Fimo Fruit Mani & Fimo Review

Hi girlies! Today I have a fimo fruit mani to show you along side a review on them. I received some fimo sticks and blade cutters from Everbella for review, so thank you to her and I hope you enjoy the review and the pictures! It will be a slightly long post, so please bear with me!

First up, I will do a review on the fimo sticks and show you the mani I did with it after. I received a few other goodies with the package, but will review them some other time. Let's have a look at the way it came in the package.

 

Contents separated. The package came with 60 fimo sticks and 10 special feather cut blades. The blades are indeed very sharp! I cut up about 8 of each stick and put them in a small plastic bag. I had a lot of difficulty gettng the circular fimo sticks to cut evenly and not half cut at first, but then when I got the hang of it, I was able to cut them nicely. Any of the sticks that weren't circular were the easiest to cut! My favourite one to cut was the apple one - glides through like butter and came out nice and thin with no bald-like spots! Some were harder to cut than others since the fimo was pretty solid and stiff. Most were soft and easy to cut though and I was having fun cutting them up.

I have a couple pictures to show you what I used to create the 'ever-so-popular' fruit fimo mani.

I used SV to stick down my fimo pieces. Since it was quick drying, it helped the fimo to stay down sooner without it having to curl the opposite way. I did get some curling with thinner slices when I was using OTD topcoat, so I switched their uses around. I used SV to stick them down and for any free lifted edges, I used OTD and then applied it over the fimo to flatten before adding SV over the whole nail. I also added some pearls just cause :D I did get some bubbing around the pearls and edges of the fimo since there was flooding up in those areas and I kept brushing over it.. NTS, only brush over once!

This is just to show you a fair idea of the thickness of the pieces I cut out. Some thinner than others - look at that chunky kiwi! haha

Now let's have a look at the mani I created with these! (You probably know already if you looked at my FB!)

Don't they look so yummy & summery? I love how it turned out! It's bright and colourful at the same time and I got so many compliments from my friends who all at once grabbed my hand and admired it :) They all held a finger each and felt the nail and said that it was really cool - literally. Even a guy friend of mine said it was done nicely! I feel so proud haha!

Overall, I'd say that these fimo fruit piece were great to play around with. There are heaps of designs to choose from and heaps of combinations you could make with them. They are really easy to use and can create crazy or subtle looks. At first, I was pretty skeptical about buying them since I couldn't imagine myself using them at all, but this changed my mind (and I'm kinda keen on buying more!). Definitely try these out if you're looking for something new to try.

I also have a discount for all readers compliments of Everbella! I will post it up on the sidebars sometime soon, so look out for that :) I hope you all liked the mani and I'd just like to thank Everbella again, for providing me these for review. Take care!



//Linda