Review of Born Pretty Store water decals- Palm Trees

About a month ago, I signed up with the Born Pretty Store to receive their products for a review. I got to pick two different water decals for my first review. I got the palm trees and I knew what I wanted to do right away. I wanted to make a beach, which was perfect for the current heat wave as we are finishing up Spring here in Australia.

The polishes that I used were Bonna Blue by Fresh Paint, No Room for the Blues by OPI, Shark Attack by Sephora, and Coach Ella by Fresh Paint. The palm tree decals can be found for purchase at this link.

I started out with Bonna Blue as my base colour and then I used a makeup sponge with the three blues to create a gradient for the sky. It ended up being really hard to clean up because I had waited too long to do it and my fingers got stained a bit. It did come off later, though. 

Then I added the sand. It's a bit uneven because the formula isn't the best for the Fresh Paint polishes, but I suppose the beach and shoreline isn't perfect anyway.

Next was the moment of truth. I had never used water decals before, so this was brand new to me! I wasn't sure how they would work because they are so close together on a page, but I cut them all out. This is just one hand's worth since I decided on doing two palm trees on most of my nails.

The first one, I just placed in the water and then it sank. I thought that it would float, but it is heavier than most paper. When I realised this, I got my tweezers out and used them to hold the decal underwater since my fingers would have been too big. The instructions say to keep it under for 10-20 seconds, so I counted to 14.

Applying them was super easy. You need to hold them down for a bit with some pressure, similar to temporary tattoos, which was good because I didn't always get them where I wanted them right away due to being uncoordinated. But I was able to get them where I wanted in the end. I was very happy with that since it was something that I worried about, especially since you can't see the image through the other side of the paper.

I thought that they ended up looking great! I've only ever done freehand painting, so it was great to get more detail than I usually get. I loved looking at this manicure, but the only issue was seeing it out of the corner of my eye. The colour of the sand was just too close to my skin colour that I kept thinking that there was something wrong with my nail or that the polish chipped!

These photos were taken the next day when there was sun and my fingertips weren't stained blue!

Decals provided for review by the Born Pretty Store. See the image on the bottom of my homepage for a 10% discount and free shipping worldwide!