N.NAIL Halloween Stamping Plate and N.Nail Mini Size Scraper & Stamp review

I love Halloween, I love the cats and witches and spider webs and all other symbols connected to it. In the last 10-15 years it’s popularity grew a lot in Slovenia, before that we never really celebrated it. We have our own masquerade holiday in February/March to “scare” the winter away, but it doesn’t hurt to have another holiday to party in outfits ;)

For this occasion I am posting a review of a N.Nail stamping plate, scraper and stamp from KKCenterHk store.

Here are the photos:

As you can see it’s not really only a Halloween plate since it also has some other summery motives. On the photo above the protective foil was still on the plate. When I removed it, I got a bit disheartened – the plate is a little bit damaged, it has a lot of small holes all over it, especially where the ghost design is, and it has a distinct scratch beside the seahorse.

 
I had to be careful not to get the polish into these holes and scratch, because they transfer as well. Otherwise the designs themselves transfer very good, I had no problem with them:

 
I also stamped a few of them on my nails (I was clumsy with my pinky, the pumpkin didn’t come through alright =P):

   

The motives are quite small, I notice that now that I have such long nails (btw they are getting too long now, I’ll have to shorten them). Otherwise the plate is fun to use, the scraper is plastic which I LOOOVEE (I hate metal scrapers that damage the plate) but I was a little clumsy with the mini stamp, I got used to the bigger one with a 5 cm handle and I kept dropping this one. It did it’s job very well, but with such long nails it was hard for me to hold it.

If you like this plate you can get it here, and the scraper and stamp is linked here. Right now KKCenterHk has a special offer for Halloween, everything is 20% off. You can also use my unique coupon code: COLORFULHARMONY for 10% off (it’s valid until 31st of January 2014).

Happy Halloween everybody! =)

N.NAIL Cool Galaxy Diamond Hidden Nail Foil review

Last month I was contacted by KKCenterHK online shop and they asked me if I would be willing to test one of their products. I agreed, so they sent me a beautiful nail foil including nail glue to try out. It’s called N.NAIL Cool Galaxy Diamond Hidden Nail Foil [NNAIL-E05] and you can find it HERE

 
  
I’ve cut a small piece of the foil, about 3 centimeters (1,2 inches) wide, to work with on one hand. I followed the instructions from the website: I applied nail glue on my nails, waited until it became transparent and then pressed and rubbed the foil on my nails (I rubbed it with a cotton swab, I’ve seen it done this way, I don’t know whether this is the only way to do it, probably not). The foil adhered to the glue and separated in a way that the color transferred and I got left with the clear see-through leftover foil. I was a little bit concerned what would it look like since the foil is 2D and my nails are quite curved, transfer 2D to 3D and you can end up with lots of wrinkles… anyway, I guess you get skilled with practice, but I was quite pleased with the result:

I played with the leftovers from my small piece of foil on my thumb just to see what it would look like to have a scrambled pattern. Here’s what I’ve learned: you can use your leftovers, but be careful not to press the clear part of the foil to the glue – it sticks to it and by pulling it off you end up removing the glue as well =/ I had to reapply it on some areas. I also tested three different topcoats on my thumb only, just to see how they react to it – one crumbled it a little bit, there were differences in glossiness but none of those three cracked it as I’ve heard some top coats might. In my opinion the best result was when I used Essence Studio Nails Allround Talent polish whereas Essence Better Than Gel Nails Top Sealer made it look duller and Manhattan Pro Care Nail Repair polish crumbled it. I suggest trying different ones you own to see which one works the best. I also noticed that you have to apply it without too much dragging the brush across the nail for the brush started to pick up color from the foil.


I was planning on taking photos of the manicure without the top coat on the next day in daylight since again I’ve done this at night. Before going to bed I took a shower and to my horror I’ve noticed the water ruined my manicure. The thumb protected by topcoat was intact though. ABSOLUTELY USE THE TOP COAT! I used it then immediately to save what was left to save, after putting top coat on the foil stayed sealed. Here are the photos taken on the next day in daylight… =(


From afar it was not as noticeable, but it was not at all as pretty as before…

And one close-up:

 
It removes very easily with polish remover, you can correct any application mistakes with a brush and remover just as a regular polish. I know I’ll have a great time using this again and again because it is so pretty! You live and you learn and practice makes perfect, I’ve learned a lot by trying it in the first place, I can’t wait to experiment more with it! =)

Have you tried any foils yourself? Do you like it?