Pink and Blue Holo with Metal Studs

Recently I was sent this set of beatiful studs from the Born Pretty Store to review.  Aren't they gorgeous?

This is a set of very shiny metallic studs in circles and oval shapes, in a variety of bright colours. See here for the details on the store website, where they cost $2.32 for this pack.  

I decided to wear these with some of my favourite holographic polish. I used Jade Deja Vu and Jade Mystic Gold, and then stuck on the studs using topcoat.  

The studs themselves are light, and have a flat back. Because they are quite large, I bent the oval ones slightly by bending them round a pen, so that they lie flush on my nails. This was really easy to do, and makes them lie on the nail much more easily. 

I think these studs are pretty fantastic, and they're even better paired with a sparkly holo polish. They looked amazing in the sunshine!

If you fancy trying out these, you can get an extra 10% off using my discount code. 

I received this product for review purposes, but words and opinions are entirely my own. I do not receive anything if you use my discount code, although when it's been used ten times, BPS will let me host a giveaway for my readers! See my Disclosure page for more details.



 

 

Jade Vermelho Surreal - Red Holo

I have shown you this polish on my blog before, but it was years ago, and my nails and photography weren't great. So here it is again. 

This is Jade Holografico in Vermelho Surreal. It's a gorgeous tomato-red linear holo. 

This is two coats, with no topcoat.

I wore this on its own last week for a couple of days, and then with stamping over it (see here). 

The Jade holos are beautiful (I have several) and the formula is so nice. I bought mine at Sally Magpies, which if you're a UK-based nail varnish fan, is a shop you NEED to know about. 

Born Pretty Stamping Plate 21

I had a very exciting delivery yesterday of FIVE new Born Pretty Store stamping plates. They all look fab, but I thought I'd start with BP-21, which has 4 geometric designs. The Born Pretty Store plates look like the traditional plates you get from many designers - small round discs about 2 inches across. 

This one has 4 designs which stamp like this. The designs stamped really well. I sometimes find that very detailed fine patterns like the one on the bottom left can get a bit smeary or blurry, but this transferred really well. 

I decided to stamp using the circle design, over the polish I was already wearing, Jade Holografico Vermelho Surreal.   

I stamped using Models Own Chrome Gold. 

Doesn't this look fab? I really like the design of this stamp, and it stamped really clearly.  I can't wait to try the other designs and the other plates.   You can buy this plate on the Born Pretty Store website here, for $2.99 and you can get 10% off any order using my discount code.

  This stamping plate was provided for honest review. See my Disclaimer section for more details.

Colour Me Crazy: Pink Week! (And I have gone crazy!)

This week is the Colour Me Crazy PINK week, and well... I have gone a bit crazy this time round! 

I couldn't decide whether to do a gradient, or stamping, or stripes, or flowers, or sparklies... so I did ALL THE THINGS! Wooo!

It is possible I went a touch too far!

So, from thumb to little finger, here's what I did.
Thumb: base of Barry M Rose Hip, freehand roses with Barry M Strawberry Ice Cream, Barry M Pink Punch, Models Own Sun Hat and Models Own Coconut Cream.
Index: base of Barry M Pearl, striping tape, sponged gradient of Rose Hip, Strawberry Ice Cream and Models Own Bubblegum, and a neon stud from the Born Pretty Store.

Middle finger: base of Barry M Rose Hip, stamped with Jade Deja Vu and MoYou London Mother Nature plate 11. I was a bit disappointed that the gorgeous holo in Deja Vu doesn't really show here - the polish was too thin to stamp really.
Ring ringer: base of Barry M Blossom, embellishment from Original Sugar (see post with full review here.)

Little finger: base of Barry M Rose Hip, striping tape and Models Own Sun Hat.

Well! I kind of wish I'd also used some glequins too! If you're going to do it, do it ALL THE WAY I say!  What do you think?

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My (Nail) Christmas Wish List

I thought I'd post about some of the cool nail stuff that's made it to my Christmas list this year! (Or my when-I-win-the-lottery list, haha!)

I've seen these on loads of blogs recently, and they look SO nice! MoYou stamping plates are definitely on my list. They are beautifully packaged, and the plates themselves look stunning. I haven't really tried stamping yet, although I did buy a £1 set in Poundland, which worked. I just wasn't blown away with the designs. So I'd like some nice designs, like:

Photo: MoYou



The Rockstar Collection, plate 1. I want the skull! And the flames and especially the guitar!

I also love their huge plates with whole designs, where you can use bits and pieces for stamping, but the plate itself is a work of art:

Photo: MoYou


Especially this Mother Nature Collection plate 2. Isn't it beautiful?  They have all sorts of plates - I could keep adding them all day!

