Nail Polish Discussion - Any Brand

[Anneri]

Thanks! Yes, I also think the DL multichromes are one of the best. I have all the Chameleons, but I've used only the Knight and Sulley so far.


That will be awesome!


Yes, you should try that combo. I like this Hare, too. It's a good one.

That FF is looking nice. I have most FFs, but not many holos. Is the holo strong? I think EdM holos might be stronger.

Love those ILNPs

! I have not ordered yet, but maybe after next payday.

You did get Vanaheim! Nice selection. Those florals...maybe one of them once I see the bottles.


Thanks, Anneri! Why so? Your nail lenght and shape are similar to mine, so they should look at least as good if not better

.

Lovely manis again! I like the matte TC on the first one and the golden stripes.

We have the heat already. Where I live it's been only +25-26 C though. We often have a bit cooler (we're by the sea) than in other parts.

9? Sounds like a typical Finnish summer. A few weeks ago we had about +29 C one day, and 3 days later the max. temp was +7.5 C!


Love the glow in it!


That's a nice idea. I don't really follow many blogs but I actually remember seeing you while browsing some swatches before we started this thread.


Thanks, Fuzzy! I don't have any Ozotics but I thinks so.

I might get the blue one, too.

Be careful with those solvents! I've renovated some old furniture and I always used traditional methods (= hard manual labor

). Never again solvents after I tried them once with my window frames.


I already mentioned to Anneri that I have a NP related project. Well here is the first outcome:



NP earrings! I chose the strongest glitter I have, DL Glitter and Be Gay. I will make other pairs once I figure out which polish I should use. Any suggestions?

Oooooh, was wondering about your project already! Those look so nice. Great idea! Will you do other things like rings as well?
I'd suggest some holo with glitter on top, or like Llarowe's holos with the little glitters? So looking forward to seeing more of your creations!

 

[Fuzzy]

Thanks! Yes, I also think the DL multichromes are one of the best. I have all the Chameleons, but I've used only the Knight and Sulley so far.


That will be awesome!


Yes, you should try that combo. I like this Hare, too. It's a good one.

That FF is looking nice. I have most FFs, but not many holos. Is the holo strong? I think EdM holos might be stronger.

Love those ILNPs

! I have not ordered yet, but maybe after next payday.

You did get Vanaheim! Nice selection. Those florals...maybe one of them once I see the bottles.


Thanks, Anneri! Why so? Your nail lenght and shape are similar to mine, so they should look at least as good if not better

.

Lovely manis again! I like the matte TC on the first one and the golden stripes.

We have the heat already. Where I live it's been only +25-26 C though. We often have a bit cooler (we're by the sea) than in other parts.

9? Sounds like a typical Finnish summer. A few weeks ago we had about +29 C one day, and 3 days later the max. temp was +7.5 C!


Love the glow in it!


That's a nice idea. I don't really follow many blogs but I actually remember seeing you while browsing some swatches before we started this thread.


Thanks, Fuzzy! I don't have any Ozotics but I thinks so.

I might get the blue one, too.

Be careful with those solvents! I've renovated some old furniture and I always used traditional methods (= hard manual labor

). Never again solvents after I tried them once with my window frames.


I already mentioned to Anneri that I have a NP related project. Well here is the first outcome:



NP earrings! I chose the strongest glitter I have, DL Glitter and Be Gay. I will make other pairs once I figure out which polish I should use. Any suggestions?

The wood fronts of the cabinets are being sanded, it's the backs/sides/shelves that are made of plastic-coated chip board- they were covered with dried on oil, not to mention the absolutely filthy, greasy breaker panel- how does that even happen inside of a cabinet? lol gross. The top ones are done now though! not too much will need to be done in the bottom ones...
My window sills were a menace, my uncle had to go get his power sander from work- the paint was impossible to sand by hand lol


The earrings look great! Maybe Sparkling Garbage?

 

[Anneri]

PearlyQueen and all other fans of blue (and yellow) polish, Edgy Nails has a sale for them! Code is Sverige.

 

[MRV]

The wood fronts of the cabinets are being sanded, it's the backs/sides/shelves that are made of plastic-coated chip board- they were covered with dried on oil, not to mention the absolutely filthy, greasy breaker panel- how does that even happen inside of a cabinet? lol gross. The top ones are done now though! not too much will need to be done in the bottom ones...
My window sills were a menace, my uncle had to go get his power sander from work- the paint was impossible to sand by hand lol


The earrings look great! Maybe Sparkling Garbage?

Sounds horrible! Power tools are needed. Sometimes you find odd solutions - I have a chair that had a wood stain over lacquer - who does that?

Ah, SG! I loved it on my toes last summer. Maybe again...


New mani: EdM Head Over Heels. It's a lovely light pinky purple. Look so mid purple here

 

[Anitacska]

TY! I actually thought about making a bracelet, too. We'll see.


Thanks, Anneri! It all depends on the settings available. I often want to do something (I was making jewellery before I started to hoard NPs) but just can't find all things I would need.

I will def. try some kind of holo. A holo multichrome maybe but I don't actually have many of them as I tend to buy the mc versions.

