Blue Claire's Magnetix

I showed you all the pink magnetic polish from Claire's the other day, now I have the blue one to show you! This was actually my Valentine's Day mani. The pics I have here are just of the polish on its own, but I had added a heart glitter topcoat and some Seche Vite. The combo totally smudged the design, and blurred the wavy goodness. So I would definitely recommend leaving this polish to dry on its own, like a holo, topcoat kills the good times.

Also, the brush on these polishes is terrible, every one I looked at at my local Claire's was bent and wonky. My mom was appalled that I was opening the bottles, but I really wanted a decent brush! So applying this polish was kind of a game, trying to keep the polish from covering my whole finger. This swatch is two coats, holding the magnet about 15 seconds. No topcoat!

Glitter Gradient

This is just a quick post while I'm working on some other things, namely magnetic swatches and the CVS exclusive Kardashian NOPI's. I wanted to do something blue and sparkly, and for some reason, there seemed to be something poetic about a Meteor Shower over a Skyscraper. Both China Glaze polishes. It could be because I've been watching Smallville for the last couple weeks, and there's tons of "meteor rock" and shower references and Skyscraper reminds me of Metropolis. So anyways, here are 3 coats of Skyscraper with Meteor Shower as a gradient. Only one pic because the others came out blurry, and the gradient effect wasn't the best. Skyscraper was from the China Glaze Metro Fall 2011 collection and Meteor Shower was part of the 50 "special glitters" they came out with awhile back.

Another post to follow shortly.