Review: Trend Tips from Sephora by OPI

So I had a wedding to go to with my boyfriend this weekend. What girl is going to go without her nails done? So earlier this week I was in Sephora and because they are changing over their nail line and cutting ties with OPI all Sephora by OPI products were on sale. So these nail stickers retail for $12.99 were on sale for $6.99, loving the design I wanted to try them. In the past I never had much luck with nail stickers, but I still thought I would try them. 

I should have thought twice about it. It comes for 18 in a pack so you can pick the sticker that best fits your nail. Thing is once you open the package you have to use them right there and then and can not save extras for future use. 

After I applied them close to my cuticle and filed off the tips, the edges started peeling. You can see from the picture by the cuticles it had peeled. I put them on at 2:30 PM and they had peeled by that night after dinner. Don't waste your money on these. After looking on the Sephora website to see what other people said about the product, reviewers had the same feelings. Pretty design, but does not give you a neat manicure. 

Day of the wedding I got a quick manicure which I was better off with:

My Acrylic and Gel Adventure

So part of why I have not posted in a little while is because for the last month I took a risk and tried acrylic nails and gel nails. Never have in my life have I done anything realllly artificial to my nails other then polish. The reason I tried fake nails was to break a really bad habit which I don't want to disclose. 

This is what my acrylics looked like and 

My gel nails....

I have to say even through they looked good, they were a pain. I paid $30 for them and then fills were $20. The first 2 days I had acrylic I hated them. They were heavy and my fingers felt sore the next day. When I went to get a fill 2 weeks later it didn't feel as bad, but it was still time consuming to get done. By the end 4 weeks, I wanted to try gel. My acrylics came off easy at the salon, but my nails still felt like paper. The next day I went to get the gel. They called it 'liquid gel'. Liquid gel is about $50. This is when my real nightmare started. The salon I went to seemed to be like any other salon and seemed to be knowledgeable. Well only 1 women "knew" how to do liquid gel. Unfortunately to make a long story short she did not do it correctly, making an amateur mistake and so the nails did not fully cure and dry because she used regular polish still wet under a liquid gel topcoat. So by the end of the day, I was not near the salon and couldn't go back because of distance, they had to come off. After I was done being upset about my nails (my nails have always been my pride) I did some research and found a great nail strengthener and then had to repair my nails after all that damage. I'll post a review on my products for repairing nails in another post. So it's been 2 weeks since I've had my fake nails off and now my nails are almost back to normal. Moral of the story a)make sure the salon doing it has education on the product b)sometimes your risks don't always work out, but it's not the end of the world.