OPI Hey Baby & MoYou London Pro 07 XL

Hi friends! I mentioned yesterday that I played with the OPI Gwen Stefani polishes over the weekend and here's another mani I did with 2 polishes from the collection. I've actually been wearing this for 3 days now and I love it! I used OPI Hey Baby stamped using MoYou London Pro 07 XL in OPI 4 in the Morning. 4 in the Morning is also on my ring finger. It's a matte black, but I love shiny nails so I added top coat. It stamped quite nicely over the pink base, but I wouldn't recommend this as a stamping polish if you don't already have a good black. It almost looks like a dark grey shimmer, not quite black. The thing I liked about it though is that it doesn't drown out the brightness of my base and it doesn't smear when topcoated--we all know how painful that is! Keep your eyes peeled for more OPI Gwen Stefani posts this week!

OPI I Sing in Color & MoYou London Pro 02 XL

Hey loves! So this weekend I finally got my polished paws on the OPI Gwen Stefani collection and I played with them all morning. I have swatches, but I also did some nail art and I'm kind of dying to share this mani with you before swatches because I used one of the polishes to stamp and it looks gorgeous. Here's OPI I Sing in Color stamped using MoYou London Pro 02 XL in OPI Love. Angel. Music. Baby. The gold on the index and pinky is also OPI Love. Angel. Music. Baby. I didn't expect it to stamp so well, but I was thrilled at how sparkly it looks over the dark base. I'll be sharing swatches and nail art using all OPI Gwen Stefani collection polishes this week so stay tuned!

Born Pretty Store--2mm Round Black Studs Review

Press Sample

Good morning friends! Happy New Year! I know I'm a few days late, but it's my first post of the new year so it counts. Today I have 2mm round black studs from Born Pretty Store to show you. I've been dying to get some black studs so I was really excited to try them. I really enjoy using small nail studs as a way to create accent nails and the change from the typical silver and gold studs to black really gives an edgy look. I decided to pair the studs with stamping.

Here's  I Love Nail Polish (ILNP) PT78 stamped using MoYou London Back to the 80's 04 XL in Konad Yellow. 

Here's the little zip lock bag the studs come in.

A lot of the studs were stuck together. It was a bit annoying at first because I didn't realize it until I was applying them, but just be sure to unstick them before application so whatever you use as glue doesn't dry up.

You can see that quite a bit of the studs in the bag are stuck together.

Aside from the studs sticking together in the bag, I really loved these. The size is perfect to arrange them in little clusters or use them alone on the nail. The change from the usual silver and gold studs was really nice too. I'll be using these a lot this year! You can purchase these studs here for $4.67 and use my code NV7X31 for 10% off your entire purchase. 

New Year's Eve 2014 with MoYou London Festive 05 XL

Happy (almost) New Year! Quick post because I'm going to Bass Lake this evening and I still have so much to do! At least I got my New Year's mani done though right? Lol. Here's China Glaze Liquid Leather stamped using MoYou London Festive 05 XL in Color Club Eternal Beauty, Color Club Miss Bliss, Color Club Over the Moon, Konad Sky Pearl, Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lively Lilac, and Sally Hansen Insta Dri Presto Pink. I really love how these turned out, but I wish the purple "New" was just a tad more opaque over black. On the bright side, I just got an email notification that I won Manicurator's China Glaze Happy HoliGlaze Giveaway! Super happy because I liked them, but I didn't buy them and was hoping to win them in one of the giveaways going on. Lucky me! Hope everyone had a wonderful year and here's to the New Year--cheers!