Monday, April 30, 2018

“Jest-er Kidding” is from the Midnight Masquerade
Collection from winter 2015/2016. I wasn’t quite sure whether this was a topper
or not, but I decided to try and wear it on its own to find out.

So I applied two coats onto my bare nails and got full
coverage! The drying time was good too.

There’s so much going on in this polish that I didn’t
quite know what to do with it. I ended up putting two blue butterfly stickers
on my ring finger nails, but I honestly wish I hadn’t done that. It looked
cooler just on its own.

But anyway, here is it with stickers and all: Two
coats of “Jest-er Kidding” and a layer of topcoat. The photo is taken in
ordinary daylight, no sun.

Here it is all on its own. This is two coats and no
topcoat yet.

So this doesn’t quite qualify to be a topper, I don’t
think. But it’s definitely worthy of being one of those glitters I dab onto
other base colours for the effect.

Saturday, April 28, 2018

“Yup. It's
fucking pink. Bright enough to distract a hoard of zombies while you do that
one-handed shotgun cock thing. Ok, that sounds odd. But if you wanna keep your
brains, you gotta be able to reload on the fly. FO&D comes wrapped in a
horrific scene by the talented and quick wrist of artist Jason Goad.”

The formula is really good and easy to apply. It takes
two coats for full opacity and the drying time is really good. The polish dries
up matte.

I decided to try a new technique that I’ve seen
somewhere on the internet. It’s the technique where you kind of “double stamp”:
First I picked up the blue part of the stamp on my stamper and then, while the
blue pattern was still on the stamper, I picked up the white triangle. When
both patterns were on the stamper, I transferred the pattern onto my nail. I
wasn’t very precise when I placed the stamp on my nails, but bear in mind that
this was my first attempt of this technique.

The stamping plates I used were “ZJoy-014” for the
triangular shape and Lina’s “Feeling Shapely! 01” for the zig zag-pattern.

The blue stamping polish is Colour Alike “B. a Rainy
Mood” and the white one is El Corazón’s stamping polish “White”.

I topped with a layer of “Northern Lights” holo
glitter topcoat from “Out the Door”.

I was happy with the result. What do you think?

This is taken in ordinary daylight,no flash or sun.

And here’s “Fuck Off and Dye” on its own; two coats
and no topcoat. It’s a beautiful, beautiful pink!

Here’s something funny! There were two layers of
protective film on the stamping plate with the triangular pattern. I am so glad
that the film is blue so I could see right away that there were two layers :D

Here are the things I used:

I think that this is an interesting effect. I will
definitely try it again!

Number of
coats: 2
Drying time: Really good

Finish: Matte
with sparks

Overall
impression: Gorgeous polish, I love the colour and the formula