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Acrylic heart nails + more more more Canuck nails

Saturday, June 11, 2011 Category : , , , , , , , 8


 A while back I wanted to go all crazy on my nails so I decided to try out another acrylic mold that bornprettystore.com sent me. 

First,l I did my background design, which is a white base (Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear White On) and  silver stripes.  The silver stripes were stamped with the Bundle Monster Image plate #20 (silver is china glaze millenium).  The stripe design from the Bundle Monster image plate is my all time favorite design.  It just always looks awesome.

 By the way, this is the longest my nails have ever been...hehe
So, after a few days I decided to try the acrylic mold bornprettystore.com sent me for review.  

 I put in some acrylic powder, let it dry and popped out the hearts. Then I stuck them to my nail using clear nail polish (Seche vite)..and Bam!

 

 
The 3d hearts ended up bugging me a few days later so I removed them..the acrylic hearts really stayed on my nails and did not budge.

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So..the Vancouver Canucks hockey team are in the Stanley cup playoffs...AWESOME!!!  I decorated my office with Canucks posters..hehehe...My supervisor is a Pittsburg Penguins fan and he sits beside me so everday he comes into the office and looks like this  (-__-)



 These are the current nails I am rocking right now:



OPI Jade is the new black
NYC skin tight denim
Sally Hansen White on

Disclaimer - The acrylic mold  was sent to me for review by bornprettystore.com with no payment. My opinion is an honest one.  Everything else including the Bundle Monster image plates were purchased by myself.
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 1. I bought my BundleMonster image plates from here.

2. The acrylic mold from Bornprettystore is this one

Sidenote: Did you guys know that Bornprettystore.com is now selling replicate konad image plates for $2.32 a plate?  or you can get a set of 16 plates for $16.32 .  Free shipping too! That is a crazy deal since I usually get my konad image plate for $6.99 + tx + Canada shipping which is usually $6.99. 

I'm getting my hands on a set of these plates to try out and compare with my konad ones. 

I have a 10% off code for bornprettystore.com, it is SWNAIL.  I believe that you get 10% off and a free keychain flashlight.  I don't get paid or get points if you use this code.  It's just a nice code for you guys to use.

GO Canucks GO!!!

Sunday, May 15, 2011 Category : , , , , , , , 13

I'm back from my mini hiatus and what better way to announce my return than to do a post featuring my number one hockey team:  THE VANCOUVER CANUCKS!!  

 
  The Vancouver Canucks have made it to the Western Conference Final...being from Vancouver...this is HUGE!!!! 

Lately I have been rocking Canucks inspired nails. 
Last year I was sporting Fin, the Canucks orca whale mascot on my thumb:


This year I'm going for a more subtle look (I'm working as a research technician in a private pharmaceutical company so I gotta keep it classy ^_^ ).......I'm going for V for Vancouver, green and blue for the Canucks



 Colors used: OPI Jade is the new black, N.Y.C Skintight Denim 


I have a tutorial for you guys so that you can all rock nails similar to mine:
1. Tape! I used scotch tape and cut the tape so that I would have a clean corner.  This corner decides how wide your V will be.


2.  You need to put the tape on your hand, arm, shirt etc to make it less sticky. If you don't do this, the tape will be way too sticky and can ruin your design.


3. Put the tape on your nail


 4. Paint the section not covered by the tape. Don't worry about how you paint it because the tape will help guide the V shape design.  I just follow along the edges of the tape.


 5. Remove the tape and voila!


6.  For another color,  follow steps 1-5 again

 
 

7. Take off the tape, voila! You can make the V thicker if you want, it depends on where you put the tape.


Polishes used: OPI We'll always have paris suede, Orly Iron butterfly, China Glaze millenium

Wedding inspired nails

Sunday, April 10, 2011 Category : , , , , 12

I bought China Glaze White Cap the other day from ebay. I applied it on my nails and I loved loved loved it. I really like the gold micro glimmer/ shimmer, I think that it is a very classy color. 


This is 3 coats.

 I wanted to spice it up so I decided to try my hand at doing wedding inspired nails since I can totally imagine someone wearing White Cap to a wedding.

So I used the following:




And BAM!  we have this:




So what do you think?   

*I used an arcylic mold to make the 3D flower on my ring finger.
*Seche Vite is the best top coat EVER for making sure 3D things stay on your nails. When I put on the silver balls/ rhinestones on my nails fall off the next day or they just don't stick to my nails at all, but with the Seche Vite top coat, the silver balls don't even budge.


