!! Love!!! I just love a dark holo like that... I have one on right now too..almost an exact match to yours! Love it!!! And the stamper...YES! I was even able to do it! Woooooo Hooo... you KNOW how I've struggled with that! ugh!!!! Glad the swelling going down on the face, too... Ouch!

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    1. I'll be expecting to see lots of stamping from you now!!

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  2. The Creative Shop Stamper is most excellent! I have long nails too & getting the CSS means I can now stamp all my nails easily. I've been pondering the new BM XL plates...are the images really bigger or just a lil bigger? Unless it's a collage plate or has 1"+ full nail images, I have to stamp on the diagonal to fit my nails & poor thumby ends up with those gaps you seem familiar with too. Oh the woes of long nailed polish bloggers! LOL I hope you feel better soon! <3

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    1. Ah, you feel my design size pain. The XL Bundles are quite a bit bigger; not as big as DRK or LeaLac, but they are larger than the MoYou XL collection. If you have any MoYou, the BM plates are that size with 6 designs on each.

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