Kiko - n. 344 + Sinful Colors - Hottie + OPI - Significant Other Color

Hi all :>
Here you have my last try on layerings, not bad at all, I think.
As you can read from title, I layered two more polishes on this Kiko, because I wanted a less simple look.

Full sun:

"Hottie" (one coat) gave sparkles and "SOC" (one coat) gave the green shimmer.
Daylight:

The characters:

I like it even in shade, and you can see the texture of "Hottie", seriously it has glitters of all shapes, even iridescent chunks, I like it.

Only flaw it's density: it's so full of sparkling stuff that its consistency is like glue, maybe I'll add some drops of thinner next time...

Shade:

"SOC" changes colour depending on the angle, it's a VERY nice green-pink duochrome!

... But beware of your own nails :D -.-°


EDIT about wear: this is a combo of three polishes, but it stayed perfect for three days about; today is the fourth day and I got two chips on thumbs, but other nails have just a little wear on tip, so... Good for me :>


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

Universe Nails

Thanks to Asami and her idea, I made one of the nicest manicure I've ever seen on me :>
She called them "Space nails", Emerald Sparkled "Galaxy Nails", mine are "Universe Nails" :^D

These were my ingredients:


From left, Essence's "Fabuless", Nubar's "Reclaim", OPI's "Significant Other Color", Kiko n. 229 and some shiny glitters - I used just the rounded ones.

Asami already explained all the process in her post, but basically it's just about sponging colours on a dark base with a paper towel, to give colours some texture, and then add some glitter to reproduce planets and/or stars.

"Fabuless" was perfect for the sky, because it's not a plain black and it has shimmer, so fine they can imitate stars faaaar away.


To give it a more realistic effect, you have to "sponge" colours in a nebulae form, just like galaxies appear on astronomy books.

That Kiko top coat is full of little chunkies of milky silverish glitters which are slightly duochrome too - blue/green AND purple/pink: see how it sparkles? :>


These chunkies have an irregular shape, and they reproduce stars very well, it's fascinating to look at!


After adding the sparkle top coat, it's time for planets, or, in this case, just blue-green and copper glitters.
Maybe it would be better to have them in a smaller size too, but that's ok, I worked with the material I own.

Last pic shows a little the duochrome side, on certain angle nails appear purple-pink.


Two coats of top coat sealed everything perfectly.
This nail art is very simple, but I LOVE the result, I'll try to replicate it with different combinations of colours, finishes and glitters.
Thanks to Asami for sharing it!


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