Born Pretty Store Gold Studs

Afternoon darlings! I've got a pretty cool mani to share with you featuring 2mm Gold Square Studs from Born Pretty Store! I love adding studs to a mani as it's such a simple way to spice up your nails without too much effort!

For this mani I started off with the fabulous butter LONDON Disco Biscuit on all my nails but my index, which I used Revlon Bare Bones. A full swatch post of Disco Biscuit will be coming up later because I really did love this polish! I then added a line of 2mm gold studs on my thumb and one stud at the base of my pinky and index nail. On my middle nail I added a third of Bare Bones using a striping brush and then put studs along the seem of the two polishes. As an accent on my ring nail I stamped with BM-202 and Billie Gold.

I really do love Born Pretty Store for nail art supplies. They are inexpensive, free shipping and of the highest quality. To apply these studs all I did was put a strip of top coat where I wanted to place the studs and then used a dotting tool with a tad of topcoat to get the stud to stick to the dotting tool and then placed it on my nail. Add one coat of quick drying top coat and those studs are stuck in place until you're ready to take them off!

These studs can be found here for only $4.58 for essentially a lifetime supply. Seriously you'll never be able to run out of these things! I love using studs, because anyone of any level of nail art skill can add these. Also they sit relatively flat on your nail, so if you hate things sticking up from your nail, unlike rhinestones, these shouldn't bother you!

What do you think of these studs? Have you ever used any before? Would you buy them? Hope you're having a fabulous day! Thanks for stopping by!

The studs used in this post were provided for my honest review. 

The Last Twin Post with Carmela - MASH 49

Morning Loves! Today is the last twin post with Carmela of Polished Indulgence! If you haven't seen any of our twin posts yet, you can check out all of mine here :) I'm sad this is coming to an end, it was so much fun to come up with these! Todays requirement is using MASH 49. I'm not going to lie this one stumped me a little. The plate has a cool giraffe pattern, some stars, a crown, tidal waves (or wind blowing?) and an interesting looking flower. I thought about a number of different ways to use this plate and had a hard time coming up with something that I really liked. Plus I wanted to finish twin posting with a bang! I eventually settled on the cool giraffe pattern and I think this is my favourite twin post that I came up with!

For this look I started with two easy coats of OPI Cuckoo for This Color from the 2010 Swiss Collection on all but my index nail. I found this a few months ago for cheap in Trade Secrets and had yet to use it. It's a sparkly forest green blue shimmer. It shows up more green in my photos, but in the right light, it gives a stunning blue shimmer. On my index I used 2 coats of Bille Gold, a gold foil, and then used Gold to stamp with MASH-49 on all my nails but on my index I used CFTC to stamp with. Finally I freehanded some triangles on with CTFC and a medium length striping brush then added gold studs from Born Pretty Store along the triangles to give it some oomph.

This felt very rich to me. I really like the green gold combination and I realized after that I did a similar colour combination before here, but shush that's ok right? lol

These twin posts have been SO FUN! Since this was again Carmela's pick I can only imagine she has come up with something amazing! I can't wait to see and all of you should shoot over to Polished Indulgence to see what she's done!

Have our twin posts made you want these MASH plates? Do you already own them? Which one is your favourite plate?

Hope you're all having a fabulous day! :D

Delicate Double Stamping

Good Afternoon loves! I figured it was time for a study break, so why not write a post?! This is the manicure that I wore last weekend for my 1 year anniversary :) I wanted something pretty and feminine that would be able to go with a few outfits that I would be wearing. One of my main sources for inspiration when it comes to stamping is the lovely Marta of ChitChat Nails. She always comes up with the most beautiful and feminine manicures! So I tried to, 'think like Marta' and this is what I came up with!

There are a lot of pictures for this one, so keep reading after the jump!

We're Painting the Roses Red

Morning! Today I've got some simple stamping to share with you. School has been slightly kicking me these past few days so this is going to be a quick post.

To get this look I started off with 2 coats of Cult Nails Evil Queen from the recent Fairytale Collection. This is such a perfect red. I'm in love with it. Then I stamped using BM-322 and Billie Gold which I picked up from The Dollar Tree.

I'm really digging these new Bundle Monster plates. They are awesome and perfect for someone who is brand new to stamping like myself. I went with this image because when I put on Evil Queen I immediately thought of The Queen of Hearts in Alice and Wonderland! So that's where the explanation of the title came from :)

Simple, eyecatching and just lovely in my opinion. I'm really loving the Fairytale collection from Cult Nails and am glad that I decided to pick them up!

How do you like my stamped roses? What images have you been reaching for from the BM plates?

Hope you're all having a wonderful day! Back to the grindstone for me :)