Color Club Pearl District & Wicker Park--Swatches & Review

Hi my pretties! Today I have 2 polishes to review from Color Club's new fall 2013 Girl About Town collection. The 2 I received are Pearl District and Wicker Park. Pearl District is a beautiful gold shimmer with hints of green to it that resemble the tiger's eye gemstone. Wicker Park is a perfect lavender creme, not too dark and not too light. Let's take a look at the swatches. Both are shown with topcoat.

Color Club Pearl District. 3 thin coats, perfect formula. It's a bit darker IRL.

Color Club Wicker Park. 3 thin coats, formula a bit thick, but easy to work with. I actually used this one twice already and it got a bit thicker with my 2nd application, so you may need to use polish thinner with this one. So worth it though, it's like a bubblegum purple if there was such a thing. I really loved it more than I expected to. 

I really enjoyed both of these colors and I don't have anything like either of them in my collection. I only have two of the polishes from this collection, but what's great about Wicker Park and some of the other polishes are that they aren't your typical fall colors and you can wear them year round. You can purchase these polishes here for $8. 

Bundle Monster Stamping Plate Organizer Review

Hey stampaholics! Today I have Bundle Monster's Stamping Plate Organizer to review. If you're like me, you have tons of stamping plates and you need a good way to store them otherwise you'll never find the plate you're looking for. The good news is that Bundle Monster's Stamping Plate Organizer is the perfect solution! I decided to do a video review of this product because otherwise you'd have to read a lot and I'd have to edit a shload of photos. I have always been uncomfortable with my voice in videos, but I pushed through and made one. Yay me!



Hope you guys found the video helpful! Also here are a few pics I wanted to include of things I didn't show close up in the video.

Don't they just look so pretty next to each other <3

Here's what the inside looks like. 14 vinyl pages, 6 slots per page. Fits 2 plates per slot and 168 plates total.

Here's the new logo on the pink & purple organizers

Here's the old logo on the black organizer.

In case you are super lazy to watch my video, I highly recommend this stamping plate organizer. It protects your plates from getting scratched, saves storage space, makes it easy to take your plates with you somewhere, and helps you to find plates quickly. The purple one was sent to me for review, but I really do love this item and purchased the black and pink ones myself. You can purchase the black one here, the pink one here, and the purple one here for $15.99 each.

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Born Pretty Store--Stamping Polish Review

Hey loves! Today I have stamping polish from Born Pretty Store to review. Of course you know I love stamping so I was excited to try these polishes out. Their stamping polish set comes with 5 colors: black, white, red, yellow, and blue. I primarily use Konad polish to stamp with, so I created a couple manicures comparing polishes from both brands. Both manicures are shown with topcoat. Let's take a look at the results.

Here's the set of 5 polishes from BPS. The blue polish I got is a sky blue, whereas the one pictured on their website is a dark blue.

Here I used yellow and white from both brands. My index and ring finger are stamped with Konad polishes. The image came out opaque and crisp from my 1st attempt on each finger. I used Born Pretty polishes on my middle and pinky. What is on my middle finger is my 5th attempt and on my pinky is my 2nd attempt. The yellow is barely visible and the formula was thin. The white is opaque, however, it dried so fast and gave me issues when applying the stamp to my nail. When I would roll my stamper over my nail, the image just didn't want to adhere to my nail. 

(stamp is from PUEEN 28)

Here I stamped my index and ring finger with Konad polishes and the images came out opaque and crisp. I stamped my middle and pinky finger with BPS polishes and the results were mixed. The images transferred onto the nail well on the first attempt so there were no issues with application. The black polish actually worked quite nicely--crisp and opaque and remained that way even after topcoat. The red and blue on the other hand are faded and they became even more faded with topcoat. 

(image is from PUEEN 44)

The only polish that impressed me and that I would recommend is the black polish from Born Pretty. It is not as dark as Konad, but I would say it's a good alternative. I would say Born Pretty black special polish ranks just after Konad Black and MASH Black. I did not have any issues with streaking after topcoat and cleanup was a breeze. The white polish was very opaque which I was also impressed by, but it dried so fast that it gave me a lot of difficulty with application. The red, blue, and yellow are not opaque and I wouldn't use these to stamp. You can purchase the set of 5 stamping polishes here for $6.93. Get 10% off your entire order using my coupon code: NV7X31.

OPI My Very First Knockwurst & PUEEN 27

Good morning! Today I have a stamped manicure using one of my new stamping polishes. It feels great to wear a manicure that I got to be creative with and not review a product. Sometimes I feel like I grow apart from my roots (stamping) when I do a lot of reviewing. That's not to say I don't enjoy reviewing products, but I just love myself a nice stamped manicure! For this manicure, I used OPI My Very First Knockwurst and stamped using PUEEN 27 in China Glaze Red-y & Willing. Red-y & Willing is also the color on my index and pinky. It's one of the new polishes from China Glaze's Autumn Nights (Fall 2013) collection. The ones I got from that collection to stamp with are: Scandalous Shenanigans, Tongue & Chic, Don't Make Me Wine, and Red-y & Willing.  I usually ALWAYS buy complete China Glaze collections, but I haven't been impressed with their last 2: On the Horizon or Autumn Nights collection. That's actually kind of good because I have been buying a lot of new MoYou London stamping plates so at least there is balance in the universe (my bank account) lol.