Day 20
Another Color Club from the Poptastic collection.
Color Club - Warhol.
Three coats. It has the same thin application & waxy finish as the rest of the Poptastic range.
From memory there are 4 pinks in this collection in the same family. They are all neon pink bases with different tones. Warhol is probably the most true pink in the neon range.
Starting on the Sinfuls.
A bright pink with a semi-matte finish, not unlike a cross between a neon and a cremeshine.
It has a slightly mauve flash.
Needs to be worn over a solid base white, or you need 3-4 coats for opacity. You can see the nail line on these, and its a lot more visible in person than in this photo.
Sinful Colors - Bikini
Day 9!
Summer calls for UV polish.
Color Club/Ruby Wing - Poppy with Milani - Gems on accent.
It turns a gorgeous shade of blood-red in the sun.
Smells like its name. A heedy sweet floral scent.
Today is PINK!
Color Club MODern PINK.
It's a weird formula. You'd think it would be an opaque, one-coat neon-esc bubblegum pink, but the first coat was sheer, then the 2nd coat was sorta streaky, and the 3rd coat attempted to even it out a little, but I'm really not sure how well that worked.
It's a pretty colour though.
My aim with this is to try, and discover, those polishes in my collection that I may have forgotten about.
One a day!
The first one up is less of a polish and more of a technique.
Using foil is not a new thing, and I've done a blog post previously about different top-coats and wear-time. My real problem was that some quickdry topcoats would dull the shine, dull the holo or wrinkle the whole thing.
NOT ANYMORE!!
I swapped some custom polish for a small LED lamp a while back, and my sister lent me her Bluesky gel top and bottom coats.
I used a buffer to remove the shine from the nail, prepped with Salon Shield Adhesier, and applied two coats of base. Once it was cured, I removed the sticky layer with Methylated Spirits, added a layer of Foil Glue, and when it was dry, rubbed on some holographic silver star and pink geometric foils from Dresslink. Last step was to top it with the gel topcoat, and I applied two coats of that too, just for a bit more protection, capping the tips. After wiping off the last sticky layer, my nails looked AMAZING.
I had a few issues with the application of the foils on some of the nails, which I purely put down to novice application. The glue not going on smoothly (it was an older bottle) left brushmarks on the surface, which translated to the foil's finish. I had a couple of wrinkles and crinkles around the edges of the nails where my application could of been a lot better, and my rubdown could of been more consistent.
Otherwise, I LOVE IT!
