Nail Gel BARGAIN!! So happy! :) :)

I am in love with my new at-home gel nails kit I posted about here. It only came with four colours tho and I'm used to having hundreds of colours of regular polish, so I knew I had to up my collection! You can buy CND Shellac for around £15 each on eBay, which is tooo much for me. So I did some eBay searching and found UV Gel Builder sets. Essentially little tubs of nail gel, they're generic and so lots cheaper. I bought a set of mixed solid and glitter colours, they said there was about 8ml in each tub, compared with 14ml in my Gellure nail polish.

 

Here's what I got! :)

Top left are all the little tubs, and top right is the comparison size to regular nail polish. So it's about two thirds of the size, not bad!

Bottom is all my purple shades, the colour names seem a bit random at times but the colours are gorg!

 

These are my pinks, browns, blues and greens! :)

 

Whites/silvers, reds and then 'others' on the bottom.

 

And THE most amazing part - I got ALL of these (28 colours) for £16.99!! I got them from this listing. I am sooo happy with them. The colours are so pretty and there's lots of variety.

 

I also bought some cheap brushes to allow me to use them and also do nail art (£2.45 from this listing).

 

Aaaaand lastly, on my spree, I bought some nail art tape (£1.50 from this listing).

 

And here's my first nail art attempt (stubby nails sadface):

I used misty pink, a purple nail art strip and glitter silver. This should last for two-three weeks!

 

What do you think of my bargain? Have I tempted anyone to buy the at-home kits??

Let me know!

~ Lauren ♥

At Home Gellure/Shellac/Gel Nails Kit!

I am aaaaaalways in a constant battle to stop biting my nails. I wear falsies regularly cause my own nails are just so ugly. However, my sister bought a Shellac kit a few years back and whenever she did my nails I used to manage to not bite them and so they grew a bit! But everytime I took the Shellac off, the addiction kicked in! Grr! So I bought my own kit. :)

 

In case you're not sure what Shellac is, it's a type of gel nail polish. This is the polish you get done usually at a salon, it is 'cured' under a UV lamp and so dries instantly. It lasts about three weeks and as far as I can tell in my experience, causes very little to no damage to your nail. Now CND Shellac were the first 'brand' to do this that I have heard of, but now there's lots. I bought my generic kit from a Groupon offer, it was about £75 including the lamp, a top coat, base coat, dehydrator, cuticle cream, remover, buffer, orange stick, lint-free pads and four colours. Not a bad price. You can also check out eBay.

 

Here's my kit:

It came with paper instructions and an instruction DVD, but I just used the paper info cause it's really straightforward.

 

You need a 36 watt lamp that has settings to allow for 2 minutes and 3 minutes (mine has 90 seconds and 120 seconds which works).

 

It's super easy. You push back your cuticles, buff your nails and then use the dehydtating solution on them. Then it's base coat (cure for two minutes), two coats of colour (cure for three minutes each coat) and top coat (cure for two minutes). Then wipe with dehydrating solution again to get rid of any excess gel and done!! I manage to stick both my hands in at the same time haha so it only takes me about fifteen mins to do a three week manicure. Awesome!

 

The shades the kit came with are actually nice (I thought they'd send me random stuff no one wanted haha) -

Left to right: a deep purple, a pinky-gold, a bright red and a baby pink.

 

I have the bright red on my toes (yup, toes can be done too!) and the pink on my fingers. Because my nails are still soooo short and fugly, here's my mum's:

 

 

That's the baby pink. So far it's been a week and there's no chipping/peeling etc so looks good! Got my eye on some fun colours on eBay so hopefully get some long-lasting nail art done too. :)

 

What do you think of these kits? Worth the price tag? Would you splash out on one?

Let me know!

~ Lauren ♥