Emily de Molly Rough sketch swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have swatch of colorful Emily de Molly glitter called Rough sketch. It's a bright mint cream polish with added orange, purple and blue glitters or various sizes. In my opinion Hayley from Emily de Molly makes one of the best glitters among all indies and this one is not an exception. Application is super smooth and glitter shows up nicely in spite of quite opaque base. Also I love this unique color combination, which makes Rough sketch so special.

Results

Figure 1. Rough sketch swatch.

Emily de Molly Throwing copper swatch and review

Introduction

Good day darlings. Trowing copper is a dusty bluish grey with strong turquoise shimmer containing copper, blue and green glitters of various sizes. Two coats are sufficient for full coverage. Glitters do not sink with time and pop out on the surface after application, effect which I love, because it looks awesome on macros. But if you plan to wear this polish on it's own it's better to use top coat.

Results

Figure 1. Throwing copper swatch.

Femme Fatale Blue within blue eyes

Introduction

Good day darlings. Another swatch of thermal Femme Fatale polish. This time it's a wonderful blue flakie from Dune collection -called Blue within blue eyes. It changes color from very pale blue at warm state to intense blurple when cold. This polish is also full of pink shimmer and teal green flakies. It look amazing no matter how warm your hands are.

Results

Figure 1.  Blue within blue eyes swatch.

Femme fatale Color4nails exclusive Ouija and Asphalt flowers nail art

Introduction

Good day darlings. Combined post for today. Swatch of incredibly beautiful holo glitter Ouija - Color4nails exclusive from Femme Fatale and nail art which I did with this polish as a base. Ouija has a dark grey base and is packed with holographic glitters, easy to apply and super sparkly. For nail art I used Croco polish from Russian brand Nail look, it cracks with very beautiful patterns, but you have wait about 4 minutes before application to let base polish semi dry. To finish this design I added some flowers using dotting tool, you can take a look at my video tutorial at the end of this post.

Results

Figure 1.  Ouija swatch and nail "Asphalt flowers".

Two days wrong Femme fatale swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today I have swatches of gorgeous pink thermal polish from Femme Fatale's Mad Tea-Party collection. It's called Two days wrong and changes color from very light pink in warm state to bright fuchsia in cold. On my fingers thermal shift was well noticeable and I had nice french tips. Two days wrong is also full of pink shimmer and has some flakes inside. Very feminine polish with a nice twist. 

Results

Figure 1. Two days wrong swatch.

Cauldron of dreams Emily de Molly swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. It has been a while since I posted any Emily de Molly swatches and I still have few untrieds from my summer purchases. Here is one of them gorgeous purple with multicolor micro flakies - Cauldron of Dreams. It has perfect formula and easy application, opaque in two coats. I did not use any top coat and it looks wonderful.

Results

Figure 1. Cauldron of dreams Emily de Molly swatch.

The Don Deeva polish The Brothel collection swatches and review

Introduction

Press sample

Good day darlings. Today I have swatches of wonderful glitters from The Don Deeva polish collection called The Brothel. These glitters not only look stunning, but they also watermarble easily. You can check out my Candy cane design to see it for yourself. The formula is very smooth and pleasantly thin, non surprising for polish which water marbles. These glitters glide on your nail effortlessly, such an easy application, I love it! Unfortunately some really large glitters are sinking. The good news is that shaking of the bottle helps to mix most of them back. In spite of thin formula these glitters are fully packed with holographic particles, flakies, microglitters and glitters of various shapes and sizes. For my swatches I applied two easy coats on top of the nude peel of base and covered them with Seche vite top coat. Let's look at each  polish individually.

 

December macro challenge: Vermillion vagabond Femme Fatale swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. It's Monday again and I want to show my red/holo swatch for December macro challenge. I did these swatches during summer and never had a chance to share them. Vermillion vagabond is a gorgeous holographic red with holo microglitters and pink blue shimmer. Wow, so many different things in one polish, no wonders it looks so stunning. I tried to capture all aspects of this complex polish and hopefully you will enjoy my pictures.

Results

Figure 1. Vermilion vagabond Femme fatale swatch.

December macro challenge: Picture polish Honey moon swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. It's time for second prompt of our December macro challenge -Green/Flakie. I chose to show delicate mint green with skattered holographic mini flakes. This polish has a nice formula and was opaque in 2 coats. I love how refereshing and peaceful it looks. Also, I experimented with 3 fingers macros, what do you think about it?

