Hi!
I'm really sorry I've been missing in action lately. I will try to make it up to you my dear readers!
Today I have another review post on water decals from a well known
Born Pretty Store. Here is a link to their
nail art department where they have tons of nail art related items: stamping plates, nail decals, glitters, rhinestones, dotting tools, brushes, foils and many other items.
Pay them a visit, you won't regret it, nether will your wallet since their assortment is relatively cheap and they also offered a special coupon code (see below)!
In this post I'm going to present you
BP-W26 water decals that I received from Born Pretty Store. Currently they are on sale and cost only 1.50 $!
What do you get for that money?
-2 square decals (
5,8 cm x 5,8 cm) in 2 different colour (
grey and black).
-You can make
2 manicures when using decals on all of your nails or. you can get at least
10 different looks when using a decal only on accent nail. (in the first picture I used it as an accent nail and in my last manicure as nail art on all of my nails)
For that price it is definitely worth the money!
Decals are super easy to use!
You just cut them out, remove plastic foil, put them in water and slide them off the paper. Just place the decal on the nail and use brush dipped in acetone to remove overlapping decal on your cuticle. Add top coat and you're done!
These decals are cheap and easy to use, but they do have a downside. I tried the grey decal over darker base, but the base was too dark and the pattern wasn't visible. So when using decals you should always use a lighter base colour!
Now off to manicures I created with these tribal decals:
For the first I used:
BarryM Gold foil
Essie licorice and
BP-W26 water decals
For the second manicure I used:
Essence White Hype and
BP-W26 water decals
And remember! Use my code COLLX31 for 10% discount!
This product was sent to me for a review.
Hi!
Today I have another review for you!
We all know
Born Pretty Store. Here is a link to their
nail art department where they have tons of nail art related items: stamping plates, glitters, rhinestones, dotting tools, brushes, foils and many other items.
Pay them a visit, you won't regret it, nether will your wallet since their assortment is relatively cheap and they also offered a special coupon code (see below)!
Here is the image plate:
You can find it
here!
It cost's 5,99$, but it is currently out of stock (why not, this plate is absolutely stunning and the only plate you'll need this winter)
Size:
Snowflake design:
width:3 cm
lenght:5,4 cm
Full nail designs:
width 1,9 cm
lenght:2,2 cm
Smaller designs
aproximitely 1 cm x 1 cm
Quality:
I used it many times, but I still didn't tried all of the designs. Designs are very well engraved, because the designs transfer crisp to the nails. It is quite heavy, this gives it a high quality feel. The backing is secured with hard plastics, so no sharp edges! It comes with a pretty cardboard pocket, where it can be stored between usages. The only downside for me is that all the plates have the same pocket so if you have a lot of this plates it is harder to find the one you want, but this can easily be solved by marking the pockets =).
Pros:
a lot of designs
well engraved- crisp image transfer
low price considering the amount of designs
no sharp edges
quality production
Cons:
This is not a real fault, but I don't like that all the pockets for storing the plates are the same (can be solved with marking the pockets)
Overall, I'm really impressed with this one. I really wasn't expecting this quality.
Here are some of examples on how to use this plate:
Now who could resist this image plate? I really have to get some more of these plates, because they have a lot of different designs! (I already ordered 2, and they are just waiting for me to use them)
They were kind to offer a 10% OFF coupon code. Use COLLX31 at the checkout!
Hi!
Time for another post from Untried Polish Challenge. Today I will show you the cheapest polish I have in my untried polish pile.
It is Joy nail polish that costed me a bit under 1€. Sadly it doesn't have a number on (looks like I scratched the sticker off).
IT looks wonderful in the bottle, but the application was hellish, not to mention that it smelled badly and it almost had no shine when it dried (at least it dried pretty fast). Because of missing shine I applied top coat for swatches.
Here it is
Voliare Joy (unknown number) 2 coats
Essence: the gel nail polish top coat ( 1 coat)
It looks great right? I almost forgive it the horror that it caused me =)
Because I just received and image plate for a review and just because I really want Christmas to come (or at least December because I can start opening my advent calendars) I decided to do something more winter like =)
I used:
Base Voliare Joy
Stamping: BarryM Gold Foil and BPL-032
And a bonus picture! When I wanted to take pictures of this nail polish this is what was waiting for me:
Looks like one of my cats wanted to try out how tissue paper reacts to claws =). Thank good I have loads of paper napkins at home =)
Hi!
Today I'm going to show you 2 nail polishes from
Madam Glam. Madam Glam is a store from USA that sells gel and regular nail polish (they also sell other decorative cosmetics). They offer a wide variety of colours, but the most interesting thing in their store is definitely colour change gel nail polish and gel nail pens!
