Graceful Blue Bird Nail Art Decoration

Today I have a manicure to share with you inspired by the pretty blue bird nail art decoration sent to me by KKCenterHK. I'm also going to lump this manicure in with the untried challenge I'm slowly tackling.

Here are the pretty nail art decorations I chose to review. I love them. The detail is perfect and are exactly like they are pictured on the website.

Oval Graceful Blue Bird Nail Art Decoration

Top and Bottom of Oval Graceful Blue Bird Nail Art Decoration

Up close picture of Oval Graceful Blue Bird Nail Art Decoration

Taking the nail art out of the package and observing the white paper backing, I thought these decorations might be self adhesive. Scratching a little at the back I pulled off some of the bird pattern of one, and quickly discovered they are not self adhesive. Luckily the small scratch was hidden by my white base polish.

I knew right away I wanted to use this nail decoration for my accent nail. I looked over my blues and thought the gorgeous Cerulean by LVX would be a perfect pairing! Cerulean just happened to be an untried, and qualified as a "cool" color, which made this manicure a double win for me. To jazz it up a little I used stripping tape along with my go to Snow Me White from Sinful Colors to do stripes with Cerulean. I really like the way this came out.

From above I LOVE the nail art decoration. But from the side, this manicure makes me sad. Its such a huge oval bubble on my nail that I played with it constantly, until I just popped it off. As pretty as these oval nail decorations are, for me they are just too big to be used in my nail art. However, I plan on keeping these adorable nail decorations and applying them to something else. (I'm just not sure what)

What do you think of this manicure? Do you think these blue bird nail decorations are too big? Is there such a thing as too big when it comes to nail art? Do you own any LVX polishes?

Product Information 

Website: KKCenterHK

Glitter: Blue Sea Oval Graceful Blue Bird Nail Art Decoration
Price: $4.00 for two pieces

*product provided for review*

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Circle Glitter from KKCenterHK

A few weeks back I was very excited to receive an email from KKCenterHK. They asked if I would be interested in reviewing some of their products. I of course said yes and could not wait for the items to arrive to do my first real review.

I picked KKCenterHK's pretty sky blue circle glitter. This glitter is made of plastic and is cut into 2.55mm circles. The light blue colors is vibrant and reflects light beautifully. The jar holds hundreds of these beautiful circle glitters pieces.

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Of course I wanted to use my new glitter on my nails so this is the nail design I came up with.

Starting with white nail polish I then added the circle glitter to my nails in a simple polka dot pattern. Then painted pretty blue flowers as accents to the the circle glitter. 

The glitter from KKCenterHK is vibrant, easy to use and exactly what was pictured on their website. KKCenterHK is overseas but was able to ship the items quickly. The glitter was well packaged, so it arrived safely. The only thing I would change about this glitter is that I wish it was a little smaller. My nails are on the smaller side and I think with smaller glitter I would be able to do a more detailed designs with the circle glitter. Any girl with wider or longer nails should have no problem with this size of this glitter.

Product Information 

Website: KKCenterHK

Glitter: Light Blue Sky Circle Glitter
Price: $8.00

*product provided for review*

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Review - Nail Art Society Monthly Subscription

I want to start off by saying I was super excited to try +Nail Art Society's monthly nail art program. For $9.95 a month you will be sent a DIY nail art kit, to be shipped to your home, on the 10th of every month. Nail Art Society's goal is to supply you with on trend nail polishes and accessories to help you make amazing nail art at home for a budget friendly price. This sounds fantastic to a nail polish fanatic like myself, so I quickly set up my subscription. This is where all the good ideas and fun times ended.

On March 11th I received an email with my tracking number for my NAS kit. The company ships out of southern California, and I am in northern California. I knew I wouldn't have to wait long so by the 14th I checked my mailbox. Nothing. No worries, I'll check the tracking number. My package information had not been updated since the 11th. Okay, I'm a little miffed but can wait, and I do, until the 18th. Nothing in the mail, and my tracking information hasn't been updated. I reached out to NAS on their Facebook page and got an immediate response saying sorry. The company said they did send my kit, would send a replacement kit and could keep both if two arrived, and that they would check into the matter. I was happy with this and still watched the mail. Again...nothing. I waited until the 25th to contact NAS on their website. Since I had not received the first kit or the replacement kit by this date. I'm pretty mad at this point and write a pretty intense letter stating how mad I was, and that after ten business days, that I had not received my kit after being promised that a replacement kit was being sent. I demanded my money be refunded since I never received their product and that my subscription be cancelled immediately. A few hours later I received an email apologizing again (falling on deaf ears at this point) with a new tracking number of the third kit they were sending me and that they were refunding me my money for all the trouble. This time the kit was actually on its way and made it to my home two days later. (I'll go into how much I was disappointed with the kit next) However, my credit card had never been credited the refund and I had not been sent a confirmation email of my subscription being canceled. Another email to NAS was sent on the 29th simply requesting the refund they offered and to confirm my cancellation. Finally after this last email everything was settled, refund, and canceled. Nail Art Society offered to send me a free kit for April free of charge for all the troubles and lack of follow through on their part. We'll see if that kit shows up or not.

The Kit

Two Nail Fraud kits, fimo roses, caviar beads, kiwi fimo, purple beads and lots of orange flower plastic-y cutouts.

The 3D flowers are super cute but so thick, that I find them to be unusable for nail art. The gold caviar beads are very blah, and are a color I couldn't really see myself using. I think the kiwis are super cute, but there are only twelve pieces. The purple half dome beads are pretty and are the only part of the kit I truly liked and thought I would use. The orange flowers are nice, usable and the quantity is good. The two Nail Fraud kits are neat but so close in color and pattern that I feel like there is no real variety. A HUGE issue with one of the Nail Fraud kits. It had been opened and was missing the clear plastic wrapper that was suppose to contain the cuticle stick and emery board. This kit only had the emery board.

On the NAS website it says, that each kit will include a "step by step How-To instructional card to complete a curated Nail Art Look" for that month. This card only had pictures pulled from the web and no how-to's for their so -called"curated" look of the month. 

Overall I have nothing good to say about my experience with Nail Art Society. Some of you may say I was a little hard on this company, but if you are going to offer a program to the public, and charge people money, you need to do what you promise. I also encourage people to read all the feedback on Nail Art Society's Facebook page. In addition to my experience with this company, this kit felt cheap to me. For the same amount of money I felt I could easily buy more than this kit offered on eBay. In addition this company has huge shoes to fill when comparing it to Julep's Maven program. And it fell short, so so short. Yes the Nail Fraud kits are more than $9.95 each, but they aren't nail art, and that's my biggest over all issue. 

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