Saturday, March 3, 2012
Holo funky franken french + OPI DS Glamour
I'm having my first three day weekend off of work in foreveerrrrr. So I wanted to do something fun and holo-y. Awhile ago I made a franken using half a bottle of OPI DS Original and some American Apparel Hassid to make a black holographic polish I dubbed Rainbow Road. So for this manicure I did alternating nails of Zoya Pinta and Sinful Black on Black, and then layered DS Glamour over Pinta and my franken Rainbow Road over the black. This morning I added funky french tips in the alternating colors (just the holos, no base underneath) so it's very subtle.
Mmmmmm... Rainbows.... Now I need to clean my house :/
Friday, March 2, 2012
A. Dragon and its gold, and NOTD Spam
I've been obsessed with these glitter accents at the base of the nail lately. It's a fun, blingy touch, without covering the entire base nail polish. I really wanted to wear a holo lately, so I went with an untried, A-England Dragon. It's an amazingly dense, one coater, mossy emerald green subtle holographic polish with an orange/gold flash. I almost wish this polish was less thick so the holo showed up better. Once I use a little bit of it up, I'm gonna thin it or add clear to see what happens. I wanted to bling Dragon up a bit, so I did a glitter half moon of Milani Gold Jems polish and a coat of Seche Vite topcoat. The gold reminded me of a dragon's gold horde. This is two coats of Dragon here:
And here's a similar manicure I did using an unnamed Icing miniature from a 4-pack and with Essie As Gold As It Gets accents.
And China Glaze Riveting! Another of my choices of the Hunger Games collection. A gooooorgeous orange polish that's not quite a jelly, but has a translucent finish and beautiful yellow/gold sparkle. I did three coats, but it was kind of lumpy, and still felt a little less than opaque. Could have used a little thinner, or waiting between coats. How awesome would this look under a coat of black crackle?
Labels:
A-England,
china glaze,
essie,
glitter,
gradient,
holographic
Thursday, March 1, 2012
A mix of magnetics...
So, I went on a magnetic nail polish binge recently. I hit up Icing, Claire's, Hot Topic, and surprisingly, Walgreens! So I swatched my three new Nabi magnetic polishes from Walgreens. Of course, none of them have names, because Nabi is ridiculous. Before I found these at Rite Aid, the only place I knew of to get these was on eBay, where you used to be able to get them for dirt cheap. Seems like the price has been going up since the demand of polish has gotten higher, especially for specialty polishes like glitter, crackle, and magnetics, which Nabi offers in high quantity. A neat thing about the Nabi magnetics, different colors have different designs on the lid. I saw diagonal lines, sideways lines, vertical lines, and chevrons. There were also dozens of different colors and finishes, almost toooo many choices.
Here are my Nabis that I found at Walgreens, two for $9!
This one I was a little disappointed in. The bottle made it look more like a mustard gold, but when the magnet grabs the pigment, it comes up in dark green lines. I called these my pickle nails!
This one called to me because it's so dainty and girly! If it wasn't in direct light, the gold and pearly pink blended together to look kind of like a pretty light bronze. But the sparkle in the gold lines was just fascinating to me.
This is a color that I've been lusting for. A sexy vampy berry/red. It starts a metallic deep cool toned red, and the magnet pulls up black stripes.
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