Rose water decals

Hello~ :) Woohoo, I've finally finished exams and am ready to party haha ♥ I wore this mani into my exam and was constantly distracted by it...good thing it was an easy exam :P The full nail water decals are from Viva la nails and part of the blogger sample pack I received awhile ago.

I spent waaay too much time trying to get the water decals to work though, they just refused to dry and stick onto my nails! :( And on top of that, I ruined my pinky one and had to make do with left over decals. Because of the oopsies I made, I used some rhinestones and bullion beads I received from Born Pretty Store - a nail art etailer - to cover them up. I loove the rhinestones, they're so easy to use :)

And a picture of the rhinestone wheel. My favourite has got to be the beautiful light blue under the purple rhinestones on the left. It seriously flashes so many colours ♥

~Sharon

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Full nail water decals

Hello~ :) As promised in my previous post, here's my attempt at using the full nail water decals from Viva la nails.

I chose to use the Burberry patterned decal first. Application was pretty simple, you simple dip the strip into some water like other types of decals for 10 seconds and then gently slide it off the backing. What I found the most difficult to work with was that the decal took a really long time to dry and as a result moved around on my nail quite a bit. The entire mani took me close to 2hrs to finish, although this can also be attributed to my inexperience with applying it :P. I'd say with more experience I'll be able to do it in half the time.

Photo taken with flash:

What do you think of these full nail water decals? I think they're a nice change to the nail polish strips which are being released by other companies although I haven't experienced using them. With more practice, the nail decals should be easy to work with, you just need to be patient with drying time before applying your top coat.

~Sharon

The above product was provided to me to review. For more information, please see my disclosure policy.

May haul

Hi everyone~ Yes, this is finally another haul post! I really haven't been feeling the nail polish collections since China Glaze's Anchors Away collection which I hauled waaay back in February. However, a few weeks ago I found a seller on ebay who sells Zoya polishes at a pretty reasonable cost and combined with cheap shipping costs, who can pass on that? :)

I also found Essence polishes being sold in Target awhile ago and couldn't resist getting Choose me hehe.
Zoya Dannii, Faye, Ivanka, Gemma, Mimi

Viva la nails also offered some full nail water decals for bloggers to review. I received the following sample pack~ I'll have a review of one of the decals up soon! :D

What do you think of the recent nail polish collections? Anything I missed and should be looking out for? :)
~Sharon

Feeling the blues?

Hello! Sorry for the temporary absence, I've been completely swamped with Uni work recently. Today's mani is from the vault, can you believe my nails are naked right now? o___o I have something in mind though since I have a wedding to attend on Saturday and I definitely can not show up without a mani! :P

The following photo was taken under the sun.

I applied two coats of China Glaze Caribbean blue then stuck on some nail stickers from Viva la Nails' free blogger pack. I actually quite liked this and the stickers stayed on surprisingly well :).

Thanks for dropping by~
Sharon

Nail art #15 - Spring is upon us

Well, spring is upon us down in the southern hemisphere anyway :P.

For this manicure,  I used two coats of Color Club's Uptown Girl. Then to spice things up a little, I took out my sample pack from Viva la Nails and chose some nail stickers to put on my fourth finger and thumb. To finish off, I sealed my nails with my Poshe topcoat. I love the result loads and the stickers held up really well for the two days I kept this mani.


The nail stickers were part of the free sample pack from Viva la Nails. If you own a blog which posts about nail art or beauty, you too can order yourself a sample pack. You only have to pay for shipping which is £2.95!


Thanks for dropping by.
~shazzii

A day filled with hauls!

I went out shopping without the intention of buying any polishes, but as always I ended up with a few bottles back home :P.

First off, I discovered Sinful Color polishes in The Reject Shop for only 50 cents a bottle!! Of course I had to buy some, even though the colour range was pretty small. It's my first time spotting Sinful Color polishes here in Australia and so I just had to purchase some despite the fact that they were all reds and pinks (and quite a few sheers too).

Left to right: Deepest Ruby, Vela, Noelle


And then too my delight, I also stumbled upon some L.A. Colors polish in a dollar shop! Again, it's my first time seeing these polishes in Australia, so I pretty excited. It was definitely my lucky day today :D.

Left to right: Star light, Metallic purple, Jungle Fever, Sparkling Diamonds

Since I was in full polish buying mode by then, I swung by another dollar shop and bought some rhinestones for future nail art designs :).

Definitely can't wait to try these out!

To my surprise, I received a note in the mail when I arrived home telling me to go down to the post office to collect a package. Since I've only ordered one thing recently, I already had a hunch of what was awaiting me at the post office...and I was right! My free blogger package from Viva la Nails had arrived! Can I just say that I'm totally over the moon at the quick shipping?! The package was shipped exactly a week ago, so this only took five business days to arrive!

I do have a tiny complaint with the packaging though - it appeared that one of the blue glitter packets had not been closed properly and as a result there was glitter spilling everywhere, even out of the sealed packaging. I tried to save what I could and tipped it all into the orange glitter pack. It was quite disappointing and more than a little frustrating to clean all the glitter away - there's still quite a bit in my handbag where I had temporarily stored the package, not to mention my table where I had opened it.

The top row shows the nail stickers and the bottom the water decals. I can't wait to try out the decals, they look so pretty! A review of the products will be coming along in the near future.

Thanks for dropping by.
~shazzii