As part of my $150 shopping spree, I bought some jeweled nail strips and some purple nail polish. The jeweled nail strips are stickers, meant to stay on your nails for up to 10 days.
Nail stickers: $5.97
Purple Polish: $1.92
As you can see, the stickers look like they are a little see-through, which is why I got the purple nail polish. So, I painted a couple coats of the purple nails polish onto my nails, and waited for it to dry completely.
The instructions say to apply the sticker that best fits your nail, fold the extra over the end, then file the end of the nail to get rid of the excess sticker.
Since my nails are much shorter than the stickers, I ended up cutting off the end of the sticker after putting it on my nail. I saved the extra end, just in case I can find a use for it later.
Challenges:
· Trying to fold the stickers over my nail when there was a jewel in the way meant they had to be cut, almost exactly to the size of the nail. (I mostly failed at this)
· With the un-exact cut of the sticker, the nail strips were much more likely to peel off. (They started peeling the same day, and most of them had peeled off more than halfway by the end of the next!)
· Painting the nails before putting the stickers on meant that when they peeled off, all the nail polish came off with them. I’m not sure if it would be better to just not paint the nail first.
Because the nail stickers peeled off so quickly, I never got to take a picture of the finished nails! Here’s a picture of the one lonely little nail that was left after a long day today:
I’d like to say that they looked good while they lasted, but they were a little too much for me. It was just a little bit too much bling on my nails. (Although, the girls I coach had a competition today, and the 6 year olds really liked them!)
$$ left: $136.90
