Darling Diva ~ Tina the Labradorite, Space Beetle and Early Riser

Darling Diva ~ Tina the Labradorite, Space Beetle and Early Riser

An attempt of making a lightening mani

Sometimes it’s nice to try something new – so I decided to try and make a lightning mani. This is my first attempt, and it shows, haha. Let me show you what I’m talking about:

What do you think about that? The base colour is Tina The Labradorite, a lovely vibrant blue from November 2014’s Sweet Addictions Box – check out swatches of it here. I sponged a bit of Space Beetle on (the bottle I’m holding in the picture), then freehanded the lightnings with a white crème polish from Savina called French White. When the lightnings were done I sponged a bit of Early Riser by the base of my nails, where the lightnings origins from.

This is my favourite picture of it:

And here is Tina the Labradorite on its own:

The Darling Diva sisters and the Savina stepsister:

If there’s one thing nail blogging has taught me then it is that practice is what it takes to be better. I don’t mind showing off the manis I’m not completely satisfied with – after all I know that I’m getting a little bit better for every time I try.

Glam Polish ~ Red Handed

Glam Polish ~ Red Handed

Deep magenta scattered holo with green sparkle

I was thrilled when I saw Edgy Polish announce that the Glam Polishes were now for sale in her shop. I limited myself to three – it is Christmas after all! Red Handed was one of them: A lovely magenta scattered holo packed with shimmer. It looks absolutely gorgeous in the bottle.

The formula is good and Red Handed is practically a one coater. I added a second coat to smooth out the unevenness I made with the first coat :D The drying time is somewhat on the slow side, which is pretty much the only downside to this beauty.

Take a look at two coats and no topcoat:

Here’s an intentionally out of focus picture to show off the shimmery holo goodness!

I adore when my polishes are pretty in low light too, and Red Handed is exactly that.

I paired it with a texture from Julie G called Blueberry Fizz. It’s from the Frosted Gumdrops collection from spring 2013. I used a striper to paint Blueberry Fizz onto the tips of my nails.

Here’s my final mani:

Mmmmh.... <happy sigh>

I think these two colours are really great together!

Verdict:

Red Handed is a lovely polish, the colour is so pretty, the formula is good and the shimmery rainbow dust is just beautiful. The fact that it’s a one coater makes up for the slow drying time.

Number of coats: 1 (I used 2 for the pictures)
Drying time: A bit slow

Finish: scattered holo with shimmer
Overall impression: Now that’s a delicious scattered holo! Great colour too!

Buy again: Yes

I bought Red Handed from Edgy Polish

You can find more info on Edgy Polish’s Facebook page, link here.

Stickers and studs from BornPrettyStore

First I want to show you some stickers. You can find them here.  It’s a huge sheet full of stickers – here’s one half of them: The stars

And here’s the other half: Hearts, diamonds, flowers and other symbols.

I decided to show you some of the stars today. I went for the yellow and the green stars, and a single silver star. I put them onto my nails with tweezers.

The polish underneath is Glittering Garland from China Glaze.

The verdict:

Pros:

A satisfyingly copious number of stickers on the sheet

Easy to use

I love that some of them half transparent areas so you can see the polish underneath

Cons:

Some people think nail stickers look cheap. (I’m not one of them).

♥

The other thing I want to show you today is studs. It’s a round wheel with 12 different shapes/sizes. You can find it here. The site states that there are 400 studs in the box. I haven't counted them :D

Here are some triangles and teardrops:

 I like that they aren't huge - so they actually fit my nails. I just attached them to the nails with a rosewood stick onto a slow drying topcoat. It looks pretty cool in my opinion!

