OPI ~ Into the night with silver stripes

OPI ~ Into the night

Deep shimmery purple (or blue?)

‘Into the Night’ is from OPI’s Spiderman collection, and I seriously must be colourblind or something. When I read reviews of this polish, everybody states that it’s blue, but for me it’s definitely purple, with blue undertones. Isn’t that just weird?!

As I may have mentioned before, OPI is not my favourite polish brand, so I don’t know why I just don’t stop buying them! The formula is thin and tends to flood my cuticles, which I really hate, argh! If I must say something nice about this polish, then it is that it only takes two coats to reach the opacity I want. Drying time is slow, slow, slow. Me and OPI – our chemistries simply don’t match, LOL!

OK. Enough talking, here’s a pic that shows two coats, and no top coat:

Sure, it’s pretty alright, but I dunno if I think it’s worth the effort ;)
Here’s a pic from a different angle:

I made some silver stripes on it. I used a silver glitter striper from Flexbrush, and made two stripes on each nail, except for the thumbs that got three each. One layer of NYC Turbo Dry top coat completed my mani:

I like this, but like I said: It’s purple to me, not blue :D

What do you think of OPI in general – good or no good? And do you have any of the polishes from the Spiderman collection?

Opacity: 7/10
Colour, prettiness: 6/10
Durability: 5/10
Value for money: 4/10
Overall: 5.5/10
Buy again: No way!

Accessorize and Isadora - in black and grey tape mani

Accessorize ~ Lolite  

Metallic silver with a purple tone

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Isadora ~ Black Galaxy

Black with holographic glitter

Today I have another one of my tape manis for you. I started out with a polish which I got in a blog sale, namely Lolite from Accessorize. It’s a metallic silver, but with a purple/mauve-ish undertone. It says on the cap “Metalized – One coat”, and that is actually true. It is indeed a one coater, and an easy one to work with too! Drying time is good. The only downside is that it reveals every imperfection on your nails, but nothing that a good base coat can’t fix :)

Here’s one coat, no top coat:

You should be able to see the mauve undertone on that pic!

I waited until I was absolutely sure that my nails were dry before I taped them diagonally across and painted the “bare bit of nail” with Isadora’s Black Galaxy. It only took one coat to make it look good. I love black polishes with a little extra added to them, and the holographic glitter does wonder for this black.

I striped the line between the two polishes with a silver glitter striper from Flexbrush. Apparently it hasn’t got an actual name or number. Then I topped it all with two coats of BK top coat, and my mani was done:

Here are the pretty polishes lined up:

This is a design that I really like. It’s simple and looks so different depending on the colours you use. I think this black and silver grey look is totally awesome – but what do you think? Are you also into tape manis?

Music Challenge 10: Ray of Light (Madonna)

Music Challenge 10: Ray of Light (Madonna)

I’m not a hardcore Madonna fan, although I like some of her music. I like this song, but it’s not my favourite of her songs and I’m not particularly crazy about the video. There’s way too much going on in it, in my opinion.

Anyway – I started out with two coats of Gina Tricot Beauty Nails’ “Cabaret”. It’s a purple with pink, purple and blue microglitters in it. It’s almost a one coater, but I gave it two, to get the maximum beauty out of it. The formula was good, the polish applied easily. Drying time was OK, although tending to be on the slow side.

No top coat:

Here’s a pic from another angle, where the microglitter really shows itself. I’ve got a couple of other polishes from this brand, and I have to say that I’m a little bit impressed. They’re cheap, and yet the quality is exceedingly good for such a cheap polish. I like that!

I added my rays using a striper polish from Flexbrush. It hasn’t got a name, but it’s a dense silver glitter. I added three rays on each nail, except for the thumb that got four.

Here’s that step:

You can see that the brush is relatively thick for a striper, so this polish is almost impossible to apply in thin lines. This works for me though:

Then I added some depths to it. I used Essence Dance top coat “Waking up in Vegas”, which is a pretty flakie. I applied that on my ring finger and my thumb. And then I applied Max Factor’s “Fantasy Fire” on the remaining nails. Both polishes worked amazingly well for the purpose.

Here’s the final mani – after having applied one coat of Seche Vite top coat:

And from another angle to show you both shimmer and flakies:

Here's a bottle shot: 

 

This mani really works for me, and I’m happy with how it turned out. What do you girls think?

Last challenge up is in three days, and we’re going to see be “Born to be Wild”! I hope to come up with something really cool!

Check out the other girls’ blogs to see how they interpreted “Ray of Light”.

Aylin: http://poshnailart.blogspot.com

Mette and Lisa: http://neglerier.blogspot.dk

Anne Mette: http://amnegle.blogspot.dk/

Brianna: http://welcometobriannasworld.blogspot.com

Celia: http://neglegejl.blogspot.dk/

Astrid: http://polish-life.blogspot.com

Bonus link to Madonna’s Ray of Light:

Summer Challenge Day 12: Stripes

Summer Challenge Day 12: Stripes

Let me introduce to you: My very first Essie polish. Well, it is in fact the second, but it’s the first I wear! Amazing, eh? I’ve heard a lot of good stuff about Essie, so I figured I’d give it a go.

My base for this stripy mani is “Jamaica me crazy”, a deep shimmery magenta.

The formula was nice, the brush is a bit thin for my likings, but manageable. And it was almost opaque in one coat. I gave it two, just for the heck of it!

Two coats, no top coat:

Delicious, eh? Deep, shimmery, sexy, seductive! I like this colour, even though I don’t wear it very often. I can see on the pics that the polish dries up a bit gritty, which I find very odd for a shimmer, but it doesn’t show in real life, so I don’t mind so much.

Time for stripes! I used a black striper polish from Claire’s and a pink glitter striper from Flexbrush. None of them appear to have actual names. I striped with the two polishes alternately, and sealed it all up with a layer of Poshé top coat.

Let me introduce to you: My striped nails:

You should check out these other Danish girls’ blogs to see what they came up with for striped nails:

• Neglelir
• Se min kjole
• Mette
• Life is a fairy tale
• Vicki's Polish

Stay tuned the day after tomorrow - same bat time, same bat channel – for nails with animal prints!

Flexbrush glitter

Flexbrush

Nail Art Multiglitter

It wasn’t my intention for Flexbrush to have a post of its own, but it acted so differently to the way I expected, I feel I have to give it the spotlight and write it up.

After applying the MISA polish “Wink, Blink, Let’s get a drink” (as you can see in the previous post), I decided to spice it up a bit with some glitter. I found this nail art polish from Flexbrush, a lovely multi-coloured glitter, which I thought would look fantastic over the fuchsia.

I applied the glitter in stripes – three vertical stripes lengthwise on each nail and I thought it looked really good. It took longer to dry than expected, but I didn’t really see that as a problem at the time. 

I’m not sure why, but I didn’t apply a top coat over the glitter. Little did I know that I should have done exactly that. And so should you, if you use this product :)

After a couple of hours I happened to wash my hands, and imagine my surprise to see that *all* the glitter washed off! None left on my nails whatsoever. Not one solitary little sparkle!

Have you ever experienced anything like that??

I did apply the stripes again, and coated it with two coats of Sally Hansen Diamond Shine top coat, and that sealed it properly. But seriously, I’ve never before experienced a nail polish product that washed off with soap and water!