What used to be Jade ~ Aurora

What used to be Jade ~ Aurora

Now purple linear holo

Do you remember Aurora that I showed you a short while ago?

It looks like this:

I was super disappointed in this polish because it didn’t look anything like the swatch pictures I had seen online. I don’t like being disappointed over my pretties, so I decided to spice it up a bit.

I poured some of it over into a smaller bottle. Then I added red, pink and purple pigments until I liked the colour. A good shake, rattle and roll, and then the polish was ready to apply.

This is what it ended up looking like. This is two coats and a layer of topcoat:

Isn’t it way prettier than the original?

The only downside is that the brush in the little bottle was really wonky and difficult to work with so I had it all over the place, grr. But that’s fortunately a problem that’s easy to solve.

Have you ever made good polishes better this way?

China Glaze ~ We got the Beet

China Glaze ~ We got the Beet

Red toned purple with golden shimmer

We Got the Beet is from China Glaze’s summer collection from 2016: Lites Brites.

The formula is okay and the polish covers in two coats. The drying time is really good, so no worries there either. I had expected to use three coats of this one, so that went better than expected, and I had read somewhere about it having a terrible formula - but as reported above, I didn’t experience that myself.

This is how pretty it looks like in the sun.

 

It is a tone darker out of the sun, but I didn’t photograph that. Instead I added LOL from Color Club’s recent Nailmoji collection. It’s a clear base packed with little emojis. I fished an emoji up for each nail and placed it before dapping some of the blue, purple, black and white glitter onto the nails as well. A layer of topcoat completed my mani.

The little emojis are really cute. My nails are curved though, so they did stick out a bit. Fortunately I have practiced not to pick them, haha! :D

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: I really like the colour and the shimmer in this polish

Buy again: Yes

Glam Polish ~ Attitude is Everything

Glam Polish ~ Attitude is Everything

Sea green linear holo

Attitude is Everything is from the Queen of Mean collection from spring 2016.

Formula is good and the polish applies easily. I applied two coats for full opacity and the drying time is good.

Here’s two coats and no topcoat in the sun:

Isn’t that just pretty?
I made some purple dots on it. I used Color by Llarowe’s Lilac Petals, which is a dark purple linear holo and El Corazón’s Manatee, which is a light dusty purple. They’re both stamping polishes, and work really well for dots.

This is my final mani including a layer of topcoat:

This picture is taken with flash.

And this is a picture taken in low lights.

Here are the pretty polishes I used:

Attitude is Everything is a really cool polish and I really agree with the name too! :D

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Really good

Finish: Linear holo
Overall impression: This is a really pretty green with nice rainbows in it

Buy again: Yes