NailNation3000 ~ #WipeOutTransphobia

NailNation3000 ~ #WipeOutTransphobia
Purple linear holo

Here’s another one of my beloved NailNations.

The formula is good and really easy to work with. It takes two coats to make this opaque and the drying time is good.

Take a look for yourself. Two coats and no topcoat:

I love these rainbows!

Here’s a low light picture. The rainbows are still lurking :D

I taped my nails and dapped glitter in triangular patterns on my nails. I lined the patterns with a silver striper, and here’s my final mani:

The glitter is from Pipe Dream Polish by the way, and it’s called Be My Flamingo. Really awesome name, in my opinion!

I love this combo! How about you?

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Linear holo
Overall impression: I love purple linear holos like this one

Buy again: Yes Ma’m!

Magical Music Manis 13: The Shoop Shoop Song ~ Cher

Girls, we've reached the end of the Magical Music Manis! It's been three very interesting months, and I've enjoyed challenging myself along with the other girls who participated!

Here's the last mani:

The Shoop Shoop Song is also called “It’s in his Kiss” and it’s from the movie Mermaids from 1990. The movie is really sweet and it stars Cher, the late, great Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci.

Mermaids it is then!

My base colour is perfect for a mermaid mani. It’s beautiful “Memory Loss” from Pipe Dream Polish. I bought it from Edgy Polish and it is silver, green, and turquoise holo glitter in a neon turquoise jelly base. Two coats is what it takes and drying time is good.

I found some mermaidesque designs from Moyou London’s stamping plates Sailor Collection-01 and -08 and I stamped with NailNation 3000’s black crème polish simply called Black.

I stamped various bubbles on three of the nails, a mermaid on one nail and some sea weed on my thumb.

I applied a layer of “Inner Goddess” from Icing – it’s an equivalent to China Glaze’s Fairy Dust.

I can’t lie to you girls. I love this!

Here's the Pipe Dream Polish on its own. It's a lovely polish!

Here’s the video to The Shoop Shoop Song:

To the girls who participated in the challenge with me: Thank you so much, it's been so much fun! Let's do it again sometime! ♥

Here they are:

 

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Pahlish ~ ? (Mystery Polish)

Pahlish ~ ? (Mystery Polish)

Cornflower blue crelly with turquoise glitter

I am such a sucker for surprises, and since I love Pahlish polishes, I often add one of the mystery polishes to the cart when I shop anyway. That’s also how this beauty ended up in my neck of the woods.

The formula is good and easy to apply. I was almost satisfied after two coats, but I could see a couple of places that I knew I wouldn’t be happy with in the pictures, so I applied a third coat to make absolute sure. The drying time between the coats is good.

Here’s how it looks – three coats and no topcoat:

I didn’t fish for the glitter and I’m not sure it would have helped if I did, because there aren’t that many of them in the bottle.

I want my glitters in many ways, but there’s one way I don’t want them and that invisible. So I added glittah myself! :D I used Pipe Dream Polish “Be My Flamingo”, which is a pink glitter I showed you in this post. I finished the whole thing off with a layer of topcoat. And girl, it looks absolutely fabulous over the cornflower blue! Take a look:

Now that’s more like it. In yer face-glittah!

I can definitely recommend Pahlish’s mystery polishes. Yes, I have had a couple that I wasn’t the hugest fan of too, but it’s usually easy to find good, loving homes for them.

Number of coats: 3
Drying time: Fast

Finish: Crelly with sparse glitter

Overall impression: I like the colour but I want more glittah!

Buy again: Probably not

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Flushed Pink

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Flushed Pink

Magenta jelly with pink, purple and silver holo glitter

Here’s another pretty polish from Pipe Dream Polish.

The formula is good and really easy to work with. The glitters spread out naturally without any hassle at all, and the coverage is good. I used two coats for my swatches and the drying time is pretty good. All the right boxes ticked so far.

And girl, this is really pretty. Take a look at two coats and a layer of topcoat:

I love this shade of pink, and the glitters make it a wear on its own polish for me.

Holo glitter goodness!

I seriously took way too many pictures of this – I love the sparkles and glitters!

Here’s the last shot for now.

Verdict:

Oh yes, this polish is so me. There’s absolutely nothing I don’t like about it. I even wore this when I put my latest Helmer together, and yes, I do use my nails as tools – and the polish just stayed right there on the nails – no tipwear or anything! Frankly ladies - I’m impressed!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Jelly with glitter
Overall impression: I love the colour and the glitters, and I adore the wear time!   