The verdict:

Pros:

You get a great variety of studs by buying a wheel full of them

They are relatively small so they also fit onto smaller nails like mine

I especially love the look of the small black stars

Cons:

You are lucky if you like all the colours in the wheel

♥

Different Dimension ~ Saphir Rose

Merry Christmas, my sweet readers. Today is the day where we celebrate Christmas in the nothern hemisphere where I live. Presents will be exchanged tonight - oooh, I'm looking forward to that! So I won't be much online today (if at all), but I'll see you again tomorrow :) 

In the meantime let me show you:

Different Dimension ~ Saphir Rose

Pink linear holo with pink shimmer

This is my first Different Dimension polish and I love it. It’s limited edition, since it came in the Sweet Addictions Box from November 2014. I showed it to you here.

Here’s how I ended up wearing it:

The glitter is from POP Beauty and it has probably got a name, but I wasn’t able to locate it on the bottle. It’s a greenish silverish microglitter.

You’ll probably be able to see the actual design better if I showed it to in lower lights:

It’s a triangle of glitter by the base of my nails and a dot of glitter underneath it. There’s a layer of basecoat on top of it all.

Here’s the Saphir Rose on its own. Gorgeous – I’m totally in love!

And here are the pretty polishes:

If this is regular quality for Different Dimension polishes, then I might need to check out more of them!

Chaos & Crocodiles ~ Echoes

Chaos & Crocodiles ~ Echoes

Magenta jelly with holo pigments and micro glitters

Today I’m going to show you a pretty polish from Chaos & Crocodiles. It’s magenta and it has got holo glitter in it.

The formula is really good for a jelly. I often struggle with jellies, but this one just behaved perfectly. It took two easy coats to achieve desired opacity and the drying time between the coats is good.

Here’s what two coats and no topcoat looks like in the lightbox:

 

I loooove the holo microglitter, it’s absolutely gorgeous!

I stamped on it. I found a floral motif on the stamping plate DRK-A and I stamped with NailNation 3000’s Black. Great name for a plain black polish, isn’t it! :D

Here’s my final design before I topcoated it:

I did take some flash pictures too, but I couldn’t get them to be colour accurate, so I’m not going to bother posting them even though the holo looks amazing on them. As you know, we don’t like pictures that lie (because that makes us liers) – so you’ll just have to take my word for it.

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Pretty good

Finish: Jelly with microglitter
Overall impression: Great quality polish with sweet holo microglitter

Buy again: Yes

I bought my Chaos & Crocodiles Echoes from norwaynails.com.

You can find more info on NorwayNail’s Facebook page, link here.

Norway Nails have kindly offered my readers a 10% discount code. Just use the code RAINBOWIFYME10 at checkout, and you'll be getting 10% off your purchase.

Powder Perfect ~ Jealousy

Powder Perfect ~ Jealousy

Deep raspberry linear holo

It’s time to show you a Powder Perfect polish again. This time it’s Jealousy, an amazingly beautiful deep raspberry polish.

The formula is great and the polish glides right on effortlessly. It takes two really easy coats to make this opaque and the drying time between the coats is fast.

And girls! Go get your sunglasses, because what I’m going to show you right now is amazing! Here’s two coats and no topcoat:

Wowza! I’m blown away!!

The colour is also amazing in lower lights:

I was going to an event at work and I didn’t want my nails to take all of the attention this time, so I went for something simple. I used a polish from Ooh La Lacquer called Lady Scarlett and made four dots by the base of each nail, one layer of topcoat to seal it up, and my mani was done:

And here’s the low light picture:

The pretties:

I think Jealousy might be my favourite Powder Perfect polish so far. I love everything about it!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Fast

Removal: Easy peasy
Overall impression: Amazing polish! The colour and the holo rainbows are spot on and the quality of the polish is great!  

Buy again: Yes

You can buy Powder Perfect polishes from Edgy Polish

You can find more info on Edgy Polish’s Facebook page, link here.

Delush ~ Trendsetter and Nue Girl

Delush ~ Trendsetter and Nue Girl

A couple of pretty winter polishes

I received these two polishes as extras in my order from Edgy polish. When I’m being send pretty polishes they always end up being displayed on my blog.

