day eighty, nailene couture safari

here's another set of fake nails from nailene. i really liked the design so i actually glued it to my fingers. it's a fun...zebra with sparkles and that is cool.

i tried to use as little glue as humanly possible but i still had places where the glue was visible and made weird marks. i like that they give you pink glue and the base is tinted pink so it can look more natural...even though it's obviously fake.

i still had issues with the length and couldn't find a single nail to adquately cover my thumb...and that was anoying. it was either huge and impractical or i had to only cover 3/4 of my nail instead of all of it.

i am writing this after i took them off, i put them on yesterday evening and one popped off when i was doing some housework earlier so i popped the rest off (using a wooden cuticle pusher instead of soaking my hands in acetone) and as predicted...i have glue and uneven bits all over my fingers. if there was a way to combat this...i'd probably be more into fake nails. but it BOTHERS me! it ruins my nails until the glue bits go away. no amount of aceton seems to fix it and i don't have a professional buffer tool to get the bits off.

so basically...the nails are nice....but i don't know that i'll be actually sticking any onto my fingers again.

day seventy nine, nailene so real flex fit french (medium length)

okay. so the lovely people at nailene sent me some fake nails and stuff to review for my blog. which is awesome...i love freebies! this set is the 'natural' or 'so real' set...it's a french (obviously) and it's supposed to be very thin and more real because it has little half moons for the bottom of your nails. i used to have really pronounced half moons when i was a kid..but the older i got the more they faded. i think they're only visible on my thumbs...i honestly don't know. i'll have to check!!

my HUGE gripe with these nails is that they only come with glue and no stickers. the stickers are adhesive and allow for more temporary wear. i didn't actually glue these on my fingers, i just rested them on so they might look a little weird. they sent me another pack that i am probably going to actually glue on. i WISH they had sticker adhesives since i always have bad luck with the glue and getting them off is a total pain.

my other gripe is that i have really short nail beds. i mean...REALLY short. the medium length nails tower above the end of my natural nail and then some. they're probably longer than the longest i've ever had my nails. so it kinda bothers me. i havne't tried the short length so i don't know. but the standard length for most fake nails is medium and it is always too big for my fingers.

so...these are nice..professional. i always find it hard to use my hands with fake nails and i find myself gripping things awkwardly but these are nice. a great way to get an easy french without the effort.

day twelve, fing'r edge fake nails

so fing'r edge are a fake nail brand from the US and they do 'alternative' fake nails instead of the boring standard french manicure. this is a french manicure pattern but with black and white checks on the tip. fun and cute...good way to do a fake nail without being bored to tears by the simplicity.

they do all different kinds like french manicures with black tips instead of white, pink argyle tips...very fun. they can be bought in drugstores i *think* internationally. i know i can buy them at boots/superdrug. they aren't that expensive, about £5 for a pack of twenty nails. the only complaint i have is that the nail bit (not the tip) is a milky white colour and it doesn't look natural with the nail, it stands out quite strongly. but i have found that if you use pink nail glue underneath it helps make them look more natural. they only come in a 'short' length but if you have tiny nails like me...the short is HUGE. i know some bloggers find these nails to be wonderful but hard to use beacuse the length is so short...but i have very short nail beds so on me they are on the long side! they come with white nail glue or sticker tabs for single day wear. i haven't tried the tabs yet, i usually stick them on with glue. but they are a pain in the ASS to remove with the glue. so i'd probably say go for the sticker tabs unless you want to wear them for 7+ days and deal with soaking your fingers in acetone to get them to dissolve!



(ps - picture quality will improve rapidly now that i got my digi cam!)