Sparkly Nails Water Decals Review and Nail Art

PRESS SAMPLE

Hello my lovelies! I'm sorry I haven't been around recently, its the summer holidays and both my sons birthdays. 

I have a review of some more water decals by Sparkly Nails for you today.

To see what I created and what I thought please click the "Read More" button! 

Lace Floret Water Decal Nail Art

Hello!!
It feels like ages since I blogged last. Super busy getting crochet things made... Ive even bought a label maker. This just got real!

These dainty water decals were sent to me by Sparkly Nails. Sparkly Nails are based in the UK and stock a massive range of nail art items.

Water decals are so simple to use. All you have to do is cut the one you want out, remove plastic and then soak in water for a few seconds. Slide the decal off of the sheet and then on to your nail.... Simples!


The only thing that can make them a tad harder to use is seeing the white decal on the blue backing paper but holding them up to the light helps.


I made the ombre using a make up sponge and Moyra 912 Jacqueline and Manhattan 67N. Manhattan don't name their polishes and it really bugs me when nail polishes don't have names. I think its part of the fun (especially if they are humorous names, I'm talking about you OPI )

These decals and many others are available from Sparkly Nails


*press sample, please see disclosure for details*

Feather Nail Decals

I am trying so very hard to keep the blog up to date but as some of you may know I also crochet things for people and at the mo I have loads to do so my little blog has suffered slightly. Normal service will resume soon!

Anyway.....
I have a very simple nail art to show you today. AND I used the mysterious fan brush.... The fan brush usually comes in most nail art brush kits and I have seen a few people ask what to do with it, so here is just one thing you can do!

I used +Barry M  Gelly polish called Key Lime and China Glazes  Flying High. I then added some feather water decals from Sparkly Nails.
I then topped it all off with Mentality Matte top coat! I love Matte top coat and I just want to matte all the things!
Ive said it once and I'll say it again... If you don't like hand painting nail art then water decals are the option for you. They are easy to use and don't stick up like stickers. plus they can be cut and edited to fit any design you might want to do.


The fan brush is part of a set of brushes from Effect Beauty. For 10% off  use code LACQUER.

What do you think of this look?


Some products in this post were sent to me for review. All opinions are my own and they are all honest.

Cadillacquer Slice Of Life

I have been wanting to try this polish for so long. 

I LOVE Dexter so when I saw a collection based on the tv series i had to have it. 

Unfortunaly Masterpiece was out of stock when I bought this so I am still on the look out for it!  

This is also my first lot of Cadillacquer polishes! 

I was sent some lovely water decals from Sparkly Nails and i thought these two would go so nicely together! It reminds me of Chinese New Year! 

This polish has the prettiest blue shimmer. It really looks so lovely in the sunlight! 

Something you definitely couldn't find in a high street polish 

Here is three coats with Seche Vite topcoat. 

The shimmer has no texture at all so one coat of topcoat is fine. 

The only thing is that this polish is quite sheer so you can still see my smile line. I personally don't like that so next time i think i will layer it over a red so then i only have to use a couple coats.

The shimmer in this polish is really really pretty and I think this is my new fave red!

Its bright too! 

You can find Cadillacquer HERE and Sparkly Nails decals HERE 

What do you think of this polish? Are you a fan of Dexter? 

Some of these products were sent as a press sample for my honest review. Please see my disclosure for details 

Peacock Pretties

Hello my dears! 

Today has been a bit of a crap day, I have a cough that just wont go away :( 

How are you? Did you have a good weekend? 

I literally just crocheted all weekend! Oh and I picked up a couple lovely OPIs in TK Maxx. 

Anyway.........

Recently Ali from Sparkly Nails emailed me and asked if i would like to take some pictures of different manis using her products for her website. 

Of course I agreed! 

Here is just one of many designs I have been working on. 

When I saw these Feather Decals the first thing I thought of was a peacock. 

I used a thin brush to layer 4 colours over each other on the feature nails. 

To be honest it may have looked better with more purples and darker blues but I don't use greens very often. 

The water decals are so easy to use and i think they look soo good! Have you ever tried water decals before?

What do you think of this mani? 

To see Sparkly Nails full range of nail art products please click HERE 

*this product was sent to me for my HONEST review, please see my disclaimer page for more info**

Rose Water Decals

Christmas is over :( 

I love the festive season and I love having the family all together. 

I mentioned in another post about a prize I won in a giveaway. This is one of the packs of water decals I chose from +BornPretty BPS 

I am incredibly disappointed with this :( 

The decals didn't show their colours over this base which is Red-ical Gypsy by Color Club. 

This shade enraged me no end. Its like dark and jelly and building the colour is shit!! Ive been put right off this, its all patchy! 

It is darker in real life, more of a muddy red. 

So all in all not chuffed. But manis cant be good all of the times :P 

I hope you all had a fab Christmas? I hope you got all you wanted x

Stranger Tides Design

 

2x coats of OPI's Stranger Tides 

Water decals over a clear base coat

Black pearl studs

It just so happened that the green background of the nail decal is exactly the same as Stranger Tides 

A simple design which took a matter of 15 mins but lovely none the less

nail art doesn't have to be hard or time consuming to be pretty :)

Floral Full Nail Water Decals

 

I bought a job lot of full nail water decals on EBay for the grand total of £3.99!

I had seen people using these on a few different You Tube Vids and i was really impressed with the results. Water Decals are also available as single images.

 

They remind me of the temporary tattoos i used to get out of bubble gum :)

 

They are actually really easy to use and only took me around 15 min to do one hand. The only problem i found was that the sizes were abit weird but its not hard to just re size them. The Decals are also thicker than i expected as i was worried they would break during application but no breakages!

 

To Apply;

Remove all packaging, Duh ;)

Size up decal to nail and trim if needed.

Submerge transfer in water

Life off of the paper, using tweezers helps

Place transfer on the nail and blot of excess water with kitchen roll (or something similar)

Apply Top coat

 

Handy little tip for application, i saw this on one you tube vid.....

Leave the edge of the wrap longer than required  (don't file off)

drag the top coat right to the end of the wrap

wait a couple seconds.....

the wrap will shrink backward and cap the free edge, for longer wear and a cleaner edge

some excess wrap that had shrunk back will need to be removed, i use a cocktail stick.

 

 I think i will use these in the future ALOT as i have had them on for 2 days already and they haven't chipped or anything!

Application was also smooth and there were no creases so in that respect they gave a smoother finish than the nail wraps i have previously tried. Everything gets better with practise though!

Have a nailtastic weekend guys!