Wicked Style from the Electropop collection is some kind of warm bright pink, and I had serious problems with getting the color to show up correctly in the photos. So what you see here is not 100% accurate. I applied three coats to get an even coverage, and then Seche Vite on top as usual.
In real life the color is a tad more lighter.
Anyway, it’s a very beautiful pink creme.
Of course I had to show you one of the Jade polishes today. I decided to try Fascinio Violeta first, a gorgeous medium purple with awesome holographic rainbows. I went with two coats, and I was a little surprised that the polish behaved more like a “normal” polish than a holographic one that can leave you bald spots on the nails, so it was easy application with this.
So, just sit back and enjoy the ride:
If you want to know what it looks like without the rainbows I took a photo in the shade as well:
I’m in love!
This manicure is from June, I’m still wading through photos from these past few months. The main color here is the orange/coral/pink? Rica from Zoya, and as an accent on my ring fingers I’ve used the warm red Orly Emberstone. I paired these as I thought the golden/orange shimmer in Emberstone looked similar to Rica. I probably did three or four thin coats to get some nice depths in these polishes.
I’m not too happy with these photos, but I hope you can see some of their beauty. First a couple of shots in the sun:
And the last ones are in indirect light:
A closeup from the last photo:
The multi-colored shimmer in Emberstone is quite stunning, I love the mix of pink and gold shimmer.
I bought four of the polishes from the Electro Candy collection over a year ago, but for some reason I hadn’t tried any of them out yet. I figured they were a bit sheer, so under two coats of the pink Electro Candy I have two thin coats of the nude colored Pandora from Zoya. I didn’t get any good photos of Pandora on its own so that’ll have to wait until another time. Both of the polishes dried pretty fast.
Electro Candy is a gorgeous shimmery neon pink with a flash of light blue/turquoise shimmer. There was no sun that day so the photos look a bit dull:
The shimmer looks mostly silver here, but you can see the blue flash in the bottle.
The last photo is taken inside with flash:
This is such a gorgeous polish, why did I wait so long to try it?
Edit 24 August: Seems I got the date wrong when I published this post, it should have been the 22nd and not 8th, so it got buried with older posts.
Here’s another old goodie from the OMG collection, the light beige FYI. I had been wearing only two coats for a couple of days, and before I took the photos I added a third coat.
This is a wonderful polish when you want something discrete, but where there’s still some fun action going on. I love how fast drying these polishes are!
To be able to try as much neons as possible before I’m back to work I chose to use two of the Summer Neons polishes in one manicure, the purple/fuchsia Beach Cruise-r and the highlighter yellow Sun-Kissed. Sun-Kissed ended up with for coats on most nails, and Beach Cruise-r was two coats. I wasn’t really thinking about the thicker formula when I started applying it so it did pool a little here and there, but it looked OK in the end, except some VNL with Beach Cruise-r. It didn’t dry very fast, but I used Seche Vite and took it easy for about an hour before bed, and it did survive the night.
First photo with a bit of sun:
I couldn’t quite get the color to show up right for Beach Cruise-r, it’s slightly more purple than what it looks like here.
Next one is taken when it was cloudy:
And the last one with flash, where you can see more of the shimmer in Beach Cruise-r:
They’re both wonderful colors, Sun-Kissed is really a bright neon yellow with beautiful shimmer. Beach Cruise-r is a bit more shy, I would almost call it a work safe color even, as it’s not that super bright (but still beautiful!).
For this Holo Friday I’m going with less holo, but it’s a beautiful polish nonetheless. It’s the teal colored Saint George, from A England’s The Legend collection. It was a while I ago I wore this, but I’m quite sure it’s two coats as with the others I’ve tried from this collection. It has a slight scattered holographic effect, which mostly makes blue and green shifts in the color. It gives it a beautiful depth and I really like this one!
A few shots in the sun:
(Please excuse the dry hands..)
And the last photo in the shade:
I absolutely love this color, and the holographic particles makes this something special.
I wish you all a wonderful weekend! My vacation is now over and on Monday it’s back to work again *sniffs*
As I wrote in my previous post I got my new polishes just before I was going away on a trip, so I decided that a couple of them could accompany me on that. I chose to wear Surfin’ For Boys on my tips, and I’m With The Lifeguard on my toes.
I found the formula to be a little thick, but I thought it looked OK after two coats. There was a tiny bit of VNL but it didn’t bother me at all. They dried to a semi-matte finish and I added a coat of Seche Vite on top.
Surfin’ For Boys is an insane neon coral shade with shimmer, I don’t have anything like it in my stash.
This shade was really hard to capture on photo! It’s a bright red coral, I think I got close enough on these photos.
And on to my toes. I try to keep them at a safe distance from you so you won’t get a foot shock =)
I’m With The Lifeguard is a shimmery green neon, and I think the color looks pretty accurate here:
A perfect color for your toesies!
I know it’s already near the end of Summer now (at least in Sweden), but it’s not too late for neons just yet!
A while ago I placed an order at Transdesign, and they showed up the day before I went on a little trip. When I saw these babies I got a total neon overload, and my fiance probably thought I was going crazy when I started talking to the polishes and caressing them.. =)
I ordered six polishes from China Glaze’s Summer Neons collection:
L-R: Flirty Tankini, Surfin’ For Boys, Orange You Hot?, Beach Cruise-r, I’m With The Lifeguard, Sun-kissed
I also ordered three more polishes from different collections:
L-R: Color Club Metamorphosis (Take Wing collection), China Glaze Man Hunt (On Safari), Wicked Style (Electropop)
These polishes are all gorgeous, but the one I totally fell for was Surfin’ For Boys, I love the glowing coral shade!
Name: Martina Karlsson
Age: 30
Lives in: Kungsbacka, Sweden
Height: 160 cm
Hair color: Brown
Eyes: Green with a touch of blue
Favorite colors: Black, purple, hot pink, teal, silver
Occupation: Systems developer
Pets: Two cats, Lakrits and Sisco
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