W7 ~ Cosmic Mauve

W7 ~ Cosmic Mauve

Pink metallic shimmer

W7 is a relatively cheap drugstore brand. They make a lot of really cool shimmers and I always check out the rack when I visit the local drugstore. "Cosmic Mauve" is a metallic shimmer and it looks lovely in the bottle.

The formula is good too and I used two easy coats for my nails today. The drying time is good.

I sponged two different glitters over it. I used Color Club's "Pinkie Swear" and China Glaze's "Dat Color Dough" as my two glitters today.

I topped the whole thing with topcoat and this is how pretty my nails ended up looking:

I think this is super pretty.

Here's W7's "Cosmic Mauve" alone - this is two coats and no topcoat yet. Look how super shiny it is!

W7 ~ Cosmic Mauve

Here are the three polishes I used today:

W7: Cosmic Mauve, China Glaze: Dat Color Dough, Color Club: Pinkie Swear

"Cosmic Mauve" is definitely a keeper, it's so pretty and shiny!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Metallic shimmer
Overall impression: Great effect, very pretty polish

Buy again: Yes

Cirque Colors ~ Paraiba

Cirque Colors ~ Paraiba

Described as: bright turquoise jelly nail polish with sparkling holographic flakes

The formula of Cirque is a jelly but it behaves really nicely. It was easy to get away with two coats and the drying time was good.

The stamp I used is from the stamping plate "Nicole Diary-L04" and I stamped with Color Club's "Harp On It" - and yes, I do use that a lot for stamping because I think it's awesome.

Look at how pretty it all ended up:

I like this a lot!

Here's "Paraiba" alone; two coats and no topcoat.

Cirque Colors ~ Paraiba

Here's the stuff I used today.

"Paraiba" is super pretty. Described as turquoise - I see it as green, but never mind, it's pretty nonetheless.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Jelly with holo flakes
Overall impression: Nice colour and effect

Buy again: Yes

Series of Caramel Gel polishes UR-01 to UR-06

Series of Caramel Gel polishes UR-01 to UR-06

Born Pretty Store has sent me some gel nail polish to try out.

Today I'm going to show you the six gel polishes from the Caramel Gel series. All six polishes are brown, which is why I'm going to show them on swatch sticks. I'm not a huge fan of browns.

Here is the link to the Caramel gel polishes:

https://www.bornprettystore.com/born-pretty-cafe-series-pure-color-nail-caramel-coffee-soak-nail-polish-p-42873.html

Here's what they all look like:

This goes for all of them: The formula is thick but easy to work with. The coverage is really good too - I used one single coat for what you see on these photos. I cured them in my LED lamp for 60 seconds.

Here they are one by one.

Caramel Gel UR-01:

Caramel Gel UR-01:

Caramel Gel UR-02:

Caramel Gel UR-02:

Caramel Gel UR-03:

Caramel Gel UR-03:

Caramel Gel UR-04:

Caramel Gel UR-04:

Caramel Gel UR-05:

Caramel Gel UR-05:

Caramel Gel UR-06:

Caramel Gel UR-06:

The verdict:

Pros:

Thick, covering formula

One coat covers

Very shiny

Cons:

Well... they're brown, haha!

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Pretty Serious ~ Steve

Pretty Serious ~ Steve

Hot pink shimmer

Hot pink is a great colour, which I like a lot.

I want to write that the formula of "Steve" is good and it almost is. It's definitely workable, but it does act a little bit up if you don't work really fast. It wants to dry up streaky but you can end up with a really good result if you're careful. I used two coats for full opacity. The drying time is really good.

The flowers on my nails are water decals and I topped that with the holo glitter topper "Northern Lights" from Out The Door.

This is the end result.

Isn't this just pretty?

Here's "Steve" alone; two coats and no topcoat. You can see on my ring finger that "Steve" acted up a bit and ended up a little bit streaky there.

Pretty Serious ~ Steve

These are the things I used today.

I really like Steve, I think it's a really pretty colour and I like the shimmer.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Really good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Great colour and shimmer. Not friendly for beginners :D

Buy again: Yes