The next thing on my list would be some polish. I LOVE the look of Zoya Payton, from this year's Christmas collection. I loved Storm and Blaze, and this is the purple version of the same thing.

Photo: Zoya.com


I've also got my eye on this amazing orange-gold holo from Jade, Uau (although it's sold out at the moment at the wonderful Sally Magpies shop).

Photo: Jade & Sally Magpies.co.uk

Next on my list would be water decals! I LOVE water decals, they're so versatile and so easy to use, and just transform a design immediately. There are hundreds on the Born Pretty Store website, but today I think I want these ones:

Photo: BornPrettyStore

These are this item.

Another water decal set I'd like to try is this new feathers one:

Photo:Born Pretty Store

..which is this item. I love the pretty pink/blue ones on 1738 and the cheetah print ones on 1746 in particular.

My last choice is these spike studs, also from the Born Pretty Store:

Photo:Born Pretty Store

They're a bit crazy, and not the kind of thing you could wear to work, but they do look so cool!


So, what's on your (nail related) Christmas wishlist?

Born Pretty Store Circle Glitters - Gold and Black

I was so excited to receive these glitters from the Born Pretty Store! I mean - just LOOK at them!!

This item (#4625) is a set of 12 different colours of round glitters, measuring approximately 2mm across. Each colour comes in its own little pot with a screw cap, and all 12 come in a neat little box with a lid, which keeps it all very tidy.

For a first try with these, I painted my nails with three coats of Jade Mystic Gold, a fabulous gold holo which I bought from the wonderful Sally Magpies store. I love this gold polish!  I then painted my ring fingers black using (surprise surprise!) Rimmel Black Out. Then I got busy with my wax pencil and some topcoat, and covered the black with the gold glitters.

This glitter is thin and smooth, so lies really flat on the nail. The gold is SOOOO sparkly! It's really hard to capture the range of holo sparkle in there - as I move my fingers around in the light, my nails are like a mini mirror ball!

I absolutely love these! While I've tried hexagonal glitter/glequins previously, I was really frustrated that I couldn't see well enough to line them up exactly evenly and all facing the same way. The organised part of me HATED seeing them not placed right! So these circular glequins are much better!

I'm bursting with ideas at the moment for using the other colours!

This set sells on the Born Pretty Store for $7.60, which is a little pricier than some of the other items I've tried. However, that works out at 63 cents per pot, which makes you realise how bargainously cheap that is!   

You can buy these and many other shapes and sizes of glitter on the Born Pretty Store site, and of course you can use my discount code for 10% off.

























I received this product for review purposes, but words and opinions are entirely my own. I do not receive anything if you use my discount code, although when it's been used ten times, BPS will let me host a giveaway for my readers! See my Disclosure page for more details.

Jade Holografico - Deja Vu

This is the last of my lovely Jade Holograficos which I splurged on from the fab Sally Magpies this month.  This is Deja Vu, the pink one.


Like the others, this applies well and dries fairly quickly. I like the brush - it's small and neat and doesn't leave me with polish all over my cuticles, which some of the wider brushes do. 


In indirect light, this is a pretty bright pink colour. In bright light, like the other holos, it goes bananas and shows a spectrum of colours in the holo. 

I think I like this more than the black one (Magia Negra) but possibly not as much as the red and gold ones!

Jade Holografico - Magia Negra - and another ring!

So this is the third of my Jade holos from Sally Magpies - Magia Negra (Black Magic).  This is three coats, no topcoat.

As with the others, formula is excellent - smooth and even, dries fast with a glossy finish, and lasts well.  

In normal light this is a nice charcoal shade of dark grey-black, with some glimpses of multicoloured shimmer. Get a bright light on it though, and it goes bananas! There's a whole rainbow in there!






I liked this so much I made yet another ring to go with it. Again, normal light.... 

and bright light...

I apologise for my dry skin. I swear I moisturised my hands about ten dozen times before taking these. What can I say? It's just very cold recently!

Jade Holografico - Vermelho Surreal

Today I have another of the Jade holo range to show you. After the gorgeousness of the Mystic Gold that I bought from the wonderful online heaven that is Sally Magpies, I went back and bought three more! (More to come next week...)  This is Vermelho Surreal (Portugese for Surreal Red), three coats with no topcoat or basecoat.

Although it's called red, Vermelho Surreal is more of a deep pinky coral colour, with strong linear holo particles. 

Application was good - even and smooth, and dries quickly. The first coat is a little sheer, but two coats was fine. I added a third just to make it even better.

In normal light the holo is pretty distinct, but in bright light (this is my phone flash) it goes bonkers:

This one was taken with my hand very close to my bedroom light:

I like this colour!