Category: Nail Art

Born Pretty Store Hearts review

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I got to choose a product to test from Born Pretty Store and since Valentine’s Day is near I chose hearts. Here’s a direct link to the product. The store describes these as “iced mylar sheets” and I think that is pretty accurate. These are very sheer and change color depending on the angle of lighting.

These are very thin and easy to bend. I had no trouble placing these on my nails and I could hardly feel them through the top coat. I had to keep pressing the hearts back down a few times while the polish was drying since they were trying to straighten back up. After the polish was dry they stayed down nicely. I think these might work even better with some nail glue. Now I just applied the glitter polish and placed the hearts on top of the wet polish.

These change color in a rainbow-y way and I placed a few more on a sheet of paper with some white polish to better demonstrate the color change. This time I chose to use pearly white Color Club Oooooo La La and Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope glitter polishes but these would also go great with pink or baby blue shades. These are also perfect to use with acrylic or gel nails.

I got these from Born Pretty Store and they have a wide range of nail art supplies. They also offer free worldwide shipping. Please use the code “NZL91” when you order and get extra -10% discount.


***These were sent for review. Opinions are my own and are based on my own experience of the product.



 

Born Pretty Store Pink bow knot review

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Today I have another Born Pretty Store review for you and this time it’s pink bow knots. These are sheer-ish pink bows with a hint of glitter. The material is hard so they don’t bend at all. The size is rather large and the bottom is straight and smooth.

In this mani I used pink creme polish OPI If You Moust You Moust and added the white dots using a dotting tool and OPI Alpine Snow. I let those dry for a bit and added the top coat. After the whole manicure was dry I added a drop of top coat on my nail and placed the bow on it, pressing it down gently. If you want these to stay on for sure and for a little longer time I suggest you use strong nail adhesive or something similar.

These were very easy to place on my nail and they make a great addition to your party manicure. You might want to add these as a final touch to your look though, after you have done your hair and makeup. It’ll only take a couple of minutes to glue these on and you’re good to go.

You can buy these from Born Pretty Store and they also have a wide range of nail art supplies. Born Pretty Store offers free worldwide shipping. Please use the code “NZL91” when you order and get extra -10% discount.


***These were sent for review.

 

www.bornprettystore.com


ABC Challenge – F is for Fantasy Fire with a feather

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Yay! It’s the ABC Challenge time again! This week we are all doing letter F and I can’t wait to see what everyone is doing with that one. I know there was some interesting ideas in the air a few days ago ;) Before I get to the point I just want to say thanks to all the awesome ladies in this group for making this challenge so much fun and I’m very happy to have met you all in this online world :))

Now let’s get to the point, shall we? For the letter F I chose Max Factor Fantasy Fire and then I decided to throw in a third F in a form of a feather. I used Elevation Polish Pic De Sotllo (I’ll write a post about this too soon), a very bright vibrant blue creme as a base for Fantasy Fire. That blue base really brought out the multichrome beauty in this one. Then I applied two coats of Fantasy Fire and Inm Out The Door top coat. I added a feather over the wet top coat and let it dry for a bit. Then added a couple of more coats of Inm on top of the feather and let dry again. In the end I cut off the part of feather that reached over the tip and filed the tip of the nail smooth, then sealed it with Inm. The feather stayed on perfectly for 2+ days.

I apologize for the crappy cell phone photos, but my regular camera just completely freaked out with Fantasy Fire and refused to capture any of the awesomeness. I’ve noticed that my iPhone 4S can capture the difficult colors much more accurately.

 

KKCenterHk 1.5 mm nail art studs review

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KKCenterHk sent me some 1.5 mm circular nail art studs for a review. These studs are quite tiny and I liked them a lot. They were very easy to place on the nail and cos of the curved bottom they didn’t damage the wet manicure at all. Instead they kinda sunk into it a little without leaving a mark or a wrinkle into the polish. They lay so flat on the nail that I couldn’t even pick them off with my nails (yes, I tried). I applied these on the not yet dry manicure and sealed them in with a top coat. These stuck on so tight they would have stayed on my nails for days and days but I only wore this for a day and a half.

In this mani I used three coats of Color Club Who Are You Wearing? and then used Color Club Reddy Or Not to do the heart with a dotting tool. I applied the studs on the wet manicure and slightly pressed them down on to the nail. I topped it off with a coat of Inm Out The Door.

These studs were very easily removed with acetone free nail polish remover. Actually so easily that they were all nice and clean on the cotton wool pad and I was able to pick them up for another use ;)

The bag holds about 50 pcs of studs and that is my only complaint. I liked these so much I’d like to get them in a bigger bag than 50 pcs. These are so tiny it’s easy to use a lot of them on a more complicated nail art design.

You can find these nail art studs from KKCenterHk and if you use the code “polishaholic” you’ll get -10% off.

