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Born Pretty Cuticle Tattoo Review

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born pretty cuticle tattoo

Today I have my not so good experience with these cuticle tattoo things to share with you…

These have been sent to me for review from Born Pretty

The product is available here Cuticle Tattoo and if you use the discount code RPG10 you’ll get 10% off your order! 🙂

born pretty cuticle tattoo

So, how did I get on with this product? As you can see from the picture, not amazingly well!

born pretty cuticle tattoo

I followed the instructions on the packet, and I don’t know what was wrong, but the little tattoos did not want to stay where I put them.

I’ve never had to do fake tattoo herding before, hopefully it’s something I’ll not have to do again!

They just kept on lifting up at the edges, and then sticking to anything I tried to use to get them back to where they where supposed to be.

born pretty cuticle tattoo review

I have to say I’m not a fan of the shininess, maybe a little dab of translucent face powder would fix it. But then again my nail polish is matte which could be accentuating the glossiness.

The cuticle tattoos where really easy to remove, they came straight off when I washed my hands!

I have actually been putting off writing this post since last week, I don’t think I would have been so ummm diplomatic (lol) with my description of this product if I had written about it straight away.

Then it occurred to me (while I was typing) that these do have a redeeming use!

born pretty cuticle tattoo review

They do make really pretty half moon nail decals! 😀


Morgan Taylor Pretty Wild, Little Misfit and Rebel With a Cause.

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Today I have three very pretty polishes from Morgan Taylor to share with you. Pretty Wild, Little Misfit and Rebel With a Cause.

Pretty Wild

morgan taylor pretty wild swatch

Pretty Wild Is a really lovely greyed out lilac. The formula is really nice, it has a very rich and creamy  consistency and dried really quickly.

I have to say the colour is extremely similar to Sally Hansen Greige Gardens although Pretty wild is a touch warmer. I should probably do a comparison post of all my purpley grey polishes, I’m starting to get quite a collection!

This is two coats Pretty Wild with no topcoat!

Little Misfit

morgan taylor little misfit

Little Misfit is a very sheer multi chrome polish, it is very pretty! looks like a silvery rainbow in a bottle!

On my ring finger is one coat of Little Misfit over black, on the rest of my nails four coats!

The flash did make the sheerness a little more apparent, there definitely is very noticeable VNL!

But as a topper this polish is really lovely. it dries quickly and the application is really smooth., and it’s shiny enough to not need a top coat.

Rebel With a Cause

morgan taylor rebel with a cause

Out of these three polishes this one is my favorite. Rebel With a Cause is a stunning deep wine/berry red, with a slight gold shimmer and iridescent micro glitter.

All of the glitters and shimmers in this polish make it look like a metallic finish but without all the pesky brushstrokes!

The coverage with this polish is amazing, with careful application this could be opaque in one coat, this is two coats, because I wasn’t very careful lol

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Leafy Tree Stamping With Nails Inc Clifford Street

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Leafy stamping with nails inc clifford street

While I was hunting around in my nail polish collection it occurred to me that I hadn’t worn any of my Nails Inc polishes in ages.

Leafy stamping with nails inc clifford street

So here is Clifford Street! The image I used is from the Moyou Mother Nature 14 plate.

The trees are getting very bare I wanted something leafy, especially the tree outside my kitchen window, as it lost all of it’s leaves over night!

Leafy stamping with nails inc clifford street

This macro is definitely the truest colour, my camera (phone) picked up a lot of the purple in this polish.

I had forgotten how pretty Clifford Street is, greyed out purple with iridescent gold glitter and a slight purple shimmer, it really is a perfect autumn shade!

With the macro shot you really can see how bad my stamping was this morning lol.

This mani only took around 15 minutes including drying time!

Leafy stamping with nails inc clifford street

I think the tiny birds are really cute! 😀

 


Neko Atsume Inspired Cat Nails!

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Neko Atsume Nail Art

Today’s nails are inspired by probably the cutest phone game ever! Neko Atsume

Neko Atsume

Neko Atsume Nail Art

All you do in this game is you use silver and gold Niboshi (dried fish) to buy food, toys and furniture to attract cats to your garden, you can take pictures of the cats to add to your cat book!

Then when the cats leave your garden they give you more Niboshi, then you can buy more stuff and get more cats. 😀

There is even The Neko Atsume Europe Facebook group!

