Showing posts with label Nail Products: Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nail Products: Review. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Review: Girlz Nailz' Gold on Black Fishnet Nail Wraps

The amount of time I've spent looking at nail wraps, and... the amount of nail wraps I already have on stash. They are complex, fiddly little things, which always turned me off from trying them out. Always with the fear of not getting them 'just right' and messing the whole thing up. But with the arrival of a nicely designed nail wrap sheet of Girlz Nailz on my desk, I had no excuse! I had to over come this fear.


I made a great choice in choosing the these nail wraps! They already look great from the packet. There are 22 nail wraps in the pack, enough for a full set of toe and finger nails! Upon unveiling the wraps from it's plastic packaging, it has a nice shine and a smooth finish.

And, hold up! As good as the quality of Minx nails, Girlz Nailz was previously a distributor to two leading UK nail wrap brands before starting up their own company - you are guaranteed quality!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

OPI Mod About You - Swatch + Review

I don't think I've ever squished so many pictures of the same set of nails in my (blogging) life...
Hi! Last weekend I attended Spa & Beauty Expo with Trammie!
It was a great day filled with so many goodies around... Including a bottle of OPI I purchased after looking for a pink pastel shade. I was excited to make use of the polish since I had also purchased a base coat (finally)- (plump lil green bottle pictured: here)! 

OPI's Mod About You

 I felt like I stole Nicki Minajinz' tips


 And of course the basic OPI brush

 Three layers!

 I still don't have a top coat so I always use Australis' holographic polish for top coats.. Which explains the speckles

The shade matches my pink mouse!!!

I've always been hesistant with OPI's pastels since using their Gargantuan Green Grape... But this went surprisingly well! After my first coat, it looked absolutely streaky, but two more coats and it was perfect!

My nails lasted three days! Pretty good since I'm pretty violent with everything I get in contact with.

Where? 
I'm pretty sure you'd already know of a place that stocks OPIs!
Price: 
$10~15!

Thursday, August 2, 2012

Colour Me In: Glammin' Up OPI's Big Apple Red

Hi guys!
No reason for my absence. Absolutely none.
I have been blogging weekly on wonderarsy though! 
I've started my first week of Uni at UWS! Finally, right?

I left my camera battery charger and battery in Melbourne so Trammie being the sweetie she is, is letting me borrow her spare camera while I wait for my goods to arrive in the mail!

I'm pretty sure you all know my homies Amanda, Tram and Tezza! Tram being the ingenious bean she is suggested that we come together and make beauty posts according to colours! Every Thursday arvo we will bringing to you a new shade and each of us will be creating our posts according to what we have in our beauty stash. This week, is red!

'Red' -the first thing I thought about were my red lipsticks! But I had already written a post about those...  
So I thought I would blog about my all time favourite red nail polish, OPI's Big Apple Red!

I would have taken pictures of the process but not being able to use my camera really put me off... 
Bling bling! Lil beads forming a half moon

Got ma goods together!
OPI Big Apple Red
Sally Hansen Hard As Nails
Tweezers
Beads, beads, beads galore!

Suh preetty! You can buy these babies from eBay! I believe they're called 'microbeads'

Bare nails
(Featuring Milz' legs)

Pick em' up!

Line em up and coat with clear nail polish

This is my favourite mani to do and they match so many combos!
Voila! Super simple and only took a few minutes!

Check out Tram's ravishing red lippies, Tez' ombre red swatchicles and Amanda's gorgeous collection's for more red goodness!

Au reviour my pretties.

Friday, June 8, 2012

Review + Swatches: Sally Hansen GEM Crush in Cha-Ching and Be-Jeweled

Oh my lord....
When I saw these nail polishes on my computer screen, I was so amazed. Look at the sparklyness! I had never seen anything like it... I had to have it!!

So when I had received these babies from a giveaway in the mail... I was squealing and running around so eager to test these babies out. 
It's glimmering beauty

Cha-Ching
It's just abit vibrant in person

 Be-Jeweled
I wish you could see how truly amazing Be-Jeweled looks! It has a slight tint of light bluish/purple too!

1 layer > 2 layers
Wowaz already right?!

*Applying BeJeweled
Bare nails

 2 layers of Ulta

1 layer of BeJeweled
Ahhh!
2 layers of Be-Jeweled
So pretty right!