Today I have swatches of two nail polishes prepared for you.
Glitter My Life
A beautiful silver glitter/sand finish nail polish with larger hexagonal glitter. I think this is a must have in every girls collection! It looks elegant and because of the sand finish it has a special touch. I already know that I'll wear this one on new year's eve!
I used 2 coats, application was super easy and it dried pretty fast.
(did not test the wear time)
I also did some nail art on it. I used stripping tape and Essie Licorice as a base. I really like the way it turned out!
Wine Divine
This one is also a classic that every girl should have. It is a dark magenta with magenta shimmer that gives it a lot of depth.
I used 3 coats, because I had some bald spots after second coat and I was afraid that it will be noticeable in the pictures. Nail polish itself dried fast. Sometimes nail polishes that are packed with shimmer leave brush strokes on my nails, but this one didn't which gives it another bonus point!
I also played a little with this one! I used Pueen 38 and BarryM Gold foil. On all of the nails the design is the same I just turned it a little or I did not transfer the image completely. To me it looks like Christmas ornaments.
I'm not completely satisfied, because it could look better, but it is still wearable =)
The store also offered and early Black Friday coupon code which will give you 40% off on items in your shopping chart. Just use code BFColorfulbottle!
Hi!
Remember my post about new polishes I bought in October? In one of my many shopping trips I went to Graz where I bought myself my first bottle of Anny nail polish. They retail at 9.99€, but I had 20 % dicount so I only pait 8€ (this is still a lot for me, but I said to myself that I have to try it out). Anny has some really special nail polishes in it's line, that is why it was even harder to pick only one out of them. After half an hour of deciding I decided that it'll buy Private Party. I must say that I'm really not disappointed. It is a dark red/black base with red shimmer and dries to a satin finish. It is a one coater ( out of a habitt I still used 2 coats for swatches)
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| Anny Private Party (2 coats) |
Doesn't it look amazing? I'm really happy I chose this one over a random glitter polish =).
Now I'm not sure if you remember my post about
Barry M Lady in Red, where I said that this is a perfect red for stamping, I was right (In my opinion it is even better than the one from KONAD, I should do a comparison post?). I used this one over
Private party with
Pueen 44. You can see the end results in the pictures below.
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| Anny Private Party stamped with BarryM Lady in Red and Pueen 44 |
And a close up...
What do you think? I think I'm in love!
Hi!
I can't believe it's already time for #5 from my Nail Art Wednesdays series! I'm really proud of myself for sticking with this (although I'm cheating a bit, it's Friday today, but I'll post this as if it is Wednesday, just to stick with the name of the challenge). I really made this manicure on Wednesday, but didn't have the energy to write a post about it.
I draw number #9 and had to use Essence Stud Wheel called What Gothic Girls Want.
This is what I came up with:
For this manicure I used:
Kiko 38 for the base (realistic colour is in the first picture, look like I had my hand to close to the lamp with the second 2 pictures)
Barry M gold Foil and Pueen 62 for stamping
Essence Stud Wheel What Gothic Girls Want
and Essie Good To Go
You can see that my wound on my pinkie is slowly healing. I hope it completely heals until next week.
What do you think about my manicure. Honestly I'm not really sold on it. I do have this wheel written twice so I will get another chance to make a better manicure =).
Hi!
Today I'll show you a manicure I made in 2013 when I bought my OPI Euro Centrale mini set.
For this manicure I used Can't Find My Czechbook ( 2 coats no top coat)
Later I updated it with gold gradient with Another Polish Joke and I also added some stamping on my ring finger. I used Essence stamping plate (I don't know the number) and BarryM Gold foil for the design.
It came out great I think. I really loved wearing this one!
Hi!
Today I have pictures of BarryM Lady in Red prepared for you. This is one of the 5 nail polish that BarryM produced to celebrate their 30 years of making cosmetic products. (I'm still sorry I didn't buy that peach colour, because if it is at least half as good a this one, it is worth the attention)
On to the swatches:
I aplied 2 coats, the second probably just out of habit, since this one is super pigmented.
Because it's good pigmentation also works great with stamping. I once compared it to Konad special polish in Red and the winner was BarryM, not Konad.
The shimmer in this polish is just amazing. I really don't own anything similar.
Despite a lot of golden shimmer there are no visible brush lines.
Because the bottle of the polish says retro red and not Lady in Red I had to check on line for swatches and realised that there are not a lot of swatches of this polish which is quite sad, because this gorgeous colour should definitely get more attention. Shouldn't it?
