REVIEW: JamBerry?

JamBerry nail wraps are the next
little trendy nail thing.*

I got some samples in the mail. What the heck? I'll try them. They come in lots of designs and various sizes. You get 2 manicures per sheet. Each sheet is $15+ for 18 wraps. The samples I had were a pretty floral print with a white base. 

You clean your nail. Heat half the wrap without touching it with your fingers (to avoid oils). Then you stick it on your nail and smush. Heat again and smush again, just to make sure I guess. So I didn't buy their tiny "Jamberry" heater and I don't have a hair dryer .. (I'm low maintenance haha). So heating it was a PAIN in the butt. I had to hold it next to my curling wand

without burning my fingers or getting to close to the strip in case it stuck.

I took me two hours to figure it out (after even watching the official application video three times) just for TWO NAILS and painting the other eight nails. So I put them on one night. Washed dishes. Cooked some hamburger egg rolls. Still good. The nails were too ha!

Side note: the strips were not wide enough to completely cover my nails.

All in all they lasted me ~4 days before the edges started to wear down. But once the edges wore down, they looked awful. The edges continued to wear down.

This pic was taken four days later. Note the worn edge.

 When my nail grew, there was a visible GAP. This happened relatively quickly, within a week or so, because my nails grow so fast because I take awesome vitamins. Other people may not experience a gap forming that quickly from new nail growth, but for me, it was a bit frustrating.

Note the huge gap. This was taken after about two weeks when I took off the mint polish.

This is what the edges looked like after two weeks.

Overall, I was pleasantly surprised by how long they lasted (not the edges though). I literally left them on for a while. I was testing to see how long they would last. I removed them after two weeks, only because the edges looked so beat up and my nails grow so fast there was a gap. Also, after about a week and a half,  the edges started to peel up a bit away from my nail. But they lasted longer than I thought they would. I was very disappointed that the edges started to show wear so soon. Four days? Really? My plain polish usually lasts longer than that before chipping.

HOWEVER, it was too much trouble. I wold rather just paint my nails. It took two hours to put on TWO strips...I can base coat, paint, and top coat all my nails in two hours myself. 

I do NOT recommend JamBerry strip wrap things. 

They're just like Sally Hansen nail strips. BUT more annoying because you need heat. You can read my review of Sally Hansen nail strips by clicking HERE. I was not impressed by them either! I would much rather just paint my own nails! They would look better and last longer. 

Have you tried JamBerry? Hopefully you did have as many issues as I did! Please comment below and let me know about your experiences! 

* Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are my own. I am not affiliated with JamBerry in any way. I did not receive any compensation. I do not represent JamBerry or make money by the opinions stated here. I don't sell them, don't plan to, and don't want to sell them.

Sparkle Flower

This is what I have painted on my toes right now. 

It's a bright blue background with part of a white flower in one corner. There's glitter highlighting each of the three petals. Two trails of dots emerge from the flower and meet over the center petal.

Tybee Toes

I just got home from vacation!
I wanted to share with you the design I painted on my toes for the trip. 

Pretty simple. Well, actually, very simple. 

It’s a lavender purple nail with three flower decals in the corner. The base color is a lavender color polish with the words "love & beauty" printed on the bottle. I picked it up at Forever 21. I love this polish. It's my favorite shade of purple!




The decals are an unknown brand. It was a little sheet of random decals I found in my nail polish drawers. We went to Tybee Island. For those of you who don’t know where that is, it’s in Georgia near Savannah on the east coast. 

Another design inspired by this vacation is in the works and will hopefully be finished and posted soon, so watch for it! If you're interested more in my trip, click HERE.

Crazy Critters

Spring and summer time means it's time for little critters and flowers! 

This design took about two hours to paint. 

It's a simple green French that looks like grass with various other festive things.

Flowers. Mushroom. Caterpillar. 

Butterfly. Ladybug. Dragonfly.   

I thought the ladybug looked dark in the first picture
so I took this one so you can see
how red it actually is.

 This design was inspired by a youtube video that can be found here, 

which was inspired by another video (this one). 

Spring Fever

 Just in time for spring. 

This design was for my friend Rachel. It's a rich raspberry color. 

The small toes have a single rhinestone in the center.

The big toe has a flowering vine in one corner and a butterfly in the other. 

Both were stamped with Konad.

Look at those rhinestones shine!

Spring Dragonfly

This design is a light blue background with a small dragonfly in one corner and a large pink flower in the other corner. The other toes have coordinating pink dots in a diagonal pattern down one side of the nail. I really like the dots.

Products used: Finger Paints base coat, OPI in What's With the Cattitude?, CoverGirl Boundless Color in Midnight Magic, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in White On, Pure Ice in Flirt Alert, Pure Ice in Wild Thing, N.Y.C. in Taxi Yellow, dotting tool, assorted nail brushes, Beauty Secrets top coat