So the first one I’m going to show you is Trendsetter, a smokey blue/grey shimmer. The formula is good, no worries to report at all. Two coats with fast drying time between each is what it took.

Take a look at how nice this polish looks in my lightbox:

I find this polish extremely classy because of the blue sheen and the shimmer is so pretty!

Here’s a flash picture for you:

See how the shimmer glistens!

I really like trendsetter, it’s a really cool polish!

I topped it off with the other polish I received: Nue Girl. It’s a clear base with silver/holo glitter in various shapes: Circles, triangles and hexagons. I didn’t fish for any of the glitters and you know the drill: One dip in the bottle per nail. The glitter spread out evenly without much effort.

Here’s what Nue Girl looks like in the lightbox:

The holo glitters shine brightly even in lower lights.

Here’s a flash picture:

One last shot, just because I can.

Verdict:

Both these polishes are winners in my book. Trendsetter is classy and can be used at any possible occasion, and Nue Girl is such a cool glitter that can spice up any mani.

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Classy shimmer and coolio glitter!

Buy again: Yes to both

You can buy these polishes from Edgy Polish

You can find more info on Edgy Polish’s Facebook page, link here.

Glam Polish ~ Maleficent

Glam Polish ~ Maleficent

Dark purple base with purple and magenta holographic glitter

Maleficent is from the A touch of Magic Trio. Unfortunately I don’t own the other two in the trio: Crysta, which is magenta and Evanora, which is green.

Back to Maleficent. The formula is good and easy to work with and the polish covers in two coats. The drying time is a bit faster than average. I applied a layer of Poshé topcoat before I took my pictures.

Here’s two coats and one coat of Poshé topcoat. The picture is taken in my lightbox:

Is that amazing or what? And even more amazing is that the sun actually was out for 10 minutes! I threw my hand into a ray of light and here’s what that picture came out like:

Oooh, I like. And here’s a flash picture, to really let the holo glitters show off!

There’s quite a lot going on in this polish, so I didn’t want to overwhelm it. I stamped random stars on it. I found the stars on a no name fauxnad stamping plate, and after having tried stamping with both black and silver (and not really liking it) I ended up stamping with a lilac stamping polish from Moyou. I topped the holo whole thing off with a layer of Ellagee’s holo topcoat Rainbow Syrup, and here is my final mani:

Oh yes, I like this a lot!

One last shot, just because I can :)

So, do you like this? And do you own any of the polishes from the A Touch of Magic Trio?

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: A bit faster than average

Finish: Purple base with glitter

Buy again: Yes

Lustré ~ Blue Sky

Lustré ~ Blue Sky

Cobalt blue shimmer

Blue Sky is exclusively made for Edgy polish. I showed you another Lustré earlier today, namely Silk Sheen, click here to see it if you missed it.

I didn’t experience any problems with the formula and the drying time is good. I was almost satisfied after two coats, but I knew that I was going to take some pictures with flash, so I applied a third coat just to make sure it looked its best. For normal non-blogging purposes I’d only use two coats though.

So take a look at three coats and no topcoat in my lightbox first:

The bottle suggests that there’s a purple shimmer in the polish, but that doesn’t transfer onto the nails at all.

Here’s a flash picture of the same thing. Isn’t the colour just pretty? I love the shimmer in it.

I love this!

I promised you in the post earlier today to test if Silky Sheen stamps. I was really excited to find out that it does! I used a stamping plate called BP-25 for this swirly design.

Here are the pretty sisters:

Verdict:

Blue Sky is a really nice blue shimmer. Easy to apply and as I said, for everyday use two coats is enough. I like the quality and the drying time and it’s probably not my last Lustré polish.

Number of coats: 2 (I used 3 for the swatches)
Drying time: Good

Finish: Shimmer
Overall impression: Such a pretty blue shimmer. Good quality and drying time.

Buy again: Yes