Kissy Lips

This cute design can be found on the QA28 image plate from Born Pretty. It can be found here for $1.99. That's a great deal!

I first painted my nails with China Glaze Dance Baby, then stamped using Kleancolor Metallic Pink.

 I used all 3 full nail images. I put the smallest lips on my pinky. The plate was easy to use and gave me a crisp clean image each time. I'm really excited to figure out an idea to use the mustache images.... A brainstorming session is needed!

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Born Pretty Embossed Metal Decals

Embossed metal sticker decals from Born Pretty. 

Gold swirls placed on top of Zoya Bevin.

This first set can be found here for $2.98. Option #1.

 It's easy, just peel and stick. Apply topcoat if you choose.

You can tell from this angle I had some lifting on my pinky nail. I thought I had pressed the stickers down firmly enough, but after I applied topcoat, this happened.

Silver snowflakes. Part of a sheet with many other designs including hearts and flowers.

This set can be found here for $2.98. Option #3. 

 These were placed over Kleancolor Cobalt.

Again, I had problems with them lifting. This particular snowflake had been positioned on a fold, and it just popped right back up. For the partial snowflakes, I just cut them with nail clippers and applied with tweezers. You can also see little silver flecks, and that's because the topcoat seemed to drag some of the silver off. :( Overall, it's a unique set of decals, but I wish they stuck down better.

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Born Pretty - Marquise Studs & Beaded Chain

Another couple of items provided by Born Pretty to review. 

First up are these marquise shaped gold studs. They can be found here for $5.83.

I didn't have any trouble with them. They lie flat and adhered with just wet topcoat. My only preference would have been if they were smaller. They are quite large which limits what all designs you can do. I have another idea in mind that I will try and post at a later date.

For this look, I used KleanColor Cobalt to paint a french tip, then I placed the studs with a dot of topcoat. After that I painted the gold accent swirls with Essie Good as Gold. Then I topcoated the entire look.

The second item is this beaded chain that can be found here for $5.61. It's 100cm in length and that'll allow for a lot of different uses.

In this look, I was trying to line up the beaded chain along the half moon. You can see it didn't really work. :( The chain is too stiff to bend much. I used cuticle nippers to trim off the length I wanted to use, and it cut easily.

 

You can see the edges stick up even under topcoat.... I'm just not loving this beaded chain. I need to find another way to use them perhaps.

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Pink & Purple

 An alternating sideways gradient of pink and purple.

I used Wet N Wild Megalast Candy-licious & KleanColor Lavenbaby.



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Metallic Pink Cloud

I used a base of Sally Hansen CSM Lavender Cloud & stamped using BM 301 and KleanColor Metallic Pink.



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KleanColor, Santee, & Nabi - Quick Swatches

These products were sent to me for review by MyWholesaleFashion.com. They offer various cosmetics as well as jewelry and other fashion accessories.

Prices are reasonable and they have lots of variety, so check it out!

 

I got worried when I picked up the package and it smelled like polish.....

They had simply tossed them in a box with one layer of bubble wrap to cushion.

 One bottle of KleanColor had broken and the entire bottle leaked all over the others. :(

The good news is that when I contacted them to show them what happened, they were very apologetic and offered to send a replacement shipment. So thumbs up to their customer service.

I'll save the words on this product review, because honestly nobody really reads long posts anyhow! We all know you come here just for the pictures, and not so much my lack-luster wit. ;)

All of these polishes applied the same, the formulas were pretty good, some of the brushes were a little wonky, most all of them smell awful and full of chemicals...

First up are the Kleancolors:

 

Lavenbaby - 2 coats

 

Coffee Addict - 2 coats

 

Metallic Pink - 2 coats

 

Cobalt - 2 coats

Chunky Holo Teal - 2 coats over Cobalt 

 

* without flash*

Chunky Holo Black - 2 coats over Sinful Colors Black on Black

Santee is a brand I had not heard of before, but it offered nice coverage and colors if you can get past the potent odor.

 

Aqua - 2 coats

this is more teal in real life, but of course it proved impossible to photograph :(



Eggplant - 2 coats

nice subtle silver shimmer!

Navy Blue - 2 coats

 

And lastly, the 2 Nabi's.

These do NOT have name labels on the bottles, unless I'm totally blind....

 

N30 Red Red - 2 coats

 

N46 Multi Heart - 2 coats over Red Red

this proved to be a difficult fishing expedition....

Most of these polishes were opaque in 1 coat, but I pictured 2 just for neatness. I decided to do a small test run of how they stamp over dark and light colors. I painted both black and white polish on my nails and stamped as follows:

 

Left top - Santee Eggplant ; bottom - KleanColor Coffee Addict

Middle top - Santee Aqua ; bottom - Santee Navy Blue

Right top - KleanColor Cobalt ; bottom KleanColor Metallic Pink

 

 

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