Review: Square 4mm Studs - Born Pretty Store

 

I got these for Christmas and thought I would share my thoughts on them. I haven't tried nail art studs before but have used rhinestones. These might work well on denim nail polish too.

Both sets (black and silver) are in 4mm and are square studs, they are hollow and stick to the nail around the edges of the stud rather than the way a traditional flat back rhinestone would.

As much as I like the black studs, they don't obviously show up over black polish. Which is why I was also glad to receive some of the studs in silver, these of course show up really well on black polish.

Inside each pack are around 100 studs and depending on how you remove them they are reusable which is always a good thing!

Nails Inc / Kate Spade - New York Noir
BK - #20 (Neon Orange)

I wanted to do some nail art using these studs, as I didn't have any in orange to pop over the black polish I just painted a couple of the silver studs with an neon orange polish and that worked really well and was quite effective.

Black Studs
Silver Studs

Tri-Colour Nail Challenge: Nude, Coral and Turquoise #3

This is the third of the Tri-Polish Challenge for this month. The colours are Nude, Coral and Turquoise. If you want to join or want to know more about this then you can do here.

I chose to use: Leighton Denny - Opaque Elegance, Leighton Denny - Just Perfect and ELF - Teal Blue. For this particular set of nails I used a gradient technique.

Leighton Denny - Opaque Elegance

ELF - Teal Blue

Nails: Stamped Paisley Print

I had wanted to do nails which looked like the Blue Willow pattern plates you can get. However it didn't really work, but I still quite liked what they turned out like.

Base Polish: Barry M - Blue Moon
Stamping Polish: Barry M - Blue Plum
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 315

SIMPLES: Plain Skittle

 The Crumpet has a new challenge going, to help teach nail art from the simple to the master.

So week 2 and the task to master is the plain skittle, which is very simple to do. Five nails, five different colours. Now I tend to do something a little more fancy. but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Here are some of my examples:

Purple Skittle

Bright Skittle

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Red Skittle

Pastel Skittle

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Lilac Skittle

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Sunday Stamping: Plate Ending in 2

The challenge for today was to use a stamping plate ending in the number 2.

Base Polish: Barry M - Bikini
Stamping Polish: MoYou Special Nail Polish - Black
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster 422

Review: MoYou Special Nail Polish - Black*

MoYou Special Nail Polish - Black

 This special nail polish is a polish designed specially for stamping.

The brush is flat and wide, not as wide as OPI.

12ml is the amount of polish you get.

I was sent this polish to review, this doesn't influence my opinion.

Typically I use opaque in one coat polishes for stamping with rather than special stamping designated polishes. That said I have used this polish for stamping and it is very good.

It was good to work with straight away, not too thin to work (with other polishes sometimes you have to leave the lid off for a while for the polish to thicken up), and not too thick, gloopy and stringy. The polish picks up on the stamper well.

I have also swatched the polish as is as well as using it in nail art below.

Here are some stamped nails I have done using this polish: