Color Morphing franken - fail

Remember my Revlon Royal post the other day? I mentioned that I decided to franken a top coat using all three of the color morphing pigments mixed together. Well here is the result. I was hoping for some color shifting fabulousness, but instead, it was just a sparkly mess. Not terrible, but it lost it's shifting ability, there was just too much going on.

Shade


sunlight


Oh well, it was worth a try I guess ☺

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Toma Metallic Illusion: Heavenly Body

Heavenly Body is a purple / green duochrome polish from Toma's Metallic Illusion collection. I'm not sure when these came out, but I know I've had mine for about 3 years now, and it was old when I got it 8-) Head on, it's purple, but once you put it at an angle, the green really comes out.







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NYX: Purple Ave

So, I thought a flakie would perk up my IDGAR mani from the other day, and since I've not swatched it yet, I decided to try out NYX Purple Ave. Purple Ave is a sheer purple base with sparse amounts of green/blue flakies. There aren't that many flakes in the bottle, you have to really apply a couple of thick coats to really notice them...but I do like the two colors together.




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Revlon Top Speed: Royal

So, the other day I decided to franken a topcoat using all three of the color morphing powders mixed together. When I was thinking of what color would make a good base, I pretty quickly thought of Revlon Royal....then it dawned on me. I've only used Royal as a base coat, I've never worn it as it's own mani. So, I decided I needed to fix that. Royal is a perfect cobalt blue jelly polish, I used two coats for this mani.



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OPI: I Don't Give A Rotterdam

These names are just cracking me up! Love it. IDGAR is a periwinkle blue with gold glass fleck shimmer. It's the lighter version of I Have a Herring Problem - but this has the better name ☺

My only bummer is that mine didn't have the black flecks like I've seen in some other swatches. Did anyone else get the version with the black flecks in it?





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Milani Jewel FX: Lavender

Lavender is the last of the Jewel FX polishes I picked up. It's a mixture of purple micro glitter and chunky purple hex glitter in a clear base. This is one coat over OPI Vampsterdam. I wonder what's up with all the chunky hex glitters lately, you know, the kind that don't quite lay flat on the nail? I don't mind it, but I really miss "normal" hexes....



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OPI: Vampsterdam

Ha! I love the name of this polish! I actually wasn't going to pick this one up, but I got it for the name alone :) I was surprised, it's got a bit of a frost finish to it, you can see some brush strokes - but what I do like is that it's a nice vampy dark purple that doesn't look black.



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OPI: Dutch Ya Just Love OPI?

I'm really impressed with the shimmers in the Dutch collection. DYJLO is a not quite dusty purple shade with some amazing orange shimmer. Once I started to see swatches of this color online, I knew I had to order it. I don't usually talk a lot about the formula of a polish, but I just have to mention that this one was perfect, it applied beautifully.



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Pretty Woman Magnetix: Silver Glitter

This silver glitter magnetic polish is another in the Pretty Woman set. There isn't much contrast in the designs, it's more of a subtle magnetic polish, but the addition of the glitter makes it different and worth picking up.

I used the China Glaze bar magnet for these picks.




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♥ Happy Valentines' Day! ♥

Happy Valentine's Day! The base color of here is Gouda Gouda Two Shoes from the OPI Holland collection. It's a nice warm rose color with orange shimmer. So, for V-day, I decided to break out the Konad. Every year I do hearts, so for something different, I chose the rose design from plate M65. I used Ulta Baby Doll to stamp with. Baby Doll is a very pale pink cream. I love the two colors together and I really like how Baby Doll is kind of subtle against GGTS. I was going to go with white, but I think the design would take away from the base color too much, so I'm pretty happy with how this turned out ♥



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