As the title suggests I am here to talk about the website Bornprettystore.com I have had these items sent to me for review purposes but I am giving you my honest feedback on them. I love anything nail related and I really enjoy finding bargains too. You can certainly count on this website to find really affordable prices and good quality product. However you do have to take into consideration the delivery time as these items are coming from another country, they can take a few weeks to get to you. I personally would rather pay £1 for an item and wait a couple weeks for it, than pay £4 for the exact same item just because it will get to me in a few days. This company sells more than just nail art items, but I am only here to talk nails with you :)
Here are the four items I choose to share with you; full nail stencils, angel paper, chevron striping tape and shell paper.
First up is this really cool triangle full nail stencil. There is 12 in the packet which I think is great! Now you are probably thinking, why would you need 12, you only have 10 fingers? The way I see it is if you are anything like me then you like to do a practice nail or two before fully committing to a design. On the other hand, you could use a full set of 10 then at another stage use the last two for accent nails! You can find this product HERE and there are a few other styles on offer too. The material is good quality, it's not so flimsy that it would rip but it is also flexible enough to mold comfortably around your nail. Looking forward to using this soon.
Item number two is not your average striping tape, this is zig-zag style! I was excited to see this as I had yet to see it anywhere else and its different to your standard straight tape. The quality again is really good and strong and you can cut to any length. You have flexibility in the way you use the tape; either apply it on your nail for decoration or use it like a stencil and peel off after painting polish over the top. You can find it HERE in a total of six different colours.
Item number three is a shell sheet. This is like a giant sticker that you can cut to size and apply to your nail as you wish. One unfortunate thing is that when I peeled it from the outer paper, some of the glue peeled off a very small part of the design. Still though I like the idea of the product that it almost looks like Paua shell (hope I'm spelling that right....) and its much easier to apply. You can find it HERE and once again there are other colour options available to you.
Last item is what I call angel paper. This one I was most excited about receiving! This seems to be the "in" nail product right now with many nails techs and hobbyists alike using it. It's actually what I'm currently wearing on my nails, but I'll share those pics in a few. This is very thin almost cellophane like material that you can cut to any size/shape you want. You will probably have most often seen it used in "stained glass" nail designs. It's a really versatile piece and I love it. You can find it HERE
Here is how I used it. I made black and white stained glass nails. You can see when put over black you really get that green coming through but when placed over white it's the pink that comes out. I can't wait to experiment more with this in the future and definitely try it over other base colours. I have a tutorial for this design on my YouTube Channel along with the review vid for these items. (Videos go live 27/12/15) I would like to thank bornprettystore for sending me these items to review. If you do decide to check out the site then please feel free to use my 10% off code AIJW10. Until next time, Lyn
Hey all :) It's been a little since I put up a blog and now I have this backlog of things I want to talk through and share with you all and don't seem to have the time to do it especially with it being Christmas soon. Anyway, lets not get distracted with the list of things to be done and instead get on to the topic at hand; Meebox. Now you all know how much I love my nail subscription boxes and I had been thinking about trying this one out for a little while. The one thing that was putting me off it was the price tag of £20 per month (inc P+P). To help you compare this to other sub boxes Nailbox is £15 (inc P+P) and Coloristiq is £15 + £2.80 P+P. Now you can argue with me that there isn't exactly a huge difference between them all price wise and I have to agree with you, but I still took some time before ordering. I can say though that I am really impressed with my package and I do believe it to be worth that £20 price tag. If you want to check them out you can find them here: Meebox Website
Just like other sub boxes, each month is based on a theme with this one being Ice Queen. They also sent you a Christmas card. Each box will always contain 3 polish and then some nail art items or nail treatments. The art items this month is a pack of water decal snowflakes, a pot containing bar glitters and a cute pocket sized nail file that has a chain for you to attach it where you want it. The nail art items have come from the website Sparkly Nails. You also got 3 swatch sticks for trying out the polishes.
First polish is It's Raining Men by Color Club. This is a tricky one to photograph as it's a deep blue/purple like a petrol effect. It was opaque is just one coat but I applied two to hide the imperfections in my nails.
I think this bottle shot shows you the colour effect perfectly. You can see depending how the light hits it the colour effect changes. This polish really is stunning and a clear favorite for me!
You can also see it has that amazing micro glitter shimmer in there too. I can see me wearing this polish very soon, its just too amazing not to!
I took this shot with the light directly shining at it to show you what I mean by its chameleon properties. It went this deep green-blue tone. If you don't own this polish I highly recommend it for your collection!
Polish two is a brand I hadn't heard of; Crabtree & Evelyn in the colour Mica. This is a pretty gunmetal silver. Application was good but you do have to be careful of brushstrokes showing through. I applied two coats to make it opaque.
It's a really nice shade that fits well into the ice queen theme for the month. I don't have one like this in my collection as its on the darker side and most silvers tend to be lighter.
I only used two coats of colour and no top coat for all the pictures. What do you think of this shade and have you used this brand before?
Last polish of the box is actually one I have called Lotus Begin by China Glaze. I was actually disappointed to see that the formula has been changed and it looks nothing like my original bottle! The one shown here is three thin coats of the new bottle which shows it as a softer lilac shade.
