OPI Gwen Stefani Collection Swatches

Happy Humpday! Today I have the OPI Gwen Stefani collection to show you. I feel like it took forever for me to get my hands on this collection. I know it's barely starting to be sold, but I typically get collections a couple weeks before they're released so waiting for this one was driving me nuts! This collection consists of 7 polishes: 1 metallic chrome, 2 matte satins, 1 glitter, and 3 cremes.

Here's OPI Over and Over A-Gwen, the red creme. It comes in its own box and includes Swarovski crystals, studs, and nail glue. 

OPI Push and Shove, the metallic chrome. It comes with a mini base coat Lay Down That Base to help with application. 

OPI Love. Angel. Music. Baby. 2 coats, no topcoat. Nice formula and application. Dries fast. Semi-matte satin finish.

OPI 4 in the Morning. 2 coats, no topcoat. Nice formula and application. Semi-matte satin finish. 

OPI Over and Over A-Gwen. 3 coats plus topcoat. Nice formula and application. 

OPI In True Stefani Fashion (over Over and Over A-Gwen). Glitter topper with medium sized square glitter and small circle glitter. 

OPI Hey Baby. 2 coats plus topcoat. Nice creamy formula. A bit darker IRL. 

OPI I Sing in Color. 2 coats plus topcoat. Thin formula so be careful with application so your cuticles don't get stained. Gorgeous oxblood creme. I don't like vampy colors, but I take that back for this polish!

OPI Push and Shove. 1 coat, no topcoat. Chrome mirror finish. I used OPI Lay Down that Base base coat that comes with this polish to make application easier. With regular base coat, it was really streaky during application. The wear on this isn't great, but on the back of the box it states that it's meant to be worn for one night only which makes sense. I would totally wear this for a night out! I know it shows every ridge on my nail, but no one is going to be looking that close at my nails. 

I really love this collection! I could live without the glitter polish, but I love getting entire collections so I had to get them all. The red and pink cremes aren't terribly unique, but I'm going to wear them all and the thought "is this polish unique" doesn't ever run through my mind when I'm buying polish--I'm a nail polish addict hello! Alright, now that you've seen swatches, I'll be showing you a few more manis over the next few days using these polishes. Hope you're not sick of them yet! 

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.