Neko Atsume Nail Art

I used a lot of different polishes for this

  • Illamasqua – Blow
  • Seche – Nouveau
  • Sinful Colors – Snow Me White
  • Illamasqua – DWS
  • Barry M – Peach Melba
  • Color Club – Nomadic In Nude
  • Illamasqua – Harem
  • Rimmel London – Ultra Violet
  • Barry M – Blueberry I/C
  • Illamasqua – Nomad
  • Seche Vite Topcoat
  • Illamasqua Matte Topcoat
  • Fine Tip Permanent ink pen

I ended up making decals for the cats as painting them directly onto my nails really wasn’t working out.

Neko Atsume Nail Art

I really do like these little kitties! 😀


Nails Inc Paint Can Shoreditch Lane!

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Ok I admit it, I just ran out to buy this!

Nails Inc Paint Can Shoreditch Lane

Spray on nail polish! I had to try it! 😀

Ln the spray can you get 50ml of product and the 2 in 1 is 5ml. I don’t know how many full manicures you’ll get from the can.

According to Nails Inc this is how to apply this spray in nail polish!

Step 1. This part is essential – you must apply a base coat, we suggest Paint Can’s Best Friend – the Nails inc 2 in 1 Base and Top coat. Allow to dry.

Or apply The Paint Can over your nail polish for a speedy colour change.

Step 2. Shake the Paint Can and from a distance of 10-15cm, spray the polish directly onto the nail area. (Cover and protect the surface you are spraying on to).

Step 3. For a longer lasting mani (for up to four days), apply a top coat. Allow to dry.

Step 4. With warm soapy water wash away any excess Paint Can polish from skin and cuticles. Or use a cleansing wipe when on the go.

You will be left with a perfectly applied manicure.

from these instructions the thing really got my attention is spraying it over the nail polish your already wearing… I think this is going to open up a whole new collection of nail art techniques!

Here are my (slightly stained) nails all prepped with the Nails Inc 2 in 1 and ready to go!

naked nails

And here’s my nails and hands covered in spray paint!

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Nails Inc Shoreditch Lane Paint Can

Hahaha there was So much mess!

I don’t know about the pink spray but if you are going to use the silver, make sure your not wearing anything that you mind getting a thin coating of sparkles over, it’s in my hair, over my clothes, the whole of my bathroom is slightly sparkly! Oops!

But I don’t really mind as I’m usually covered in glitter! 😀

Nails inc shorditch lane

This photo is without the topcoat! It really is a lovely chrome!

I have to say that the polish comes away from the skin really easily, I found it was even easier to remove by soaking my hand in warm water for a few minutes.

It was slightly more difficult to remove the polish from my cuticles, I has to scrape it away with an orange stick.

When I applied the 2 in 1 as topcoat something rather strange happened.

nails inc shoreditch lane

There was rather a lot of what I can only describe as antiquing, and there is also some cloudiness to the tips of my nails, like a matte french tip, interestingly this is the same problem I have with Out The Door topcoat on normal nail polish (which is why I don’t use it).

Then I tried applying Seche Vite.

Nails Inc Shoreditch Lane

There is still a little antiquing, it’s not as bad and there’s no odd matte tips!

You can find the silver Paint Can here Nails Inc Shoreditch Lane (UK Only)

This is a really fun product! and yes it does exactly what it says on the tin! For me I don’t know if it is any faster than using a normal one coat polish with base and topcoat, as it did take a little while to clean the polish from my skin. I think this will be an amazing product if you are not not so good at painting your dominant hand!

My final thoughts on the 2 in 1 makes a good base coat, not so much as a top coat with this silver can.

I really hope that Nails Inc release some more Paint Can colours!

Is spray on nail polish something you would consider using?


Brown Pin Marble

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Brown Pin Marble

Here is another brown autumn nail art look, this is really quick and surprisingly easy to do! Rather than me explaining (badly) there are loads of really good tutorials on pin marbling over on youtube!

Some slightly annoying news, my camera has decided that taking photographs is something it no longer wants to do (Gaaaah!) So for the foreseeable future I’m going to have to use my phone camera…

Oh yeah, I have decided to sort out my Instagram account! I’ve actually had one for years, I just haven’t really used it, so do go check it out! 😀

Brown Pin Marble

Back to the nails lol I used two polishes for this look Hot For Chocolate from Revlon and Diablos from above the curve.

Hot for chocolate is the brown cream, it’s easy to apply and is almost opaque in one coat. Diablos is a brown/red holographic polish, and for a brown polish I think it’s actually rather pretty!

Brown Pin Marble

I hope that one day a brown polish will come along that I really like, but until then brown nail polish is just not for me!