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:

 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.

 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

 

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

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).

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 !!!!

 2 coats

 

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!