Kleancolor Awesome Metallic polish stamping swatch review

Introduction

My first review of stamping polish (Mundo de unas swatches) was very successful and I finally found time to make another one. This time I chose bright metallic colors from Kleancolor polish, which you can buy on Amazon or directly on their web site kleancolor.com. I purchased Awesome metallic set with 12 polishes. All of them stamp really well, with two exceptions White polish basically gives only sparkle (Figure 4) and yellow is not very visible on white background (Figure 2). otherwise i was really happy with results. Below you can find detailed pictures with stamping over Black&White backgrounds. There is one drawback of Kleancolor polish it's known to stain nails and stampers. At the end of my review (Figure 5) I show how this staining looks on transparent Creative shop stamper and you can find out which polish gives more staining. The good news is that this polish is easy to clean up from skin and nails using sticky tape. Swatch pictures (Figure 2-4) were taken under LED light lamp, so there is no variation in the light setting between them.

Results

Figure 1. Kleancolor Awesome Metallic polish collection.

30 Days of Colour: Fimo fruit nail art with leadlighting using OPI sheer tints "Glazed fruits"

Introduction

Today is Mother's day and we were supposed to use white/leadlighting for 30 Days of Colour challenge. I really wanted to do something special, as this is my first Mother's day as a mom and decided to be creative with leadlighting and combine it not with stamping, but with fimo fruits. Why fruits? Because they are a good natural source of vitamins and vitamins are so important for healthy baby development. Also these nails look bright and fun, like a delicious glazed fruits that kid would love to eat ;) Happy Mother's day everyone, and if your mom is not with you, I wish your day to be full of sweat memories.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Glazed fruits"

Femme fatale Glass coffin and stamping nail art with Chez Delaney "River house"

Introduction

It's awesome when polish itself inspires nail art, as soon as I swatched Glass coffin I knew it would be perfect for gradient landscape. There was already a nice thermal gradient on my nails, but I added extra green shimmer in the sky with Green thumb of doom. I wanted to achieve peaceful pastel look and instead of white polish stamped with cream, while adding pastel pink color to the lotus flowers. Needless to say, I love final result and below you will find many pictures. Note that Glass coffin transitions from blue (warm) to purple (cold) and see how perception of nail art changes at different temperatures. Wonderful day and night effect.

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "River house". 

Femme Fatale Snow White inspired collection Poisoned apple swatch

Introduction

It's a shimmer #colorblastFriday in Co-op where I'm one of the admins and I decided to swatch another shimmer from Femme Fatale Snow White inspired collection called Poisoned apple. It's a dark teal jelly, which looks more blue due to the intense red shimmer and as an extra touch has tiny silver flakes. I show it without top coat and you can see it has tiny sparkly bumps, they could be easily smoothed by 1 layer of top coat.  

Results

Figure 1. Poisoned apple swatch.

30 Days of Сolour: Lilypad lacquer Where oceans meet and stamping nail art "Lizard skin"

Introduction

My third entry for May 30 days of Colour is not a green gradient, but green duchrome Where oceans meet from Lilypad lacquer with Lizard skin stamping. I did this stamping as a part of our  Co-op technical challenge (stamping image placement without decals). Since I was stamping with non dominant left hand and my nails were just long enough for Lizards it was quite challenging to achieve good placement. My trick was to squish nail into my Creative shop stamper, rather than placing stamper on top of the nail and it worked really well. I have to admit that one of the nails I had to re-stamp, because first attempt was unsuccessful, luckily Mundo de Unas polish is easy to remove using sticky tape :) What are your tricks for perfect placement of stamping image?

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Lizard skin".

Picture polish Honey moon and Baby boy stamping nail art

Introduction

This nails art was inspired by my little baby boy and was difficult to finish because of faulty stamping plate. Two images which I really wanted to use (on my thumb and index finger) would not stamp completely, so I had to use several tricks, like making decal, partial stamping and painting missing parts with brush to complete this look. All totally worth it, even though time consuming. Did you have bad stamping plate and how did you use it?

Results

Figure 1. Nail art "Baby boy".

Indie polish Drinks with umbrellas, stamping over neon pink "Neon pink zebra roses"

Introduction

This mani is a bit of a failure, because it looks like neon pink zebra, while stamping image actually had roses, but it's really hard to recognize them. I swatched this bright pink matte polish with a cute name Drinks with umbrellas long time ago (here) and thought that it's a perfect base for bright roses. Sadly due to the small size of my nails roses got lost. Not every stamping turns out as you imaging it, especially over glitter and there was a layer of glitter Ode to the elite for extra sparkle. How is your success with stamping over glitter, do you have any tips? Please share your thoughts in comments.

Results

Figure 1. nail art "Neon pink zebra roses".