Now here they are side by side. The bottom pinky nail is the new bottle and the other shows you three coats of my older bottle. Clearly different shades! I do like both of the colours but it's a shame that the company didn't manage to keep the formula the same.
This is the best picture for comparison. The newer formula also seems more creamy a finish. The polish could do with being a little more pigmented so that you don't need to do three coats but it is still a lovely colour.
So what are my overall thoughts on my first Meebox? At first I was put off by the £20 price tag but after seeing everything I got I am actually very happy with it and I feel it is worth the price. When you consider that posting something like this will cost £2.80, you are paying £17.20 for the actual products which was 3 full size polish, 3 nail pops and 3 nail art items. All in all a good deal in my opinion! I look forward to seeing what next months box contains. This is only the 5th box created by this company and I forsee them going for many years to come. Have you tried out this subscription? What are your thoughts?
I shall have the unboxing video up in the next few days so be sure to keep an eye out for that. Until next time, Lyn
Today's blog post is all about me! Well not exactly me, but my own indie polish range. You'll know I do reviews on here and share with you all other nail related thoughts that I feel like talking about but now it's time to talk just about my brand. Remember an earlier post where I started to look into the world of indie polish and I shared with you the ones I found and some swatches of ones I had purchased? That got me thinking into what you actually need to do to make your own. I did a lot of research and found a site that sells the materials needed and after some trial and error I can say I think I've got the hang of it now! I just recently opened up my own shop on Etsy and you can find me here trading under NailPopPolish.
I'm still new to the whole branding thing and I've been trying different avenues to get my name out there. If you follow me on any of my social media I have been sharing a lot of pictures, videos and nail art using my own brand. I've also sent out press samples to the lovely Mo from Pretty Quirky (Blog Here) and she shared some amazing pictures. It is so wonderful to have such positive feedback on something that I created and I'm happy my creations are being liked!
I feel like I've done enough rambling in this first part that it's time to share with you some pictures and videos.
This is my most recent uploaded video to YouTube and in it I used my polish Milkyway (it's the bluey-purple sheen you can see). I love the diversity of this polish. This is actually how it looks in the bottle:
This is a topper polish so you will get a different effect over different base polishes. If you want it to stay as close to the bottle colour you can get, apply it over white. I also think this looks great over a french manicure for that beautiful sheen.
For the moment I have 2 collections and 4 misc polishes (ones I created and liked but didn't have a particular theme for). You can find 7 in my Stars & Planets Collection, 3 in my Flowers Collection and 2 in my misc section. I sell in 5ml and 10ml bottles and all my range is 5-free.
What do you mean 5-free? You might have seen this come up in other polish collections (mainstream and indie) or even seen some saying 3-free. This means that my polish does not contain the following; Toluene, Formaldehyde & Dibutyl Phthalate(DBP), Camphor and Formaldehyde Resin. It is also cruelty free.
Here's one of my misc polishes, Sprinkles. This one is a really fun topper that contains multi-coloured matte circles. I wanted to create something different with this one and I think I achieved that.
This turned out to be a great macro shot of Forget-Me-Not as I managed to capture that golden sheen it has! This one as I'm sure you can guess is from the Flowers Collection. I am really pleased with this one as it comes out very opaque in two coats and when I first mixed it up I thought it might end up being a more sheer effect. It took me a while to name this one which surprised me. With my Stars & Planets Collection I had names picked out before I had the actual polish mixed up!
I created this nail art design recently and used Stellar over the black. Stellar is a mix of two different sized silver holographic glitter suspended in a clear base and I can't get enough of it over black! I am obsessed with all things shiney as I'm sure you can tell! I have just placed an order for some different holo pigment to try out and I can't wait for that! (That collection won't be available until 2016, so stay tuned for that!)
I don't want this post to go on for too long as I have so many pictures and videos I want to share. Instead I will leave you all my social media links and if you want to check out more nail art and everything else nails you can :)
Here are the four items I choose to share with you; full nail stencils, angel paper, chevron striping tape and shell paper.
First up is this really cool triangle full nail stencil. There is 12 in the packet which I think is great! Now you are probably thinking, why would you need 12, you only have 10 fingers? The way I see it is if you are anything like me then you like to do a practice nail or two before fully committing to a design. On the other hand, you could use a full set of 10 then at another stage use the last two for accent nails! You can find this product HERE and there are a few other styles on offer too. The material is good quality, it's not so flimsy that it would rip but it is also flexible enough to mold comfortably around your nail. Looking forward to using this soon.
Item number two is not your average striping tape, this is zig-zag style! I was excited to see this as I had yet to see it anywhere else and its different to your standard straight tape. The quality again is really good and strong and you can cut to any length. You have flexibility in the way you use the tape; either apply it on your nail for decoration or use it like a stencil and peel off after painting polish over the top. You can find it HERE in a total of six different colours. 
Item number three is a shell sheet. This is like a giant sticker that you can cut to size and apply to your nail as you wish. One unfortunate thing is that when I peeled it from the outer paper, some of the glue peeled off a very small part of the design. Still though I like the idea of the product that it almost looks like Paua shell (hope I'm spelling that right....) and its much easier to apply. You can find it HERE and once again there are other colour options available to you.