Results

Figure 1. Picture polish Honey moon swatch

December macro challenge: Picture polish Never nude swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings. Today we begin our December macro challenge and you will have entire week to post your macros of White/shimmer polish either in our FB group or on Instagram. Please do not forget to use tags #Decmacrochallenge and#macrochallenge, so that we can find each other. My entry for this prompt is combined with another challenge 30 Days of colour. I want to show wonderful off white Picture polish with shimmer and sparse glitters - Never nude. It does look like a sparkling snow in the bottle (take a look at my macros at the end), but unfortunately I was not able to catch the same shimmer on my nails. And even  though application was a bit tricky due to the thick consistency, I still love it a lot.

Results

Figure 1. Never nude swatch.

Picture polish Vegas swatch and Christmas tree stamping BP 01

Introduction

Good day darlings. I was going through my Christmassy shades of polish and realized , that I never showed you gorgeous red Picture polish called Vegas. It's a bright red jelly with gold flakes perfect for Holiday season. It's quite pigmented and gets opaque in two coats. To highlight beauty of this polish and add even more festivity, I stamped gold Christmas tree from BP1 plate on ring finger and added some gold/holo glitter on top. This will be my entry for Stamping Saturday... well there is a stamping, so it should count, right?

Results

Figure 1. Picture polish Vegas swatch.

Clairestelle8challenge: Femme fatale Moonlight statues swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, today I have something amazingly beautiful for you - a swatch of purple glitter , because I'm combining two challenges #clairestelle8challenge and #macrochallenge. The polish which I chose is fantastic glitter from Femme fatale - Moonlight statues. It's described as a berry  jelly with strong blue shimmer, but since I applied it on top of the dark purple Cauldron of dreams by Emily de Molly, its color looks more intense compared to other swatches. I honestly think that these two polishes were made for each other, and I'm so much in love with this combo!!! You will see plenty of gorgeous pictures below and trust me, I had a super hard time trying to narrow them down. Moonlight statues is outstanding and very complex glitter, definitely a must have one. 

Results

Figure 1. Moonlight statues swatch. 

November Macro challenge: Femme Fatale Hearts desire swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, new months has began and we restarted out macro challenge. You can find full list of prompts at the end of my post and feel free to join us on Facebook or Instagram, also use our tags #novmacrochallenge and #macrochallenge. We start with an easy prompt - Swatch it. And I swatched wonderful polish called Heart's desire created by Femme fatale cosmetics as a part of White witch collection. Heart's desire is a sort of coral crelly polish with green-gold flakies and tiny orange microglitters. It looks really pretty in the bottle, but I was not really sure if it goes good with my skin. However, after taking macros I immediately fell in love with it. Just look at the flakies and and sparkles, they are fantastic. I'm wearing two coats without top.  If you search this polish on internet you will notice that there is a huge difference in colors between different swatchers. In my opinion, Herat's desire is definitely a warm coral polish, not a cold pink and I tried to show it as close to real life as possible.

Results

Figure 1. Hearts desire swatch.

Picture polish Hercynia swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, I had to stay in Russia much longer and will be back only on October 24th.  But I really miss my blogging, decided to share some swatches which were done before my vacation.  Here is vivid green polish called Hercynia and created by  Picture polish in collaboration with Nailderella. It has wonderful Holo Bijou finish and gets fully opaque in 2 coats. I used it as background for my Little red riding hood nails, because it's a perfect shade of forest green. No top coat was added. Check out holo and shimmer particles on macros at the end of this post.

Results

Figure 1. Hercynia swatch.

Picture polish Revenge swatch for August macro challenge

Introduction

Good day darlings, I finally had some time for a quick post with swatch of beautiful duochrome Picture polish called Revenge. I made these swatch pictures before my very popular contrast stamping and decided that it would be perfect for duochrome prompt in our August macro challenge. This polish is very easy to apply and it gets completely opaque after two coats. It was a pleasure to wear Revenge and hopefully you will enjoy looking at swatches below. You can buy this polish at color4nails.

By the way my vacation is going great and I'm trying out new for me Russian brand called Nail look, pictures coming soon on my instagram account @phdnails.

Results

Figure 1. Revenge swatch.

