China Glaze ~ Lime after Lime & None of your Risky Business

China Glaze ~ Lime after Lime & None of your Risky Business

Lime green & bright orange crèmes

I bought a couple of more polishes from the Lite Brites Summer collection of 2016. Lime after Lime and None of your Risky Business are both crème polishes, so I chose to make a water marble with them. My success rate with China Glazes in water marbles are high, so I thought it was obvious to try it.

Both polishes behaved really well in the water. Lime after Lime showed up like a bright yellow on my nails, but seriously: I don’t mind, because it’s pretty! Take a look:

There’s a layer of Nothern Lights topcoat from Out the Door on it, I love that holo glitter topper so much.

Here are the two pretty sisters I used in my mani:

I love it when water marbles turn out the way I want them to. I should do it more often!

Tomorrow I’m going to show you a third sister, I’ll Pink to That. She’s super pretty too!

Number of coats: N/A (I know they’re both two coaters though)
Drying time: Good

Finish: Crème
Overall impression: Great basic polishes, fantastic quality. I’m impressed!

Buy again: Yes to both

Dance Legend ~ From Russia with Love

Dance Legend ~ From Russia with Love

Orange red with strong golden shimmer. Magnetic.

From Russia with Love is from the Golden Eye collection of magnetic polishes.

Magnetic polishes didn’t interest me the first time they were around. I bought a couple of them, but they’re still in my infamous box of untried. It’s not that impressive an effect in my opinion. I bought From Russia with Love anyway because I liked the colour. I obviously also bought a magnet. Or: I actually bought two :D

The formula is good and the polish covers in two easy coats. I hoovered the magnet over my nails; nothing happened. I hovered it closer to the still wet nail: still nothing. I thought that perhaps I wasn’t fast enough so I moved to the next nail. Second layer of polish over, then hoover the magnet over it, really close to the nail. Absolutely nothing happened.

So I didn’t get any special effect out of it, but the colour is still pretty.

Here’s two coats and no topcoat taken in the sunshine.

Look at that shimmer, isn’t it just amazing!

This picture is taken in the lightbox. It’s still pretty.

I must admit that I am rather disappointed over the lack of effect. I can’t figure out what I did wrong, so I’m just happy that I actually like the colour even without the promised effect.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Pretty good

Finish: Strong shimmer. Magnetic – even though I didn’t get it to work.
Overall impression: Great colour, cool shimmer. No magnetic effect for me.

Buy again: Maybe

Lilypad Lacquer ~ Ashes to Ashes

Lilypad Lacquer ~ Ashes to Ashes

Grey linear holo

Ashes to Ashes has been living in a box along with some other untried polishes. I don’t wear grey polishes much so I’ve decided to try and get through the polishes that has been sitting in the box for a long time. If I like them then they go live in the Helmer. If I don’t like them enough, then I’ll find them a better home where they are appreciated more.

The formula is really good and so is the coverage. I used two easy coats for my mani and the drying time is really good.

Here’s two coats and a layer of topcoat taken in the sunshine:

This picture is taken in the shade. There’s a really pretty shimmer showing up, I like that.

I stamped it with another unusual colour for me. The stamping polish is from El Corazón and is called Apple Flower. The motif is from Marianne Nails No. 119. There’s a layer of Northern Lights Out the Door holo glitter topcoat over it all.

This is my final mani:

I used my clear stamper for this. I bought it from ebay and it was really cheap. It’s bigger than my old clear stamper and it’s really good. I’m impressed with the quality.

I actually quite like this colour combo!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Fast

Finish: Linear holo
Overall impression: Great polish if you’re into greys

Buy again: Probably not, but I’ll keep it anyway