St. Paddy's Day Nails!

Argh!  For the past few days my shoulder and neck have been killing me.  I have no clue why :/  I want to say because of how I sleep, but the pain is at its least painful when I get up and it get's worse throughout the day.  If it was due to how I sleep shouldn't it be most painful when I wake up?  Even though it's neck and shoulder pain, I refuse to google it.  That will just make me worry.  It will tell me I'm dying, or I'm pregnant.  Shoulder pregnancy!

What?

Annnnyyyyywwwwaaayyys, this is the manicure I have been wearing this weekend.  I decided to do green(Sinful Colors Hey, You!) AND blue(Sinful Colors Endless Blue) because blue is actually the colour St. Patrick wore!  At first I wasn't sure what design I wanted to do on my nails I just knew I didn't want to do clovers or rainbows.  So I decided with these simple gold foil tips and a foil cross.

Not I liked how they came out, but like last time the top coat killed some of the holo effect.  That being said I also tried the put clear polish on it first before the top coat, and that killed the holo completely.  At this point I'm in a love hate relationship with foils.  I love how they look till the top coat.  And it started to come off after I took a shower :(

First attempt at nail foils...Well this was much harder than orginally anticipated

Hmmmmm...where do I begin?

So the Born Pretty Store asked me to review these nail foils.  I ordered them in this holography gold, an electric blue and a really cool green.  Now I've seen people use them before and I though "This should be easy".  It was trying but I did give it a valiant first attempt.

The instructions were prepair you nails like you normally would.  File, basecoat, the works.  Whatever you do to prep for a manicure.  Next add 2 coats of polish(I used H&M Plum and Cherry).  Let the first coat dry and then let the second coat dry(but not all the way).  Next you gently place the foil silver side down on your nail and rub it on you nail(I used my finger).  Finally remove the foil and la vola! Topcoat, done.

Now I did everything they said.  I even watched the video on the site.  But I still had some problems. 1)I didn't didn't let it dry enough the first time.  So the polish came off when removing the foil.  2)Next I waited too long and the foil didn't even stick.  3)Although not that noticeable in the photos some of the polish was smudged in the process.  But topcoat made it a lot less obvious.

Now I won't call this a fail but I do think I can get this looking better if I try again.  Maybe with a different polish.  Anyways I didn't measure how much was in each but on the website it says they contain 113cm of foil.  Which is just  over 3.5 feet.  And considering I only used about an inch I have plenty to practice with.

 

Favourite out of the bunch.

If you want to buy these you can get them from the Born Pretty Store for $2.99(USD) each! There are over 20 different foils to choose from for nail art fun!  And Shipping is FREE!  You can also use our code(EAL91) and get a 10% discount on whatever you buy!

 

*Products sent for honest review.