*Applying Cha-Ching
 1 layer of my all time favourite OPI nailpolish- Big Apple Red

1 layer of Cha-Ching
Looks too Christmas-y for me.. Don't think I'll be using it too often!

Don't you love these beauties!


Be-Jeweled is my absolute favourite of the two!
These babies chip after a few days (I've only tried it with a nail polish underneath)! I don't think you necessarily need a nail polish colour base underneath it all since it's already fine on it's own!

How much and where?
$9.95 @ Priceline
They also come in 6 other gorgeous shades!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Drugstore Flakie - Australis 'Speck-tacular' Swatches on top of 'Blackmail'

Hi!
You would have not been able to imagine how excited I was once I had known that Australis has come out with these flakies!
I've always wanted a flakie every since seeing the Inglot ones being sold at IMATS and now there's a flakie under $10 at any leading retail store I walk into!

Strengthening top coat with holographic reflective flakes! Ohhh, so many goodies in one! 

Flakies look 100% better against a dark background, I will be using Australis' 'Blackmail'.


Top: Australis Flakie in Speck-tacular
Bottom: Australis Nail Polish in Blackmail 

Both nail polishes have the same brushes
I've used Australis nail polishes before and compared to Blackmail, it is very different to the consistency of my first two Australis nailpolishes.. It was not runny, has average drying time and has the right consistency.

Two coats of 'Blackmail'

The Australis flakie is not only gorgeous but it serves with a topcoat and strengthens nails too!
 (Well we'll just have to see about the strengthening bit...)

Brush for the flakie, look at those pretty little specks!

2 layers of Speck-tacular on my nails on top of Blackmail!

And 3 days later...
The Speck-tacular top coat is holding up pretty well!
'Speck-tacular on top of 'Blackmail'
Left to Right: 'Blackmail' alone, 1 layer of 'Speck-tacular', 2 layers of 'Speck-tacular'

Gorgeous isn't it? I would like if the specks were a teensy bit bigger though!
I would love if Australis from this point, were to create more unique nail polishes that no other drugstore brand has, like holographics, magnetic and super super glittery ones! 


Available at:
Leading retailers and pharmacies (Big W, Priceline, Target, etc)

Price:
RRP $8.99 


Disclaimer: The products listed were gifts from Australis. All opinions are those of the author.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

KKCenterHK Stamping Nail Art Review

Hi!
I was given a chance by KKCenterHK to try out a stamping nail plate from their store.
I had always wanted to try out these plates! 

I received this plate and a stamping kit:

 It is a template of tips in horizontal lines, stars, leopard, lines and plaid.

You can purchase this plate from their store here

The nail art stamping tool and plate came in different ziplock bags with a sticker of the company's information.
The three products came new and unflawed. 
The metal plate had a clear cover over it.

Stamping using the plates is such an amazing process! The rubber stamp picks up all the nail polish left in the template after its been scraped. During the whole thing you have to be quick though, I took to long taking pictures of it that it dried out on me.


Step-by-step image on the KKCenterHK site:

I used false nails to test the plate and stamping tool on.
 I started off with using the middle template with stars using Sea Gurl

Scraped off and stamped

Not bad.

I decided to use blank false nails instead to stamp the rest.

I'm so excited!!!!
It stamped just how I expected it to. 
How much nail polish that was still stamped on depended on the angle that I scraped the nail polish off.
It was pretty tricky to get the hang of at first but yes *success*
I can't wait to buy more!!!!

I just think that the plates should be circular so it could fit in the plate holder things!


Product: 4/5
Packaging: 4/5
Quality: 4/5
Price: 
KKCenterHK @ $4.74USD
(The cheapest shipping to Australia is around $2.50 by the way!)

Would I recommend this product?
Yes. They have quite a range of plates from their website along with their new plates that have 42 patterns on it each, but only two of the smaller plates were appealing to me.

Would I repurchase?
Yes, but maybe from another place if I can find it cheaper else where. It's really hard to find pretty plates that I want, especially on eBay since it's so tough to win the bids! But I want lots of cutesy plates with flowers, ribbons and lace on them!


This product was sent to me for consideration but has no way influenced my opinion, read further on my Disclosure Policy.


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