becacine: November 2013

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Sweet Heart Polish O'Connell! over Sinful Colors Why Not

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I ♥ turquoise so imagine my delight upon opening this package sent from the lovely Cassandra at SweetHeartPolish! It is described as a "holographic light blue shimmer polish" but it is so much more. Because it is sheer, you can manipulate your final effect.

I chose to layer it over a base of Sinful Colors Why Not which is readily available at most chain stores. I wanted to accentuate the turquoise that I saw in the bottle so this blue cream was a perfect base to coerce the turquoise out of this polish.

The final effect is a soft scattered holographic finish that looks a bit metallic and shimmers more than holofies. Yes, I am making up words! It would be fun to experiment with different base coats to see what other tones of the polish emerge. Next time, purple as a base.

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Sweet Heart Polish

base coat Sinful Colors Why Not (indoors OttLite)

2 coats Sweet Heart Polish O'Connell! over SC Why Not (indoors OttLite)

2 coats Sweet Heart Polish O'Connell! over SC Why Not (direct sunlight)

Sweet Heart Polish O'Connell! bottle shot (direct sunlight)

If you are a VNL kind of woman or you have shorter nails, you can apply 3-4 coats without a base. The swatch stick on the right best shows the results achieved without a base.

4 coats Sweet Heart Polish O'Connell! on clear swatch stick (no base color used)

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

1st post redux Yellow Stopper pop off Lynnderella When the Moon Was a Star glitter bomb jelly sandwich

I heard the call of the fabulous Jen at xoxojen to recreate our first ever blog post. My oh my how things have changed. I am almost exclusively into holographic finishes so to revisit glittah bombs was a hoot!

This is a pic heavy post with a step by step pictorial of how to build my favorite glitter bomb polish that POPS OFF in 2 days tops. This is great if you do not want to use the acetone, cotton square & foil method. I cannot stress to you the importance of not tugging at your nails. They will pop off on their own but you can cajole them if there is no resistance. Be careful.

So here we go:

1. Start with 2 coats of American Classics Yellow Stopper Top Coat (sallybeauty). Incidentally, this is my go to lazy day manicure. No one sees in macro mode so this looks like a French manicure without the fuss. If you want to do the quickie French mani, these are the steps so they don't pop off: base coat of your choosing, 2 coats of Yellow Stopper, one coat of favorite top coat (HKG for me). Done!

Yellow Stopper (2 coats)

2. Base of jelly sandwich is one coat of Cirque Colors Tibetan Nights

Cirque Colors Tibetan Nights (1st coat)

3. The POW is Lynnderella When the Moon Was a Star

Lynnderella When the Moon Was a Star

4. Now add another coat of Tibetan Nights

Cirque Colors Tibetan Nights (2nd coat)

5. Top it all off with the glitter friendly, depth & gloss producing best-ever top coat made by Glisten & Glow named Hong Kong Girl (or other iterations of the same product under slightly different names)

2 coats HKG top coat

Some pics of the finished product:

outdoors

indoors under an OttLite

And now for the fun part - this sandwich will literally POP OFF in a day or two. Amazing! No clean up whatsoever.

And the old pic - no laughter allowed - well, if you must ☼

I hope you enjoyed the redux of the very first post I made. Check out Jen's blog for the most comprehensive list of Indie Nail Polishes. You will be gob smacked at the selection: xoxojen

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