Seashells and Starfish nailstickers, review for Born Pretty Store

For today's blog, I have a review of the cute silver seashell and starfish stickers from BornPrettyStore.com 
You can choose roses, seashells or seashells and starfish in white, black, gold or silver.
I choose silver, because I think it fits really well with the blue of the ocean.

I started with a white basecoat to make the colors pop. Then I tore a piece of makeup sponge and dabbed that in a teal nailpolish and then applied that on my nails. Then I used a light teal and dabbed that on so there would be some dimension. I also used some white nailpolish, because I thought it was to blue.....

The next step is to apply the stickers. There are 4 kinds of stickers I used: big and little seashells and big and little starfishes. 

It was easy to get the stickers of the plastic and even easier to apply on my nails.

I usually don't use nailstickers, because they are thick and you can see them, but these are thinner then I'm used to, so a good coat of topcoat and it is almost not visible.

Because I wanted to put on some sand for a realistic look, I applied the topcoat one finger at a time and then added the sand.

The sand is in a little container, so I dipped in the tip of my nail to get the sand where I wanted it to be.

With a fanbrush I removed the excess sand and went on to the next nail.

And this is the endresult!

I love them so much!!! 

The silver stickers give this design the extra touch that makes the design this nice!

The stickers are easy to use and not as thick as I expected, which is another plus for this item!

They are called 3D Nail Art Stickers Chic Floral Starfish Nail Tips Stamping Decals and are itemnumber#20479 and you can find them HERE 

If you like them as much as I do and want to order them, make sure to use my discount code LWGK31 for a 10% discount on your next purchase with BornPrettyStore.

What do you think? Do you like them as much as I do?

Purple Sharpie with stamped flower - Pictorial

For this cute purple design I've made a pictorial. I hope you like it!

This are the products I've used:

- Flomar Matte White, because I've noticed that a matte basecoat works better with the markers.

- Purple, Pink and Blue markers, a brush and alcohol. I've used 70% alcohol and that works great, but there are tutorials which use a higher %

- Kleancolor 'Purple Metallic' and Dashica 'White' for stamping, Simplism Style stampingplates 04 and 16 (I've got these from AliExpress)

- Topcoat. I use Seche Vite

- Caviar beads. I've used purple one, because of the purple theme.

Apply the white nailpolish

When the polish is dry, use the markers to color on your nails. I just drew some random stripes with all the colors.

Take your brush and dip it in the alcohol. A little bit goes a long way. 

Then let your brush lightly touch the markerink and let the magic happen! 

I love to see how the alcohol makes the ink work ;)

Repeat the previous 2 steps until you are satisfied with how it looks. 

I've got this result after repeating the 2 steps 3 times. I then applied my Seche Vite as a base for the stamping.

This image is on stampingplate Simplism Style 16 and I've used the Kleancolor polish for the stamping.

Stamp the image on your nails.

This image is on stampingplate Simplism Style 04 and I've used the Dashica polish for the stamping.

Stamp the image on your nails.

And for the final touch, the caviar beads, I've applied another coat of the Seche and placed the beads in the heart of the flower. Finish with a last coat of topcoat. Don't forget to dap the topcoat on the beads so it doesn't look like a big blob with beads in them.

And then you are ready!

I hope you like my pictorial!

Leave a comment when you have questions or just want to say if you like or dislike my nails and/or pictorial!

Stamped Ladybugs over Golden Flowers

For this Ladybug-design I've made a pictorial of all the steps I've made.

And I am back to nubbins, because of a nasty break in my middle-finger. But with this design I don't mind rocking them ;)

First I've painted all my nails with Essence ''Wonder Wow! Man!', a gorgeous golden polish that is opaque in 2 coats.
When the basecolor had dried completely, I started with the first stamping layer.

For the flower-image I used stampingplate JQ-L18 (bought on AliExpress) and Catrice '(S)Wimbleon', a light aqua/teal greenish color, that stamps wonderful!

The nail stamped with the flowers looks like this, after cleanup. I topcoated with Seche Vite, because I mess up my decals a lot, so with a layer of topcoat it is easy to remove the decal or stampingimage.

For the ladybug I use a cute image of a stampingplate by (I think) Shany, but I cannot find the plate anywhere, so I can't tell the plate number.
As you can see, the whole image didn't transfer correctly, but I don't mind, because nobody is perfect ;) Even precious ladybugs.... (or I am just making excuses) 
I've used multiple stampingheads, so I can make more decals at once.

When the black stampingpolish was completely dried, I filled all the body's in with a bright red.(Dashica 'Pure Red' in my case) Because of my multiple stampingheads, I could immediately fill the images with the red, when I finished stamping the ladybugs.

The red took a little more time to dry, but within 10 minutes, I could start with transferring the ladybugs.

Because the images are not to big, I just placed the stampinghead on my nail and the ladybug had no problem being transferred to my nail. (except for the tiny little feet)

I am really pleased with how this design came out and those nubbins.... they will grow and before I know it, I have long(er) nails again. But until that time: #embracetheshorties !