KKCenterHK - 3D Acrylic Bow Mold

Norther Star Polish - TrustNo1

So for todays post I am showing you a mold KKCenterHK sent me to review.

Don't let this fool you, if you have ANY experience with using acrylic powder and liquid you can do this.

Here is how the mold arrives, in a sealed package. It is available on the site, HERE, and retails for $4.75US - which is a great price for a lifetime supply of bows in any color you want!

Here are the supplies used for this, please note I have NO IDEA what these acrylic products are! When I first got into nails, my friend Rachelle gave me a bunch of random stuff she had left over from cosmetology school, so thats what these are. Acrylic powder (clear), acrylic liquid, powdered eyeshadow pigment and the mold. Essentially I mixed half acrylic powder and half green shadow pigment in a seperate container and then I dipped a brush in the acrylic liquid and then into the powder to get a nice sized ball. Pushed it into the mold and made sure to clean up the edges. I let it dry for about a minute or two, just until I could flex the mold and the acrylic didn't flex with it. You pop that out with some tweezers...let me tell you, the reason you dont want this to dry too much is so it's still pliable. If you want it to sit up off of your nail, no problem, but if you want it to bend with the shape of your nail, you need it to still be somewhat bendy. Wait too long and it snaps when you bend it. It's a learning curve that I got right the first time and wrong the second time!

And this is the bow attached to the nail. After I took it out of the mold I grabbed a sanding block and QUICKLY removed any little residual jagged edges and topcoated my nail than I bent it a little between my fingers and pressed it on my nail, holding it for about a minute until it was firmly stuck down all around.

It's a super simple process and I do plan to come back with more of a tutorial on how I did this and show a few different colors. In the meantime if this interests you, make sure and use the code below for a discount! the base polish for this is Norther Star - TrustNo1, which I reviewed HERE.

OPI Liquid Sand - Honey Ryder

OPI Liquid Sand - Solitaire

KKCenterHK - BLUESEA Bow Tie Nail Art Decorations

KKCenterHK - N. Nail 2.5mm Circle Glitter in Black

Orly - Luxe

Candy Lacquer - Cold Hearted

Here are the polishes I've used in todays manicure.

The BLUESEA Bow Tie Decorations come 2 to a pack and retail for $4 (at time of publishing, this item is currently out of stock on the website but plenty of other cute bows are still available by clicking HERE).

The N. Nail 2.5mm Black Circle glitters come in a HUGE jar - like a lifetimes supply huge. It says 10g, its a ton. It's available HERE and retails for $8.00 - it comes in a ton of other colors also.

Here is a macro of the glitter in the jar. The glitters are kind of stuck together in some places, like they've been cut but not separated - so be sure if you purchase this product to keep that in mind before you get down to business with it - you don't want to grab a big chunk of glitter when you only mean to grab one!

And now we come to the nails! I started this mani with 2 coats of Orly Luxe on all nails except my ring/accent. For my accent I started with 1 coat of Solitaire Liquid Sand by OPI.

Then on my regular fingers I applied a few of the circle glitters haphazardly, followed them with a coat of Candy Lacquer's Cold Hearted white glitter polish and then added a couple more circle glitters. I wanted to give the appearance of the black glitters being a part of the polish.

For my accent - when Solitaire dried I did a gradient using her and Honey Ryder Liquid Sand by OPI to get a cool white to gold texture gradient!

Then I finished the accent nail up by adding the cute bowtie decoration!

I thoroughly loved this manicure and these products! I will never use that entire jar of glitter and the bow ties are reusable as long as I don't lose them when I wear them!

You can get 10% OFF any purchase at KKCenterHK by using my code:

LASTLY - Tell me in the comments - do you prefer this smaller size of photos or my standard bigger ones? They are always clickable to make fullsize/larger, but I wanted to know your thoughts with the top navigation header being stationary now if this made it easier to see the picture in its entirety if I made them smaller....?