Pink Wednesday: Claire's "Medium Pink"

Happy Pink Wednesday!

I have to start this post by saying that I bought all 8 of the Layla Hologram Effect polishes
and you seriously, SERIOUSLY need to go buy Mercury Twilight (the silver one) if you
can. It is the winner out of the collection, BY FAR. I have spent the past 30 minutes
running from room to room to get to the sunlight that is streaming through the
windows just so I can stare at my pinky nail. (I quickly swatched 7/8 as a
skittle mani and the silver just happens to be residing on my pinky nail
(left hand) at this very moment. The linear effect is the strongest

out of all the holographics I have in my collection. I am
head over heels.

Please excuse the ramblings but I am filled with adrenaline.

How crazy is it that a perfect, linear holographic polish

can have this effect on me?!

Okay, I'll stop.

Let's go see the mani.

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Claire's "Medium Pink"

 

Medium Pink is a cool-toned creme pink that had some slight application problems. This was due to user error and not the polish. (I was not using my usual lighting, yadda yadda, (Seinfeld reference, anyone?) and there you have it.

I don't use my nail art supplies often enough so I decided to bling-a-fy my mani and add some pink square stones. I angled them on their side so they look to be a diamond shape. I really liked the result. Sparkly, but not overdone.

I hope you are having a wonderful Wednesday. The sun is shining today so I know what I'll be doing all day: repolishing my nails with Mercury Twilight and staring at them until the sun sets. (Ha, I wish ...)

MariJo also does Pink Wednesday's. Go check out her blog!

- A Polished Touch

Turtle Inspired Mani

One of my favourite polish colours that I've gotten into lately is hunter green; green that 

is on the dark side but still very much green. Unfortunately, this colour of 

polish usually gives me lobster claws. Does that deter me? 

Not a chance.

We all have our favourite "animal" growing up. My younger sister had a thing for turtles, she still does in fact. I wanted to do something that reminded me of her - this dotticure came 

to life. I'm terrible at nail art so painting an actual turtle is out of the 

question for me at this point, but  I thought that this mani 

kinda portrays a turtle-esque feeling.

Let's go see.

 

 

 

 

 

Darker green: Gosh - Forest Green, 1 coat                   Basecoat: Nail Life Gripper Base Coat

Lighter green: Gosh -  Silky Mint, dotted

Forest Green is perfect. It looks lighter in the bottle than what it dries to and when it dries it is shiny. My swatch pictures of it have no topcoat. (There is topcoat on the pictures that have the dots.) It is the perfect "dark green". It is obvious that it is a green polish in all lighting. Beautiful.

Silky Mint is a dusty green which looks like it might have a drop or two of blue. I wouldn't call it a teal but it isn't just green either. It fits in the dusty mint category. I have a big comparison post coming up this week (probably Thursday or Friday) which includes this polish so stay tuned!

What do you think of green polish - yay or nay?

- A Polished Touch

Blue Monday: Boy Meets Girl

It's that time of the week. Blue Monday is here again.

I'm trying to get through some of my older mani's and this was one that I really liked. It is very simple, but I think that's what drew me in.

Let's go see.

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Blue: Essence - Walk On Air (2 coats)
Pink: Essence - Ultimate Pink (2 coats)

The pictures above are without topcoat.

Walk On Air is a very saturated medium blue which leans the slightest but purple. Application was simple and effortless. Opacity was perfect at two coats and it dries very shiny.

Ultimate Pink is a pigmented medium pink that is slightly cool toned. I think cool toned colours work well with my skin tone. Again, application was easy and this polish dried very shiny as well.

I have to say, I'm very impressed with my Essence polishes. They regularly retail at $1.49 at Shoppers Drug Mart (in Canada) and this week they were on sale for $1.34 (5ml each). They are mini's but the bottle shape makes it look like they hold more. The brush is full sized and flat which makes application very easy. The handle isn't too small, you really get a good hold of it. As they release new shades, I will be only too happy to pick them up!

Do you participate in Blue Monday? Let me know in the comments, I'll link to your blog in future posts.

- A Polished Touch

Retina's: Who Needs 'Em?

I literally have zero time to post this so it will be very quick, hope you don't mind!

Color Club Wham! Pow! (2 coats)

 

I layered Sparkle and Soar from Color Club's Take Wing collection over top
of Wham! Pow! for some gorgeous shimmer. Then, because I can't leave well
enough alone, I decided to add some - you guessed it - dots.
I love me some dots. <3

For some reason the dots make me think of egg whites and egg yolks, LOL.

Application was good on both polishes, I had no troubles. The only issue
I had was with colour accuracy. My camera gets all freaky if I try to take
pictures indoors of a neon. Hence my outdoor photo.
It was a lot brighter IRL.


Have a great Sunday!

- A Polished Touch

Icing Flakie Polish *drool*

While shopping around for polish a couple weeks ago I went into Icing and found some beauties. 

FLAKIE BEAUTIES! 

Let's go see.

Ouuuu, aaaaah.

Necessary boring picture to show "underwear" sans flakie magic.

Purple base: Icing "Text Me Later" 2 coats

Pink base: Icing "Cherry Blossom" 2 coats

Purple flakie: Icing "Pampered & Primped" 1 coat

Pink flakie: Icing "Rave Royalty" 1 coat

Text Me Later was the difficult one out of the bunch. The brush is messed up in ways I've never seen before. It is curved. The bristles on the sides are fine it's the middle bristles ... they have a curvature. Don't even ask, I have no idea what happened. Believe me, I was frustrated. It made application time consuming and generally tedious. The colour though, perfect. It is somewhat reminisent of an eggplant to me. I like it.

Cherry Blossom is a pretty medium toned shimmering pink. Application was good. Two coats needs for opacity.

Pampered & Primped consists of a lilac jelly base which is very sheer and the flakies remind me of Finger Paints Twisted. All different colours of flakies which is very pretty. Application was okay, I did feel the need to "place" some flakie pieces but it wasn't enough that I would consider it a drawback.

Rave Royalty has a sheer pink jelly base and had a gold, coral, orange (at some angles you see a slight bit of green) flakie thing going on, similar to Finger Paints Flashy. Application was the same as Pampered & Primped.

I'm a huge flakie lover so for me, having my Finger Paints flakie collection plus my two new Icing ones ... I can definitely justify it. Life is better with flakies.

Have a great Saturday!

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- A Polished Touch