Playing with Foils - a Born Pretty Store Review

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I'm officially in love with foils!!

Born Pretty Store sent me a couple of rolls in blue(#7) and brown(#12) to try out. You get approx. 113 x 2.5cm per pottle.

I was sort of sceptical that I would be able to achieve such an easy and clean transfer, especially since I didn't have any foil glue, but they turned out to be amazingly easy to use and I'll be buying myself more colours in the future.

Wanna see what I did with them?

Elevation Polish Grotte et Cascade with blue and brown foil

I was already wearing Elevation Grotte et Cascade and it happily co-ordinated well with the brown foil, so I added one more layer of GeC and when it was semi-dry, sort of tacky; I placed a piece of the blue foil on to my nail and rubbed my finger over it in a smooth, firm action. I lifted the piece of foiled and viola, it had transferred very cleanly.

I repeated this step using the brown foil and for each nail I tried to muck around with the pattern I was creating. I finished with a layer of Seche Vite, which didn't effect the foil at all. I'm thrilled with the results, and I can see myself using the foil to cover an entire nail - the bright blue would make for an amazing mani! Talk about quick and easy nail art.

The next time you place an order with BPS you can use my coupon QHL91 for 10% off . They offer free worldwide too.

 Are you as crazy about foils as me?!!! Let me know in the comments.


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NPA

Born Pretty Store Giveaway Winner

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Thanks to everyone who entered the draw to win the $20 voucher from Born Pretty Store.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Congratulations to Tina Shirbroun of Light of the Moon Nails, who has won! I've already heard back from Tina and she will be receiving her voucher shortly.

Thank you also to Born Pretty Store for sponsoring the giveaway. Remember the more you use my 10% coupon QHL91 the more giveaways BPS will sponsor!!!!


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NPA

Orly High On Hope is magical!

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My first week of clinic is over! And it wasn't quite as frightening as I thought it'd be. I've already fallen in love with a couple of strays that were brought in (a wee wittle puppy, and a teeny kitten that my classmate adopted!!). It's so hard not being able to take them home!
Can't wait for next week when I go back again and get to do more handling!!!

So I love, love, LOVE High On Hope from Orly's Hope & Freedom Fest Collection for Spring 2013!

It's Orly Cosmic FX Space Cadet meets a teal leaning navy crème = AMAZEBALLS

Orly High On Hope

High On Hope is slightly teal leaning navy with pink to green multi-chrome flake shimmer! One of my favourite finishes!!! Application was pretty decent too, I only needed two coats thought they were a little thick. I got a few bubbles/bumps on my middle and index fingernails but I'm not sure if that was my base coat, my application or the polish's fault.

Aaaahhhhh, I love that fuchsia sparkle!!!!!!!! I wasn't expecting Orly to rock out such a gorgeous colour but I have to say from their last few collections there has been one lone stand out shade for me. And this time it's High on Hope.

I just picked up Elation Generation yesterday and it's also pretty special :) I'm sad about the rebranding they've done though :( Luckily my bottles are the old style but I'm not looking forward to the change over, I hate it when my polish labels don't match!!!!

What are your thoughts?


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NPA



BK Matte Pink Polish from Born Pretty Store

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Hey guys,

It's my first day of clinic!!! I'm hella scared and really hoping it goes well.

For now, I have another review for Born Pretty Store. This time I tried a matte pink polish by BK Nail Polish. The colour doesn't ring true in these photos, so if it appears slightly neon and orange tinted on your screens, ignore it, the bottle shows the shade of pink correctly.

BK Nail Polish #06

#06 is a medium-dark matte pink. The formula was very similar to all other mattes. It wasn't chalky or anything but I did find it tricky getting an even finish like all mattes also! Remember to let your nails dry/harden longer than glossy finishes because it dents more easily.
You can get your hands on this pink HERE (Item ID: 1030).

Tomorrow I'll show you how #06 looks with a glitter top coat.



Born Pretty Store sells lots of nail art supplies, cheaply and with free international shipping. You can use my 10% off coupon next time you order.

BPS are also sponsoring a $20 gift voucher giveaway for my readers. Enter HERE before Sunday 7 April for your chance to win.


xxx
NPA

Elevation Tindur - a long lost swatch?

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Happy Easter Monday!

Pretty sure nothing amazing happened to the risen Jesus today - he was still probably spreading the word that he had risen and people were doing the happy dance, maybe that's the rationale behind the four day weekend?
Anyway, it's pretty sweet so I won't continue to question it!

I'm mentally gearing up for a return to class tomorrow, Nooooooo!!!!!!!!!!! So will leave this short and sweet.
I did lots of Elevation swatches a few months ago and Tindur managed to get lost in my edited file, so here she is:

Elevation Polish Tindur

Tindur is a little hard to describe. It's a very white blue-green pastel with ultra subtle shimmer. So hidden is this shimmer, that it's really only visible to the naked eye in the macro shot! Pretty though.
The application was a bit streaky and uneven like most pastels until the third coat and some Seche Vite evened it out.
I compared Tindur to Essie Who's the Boss and it was obviously bluer so there's a frame of reference for you!

Awh, looking at these photos is making me sad, my nails were so beautifully long-ish. Boy, I hope the animals at my first clinic are super cute to make up for the nubs I'm sporting!!! There's bound to be one sweetheart :)

Enjoy your last day of vacay bliss! Ooohhh and don't forget to enter my GIVEAWAY


xxx
NPA