 

 

***This was sent for a review

 

ABC Challenge – D is for drip manicure

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So it’s that time of the week again and this week it’s letter D! I chose to go for a nail art type instead of a polish name and did a drip manicure. It was a first time I gave this type of a manicure a try and I quite like how it turned out. Result could’ve always been better and next time I’ll pay a little more attention to details :P

I used two coats of OPI Pedal Faster Suzi! and then I used Flormar U29 and did the drips with a little help from a dotting tool. Quick and easy! I think that next time I give this a try, I’ll do pastel skittles drip mani.

I just really wish my nails would grow super fast and I could get to my ideal nail length already *sigh*

 

 

Pink dotting tool manicure

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Today it’s my first try on a dotting tool manicure. It’s been a lot of first times for so many things for me and this blog lately. My last year was so insane that I had no time or energy to obsess over cosmetics or nail polish. Life is starting to return to normal and my inner cosmetics freak is raising it’s head again, big time. Lately I’ve also gotten into indie polish and been shopping a lot of those lately. I hope you guys are gonna be interested in what I’ve found from the indie world too cos there’s gonna be a lot of those coming up.

Oh well, on with the babble and let’s talk about this manicure ;) For this I applied two coats of Models Own Soda Pop Pink and let that dry for a bit. Then I used different size dotting tools with Color Club Where’s The Soiree?, OPI Alpine Snow and Models Own Moody Grey polishes to make the dots. Then I allowed the dots to dry for a little bit before applying the top coat to prevent them from smudging. This was a quick and easy manicure and IMO it looks pretty cool too.

 

 

ABC Challenge – C is for China Glaze Caribbean Blue and circle glitter

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Yay!! It’s time for our weekly ABC Challenge again and this week’s letter is C. For that I chose China Glaze Caribbean Blue with circle glitter. Enough C’s there for y’all? LOL Circle glitter awesomeness polish is Stay Behind, Catch a Wave from Elevation polish.

I applied two coats of Caribbean Blue and one coat of Stay Behind, Catch a Wave. The circle glitter lays so flat that I only needed to use Inm Out The Door Super Fast Dry top coat to smooth it out. I’m totally in love with this circle glitter. Such a nice change from all the hex glitter I’ve had on my nails lately. So sparkly and looks like raindrops on your nails. Stunning! Can’t wait to layer this with other colors too.

Stay Behind, Catch a Wave can be bought from Elevation Polish store but it’s sold out at the moment.

 

 

 

Acrylic paint nail art flowers

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It’s been quite a while since I really tried to use my acrylic paints the last time. Now I decided to give them a try and paint some flowers on my nails. It wasn’t a big success but not a total failure either. I really need better nail art brushes though and a lot of practice. Painting is fun though and if I get better at it I could maybe eventually create something that is actually nice. I have a lot of ideas and I can always find more inspiration from the photos and tutorial videos of true nail artists.

For the manicure I used Flormar shade U29 and on my ring finger I also added Flormar U18 with a sponge to bring some depth and darker appearance on that nail. On top of those I added a coat of Wet n Wild Kaleidoscope glitter polish. Acrylic paints are Oumax and I also used those for the little dots I did with a dotting tool. After the acrylic paint dried I added a coat of Inm Out The Door Northern Lights Gold top coat.

I have so little experience with acrylic paints that it was quite time consuming trying to get it right. The good thing about acrylic paints is that you can just use water to wipe to wet paint off if you mess it all up. That’s what I did with the first five tries ;)

 

ABC Challenge – B is for Bermuda Breakaway and Broken Tokens

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It’s Wednesday and time for our weekly ABC Challenge again. Here’s what I came up with for letter B: China Glaze Bermuda Breakaway with Color Club crackle Broken Tokens. I’m not a big fan of crackle polish and I think this is the first time ever for a crackle manicure on this blog.

China Glaze Bermuda Breakaway is a beautiful ink-y blue creme from their Bahama Blues Winter 2008 collection. So I’ve had this polish for over 4 years now and it’s still as good as new. I believe this was two coats and it was fully opaque.

Color Club Broken Tokens is a silver foil crackle polish from their 2011 Fractured collection. Since I’m not a fan I only got this to test it out and cos it looked a lot prettier than many other crackle polishes out there. It’s definitely worth keeping and I might even use it again on some nail art manicures for special effect.

This mani didn’t turn me into a big crackle fan but I still quite like how it turned out. The colors went well together and the crackle polish wasn’t applied too thickly.

Thanks for reading!

 

 

Nail art studs and stars

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Before Christmas I ordered star shaped and square nail art studs from Born Pretty Store after I saw those on Kynnelle-blog. These arrived in mail this week and I’m very happy with my purchase. Nice change from rhinestones and glitter. I just had to quickly try the stars on my OPI On Her Majesty’s Secret Service manicure. I especially like the fact that these are not flat. Instead they curve and follow the shape of the nail nicely.

Now I just have to figure out some nail art using these :)