Moon nails supply stamping swatch review of two collections Diva and Sexy metals, plus comparison with Mundo de Unas

Introduction

Good day darlings, it took forever, but I finally finished my review of two stamping polish collections from Moon nails supply. One of them is called Diva and has 8 bright colors, another one is Sexy metals with 8 metallics. I purchased mini bottles (5 ml), but there are also regular size bottles available (16 ml). Overall properties of Moon polish are very similar to that of Mundo de Unas (follow link to see my review of MdU polish). There are two differences, I found that Moon polish is more difficult to remove with sticky tape if you messed up stamping on your nail, but it can be done. And due to the some difference in the formula Moon polish separates more, however it's also much more easy to mix it up with simple bottle shaking or special mixer, if you have one. The smell is different, but strength is comparable to that of Mundo de unas polish.  Why bother getting Moon polish? First of all they offer some colors which are really unique, and gorgeous. For example, two metallics green Xavier and red Julio do not have analogues among Mundo de Unas colors, as well as Vincent. Second, they also offer Bissu polish of various finishes and colors, which is always in stock, unlike on MDU web site, and plenty of stamping plates, some of which are exclusive. Finally, the price is around 20$ per regular size sets and 8-9$ for mini set (you also can get individual bottles) if you buy through Facebook group Polish stamping plate Co-op, minimal shipping directly to you is 10$, at the end these is much cheaper than getting Mundo polish. Moon nails supply is based in Mexico, so shipping takes a while, but sometimes can be pretty quick (only 7 days !!! if you are in US). Unfortunately bottles come without labels, so I had to make my own. From swatches below you will see that Moon polish stamps beautiful both over black and white with couple exception (dark brown Maria is not visible on black, which is normal). I would highly recommend this polish for stamping. All swatches are shown without top coat, but from my own experience I can tell you that this polish does not smear, you can follow links to see nail designs which I made with some of the colors.

Results

Figure 1. Collage with swatches of Diva (top row) and Sexy metals (bottom row).

Picture polish Paris swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, for the month of August I joined among others one Russian Instagram challenge* (#лакоавгуст2015) and for the first prompt we were supposed to show our favorite summer polishes. It was very hard to choose one, but finally I decided to show Picture polish called Paris. It's a coral beauty with holo shimmer, which looks very elegant and fresh on the nails. Also this shade looked perfect with my necklace and I was able to make this wonderful collage. Finally since coral is almost red, I'm gonna use it as an entry for the first prompt of #bomnailartchallenge.

*At the end of this post you can find all four challenges which i will try to follow this month.

Results

Figure 1. Picture polish Paris swatch.

30 Days of colour: Femme Fatale Gossamer dust swatch

Introduction

Good day darlings, one more swatch for you. This time it's gorgeous thermo shimmer with yellow to orange transition. Those of you familiar with WoF will appreciate that this beauty is called Gossamer dust and the rest can just enjoy this delicate beauty. I love yellow and orange polish and I love thermos, so this one is my ultimate dream polish. When I was wearing Gossamer dust my nails were long and nail tips naturally showed transition to orange. In order to get them completely yellow or more orange I had to use warm/cold water before taking pictures. As with most yellow polishes you will need 3-4 coats to get full opacity, I did 4 layers just to be sure and because I enjoyed putting it on ;) Gossamer dust has very beautiful shimmer and looks great as a base for nail art, which you can see on my previous post. Yellows are not for everyone, but if you like them this polish can easily be a star in your collection. For me, there is no doubt it's my personal favorite yellow, even considering Toxic Buttercup from Crows toes, and it says a lot.

Results

Figure 1.  Gossamer dust swatch.

30 Days of Colour: Masked affair by L'Oreal swatch

Introduction

Hello my dear readers, today I have swatches L'Oreal  holographic polish Masked affair. I'm a huge indie polish fan, but this mainstream holo made my hear melt. It looks stunning both in real life and on pictures. I was really happy to capture this holo gorgeousness. However, I have to mention that 3 coats are needed for opacity and although Masked affair looks great it did not stay long on my nails.  This polish started to chip and showed tip wear already on a second day, and that's when I realized, that it would not happen with my indie brands.  This was very sad, because I really liked how it looks and do not have any other similar polish. Hopefully I'll be able to use it again for nail art, meanwhile you can check out stamping which I did with Masked affair and posted earlier.

Results

Figure 1. Swatch of Masked affair.

Mundo de Unas stamping polish review and swatches

Introduction

Today I prepared something which might be useful for you, my second Mundo de Unas stamping review. You can find my first review here. This time I decided to combine black&white swatches with bottle shots and polish names/numbers, so it's super convenient for you to use it as a reference. There are total 40 polishes swatched and for 27 of them you can find direct links to my blog posts where I used corresponding polish (look for links under macro previews). From bottle pictures you can see which polish separates easily. Metallics gold, silver and bronze separate really bad so I mixed them before taking picture. All pictures were taken under LED light lamp, so there is no variation in the light settings between them. I love my MdUs, yes they are smelly, but never smear and can be easily removed with sticky tape if you want to re-stamp image again.

Results

Collage with 36 swatches of MdU polish.