Hello Berry Patch!  Today I don’t have a polish review for you, but don’t worry it is still a manicure  While I was at Sephora the other day doing some shopping to celebrate my promotion at work, I spotted these beautiful nail stickers in the sale bin (although I think they were in there by mistake, haha).  So I thought, what the heck, why not?!

This particular style is called the White Basket Weave, but the little jewels are actually silver.  And the silver jewels  sit on top of a clear base sticker, so there really isn’t anything white on these.  You get 18 stickers in 9 different sizes in this little pack for $7.00, which I think is a pretty good value.  I prepared my nails just like I would for a nail polish manicure; I cleaned them, and applied a base coat.  And then I simply peeled off a sticker that looked to be about the right width, and stuck it on.   I liked that they were pretty forgiving when it came to replacing them if my first attempt was slightly crooked.  And then I just trimmed off the extra bit that went past the free edge of my nail and then filed away the rest.  And even though it sounds pretty simple, I think the whole process still took me about as long as it would to do a solid color polish manicure – it’s just a lot less messy and you don’t have any drying time after.  And I really like the fact that there was no heat required to activate the glue like there was with the Jamberry Nail Shields I reviewed a while ago.

In terms of wear, they lasted a couple days before I started to notice some lifting at the corners.  And by the 5th day, I was peeling them off entirely, haha.  Now the clear base had it’s pros and cons.  Pro – you couldn’t really notice when the sticker didn’t quite cover my whole nail.  Con – after a few days of wear, I noticed some dirt getting stuck under the lifting parts of the stickers (which you wouldn’t have seen if it was a solid color).  When I was peeling off the stickers, they came off pretty easily, but did leave behind a significant amount of sticky residue.  But the stickiness was easily removed with nail polish remover. Another positive was that I saved the extra pieces I cut off the end of my nails so I could use them later if I wanted to do just a tip or a small stripe (and I still had 8 left over stickers that I didn’t need to use since I only have 10 fingers, haha).  So I am a fan of these stickers, but I just can’t expect to wear them as long as I would a nail polish manicure.

Products used:

• Zoya Anchor Basecoat ~ average $5.00
• SEPHORA Nail Bling White Basket Weave ~ $7.00 (only one price right now)
• **All prices base on current Amazon prices unless otherwise noted.

Thanks for reading, I post every Sunday, Wednesday and occasionally on Fridays.  And please don’t forget to “like” my Facebook page for extra news!  I also have a Tumblr and a “nail ideas” board on Pinterest.com under the user name “berrybear”.

~ A. Berry

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