Product Review: bornprettystore holo vinyls

Hey y'all! I'm back today to share some nail art and my review of some nail vinyls from bornprettystore. Daaaaamn Pish! Back at it again with the bornpretty reviews! Yeahhhh...its been a while but things were just so flippin' crazy for a while with the move. We only moved 30 minutes away but its no joke getting your house on the market and buying a new one while selling your old one! 

Anyway, I was approached by bornprettystore.com to start reviewing again and decided to go ahead wth it. These pretty little holo vinyls were the first thing I decided to try. Now, I know what you're thinking - whats the point of them being holographic if they're just vinyls? Well I think in a perfect world, you're supposed to cut them down to fit on your nail and leave them there like decals but ain't nobody got time fo dat. At least, *this* nobody ain't. I knew as soon as I got them that I was just going to use them like full nail stencils because that just made more sense to me. I included a short tutorial on Instagram that I'll put down below. If you want to read how I used these, keep reading.

BPS Item# JV211

I started with a base of Vapid's Surprise! I'm Drunk and topcoated in preparation for the vinyls. Your base should be 100% dry before attempting to use any vinyls whatsoever, otherwise the vinyl will pull your base color up. Yuck, no one wants that. Its happened to me - cue throwing things across my office. Once my base was dry, I cut along the borders of the vinyls and removed them from the plastic backing. I touched the vinyl to the back on my hand to remove some of the stickiness and then placed it on my nail. I pushed down to make sure that it was completely in contact with my nail surface and then placed some liquid latex (Vapid's Catsuit) around my cuticle before sponging on my color. I used a regular latex free makeup sponge cut to size to sponge on the coral polish (LynBDesigns Miami) until it reached opacity. I immediately removed the vinyl and the latex to reveal my design. Once it was dry, I topcoated again to seal everything in. The index and pinkie are just a couple of dots that I did with my dotting tools. Boom! Fancy nail art! 

A couple of things to note about these vinyls - they're a bitch to get off the plastic backing. I recommend doing it before you paint your nails and just stick them to the top of a polish bottle or your acetone or something because once your nails are painted, you don't want to have to pick these suckers off the backing. They're pretty thin and don't have much structure to them once the back is off so smoothing them down was a bit of a struggle. They do come pre-weeded (the negative space was already there) so that's a plus! Additionally, because they're nice and thin, theoretically you could use them as a decal and topcoat them but I didn't try that myself. They're also only $2 for a sheet of 12. 

If you'd like to pick up these vinyls, you can find them HERE. You can use my code PPPQ10 for 10% off any regularly priced items. 

Thanks for reading! 

Night Sky Silhouette Nails - Bestie Triplet Nails with @pretty_in_pink_polish and @okie.glam.mani!

Hey y'all! Today on the blog I have some nail art to share with you - a night sky silhoutte mani that I did in a collaboration with @pretty_in_pink_polish and @okie.glam.mani on Instagram. Make sure you go check theirs out and show them some love! 

I started off with a white base - and sponged a gradient of Salon Perfect Baby Blues, Zoya Ling, and Zoya Sailor and then topped with INM Northern Lights topcoat to give me the night sky effect. Once that was dry, I used a stamping plate from bornprettystore (BP-L011) for the trees and the deer - those are stamped with M Polish Cayuga. I allowed my stamping to dry and then topcoated with Seche Vite to seal everything in - and that's it! I also tried it with a matte topcoat but ultimately liked it better shiny because I felt like the gradient had more dimension that way. I did a tutorial on Youtube for this mani, click below to go check it out!

What do you think of this mani? What's your favorite art to do over a gradient?  

Thanks for reading! 

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Simple glam Valentine's Day makeup!

Hey y'all! 

I've slowly been working on getting the courage to blog about makeup and do some tutorials. This is my first one! Eep! It's a simple glam look that can be good for any time but I thought the red lip really said: VALENTINES DAY!!! 

So let me start by showing you most of what I used:

All of the products on my face and eyes are as follows:

- Loreal True Match in N3 mixed with Elf shimmering facial whip in Spotlight

- Elf Shadow Primer to prep my eyelids 

- Too Faced Chocolate Bar palette: White Chocolate and Champagne Truffle 

- Loreal Infallible gel liner in blackest black for my winged liner 

-Loreal Infallible Voluminous Smouldering liner in black on my waterline 

- Tarte Lights Camera Lashes on my lashes 

- Mirabella primer for face

- Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Brightener/Illuminator for concealer and under eye brightening 

- Be A Bombshell Smooth Criminal Powder to set my under eyes 

- Elf bronzer in St. Lucia for contour

- Elf baked blush in Peachy Cheeky 

- Elf matte lip color in Rich Red

- NYX brow gel in chocolate 

- home made makeup setting spray 

Most of the steps:

So here's what I did: 

1. Start with clean, moisturized skin. 

2. Prime eyelids. 

3. Dusted White Chocolate all over my lid up to the brow bone and then dusted Champagne Truffle over that. 

4. Did a medium sized wing with my eyeliner and also filled in my waterline. 

5. Curled my lashes and applied 2 coats of mascara. 

6. Prep face with primer. 

6. Placed dots of foundation and shimmering facial whip all over my face and then blended it in with my flat top kabuki brush. 

7. Applied my concealer under my eyes in a V shape. Applied the same concealer to my nose, in between my brows, and along my jaw for a highlighting effect. I blended all of this in with my flat top kabuki. 

8. Set my concealer with my powder. 

9. Contoured using the bronzer. 

10. Applied blush to the apples of my cheeks. 

11. Filled in my brows with NYX brow gel in Chocolate and set them with clear brow mascara by Elf. 

12. Applied my lip color. 

13. Set my face with setting spray. 

I hope this is informative and helpful. If you're curious for more information, please let me know! 

What do you think of this look? What makeup look will you be rocking for Valentine's Day? 💋💋💋