I was online a week or so ago, and the cuteness of Modes4u brainwashed me into making a massive bulk purchase! Deco, stickers, stamps, and more ~ I just couldn’t resist. And when the package turned up on my doorstep yesterday? >_____< *eee* Very happy!! I couldn’t wait to share it with all of you.
♥ L to R clockwise ~ Face Clothes: my favourite is on top! ♥ Two stamps: one panda with strawberries and a cupcake one with sweets and a bunny and a bear ♥ Two packs of puffy stickers: Food bunnies and cute kitties ♥ A fairy tale note book: No lines ~ perfect for my notes and pictures! ♥ Pacer pencil: cute bears, cakes and doughnuts and I love the doughnut charm hanging off the top of it!! ♥ Deco items: Large roses, small roses, and cookies with strawberries on top ♥
Modes4u had really great customer service ~ there was some sort of problem with my order and it wouldn’t go through, but they sorted it out really quickly and helped me finish the payment.
I was also very happy with the quick delivery ~ I ordered these items on the 22nd of November and received them on the 1st of December. It was only just over a week before I got my items! Plus, everything was packaged well, so that was great.
I am not so much a fan of the prices though…. I love what Modes4u do ~ their shop is clear, easy to order from and, obviously, they sell super cute stuff. The only drawback for me was the prices of everything. The Australian dollar is doing pretty well at the moment, so at least I didn’t have to worry about the exchange rates. But even then, I found that while the notebook was a reasonable price at US$6.49 the pacer pencil cost US$5.07 which seemed excessive to me for what you got. I don’t think I’d buy many of the deco items either ~ I love the strawberry cookies I got, and I want to get some of the cherry cookies too, but at US$2.59 for 5 pieces, when I can buy more than that for AUD$2.00, it just seems a little over the top.
All in all, I found the service and items from Modes4u great, but the prices a little expensive. I’d save and buy things you really want from the site, but I’d also think twice about what you want to get. To be perfectly honest, you might find it cheaper else where, and I’d rather having to wait a while longer if I could spend less!
I know it’s early, but I am very excited for Christmas this year. I think it’s going to be awesome and that’s why I have a special surprise! I thought it would be really nice to do something celebrating Christmas on Depict This! so I am going to randomly give a Christmas present to one of my readers. Okay, so it’s more like a really small version of a giveaway, but it’ll be fun anyway. ^ w ^
~ * You’ll receive an ice-cream bubbler, a snowman coin purse and a mystery present! * ~
To put your name in for the present, please just comment and leave your email address so that I can contact you to send your Christmas parcel to you!
There is just one rule; please follow Depict This! publicly through Google Friend Connect so that I know you actually read DT!. Other then that, anyone can enter. Good luck everyone. ^__^ GIVEAWAY CLOSED.
xox,
bonita
It has long been my ambition to get some serious sparkle on my nails. I don’t mean of the glitter variety, but of the rhinestone sort.
Yes, this is me not some mind eating alien spawn. I still have a 70% black wardrobe and I still wear and adore vintage. I did however warn you a while ago that the simple housewife who likes neatness and order also has a strange thirst for decoden and over the top, Japanese styled nails.
Prime examples here and here:
I do not know where my elegant, refined, classic and simplicity loving self {*snort* elegant, refined, classic? Yeah. Right.} vanishes too when I see pictures like the ones above, but vanishes she does and I am left positively longing to do this:
to my iPhone.
DH was not impressed when I told him about my awesome idea. Mainly because he is super obsessive over his technology almost to the point of OCD ~ each piece of equipment must be kept in pristine original condition. That’s what you get when you marry a software developer I guess!
He did give me his old iPhone when he got the new one, so he most likely won’t want it back, but still. Deco? On the iPhone? Oh noes! >o<
Thankfully, he did come around, but only if I deco a case for the phone and not the phone itself. Which is fair enough and what I was planning to do in the first place just in case I ended up hating it.
But the fact of the matter is I haven’t even gotten around to starting the iPhone deco project as I do not have a case, nor that many supplies yet. So I have to make do with blinging up my nails instead. Mind you, I didn’t really go all out, simply because these are my first experiments. I don’t know how long the nail sparkles will last, or how to do proper gel nails.
Or if I even want to do gel nails because I am petrified of ruining my admittedly already decent nail bed. I get even nails with a nice length to them on a regular basis. How long the evenness lasts depends on how rough I am and what I doing.
But that was a side track. Let’s get on with the real stuff. Photos!!
I have basically created a step by step of how I do my nails for no particular reason. Hope you like.
Gather your materials ~ I have a Konad Stamping Kit and BYS Matte Aqua Polish. Then prepare your nails by cleaning them, pushing back the cuticles and putting on a base coat. I use Sally Hansen’s Miracle Cure as it is a treatment and it dries super fast.
Yes, this is how I put my nail polish on. It’s good because the bottle is firmly wedged between your knees so that you can’t knock it over, but it’s also bad because you have to be careful not to get nail polish on your favourite jeans! >.<
I found this BYS polish to be really good. It was so thick that after one coat your nails were the same colour as the bottle. The aqua colour is not really aqua though ~ more like a dark sky blue. It’s a very intense colour and the matte makes it look very saturated. Also, at $3.00 a bottle, you can’t go wrong!!
Next step is to Konad ~ I did a polka dot bow on my right thumb and both ring fingers, and a dotted love heart on my left pointer and right middle finger.
Normally I’d do a top coat at this stage, because I find it definitely helps your nail art to last longer, but as this polish was matte and I don’t have a matte top coat, so it seemed a waste of time to me. I guess I’ll just have to see how well the nails will last now.
Then it was sparkle time!! I bought this nail art wheel that was chockers with different coloured rhinestones from a local beauty supplies shop. It was a about $5.00 and I think the brand is Oker Brand. Never heard of it before, but the wheel works really well. The only thing was that all the different colours got muddled up in the packaging. I haven’t sorted them out yet, and the gems are so small I don’t know if I can be bothered!
Each gem is 2mm and I got the square ones. I decided on light purple and used super glue to attach them. The super glue worked really well You just had to make sure you didn’t get any on your finger or the gem would pull off again and leave a mess in your nail polish.
I stuck three on my left thumb, one on my middle finger and two on my pinkie. I did one on my right pointer and two on my right pinkie.
TaDa!! The finished result!
xox,
bonita