Sounds horrible! Power tools are needed. Sometimes you find odd solutions - I have a chair that had a wood stain over lacquer - who does that?

Ah, SG! I loved it on my toes last summer. Maybe again...


New mani: EdM Head Over Heels. It's a lovely light pinky purple. Look so mid purple here

This happened to me as well, when I wanted to take pictures of this polish, my camera just said no, lol.

My current mani, Naild It Dirty Shadow over Barry M matte white. I nearly didn't put it on as it looks terribly murky in the bottle, but it does look very nice over white. Apparently this is supposed to be a thermal, but it doesn't change on me, maybe it was old stock? I don't mind though as the change would be to grey and I like it off white. It also glows in the dark which is cool, although it was a bit odd seeing my nails "float" in front of me last night when I went to bed.

My mini Rainbow Connection haul has arrived. It's My Party is just so gorgeous!

 

[Anitacska]

Almost forgot, Marie Claire magazine in the UK has free Ciate mini set gifts, there are 6 different ones, I got these 4. £2.50 each, bargain!

 

[PearlyQueen]

PearlyQueen and all other fans of blue (and yellow) polish, Edgy Nails has a sale for them! Code is Sverige.

Thanks Anneri! Sadly I'm broke so no polish for me

 

[PearlyQueen]

TY! I actually thought about making a bracelet, too. We'll see.


Thanks, Anneri! It all depends on the settings available. I often want to do something (I was making jewellery before I started to hoard NPs) but just can't find all things I would need.

I will def. try some kind of holo. A holo multichrome maybe but I don't actually have many of them as I tend to buy the mc versions.

Sounds horrible! Power tools are needed. Sometimes you find odd solutions - I have a chair that had a wood stain over lacquer - who does that?

Ah, SG! I loved it on my toes last summer. Maybe again...


New mani: EdM Head Over Heels. It's a lovely light pinky purple. Look so mid purple here

That's so pretty! I love EdM holos, they're among the best. And I love the colour on this one (though I'm not sure I'd like it so much if it was more pinky!).

 

[PearlyQueen]

Almost forgot, Marie Claire magazine in the UK has free Ciate mini set gifts, there are 6 different ones, I got these 4. £2.50 each, bargain!

Those look like a great bargain! I've never bought this brand, not holo and duochromey enough for me I think!

 

[Anitacska]

Those look like a great bargain! I've never bought this brand, not holo and duochromey enough for me I think!

They have some nice duochromes (http://www.ciate.co.uk/nails/texture/duo-chrome), but no holo. They have plenty of nice glitters too. They are very innovative though, Ciate came up with the caviar mani first which has now been copied with all and sundry. Also feathers, flowers, etc.

 

[PearlyQueen]

They have some nice duochromes (http://www.ciate.co.uk/nails/texture/duo-chrome), but no holo. They have plenty of nice glitters too. They are very innovative though, Ciate came up with the caviar mani first which has now been copied with all and sundry. Also feathers, flowers, etc.

Those are pretty, I didn't know about them, thanks! Not that I'm rushing to buy, see post above about lack of funds My enormous wish list is going to have to stay enormous for the time being! I'm saving a few £££s for the Enchanted monthlies (surely May and June must be coming soon??), and other than that it's down to waiting for my deliveries for a while. Unless some money magically makes its way into my life! In which case, I want some more Celestials first up!

 

[Anneri]

MRV, love this colour on you! Was this one Le? I've been looking for a light purple for a while. Anitacska, totally love this glitter! The combo with the white base looks great. I also love that you started blogging again! I think I figured out what I did wrong when I tried stamping. I just pressed too much on the stamper so the designs smudged every time. I get the hang of it now! Here's my dominant right hand which I normally don't show because I've to paint and stamp with my left and it normally turns out quite rubbish. But this seahorses came out pretty good, didn't they?

Here's what I wore in my other hand: glitter polish made by me, Essie Find me an Oasis stamped again and Catrice Holo Manolo.

 

[Anitacska]

Very nice! Both the stamping and your franken polish!

And thanks, both re blogging and my mani. You know, it's only one coat of glitter as well! Mind you, just as well, another coat would've added some more murkiness to the base colour which I wanted to avoid anyway.

Have you lot seen this on FB?

Leah Ann here to give you an update on the Summer 2014 Collection:
We have two problem polishes. One is Sweet Revenge and the other is Mystery & Mayhem. They both are having total separation problems and both were made what we have discovered was a bad batch of base (I had very little of this base and it was not used except for these two polishes). All other polishes have been tested extensively in extreme conditions (under heat conditions, cold conditions, sitting in the sun, sitting on their side, you name it) and all other polishes are not having any problems. You may experience minor settling with holo particles in a few of the polishes and that is completely normal as is settling with the larger glitters in glitter polishes. A good shake will fix this as with any other polish that this occurs. We have isolated the problem and I have remade both polishes. The batches of remake are going to set for 2 weeks before they are shipped out to customers. I have tested these polishes under the same extreme conditions and they are performing perfectly. The staining with Sweet Revenge is directly related to the bad batch of base as I am testing that as well and the staining is minimal with the new batch. New polishes will be sent out after the two week waiting period to everyone who received either of these two polishes prior to this discovery and batch remake. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding!

