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Hello again!

I spent a long time for today's manicure, as crazy as it sounds! For some reason my stamping wasn't very good and I had to try many times to get a perfect image! I did use the Bundle Monster Glass Stamper before but with today's plate collab with Chit Chat Nails it was the first.
Anyway, starting from the base... I created this abstract marbling using the technique I saw from NailStamp4Fun. It's basically dotting polish on a surface then using your stamper to swirl the colors together and stamping it on the nail.
I had on two coats of Essie "Fiji" then I also used China Glaze "For Audrey", China Glaze "Flip Flop Fantasy" and Essence "Ballerina Charm" for the cool marbled swirl effect. Once the base was dry I stamped on some chevron images from the tribal plate from BM and then I also used chevron nail vinyls on my other nails and used a-England "Camelot" a black to go over the vinyls to create the chevron patterns.
Overall I do love how these turned out, pretty vibrant and lovely for the summer :)

items were sent for review

Hello there!

For one of my Christmas presents, I received this really adorable and lovely Cath Kidston wallet which was totally my style so I really like it!!

It was of good timing that I was sent these floral water decals from bornprettystore which matched very well with my wallet. I was impressed that these decals that I used did not need a base of any sort, I simply placed them over my nails and cleaned up around and I was done!!

Then for my pointer and pinky, I did a black and white chevron using bornprettystore's new chevron tape which comes in the similar packaging to a striping tape which I found quite cute! I simply did a white base and then placed the stickers and then went over with a black polish.

You can see how I did this manicure with ease in a video tutorial which I will put into this blog post after I have posted it on Instagram :)

Hello hello!

Today I have a simple and fun mani to show you guys! It is inspired by a washi tape I got at Daiso, the two-dollar store. It has a cute chevron pattern with blue and green-ish yellow colors. It goes with two blue chevron, one green chevron, then another two blue ones, so on and so forth.

I recreated the design and tada!

I used OPI - My Boyfriend Scales Walls as the base and then using Kure Bazaar - Turkoise and Kure Bazaar - Carioca for the blue and green respectively.

I free handed the chevrons, boy was it difficult! I used Pure Color No 10 brush to do the chevrons and to amend mistakes, I went back in to touch up with OPI - MBSW. Here is a close up shot :)

I felt that this design is really simple and cute! What do you think?

Product was sent for review

Hello all!

Today I have another BornPrettyStore review! As mentioned in previous reviews (here & here) BPS provides an array of nail art essentials for you with FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING. Now, I present to you this 12-colored rectangle rhinestones/studs!

(Product link)

Initially I was afraid that the rectangles are gonna be too big, but no, I can manage four studs down the middle of my nail (except thumb). There are a ton of studs here and the best part is that you could re-use them! I tried lightly wiping with a polish remover to get rid of the top coat and I could easily remove them without destroying it. So, reuse of studs = PLUS POINT(Y)!

Also, there are 12 colors for you. TWELVE. Do you want me to name them? Okay I will. Yellow, light pink, royal purple, light blue, gold, red, light green, black, dark green, magenta, royal blue and silver (as shown below in sequence).

Now moving on to the nail art that I came up with for this review!

Basically for this manicure, I made use of the rectangle studs and aligned them vertically to show a change of pattern. Read below for the step-by-step how-to for this look!

Paint all nails with a base color and apply top coat. Let dry.
Pointer & Middle: Place chevron stickers and apply second color. Remove sticker using tweezers IMMEDIATELY after application.
Pointer & Middle: Touch up mistakes and ooopsies by using a small brush with the base color and cover up. Let dry. Apply topcoat.
Ring: Get tape and remove stickiness by placing several times on your hand. Tape off half of your nail vertically. Place chevron stickers and apply second color as per point 2.
Ring: Draw a thick line next to the chevron you created. Let dry.
Ring: Apply topcoat. Quickly place the light pink rectangle stud vertically down your nail. Let dry. Apply topcoat again.
Pinky: Using a nail art liner brush, draw two thick stripes across the entire nail. Let dry. Apply topcoat.

What I used:

Base Coat: Sally Hansen Smooth and Strong
Base Color: Revlon Apricot Nectar
Second Color: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls
Top Coat: Glisten & Glow's HK Girl
Chevron stickers from NailVinyls.com (reviewed here)
Tweezers

Hmmmmm... Not a fan of words? Or maybe you can't understand my steps above? FRET NOT! I have a YouTube video tutorial on how you can recreate this manicure!!!

Before ending this post, let me do a conclusion about this product. You get to be really creative and really do any crazy design you want! I have been thinking of doing a whole nail just with the rhinestons :P But we'll see about that in the future!

For 12 colors and so so many in one for US$3.75 to spice up your manicure is a good deal. Besides, you get free shipping. Oh, plus you can also get a 10% discount code from ME!

Yes, simply use my code "LSTX31" upon checkout to get this discount!

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Hello readers!

Today I have something fun to share with all of you; NAIL VINYLS. I have seen so many bloggers and instagrammers (does this word even exists?!) used IG@teismom nail vinyls (or stickers if you wish to call them). You can purchase yours on her website and she even has hearts, stars and many other nail vinyls to choose from!

I ordered this chevron nail vinyls from her because free hand chevrons are hard to do (especially when using non-dominant hand). Many of us resort to using the traditional DIY chevron crafts scissors and scotch tape. But let's be honest, it isn't easy either. You have to cut and leave almost the same size between the first cut and the next PLUS the scissors I use aren't sharp enough to cut the scotch tape. So you can say I gave up on chevrons, but not to worry cause nail vinyls are here to the rescue!

For today's mani, I am going to use my favourite Teenage Dream from the OPI Katy Perry collection, together with it is piCture pOlish Cosmos. You could say I just combined both of my favorite shades hehehe :D

And now, I proudly present to you.... perfect chevrons!!! It was easy to use these nail vinyls and I could even reuse them (which is great)! This is the first try using the vinyls and I am very pleased. I have learnt not to load the brush of the second color too much as it may flood the cuticles, and clean up was a mess! But with practice I got the hang of it and it turned out pretty well!

I think that I may want to get more of the vinyls from @teismom sometime soon because it is really great! What do you think? Would you spend money on nail 'stencils'?