Frankenpolish - lilac/duochrome/holo

Hi all :>

This time, a franken of mine, better: a FAIL of mine...

Remember this post, when I received half of a bottle of "Let Me Go" by Sinful Colors? I wanted it because I liked it in the bottle :D, but I also always read terribile reviews about it: it's straky, FROSTY, too much sheer... So I immediately thought: what if I add some scoops of Specktraflair holo pigment?

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Well, I got a little fail :D

Infact, frostiness remained, which is the worst side of this nailpolish...

I layered, I think, two coats over two coats of Essie's "Lilacism", and I didn't like this result AT ALL, I removed all after taking these pictures, almost never happened to me before :D

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Maybe it looks better from pictures, and someone may like it, but I don't think I'll wear it again, see that green frost reflection? >.<

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All in all, colour it's not that bad, but I thought the holo pigment would have dulled the frost side of "Let Me Go"...

I was WRONG :D

(natural light - and horrible cuticles >.< )

* bleah *


Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

Shaka - n. 740 Dark Aquamarine

Woah, at last a beauty!
Note that I put MANY pictures, sorry for this, but you can guess I REALLY liked this n. 740 *_*

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This is a dark teal in between a foil and a glassflecked, I think, anyway, it's AWESOME.

Deep, saturated, shiny, I only have good words for it :>

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 MANY pictures, I said :P

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I applied two coats, dries normally/quickly, so it's easy to apply even late at night :D

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Why so many pictures? To show you every side of "Dark Aquamarine".

Infact, these nailpolishes contain pigments with a little duochrome effect, which doesn't show too much on nails, but they give a subtle twist to the colour, making it glowy and deep at the same time.

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Clearly, it's beautiful especially in low light/at night, look at those night shots <3

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I must say, just a warning: it can stain your nails; I removed it with the tinfoil method (as always, I use it every time), but I didn't leave cotton pads enough time to clear my nails deeply - I had some wounds on some fingers, nailpolish remover hurts! -, so nails were a little stained, I had to rub and rub and rub with q-tips to get my pink nails back :D

So, remember: leave cotton pads for minutes, before removing them!

But... WHO CARES, I love this colour:

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See? Glassflecks are at their best in low daylight, look a t the deepness.

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Those little bottles are... small :D

Brush also is small, but flat and easy to use, clean-up is quick.

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Shaka definitely needs to expand all over the country, at €1,99 each bottle and so many colours available...

Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

April's stuff

... Stuff I got in April.
Oh my, lately I'm getting so many bottles. Beautiful bottles *_* :D

From left:

- Berry-magenta JELLY from Basic Beauty, n. 68PE. How rare is a jelly nailpolish here in Italy? And it won't even be the only one in this post!

- Debby n. 186, blackish base filled with blue/purple glitters (not big size, almost a shimmer). Impulsive purchase :D

- Basic Beauty n. 15: pink-mauve creme. A little runny, but I think it will be awesome on nails. Feminine, but not corny :D

- Debby n. 175: dark emerald metallic. Another impulsive purchase...

Next pic shows the two Debby in detail:

And below you see a comparison: n. 175 reminded me of a glorious Essence discontinued green, "All Access", and I thought they were almost dupes, looking at the bottles, but my cap-test reveals they're different:

Then, a franken: remember this Sinful Colors "Let Go"? I tried to improve this colour by adding some scoops of Specktraflair pigment, but I'm not sure about the result: I got a semi-sheer lilac wiht a STRONG green reflect (but a little frosted) and holographic side.

 

Bottom part of the picture shows one coat of the franken over Essence "Passion For Fashion": in direct sun you can see the holo rainbow and the green side (it has been difficult to catpure it)... I have to try it again and find a good colour base.


Next, my first magnetics... Of course a purple and a blue :D

Upper, Prestige Bijoux, n. 03 "Topaz". It's just the purple I was looking for, cold and dimensional.

Bottom, Debby n. 4, "Neptune": it's a blue which reveals violet when magnetized = ♥ ♥

Then, more Shaka gems:

Names and numbers are listed in the picture.

First one, "Storm" (great name :D ), it's a rich semi-glassflecked nailpolish, you know my tastes :D

The other two are jellies! DARK jellies ♥

I don't understand, how it could be possible? :D

Below, "Glossy Blue" (the blue jelly) and "Storm" in detail:

And now a demostration: look at the sheerness; these are one coat each, and you can see they're actually a purple and a blue, even if, to the naked eye, in the bottles they look VERY similar.

I wanna try them alone and see how many coats they require to cover the nails :D

But I know many of you thought about glitter sandwiches :D ^_^

Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

Kiko - n. 358

Yes, this is still my blog and these are my own hands, and  I'm wearing orange :D

This is Kiko n. 358, one of the newest colour of their range (seen here); since that I'm not a warm coloured girl, why did i purchase it? Because I wanted to try a peach shade, not too light (it would be awful on me) and not red, so n. 358 looked perfect for me.

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BUT... I think it's not for me at all. If you look at the picture in the post I linked, n. 358 seems like a true spring peach, but on my nails it changed shade under different lightings!

Above looks a true orange.

Below, it's more of a coral shade:

Next, it's almost neon - it looked like that in bright light o_____0

I couldn't capture the last variation: in some low light, it became a BRICK orange, what a #@*& colour >.<

If I remember correctly, these are three coats without top coat: I suddenly imagined I wouldn't like to wear this for an entire week, so I wanted to add something else on it, but I didn't have time and ended wearing it for like 6 days >.<

I just liked the fact that, the times it appeared a neon orange :D, my hands looked like tanned...

Who wants it? I can't stand the "orange" label on my blog :D

Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)

Stargazer - n. 305

AWESOME colour, you see?

Clearly it was better in real life, but I think you can see its beauty as well from the pictures :>

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One of the best feature of this nailpolish is that both the two colours (blue and purple) are almost always visible, because particles are really reflective.

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Look how deep is the blue!

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In direct sun is stunning, like a dark mirror *_*

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Application is easy, these are two or three coats (two, with my usual touch-ups in the balder areas), dries normally, I can't say anything bad about this.

HIGHLY recommended!

Have a nice day/night/whatever and thanks for your attention ;¬)