Colors by Llarowe ~ Blue Skies & Sunny Days

Colors by Llarowe ~ Blue Skies & Sunny Days

Blue sky linear holo with blue sparks

Blue Skies & Sunny Days is a Facebook group custom and I am super pleased that I got my hands on it because it’s beautiful.

I used two easy and fast drying coats for my mani. Great polish. Let me show you the final mani before I continue:

I can understand if you wonder why there’s some kind of pattern on the middle finger and the ring finger. It’s actually an attempt of using some pretty cool water decals. I used Color by Llarowe’s stamping polish “Sparkling Diamond” as underwear, but unfortunately the decals were not the best quality. They were thin and flimsy and apparently they only work with white underwear.
Here’s a picture of the decals so you can see what I tried to get a picture of on two of my fingers.

Not quite the same effect!

Here’s a daylight picture for you. I quite like the water colour effect, but the black branches kind of ruins it a little bit. Oh well!

Here are the two polishes I used:

Blue Skies & Sunny Days was limited edition and is no longer available.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Fast

Durability: Good

Finish: Linear holo with flakes
Overall impression: Great polish even though the flakes are a bit shy in my bottle

Buy again: Yes

Colors by Llarowe ~ Berry Gem

Colors by Llarowe ~ Berry Gem

Purple linear holo with copper flakes

Berry Gem is a store exclusive for Nailland.

I made a fun little kitchen sink mani with it, because that was exactly what I was in the mood for.

This is what it all ended up looking like:

It’s two coats of Berry Gem on my pinkie and pointer. Easy to work with, great coverage, good drying time. Cool polish!

The black on my ring finger is Rimmel’s “Black Satin”. Two coats, no issues with this polish either. The sparkly star is from evilbay.

The middle finger is a layer of black, and then two coats of Models Own’s “Juicy Jules”.

There’s a layer of topcoat on it all.

This picture is taken out of the sun, in ordinary daylight. I really love the colour of Berry Gem. The flakes in it aren’t as prominent as I’ve seen on other bloggers’ pictures, but I don’t mind so much since I dig the colour on its own too.

Here are the three polishes I used for my mani.

Berry Gem is still available.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Fast

Durability: Good

Finish: Linear holo with flakes
Overall impression: Great polish even though the flakes are a bit shy in my bottle

Buy again: Yes

Color Club ~ Kapow!

Color Club ~ Kapow!

Neon pink with purple-ish shimmer

I was in the mood for something really loud, so I dug out Kapow! From Color Club’s Poptastic Neon 2014 collection. It has already been on the blog already, I swatched nearly the entire of it in this post back in 2014. But Kapow! is a really beautiful polish so it’s perfectly fine to let it shine on the blog some more :D

Two coats, good drying time, a totally non-problematic polish. I added a black star stud by the base of each nail. A layer of topcoat finished it all of, and this is the final mani taken in ordinary daylight:

This picture is taken with flash to show off the beautiful shimmer. It’s super gorgeous!

Oh yes, my nails feel good in this outfit. I like it loud, and loud it is!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Gorgeous!   

Buy again: Yes