The larger rhinestone disc was provided to me by bornprettystore.com for review.  The smaller disc of rhinestones I bought off ebay.  I just wanted to let you know that I was pleasantly surprised with the bornprettystore clear rhinestones having a rainbow AB tint to them. The rhinestones I bought off ebay are just clear, the bornpretty ones have a rainbow sheen to them (you can see the rainbow sheen to them better on my nail pictures).


Oh yes, I just wanted to let you guys know that I have a 10% off coupon code for bornprettystore.com, it is: SWNAIL


Disclaimer - The acrylic mold, half pearls, large rhinestone disc was sent to me for review by bornprettystore.com with no payment. My opinion is an honest one.  The silver and gold balls, the small rhinestone disc, and the konad image plate was purchased by myself.

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 I just finished adding up all the results so I've decided to add the winner to this blog post......The winner of the $25 wowsocool.com gift card is...

KAYLA !!!!

Avon Urban Grey + Bornpretty store review

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Category : , , , , 13

I had bought the color vintage grey from Avon a few months ago but had never tried it  so I thought that today would be the day....Well the polish FAILS!!! Either it would not dry or it took forever to dry!
Also, it applied somewhat goopy.  ARGH! I own quite a few Avon polishes and this is the only bad one i've encountered...so. ..don't buy Vintage grey!

Here's what it looks like right now: will go into detail about this mani at the end of the post =)



 2 coats

The grey looked bland so I did some nail art on them.  I used the the 2 way nail art nail polish liners provided to me for review from the born pretty store

 
The polishes are boxed in a separate box from your other products

 These are the jelly/ cream colors. -->the sky blue leaked a bit but it didn't smear onto the other polishes
dark blue, orange, dark red, green, dark green, blue, black, yellow, raspberry red, red, yellowish orange

 Glitters: orange, blue, silver, gold, pink, purple

 Metallics/ frosts: orange, fuchsia, green, copper, pink, grey, purple

These polishes are double ended. 

1.You get a super fine metal tip. When you squeeze the bottle, polish comes out, the weird metal needle looking thing that is attached to every bottle fits into the metal tip to dislodges any polish that has hardened so that polish will always flow out of the metal tip
2. You have a thin paintbrush end. I have it compared to a 0.7mm lead pencil to show you how fine the paintbrush end is.

This is the design I came up with: 

 The thin stripes came from the metal tip of the 2 way nail art brush and the thick stripes came from the paintbrush end.


Then I used the 12 Color 3D Steel Ball Nail Art Glitter Decoration in purple (was received from  bornprettystore.com) to add more ommph to my nails..maybe too much ommph.

  Maybe I should have done them all in the same direction... or maybe I didn't need the steel balls at all..eh. =)



Disclaimer - The products were sent to me for review with no payment. My opinion is an honest one.
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What is super fun is that Jessica, the owner of bornprettystore.com has given me my own coupon code : SWNAIL, 10% off till 03/31/2011

But! If you use my code SWNAIL, on top of the 10% you also get a free keychain flashlight!


yay!

quick nails

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Category : 2

Just a quick post after all the contest posts..phew
I trimmed my nails due to peeling. I wanted to have bare nails to let my nails recover..but I couldn't stand it and had to put something on my nails.

sally hansen black out + avon shimmer nail polish in glisten.

=)

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 Category : , 3




LA colors art deco pen
avon sheer pink
rhinestones

VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPICS!!!!

Friday, February 19, 2010 Category : , , , , , , , , , , , 6

here are my Mukmuks...the Vancouver island marmot.

The Vancouver Island marmot is an extremely rare and endangered species unique to the mountains of Vancouver Island. Learn about Vancouver Island marmots and other endangered species at www.marmots.org.


soooooooo I can't take it anymore

I wanted to save this for tomorrow so I could post something everyday...I'm trying to really get into this whole blogging thing but I need to show you guys this....


This was inspired by the 2010 Vancouver olympics and http://ilovenailpolish.blogspot.com/
I don't live in Vancouver but quite close so I am getting engulfed in the olympic celebration.



It's mukmuk. I am quite proud of it. It's my first time using brushes. the color isn't an ideal match but I only own about 15 polishes right now so I tried my best.

Who is he?
He is the sidekick to the vancouver 2010 olympic mascots.


I grabbed this description from here:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/profile_mm.php

Mukmuk is a small and friendly Vancouver Island marmot who always supports and cheers loudly for his friends during games and races.

When he is not hibernating or sunbathing on rocks and logs, he enjoys getting out to meet other types of marmots and animals. In fact, this is how he became friends with the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic mascots.

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