Buy again: Yes

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Electric Soul

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Electric Soul

Blurple base with various colours of microflakies and microglitter

I’ve been RAOK’d!! RAOK mean Random Act Of Kindness and it means that somebody does something for you for no other reason than because they want to! Sounds pretty cool, no?

So Maria sent me four polishes because she knew I’d enjoy them. And she’s absolutely right, I will!

Today I’ll show you Electric Soul from Pipe Dream Polish. Application was super easy and the coverage was good. I used two relatively fast drying coats for this mani, and I finished with a layer of topcoat. Here’s what Electric Soul looks like:

I love the little flecks, they look fantastic!

The fact that the flecks and the shimmer has a different colour than the base colour makes this really cool.

I made a diagonal line of dots on each nail using Sephora’s Formula X: “Freaky like Freud”. 

And here is my final mani – photographed with one of my rings:

I was over the moon to receive such a cool polish from Maria! She made some cool swatches of this polish too – you should definitely check her post about it out too – it’s right here!

Thank you SO much Maria! That was really sweet of you! ♥

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Various colours of microflakies and flecks

Overall impression: Fantastic colour with a great mix of flakies and flecks!

Buy again: Yes

If you want this polish and you don’t know someone who will send it to you as a RAOK, you can buy it in Edgy Polish’s webshop right here.

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Home Sweet Home & Be My Flamingo

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Home Sweet Home & Be My Flamingo

~ Swatches

I’ve already showed you my two Pipe Dream glitters, so allow me to show you my two Pipe Dream glitter toppers.

 

First one up is Home Sweet Home, which is medium and small orange and white glitter in a clear base. Orange isn’t my favourite colour, but I like stepping outside my comfort zone once in a while, and I think this looked pretty cool in the bottle.

I applied a single coat over a really cool orange from Douglas called “Ready to Go”, which I got in a swap event last year sometime. I had to dap the glitter around to get it spread out evenly, but it was relatively easy to work with. Drying time isn’t the fastest, but that’s because the dapping ended up making it a fairly thick layer of clear polish. It was nothing that a layer of quick drying topcoat couldn’t fix ;)

Here it is:

The orange glitters got a little bit overwhelmed by the orange base, but I think it looks pretty cool.

I mean: Look at this!

Here are the two polishes, I played with:

Verdict:
Yes, I like this, and I like it a lot over orange. Perhaps I should start wearing orange more often.  

♥

Second one up is Be My Flamingo. I fell for both the name and the various colours and sizes of pink glitter!  

I paired it up with a dark red shimmer from Anny called “Sunset Love”. One layer of the glitter over the red, and again: I had to dap the glitter onto the nails to get even coverage. Drying time was a bit slow due to the dapping of glitter, which resulted in a fairly thick layer of the clear polish.

Enough talk. Here it is:

One dip in the bottle per nail, it’s my usual rule.

I think it looks really awesome over dark red!

Here are the sisters in crime:

And a bonus picture of both polishes swatched on a nail wheel over black. This was you can see what both polishes are really about.

Verdict:

This glitter is not out of my comfort zone, I really like pink! It’s a good topper and I’ll definitely use it for glitter gradients later on.

I bought these polishes from Edgy Polish

You can find more info on Edgy Polish’s Facebook page, link here.

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Green Light & Born to be Purple

Pipe Dream Polish ~ Green Light & Born to be Purple

Let me show you a couple of Pipe Dream polishes I bought recently. I bought four, two jellies with glitter and two glitter toppers. I’ll show you the jellies today.

First one up is Green Light. It’s a holographic teal and silver glitter in a dark teal green jelly base. The formula is good and the glitter spreads out easily and evenly. Two coats is what it takes to make this opaque and the drying time between the coats is average.

Here’s what it looks like in the sunshine:

Look at that pretty glitter!

Here’s what it looks like in my lightbox:

And another pic:

Verdict:
Oooo, this is nice! I like the teal and the addition of holo glitter really rocks my socks!

♥

Second one up is Born to be Purple. It’s a purple and silver holo glitter in a purple jelly base. Formula is the same as Green Light, the only difference is that Born to be Purple dries a little bit faster than Green Light.

Here’s what Born to be Purple looks like in the sunshine:

It’s so pretty with the holo glitter!

Here’s a light box pic. The glitter works in all sorts of lighting!

One last shot, just because I can.

Verdict:

This one is just as nice as its sister. Cool colour, cool glitter, nice formula.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Average

Finish: Jelly with matching glitter and holo glitter
Overall impression: Very nice glitter polish, good to work with.

Buy again: Yes