New York Summer ~ Pink Candy and Color Club ~ Fame & Fortune

New York Summer ~ Pink Candy  

Baby pink with golden shimmer

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Color Club ~ Fame & Fortune  

Pink/magenta jelly base with shattered holographic silver pieces

Pink Candy has been sitting in my stash of untrieds for a very long time. No polish deserves to feel unattended to for so long, so I decided that today was her day. She’s a lovely pink with golden shimmer – which may explain why I haven’t worn her before. I’m usually not into golden colours. But anyway: I applied two coats, and the formula was excellent. It covered perfectly, no dragging, streaking or balding.

But the golden is much more prominent on the nails than in the bottle. Here’s how it looks without any top coat.

It’s a lovely girly pink, which would suit someone with a tan so much more than me.  I've already found someone who has given her a nicer home.

Of course, I just couldn’t leave it like that. So I went through my bottles again to see if I could find something that would make the polish suit me more. I ended up with a Color Club polish from the Backstage Pass collection from autumn/winter 2011. For some reason I haven’t worn that one before either! O_o Fame & Fortune looks stunningly beautiful and blingy in the bottle. Let’s find out if that look transfers onto the nails, shall we?

It took quite a lot of pushing around with the brush to spread out the holographic pieces. I recommend that you turn your bottle up side down 15 minutes before you apply this, to make the glitter easier to get out of the bottle. I didn’t do that obviously and consequently, I had to go fishing a little bit.

Oh well – I almost came to like the result, even though it’s more girly than I’d usually go for. But hey – it is summer, even though we've now hit September, right? :D

Here’s one coat of Fame and Fortune over the Pink Candy, all sealed up nicely with a generous coat of Seche Vite top coat.

What’s your opinion about this? Do you like girly manis?

New York Summer ~ Pink Candy  

Opacity: 7/10
Colour, prettiness: 5/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 7/10
Buy again: No

Color Club ~ Fame & Fortune  

Opacity: N/A/10
Colour, prettiness: 9/10
Durability: 8/10
Value for money: 7/10
Overall: 8/10
Buy again: Yes

Summer Challenge Day 10: Gradient

Summer Challenge Day 10: Gradient

I made gradients for my rainbow nails the day before yesterday, so I didn’t just want to make an “ordinary” gradient today. I wanted to make a glitter gradient!!

I’ve had Catrice’s “Heavy Metalilac” in my stash for a couple of weeks now, and I have been looking so much forward to trying it on. Tünde sent it to me in a swap, and I was very excited to get it, since I’ve been reading only good things about this polish.

I love the formula of Catrice polishes, and Heavy Metalilac is no exception. It almost applies itself! :D It was opaque after just one coat, but I applied a second one to make sure it looked its best.

And I was so lucky that then the sun peeked out from behind a cloud – so here’s a sunshine pic of two coats, and no top coat yet:

And here’s an indoor shot:

This could easily become my favourite lilac polish!! :)

Then I sponged some glitter on from New York Summer Glitter. It’s called “Fuchsia glitter”, which is exactly what it is. I sponged from the top instead of sponging the tips because I wanted it to be a bit different.

The sun was still out, so here’s a sunny shot:

The sun doesn’t actually make the glitter look better, which is weird.

Here’s an indoor shot. The glitter looks much better on that pic IMO.

It’s all sealed up under a layer of Poshé top coat.

You should also check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for gradient nails:

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel - for (even more) polka dot nails!