I didn't order Sweet Revenge, but did order Mystery & Mayhem, but my order is still processing, so I'm guessing this won't affect me.

 

[PearlyQueen]

Very nice! Both the stamping and your franken polish!

And thanks, both re blogging and my mani. You know, it's only one coat of glitter as well! Mind you, just as well, another coat would've added some more murkiness to the base colour which I wanted to avoid anyway.

Have you lot seen this on FB?

Leah Ann here to give you an update on the Summer 2014 Collection:
We have two problem polishes. One is Sweet Revenge and the other is Mystery & Mayhem. They both are having total separation problems and both were made what we have discovered was a bad batch of base (I had very little of this base and it was not used except for these two polishes). All other polishes have been tested extensively in extreme conditions (under heat conditions, cold conditions, sitting in the sun, sitting on their side, you name it) and all other polishes are not having any problems. You may experience minor settling with holo particles in a few of the polishes and that is completely normal as is settling with the larger glitters in glitter polishes. A good shake will fix this as with any other polish that this occurs. We have isolated the problem and I have remade both polishes. The batches of remake are going to set for 2 weeks before they are shipped out to customers. I have tested these polishes under the same extreme conditions and they are performing perfectly. The staining with Sweet Revenge is directly related to the bad batch of base as I am testing that as well and the staining is minimal with the new batch. New polishes will be sent out after the two week waiting period to everyone who received either of these two polishes prior to this discovery and batch remake. Thanks so much for your patience and understanding!

I didn't order Sweet Revenge, but did order Mystery & Mayhem, but my order is still processing, so I'm guessing this won't affect me.

The only polish I ordered was Sweet Revenge! I'm guessing since my order is processing it's going to be a 2 week delay for delivery now. I was hoping mine would ship yesterday.

 

[PearlyQueen]

So I was taking off my mani this morning, and I was putting away my red crystal and BOOM, my nail wheel exploded in my hands! Little crystals everywhere - I mean it emptied itself out all over me, the sofa, the floor, the table...
So that led to some fun trying to rescue them all. I've no idea what the casualty rate has been! And now I have a saucer full of mixed crystals instead of all nicely sorted into separate colours, and nowhere to put them
I spent 10 minutes trying to sort them and realised it's a seriously long job, so I'm putting it off till I get a new wheel. Great start to the day!
Then I did my nails with Too Fancy Lacquer - The Shifty Chameleon:

Flash


Halogens


Shade


Sun

It's not as shifty as its name suggests! And the holo is very subtle.

Also new polishes this week:


Enchanted Polish Scintealliant, Colors By Llarowe Monkey See, Monkey Do, Colors By Llarowe Young Turks, CH Nail Magnetic 33


Colors By Llarowe The Mighty Red Baron, Enchanted Polish Stay Classy San Diego, Emily de Molly Inner Peace, Too Fancy Lacquer The Shifty Chameleon

 

[Anneri]

Aaaaaahhhhh, so pretty PearlyQueen! I love your 'new in' pics! Did you manage to retrieve all your chrystals yet? What a pain!

Indigo Bananas posted on FB that her new collection is coming soon, and I think I'll need this one for sure:

(This pic is from her FB page)

 

[PearlyQueen]

Aaaaaahhhhh, so pretty PearlyQueen! I love your 'new in' pics! Did you manage to retrieve all your chrystals yet? What a pain!

Indigo Bananas posted on FB that her new collection is coming soon, and I think I'll need this one for sure:

(This pic is from her FB page)

Wow, what a gorgeous polish, I likey a lot! I saw the pink one earlier and was seriously drooling at that one, but this is even nicer!
Pink one:

 

[MRV]

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Aaaaaahhhhh, so pretty PearlyQueen! I love your 'new in' pics! Did you manage to retrieve all your chrystals yet? What a pain!

Indigo Bananas posted on FB that her new collection is coming soon, and I think I'll need this one for sure:

(This pic is from her FB page)

Oh, drools. I don't have any IBs!


CbL Young Turks. Love the brightness of this turquoise (looks blue here )

 

[lyseD]

Can anyone suggest a good top coat for very textured polishes?

Thank you.

 

[PearlyQueen]

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Thanks! Nice mani and haul. Wonder why DS is called Dirty Shadow?

Oh, it's not that pink - like Mac purple lippies

. It's just a light, not medium purple.


LE? I don't think so. Do they even have LEs? It might be difficult to get it atm though as Emily(?) is on her maternity leave.

Nice manis! Love the franken, too.


Dang! I ordered SR, too, but my order was shipped on Wed, the 4th. I guess I will get another one later, and the first one is useless?


Sorry to hear about the glitter explosion. Do you use them in your manis? Any pics?

Now there you've got a medium purple holo! Great picks again. Wish I had those EPs!


Oh, drools. I don't have any IBs!


CbL Young Turks. Love the brightness of this turquoise (looks blue here )

I used to use the crystals a lot, hence why I have so many, but I'm too lazy now and I tend to stick a single one on my ring finger every now and then!
Loving Young Turks, it's stunning in my bottle and amazing on you!