Ellagee ~ Whirling Dervish

Ellagee ~ Whirling Dervish

Moss green base packed with golden shimmer and copper microflakes

Today’s polish is a custom that my dear friend Carolyn had made in two copies: One for her and one for me. It’s a super pretty polish packed with shimmer and flakes but it’s also really hard to describe colour-wise. Is it green? Is it gold? Or perhaps a colour in between? I’m not quite sure.

Let me show you the final mani first:

 

I mean, look at that? Doesn’t that just look good? This next photo reveals the green base even more.

The stamp is from GoGo Only’s St. Happy, that Carolyn also sent me a while ago. She’s such a gem!

Before I stamped, I dapped a very few glitters onto the Whirling Dervish. I used Layla’s CE55 for that purpose.

Here’s Whirling Dervish on its own. I used two easy coats for my mani and the drying time was really good. 

Here are the polishes I used, including Moyra's stamping topcoat.

This is the video by Kalander that the polish was inspired by:

Whirling Dervish is a custom so it can’t be found in any shops. I’m so pleased that it lives in my Helmer.

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Really good

Finish: Shimmer/flakie

Overall impression: Wow, this is a really impressive polish!

Buy again: Yes

Cien ~ Turquoise and Golden Rose

Cien ~ Turquoise and Golden Rose

Turquoise weak shimmer and golden rose heavy shimmer effect polish

Today’s polishes are cheap supermarket polishes but they’re good! A dear friend bought me these two and I decided to wear them together.

I first painted my nails with two coats of Turquoise. The drying time was really good. I used nail vinyls to create the chevron look with the Golden Rose.

The picture is taken in the morning sun.

Here’s Turquoise on its own. I used two easy coats. I thought it was a crème polish because the shimmer isn’t visible in the bottle at all, but it’s a tiny wee bit visible on the nails. Score!

Two coats plus a layer of topcoat:

Here are the two polishes I used.

Sometimes you find an unexpected gem here and there and these two are definitely gems. I send my friend another happy thought!

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Really good

Finish: Weak shimmer / heavy shimmer

Overall impression: I love them both

Buy again: Yes to both

Born Pretty heart shaped nail decorations

Born Pretty heart shaped nail decorations

I love nail decorations. It’s such an easy way to spice up a plain manicure. I also love hearts, so today’s nail decorations are perfect for me. I received these heart shaped decorations in return for an honest review from Born Pretty Store.

The little hearts come in a box with 12 individual rooms with a colour of hearts in each room. The rooms are numbered from 1 to 12. It’s a good little box, I didn’t experience problems with the lids popping open accidentally or anything.

The hearts are listed here and they look like this:

I used a Born Pretty store holographic polish as my base colour. I didn’t get that for a review, I bought that one myself. It’s listed here anyway and I used two easy coats for my manicure. I placed one heart by the base of each nail while the polish was still wet and topped it with topcoat to seal it all up.

I used silver hearts and black hearts.

Here’s my final mani.

I think the hearts are just the right size for my nails, I like them a lot.

I also like that they come in 12 different colours so there’s always going to be at least one colour that matches your current nail colour.

The verdict:

Pros:

12 colours

Good box

Easy way to spice up a manicure

Cons:

I can’t think of any

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