BORN PRETTY STORE ~ review

What a busy month of August of having such a fun last time for the summer.. 

What did you all do for your entire summer?? I spent a lot of the summer time with my sons at the water parks, playground & the last week of August 2x's at the Minnesota State Fair. I now have my colorful & fun swatches & reviews for www.bornprettystore.com tonight for you all to wrap up the last fun, bright & memorable day of summer!

First up is www.bornprettystore.com 

Rose Flower stamping plate (BP-73) -item #20790

base color is: Sinful Colors Professional 'A-Crush' & Orly 'On The Edge' (gradient)

polished used to stamp with: Londontown Lakur 'Dishy Splendor'

Pink polish is not just a polish. It happens to be a wonderful UV Gel Polish from www.bornprettystore.com

(10 mL) Candy Color Luminous Soak Off Gel Polish UV Glow In The Dark (#023)

As shown above on the macro, I used a foundation UV Gel Polish to protect my natural nails by Gelish. Added 2 coats of this cute pink Gel Polish + curing time under the LED light + Gel Polish Top Coat by Gelish & LED light curing. It was a creamy Gel thouugh it does require 2 coats of it to cover up the streaky lines. Like I always say, "Top Coat always cover up the booboos! It is like magic!"

I love this pink SO much! It reminds me of my younger youthful days of always wearing PINK on my nails & even clothes! Love love LOVE this shade! You can find this Gel Polish at item #7578 at www.bornprettystore.com

Next up, www.bornprettystore.com 

redish/pink Holographic holo effect polish - item #6402

& Animal Flowers stamping plate - item #19366

www.bornprettystore.com redish/pink Holographic holo effect polish - item #6402

& Animal Flowers stamping plate - item #19366 

stamped with @joliepolish - black stamping polish (www.instagram.com/joliepolish)

What I enjoy about stamping is the simplicity of adding TC over the stamped image to peel off + cut around it to put over your nail is so much fun.. I really enjoy this template. The deers remind me of the Fall time. & Look at that holo! It's a 2 in one shade.. It shifts from red to pink in HOLO! Yasss.. Amazin..

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Rose stamping plate (ring nail) template BP73 - item # 20790

base polish by Londontown Lakur 'Murray Me', 'The Fully Monty', 'Lady Luck'

+ glitter polish by Pure Ice 'Poppin Bottles' topped with @mydreampolish Gem Glam Top Coat in their LE 'Jelly Beans' scent. (www.instagram.com/mydreampolish) (instagram.com/londontownlakur)

Londontown Lakur is SIMPLY AMAZING!! They're easily ONE COATERS. SO creamy and PERFECLY opaque enough to STAMP with! Look at my born pretty store stamping of the cute Roses! I'm IN LOVE!

www.bornprettystore.com stamping plate - Damask template (BP-L016) - item #17926

base color by Londontown Lakur 'Lady Luck' ~ 2 coats + my dream polish Gem Glam Top Coat.

Ring finger RING from www.rocksbox.com 

www.bornprettystore.com Animal Trees stamping template (BP-L011) item #19366

stamped with Black Stamping polish from my talented friend Bory at www.instagram.com/joliepolish

+ Wet N Wild Matte Top Coat

BTW, the wonderful color polish goodies are also from Jolie Polish!

I love this template, it is SO adorable! So much fun and brings back so many good memories of my favorite childhood books! The mushrooms and trees are ADORBS too!

Gaaahhh! Those cute mini colorful beads are from www.bornprettystore.com - item #20476

They are cute but such a pain in the bum to flip on its front side to pick it up to place on my nails. It is indeed worth the look at the end though. RIGHT?! It's so sparkly too! I love the colors!

Macros are EVERYTHING! Little did "eye" know that the beads have a few colors in 'em.. Ha! It's amazing stuff. Macro EVRYTHING!

My half moon in colorful mixed beads is the cutest.

Last but not least, here is a last look to stare at. I used the Rose stamping template item#20790 from www.bornprettystore.com

This mani was topped with My Dream Polish & cute tiny gold studs + Cognac crystal ring charm from (instagram.com/daily_charme)

I hope you enjoyed my review and please do head over to bornprettystore.com to make your purchase on their amaing items! Don't forget to use my 10% code off at the end of your checkout : (RAEQ10).

Best,

Mai

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Dupes? (OPI, WetNWild & Pure Ice)

Dupes? What do I think? 😊

I thought I found 2 dupes that looked like OPI 'Last Friday Night'. Here's the crazy thing, from the looks of it from the bottle, they look pretty similar. So, I took macros of the three bottles for an closer look. What do I think now??

Photos: (OPI 'Last Friday Night', WetNWild Mega Last 'Up In The Air' & Pure Ice 'Sparkling Seas')

OPI 'Last Friday Night' has much more bigger flakes of hex glitters but in a more pink-er & sparkly-er shade, while WetNWild 'Up In The Air' has smaller hex glitters while both bottles also contained a great amount of mixture size glitters. Pure Ice 'Sparkling Seas' has a blue-r crelly base as I had applied 2 coats but with the same amount of smaller + mixture of hex glitters just like WetNWild has. 
The three bottles are pretty obvious to the eyes as to when you look at the bottles until I used my macro lens to take a closer look of it to get a closer view of the polishes. For the sampling of each polish on my nails, they turned out pretty similar in comparison for OPI & WetNWild. Only difference is that for the WetNWild, I had to apply three coats to get the same opaque coat for OPI. Nonetheless, I think they're pretty close, I think!

Other than for the Pure Ice, I already knew that it would be very different in comparison to the first two. I thought it would be nice to just compare it bc of the similar glitters. I know that there is another polish that is also a dupe for 'Last Friday Night' but made by Sinful Colors Professional called 'Hottie' but I do not own that one. But I will have to agree with @pleasedtopleaseyou that that one is also a great dupe to compare with OPI!!

Let me know what you think of these!! I had fun playing with them. I must say.... I found another couple that are dupes for each other too! That one will come shortly after! Eek! I'm excited to share that one with you guys too!!! 😊😜

Thanks for reading guys!
Mai

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Subtle gradient with hand painted roses

Today's manicure consists of a bed of roses all hand painted with acrylic paints over a very neutral, pink gradient.

Polishes used on this manicure are by Essie 'Sugar Daddy' for the base of each nail, while 4 thin coats are applied over it with Pure Ice 'Mer-Magical' & topped with my favorite fast drying top coat Seche Vite.

I've seen roses and just pretty floral prints on manicures lately that I just had to do it on my own nails. I really enjoy flowers, I don't think this particular nail art can ever be overdone with as to chevron and polka dots have been.

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