OPI Pure Lacquer Nail Apps in Metallic Waves

These are new and exciting! You're looking at the new full nail stickers from OPI, called Pure Lacquer Nail Apps. This design is called Metallic Waves. OPI is releasing a ton of really cool designs for these, all of which you can see at http://www.opi.com/.

 

These are some of the easiest and prettiest nail stickers that I've ever tried. They were super easy to apply and totally comfortable to wear. They are pretty thin so they bend nicely to fit onto your nails. The Nail Apps are actually made out of nail polish, so you remove them with regular nail polish remover. I would definitely recommend them! And below you can see the other design I received, called Girly Glam.

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China Glaze DV8

I'm sure almost all of you reading this know how gorgeous and hard to get the China Glaze OMG collection is, so it should be no surprise to you that it took me ages to track down the bunch that I have. Unfortunately, they are a bit of a pain to wear; they chip quickly and top coat dulls the holo effect. For that reason, you have to "sandwich" these colors (base coat, color, topcoat, color) in order for them to last more than a day. I rarely ever wear them because of that, but I thought it was about time for me to swatch and post about them here.

This is DV8, a stunning linear teal holo. The formula is just okay; I had some dragging with the first coat, but it evened out with two. These holographic polishes are pretty hard to come by now, but you might get lucky and find someone who is willing to swap one!

Born Pretty Steel Ball Nail Art

Good morning! Here is yet another trend that I am behind on, the "caviar" mani. Yeah, I know I'm not supposed to call it that, but whatever. How about the microbead mani? Alliteration FTW! Okay so today I have a couple microbead manis to show you using some steel nail art balls that I received from the Born Pretty Store to review. I got twelve different colors and they all arrived in their own little container. The containers are closed really tight and everything arrived safely with there was no spillage.

I decided to use my two favorite colors for the review, so I started looking through my stash for a purple and a turquoise polish to match. For the purple, I chose RBL Mismas and the lighter shade of purple microbeads. Mismas is amazing. I had some base coat-related formula issues with my RBLs, but I bought a bottle of Essie ridge-filling base coat and used it this time and it was incredible. Mismas applied so smooth and easy. Anyway, after two coats of polish, I dipped my ring finger nail into the little container of beads. I didn't get total coverage, but I like that some of the polish is still peeking through.

I decided to use Essie Turquoise & Caicos with the turquoise beads. This was my second attempt, so I was able to get better coverage when I dipped my nail in the beads. I actually really like this look. It's not convenient for every day wear, but it would work great for a fancy one-night mani.

This steel ball set retails for $5.41 and you can purchase them here. Don't forget that you can use the coupon code over there in the right sidebar, ZR5X31 for 5% off your order!

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Lush Lacquer Birthday Cake

Mmmm, I am loving all these food-inspired polishes lately! So far I've shown you plenty of treats, like s'mores and mint chocolate chip ice cream, and today I have Birthday Cake from Lush Lacquer for you! Lush Lacquer polishes can be purchased on Etsy.

Birthday Cake is made up of multi-colored hex and bar glitters in a vanilla frosting-esque base. It was a little thick, but it covered perfectly in two coats and I had zero issues with glitter placement. How would you like a yummy macro of this one? I thought you might...

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Adorable Watermelon Pedi!

Warning: feet ahead! I debated posting this because I know that feet creep some people out and honestly, I'm not a huge fan of my feet anyway, but I decided that 1) it was too cute not to share and 2) it's my blog so I should be able to post my feet if I want! :P

I used Essie Watermelon as my base color and Essie Absolutely Shore, China Glaze Holly-Day, Zoya Purity, and a black striping polish to create the watermelon design on my big toes. They are seriously too cute... I smile every time I catch a glimpse of them!   

Nicole by OPI "Sophisti-cuties" Mini Set

Good morning all! I hope everyone had a great weekend! Today I have the second Kardashian Kolors mini set for you, called "Sophisti-cuties."

First up is My Empire... My Rules, a nice, smoky brownish gray. I never thought in a million years that I would like colors like this, but I really do! This was three coats, no formula issues.

Follow Me on Glitter is soooo pretty! This is one coat over My Empire... My Rules. It's mostly made up of silvery/gunmetal glitter with larger multi-colored glitter pieces mixed it. It covers really well and doesn't dry all that gritty either.

Khloe Had a Little Lam-Lam is my favorite of these four. The name is idiotic, but I love the color, a gorgeous deep teal/emerald. I did two easy coats here. 

Lastly is my least favorite, Hard-Kourt Fashionista. This is a temperamental brown shade that needed three coats to be opaque and non-streaky. As far as browns go, this one isn't actually all that bad to me, but I'm still not a huge fan.

The "Sophisti-cuties" mini set will be available in July 2012 and will retail for $10 at stores such as Duane Reade, H-E-Butt, Fred Meyer, Meijer, Rite Aid, Sears and ULTA. 

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Nicole by OPI "Celeb-bitties" Mini Set

I got two new mini sets from Nicole by OPI recently, so I will be sharing them with you in two separate posts. The colors are all part of the Kardashian Kolors line and are divided into a pink/red set and a neutral/teal set. This first set is called "Celeb-bitties" and contains the pink/red shades.

All Kendall-ed Up is a bright, summery pink. I'm pretty bad with this, but I think this is a blue-toned pink. The formula here was really great, almost a one-coater but not quite. You're seeing two easy coats here.

Kim-pletely In Love is stuuuuuuuunning. I seriously think I'm going to run out and buy a full size bottle of this. KIL is a semi-sheer baby pink with blue shimmer. I know it doesn't look awfully blue here, but trust me, it is! This is three coats. I was shocked at how much I loved this since I rarely ever wear sheers (or pink)!

Sealed With a Kris was my least favorite of this bunch. It was still a little streaky even after three coats, which is what you see here. It's a pretty shade of red though if you have the patience to apply three to four coats of it.

Wear Something Spar-Kylie is fabulous! This is just one coat over Sealed With a Kris and as you can see, it's just about full coverage. I was amazed at how well this light pink glitter covered. It does dry a little gritty though, so you will need a coat or two of a thick topcoat to level it out.

 

The "Celeb-bitties" mini set will be available in July 2012 and will retail for $10 at stores such as Duane Reade, H-E-Butt, Fred Meyer, Meijer, Rite Aid, Sears and ULTA.

 

*Product(s) in this post were provided for an honest review.*