{"id":17678,"date":"2010-09-28T18:33:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T16:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/?p=17678"},"modified":"2013-04-12T19:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T18:04:03","slug":"essence-new-products-nail-stickers-fall-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parokeets.com\/en\/2010\/09\/essence-new-products-nail-stickers-fall-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Essence: new products – nail stickers (fall 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the new Essence<\/a> products we got for review were also nail stickers. <\/p>\n

After seeing preview of Essence nail stickers I knew I had to have some of them. I did hope they’ll be more like Minx manicure style, but they’re classical nail stickers. I guess it really was too optimistic to expect Minx nails for 1,99 EUR. <\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at all the sticker we received:<\/p>\n

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Essence has a special Studio nails fashion file<\/strong> that is suppose to be used with their nail stickers. Darker side is for cleaning\/preparing your nails and lighter one for removing excess sticker. Darker side smooths out the surface of the nail, so I don’t recommend you use it more than once in a while. But it looks it will be handy for removing those pesky light polish stains. <\/p>\n

You get 14 sticker in package and this set of instructions:<\/p>\n

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  1. be sure that your natural nail are clean & greaseless, if necessary push back cuticles<\/li>\n
  2. select correct size strip for each nail<\/li>\n
  3. apply the predecorated nail fashion stickers onto your nails – important: place rounded edges against cuticle line, but still leave a little space between cuticles and nail fashion sticker<\/li>\n
  4. press sticker onto nail while flatten the surface through gentle\u00a0 rubbing<\/li>\n
  5. smooth excess over nail edge. gentle file of excess of the sticker with essence special fashion file – ready!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    There were 2 out of 4 my most wanted stickers in the package we received: Trust Me! and Unexpected!. <\/p>\n

    First ones I used were Trust Me!<\/strong> stickers. Application itself was not as difficult as I expected but I did have problems with centering the sticker and wrinkles at the side of the nail. I guess most of those with similar nails as I have will have simmilar problems (my nails are kind of curvy at the sides) … we’ll unless you’re expert at applying nail stickers. <\/p>\n

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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Trust Me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    You don’t really see the crisscross design in real life, but camera picks it up. That is why I blurred the second photo.<\/p>\n

    If you look at the thumb, you can see the stickers are to narrow for my nails.<\/p>\n

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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Trust Me!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    I took more time to apply Unexpected!<\/strong> stickers. I made progress with centering the design, but wrinkles were driving me nuts. So I asked my boyfriend to help me out. I suspected that the main problem was the thickens and in-elasticity (besides the shape of my nails) of the sticker. I did try to heat the sticker up … but with very poor heat source.<\/p>\n

    My darling didn’t hesitate and he immediately brought in the big guns … hair dryer. :D<\/p>\n

    He set the speed to minimum and quickly heated the sticker held by tweezer (too much of heat and you end up with roll instead of sticker). OK – I got that part. But then he vertically stretched the sticker! I lost my breath – I was sure the sticker is ruined. Well – it wasn’t.\u00a0 I was stunned how easy it was to apply the heated and stretched sticker. Sides were no longer problem as now I could rube the wrinkles out. And since the sticker was just slightly stretched, the design deformation was slight one. Bigger problem\/deformation occurred on the thumb, where sticker had to be stretched vertically and<\/em> horizontally.\u00a0 But cracked design is not problematic one, so the end result was still very pretty.<\/p>\n

    My last problem was filling of the excess sticker. I had poor results with Essence file and their instructions. So my boyfriend again came to the rescue and suggested I file up to down (only in one direction of course) with crystal file and it looked better but still not perfect.<\/p>\n

    The other thing I didn’t consider was the fact that stickers will shrink a little bit after the cool down, so you have to wait with filing a bit. <\/p>\n

    I managed to combined everything I learned when I reached my thumb (let’s call others practice fingers). Next time I’ll just ask my boyfriend to put them on – he does it better and faster. :D<\/p>\n

    I think I listed most of the problems that can occur if you heat the sticker, but as always when you don’t follow original instructions – use this method at your own risk. <\/p>\n

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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Unexpected!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Unexpected!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    MAESTRA<\/strong> tried out Just Say Yes!<\/strong> stickers.<\/p>\n

    It took me 25 minutes to apply stickers on all 10 nails. I had problems finding right shape for me, but I managed in the end. I centered the sticker with tweezers and then rubed the sticker to the side with orange woodstick. I filed with medium Alessandro file and finished with cristaly file. With top coat.<\/p>\n

    Even with top coat, the tips started to lift up the same day I applied the stickers.<\/p>\n

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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Just Say Yes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Just Say Yes!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

    MAMY<\/strong> tested the Drama Queen!<\/strong> stickers.<\/p>\n

    Essence Nail fashion Sticker: this is the first time I used nail stickers and I can say it wasn’t easy. I hope you’ll learn from my mistakes and follow the instructions.<\/p>\n

    Especially no.3: “place rounded edges against cuticle line, but still leave a little space between cuticles ans nail fashion sticker”.<\/p>\n

    And no.5:\u00a0 watch how are you holding file while removing excess sticker. If you don’t – white tips will be visible. Enclosed picture is very helpful.<\/p>\n

    I’m not sure I like the stickers. Images are nice but application calls for time and precision. Those with smaller nails could encounter more problems than I did.<\/p>\n

    Top coat is recommended but I didn’t use one. Maybe that is one of the reasons the sticker started to come off at the tips.<\/p>\n

    I recommend you try them out – if for nothing else than just to satisfy your curiosity.<\/p>\n

    Finished manicure looks really nice but all the mistakes I made are very visible.<\/div>\n
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    Essence – Nail Fashion Sticker: Drama Queen!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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