Midnight Blue - Deja Vu

......try'na catch up on posting, while spitting out dope rhymes, just for you...........

This mani is 3 coats of Sinful Colors Midnight Blue --- a gorgeous blue, perfect application, dried fast, it's just awesome! If I applied it too thick there was some notable metallic line, due to the rich metallic properties of this polish. I have read that this polish stains so I did the white school glue base so I can peel it right off when I am finished with it this evening. I picked this up at a Dollar Tree in the U.S.A.            ( yes- a U.S.A. haul post is in the works)

I'm planning a deep metallic blue polish show-down in the near future =  we'll see how this measures up to my all time favorite - N.Y.C. Skin Tight Denim.


On it's own Sinful Colors Midnight Blue is beautiful - but I wanted to layer Pure Ice Deja Vu over it for the day. I tried every conceivable lighting and camera trick to bring out the purple colour shift in Pure Ice Deja Vu but couldn't get it to happen. In photos Pure Ice Deja Vu looks like a  blue glass-flecked polish but there is a strong and pretty purple colour shift/duo-chrome-ey-ness happening. The formula on Deja Vu was thin; so this is 3 coats layered over Sinful Colors Midnight Blue.

None of my photos have TC, and THANK GOODNESS there is no sun shining today- it is ridiculously hot out and I am hoping it will rain and cool off soon.

okay I lied; this one photo is in the brief amount of sunshine we had today....and the first photo posted also has a bit of sun in it ( i love the sunshine but there has been a bit of a heat wave in my part of the country in the last 2 weeks ..... )

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2 Essence polish's & My Kleancolor Chunky Black holo is actually Red....

It's not true! Nail Polish is for life = not 12 months!

Here are two lovely polish's from Essence Color & Go. Both of these applied perfectly. I love these cute little bottles and how the caps match the polish.


This is 3 coats of Walk on the Wild side and 2 coats of KleanColor Chunky Holo Clover..... I totally expected the KleanColor to dry satin-ey or matte but it dried to a shiny finish.

..... and a few more photos of Essence Walk on the Wild side.

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Essence Chic Reloaded is a very pretty multi chrome.....  I took a gazillion photos and could not capture all the beautiful colours this polish flashes.  This is two easy coats. I love how this polish applied and hope the rest of the shades in this collection have the same formula.

For comparison, below is 2 coats each of  Essence Where's the Part, Chic Reloaded and Wet n Wild Greys Anatomy. Wet n Wild Greys Anatomy is an extremely sheer polish and looks better layered over something.

I picked up this KleanColor holo mini's at Winners ( T.J.Maxx ) around X-mas time. For 4.99, these are a good deal. They are pretty much the same polish save for the Chunky black holo, and the pink shade which has the most notable hot pink jelly base, the rest of the polish's have a similar glitter and are only different in that they have slightly tinted jelly bases.


I planned on layering Chunky Holo Black over Essence Chic Reloaded but it turned the base colour purple.... instead of a darker polish shade like I had hoped.... oh well.

 below; a waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better photo from Beauty Joint's website ( they have excellent product photos )

My 'Chunky Holo Black' has a red base...... its not black ~ I'm still happy with it !

 on my pinky nail

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new blogs & Sinful Colors Aruba Rhythm

Sinful Colors Aruba Rhythm, 2 coats layered over 2 coats of Sally Hansen Grey Area - no top coat

This polish has a strong flash, from Grey/lilac to green/gold = there are  few Sinful Color polish's with this property. I know these are on sale in the USA at Wall-greens or CVS this week for $.99 cents, but apparently some of The Bargain Stores in Canada have a tray or two of Sinful Color Polish's.  I will do a better swatch of this comparing it to Sally Hansen Emerald Amethyst & put a request on MUA for duo-chrome's or polish's with strong Flash from Sinful Colors.

The only down-side to some of the polish's available from sinful colors is that some are sheer. I prefer to layer everything so it is not a problem for me. The brush was a little stiff on this one - but top coat would fix that up.

Any notable Sinful Colors with properties like this, duo-chromey, or ones with strong flash - let me know. Personally I would purchase them all - for .99 cents to $1.50 each they are worth it!


..... and new blogs! (Late again lol)

Lakierowe Wywiadowki

nail art of the day

like a candy shop

 robin moses nail art

www.varnishvixen

rachelsnails

legallypolished

soge-at-make me beautiful

lacquered lydia

my nail graffiti

justakelly

nailburgerlar.tumblr

hverdagsnegler

a polished obsession

nail-anon

beauty nails 1
 
imagination in colour

liiyueh

ibeatpolish

mandys secrets

brilliantly polished art

and a few more photos to catch that green to lilac change. no outdoor shots as I was still in my jammies for these photos.

this is what I layered Aruba Rhythm over

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Pure Ice Rio, {more layering}

2 coats of Pure Ice Rio layered over 2 thin coats of Claire's Matte Green

When I did my My Favorite Polish's post I had every Pure Ice Polish I have worn on there, but no photos, and I made a note to work on wearing those polish's. Pure Ice is an American polish Exclusive to Walmart USA, {they do have a website where you can order from}.

The entire collection is very wearable, there doesn't seem to be any negative buzz on the formula or colours either. I wish we had these in Canada! Is there any dud's in the current Pure Ice collection?

Anyhoo- this is Pure Ice Rio, which is a raspberry jelly base with mesmerizing flecks of ......flecks that flash blue, green purple and white-ish silver. I layered it over a medium green. I am pretty sure layering this over anything would be beautiful.

shade

Claire's Matte Green - 2 coats

indoor fluorescent

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Claire's Poison Apple

Claire's Poison Apple, 3 thin coats with 1 coat of Nailene TC layered over a golden chrome polish. I feel a little disappointed with this polish, even though it is very pretty, I wish it did not have the boring base colour it does. In some lighting it looks like a run-of-the-mill mulberry/red shade. In many lighting conditions the golden/copper duo-chrome flakes look fabulous.
 

This polish; Claire`s Candy Apple, as well as Claire`s Venomous dried very fast. The effect in both of these polish's is very pretty & I recommend layering them over an opaque base.

 For underware I chose Sally hansen Chrome in Gilded Pearl Chrome. This had no effect at all on the final colour and finish of Claire's Candy Apple, I just wanted to reduce the appearance of bare spots and the amount of coats of Candy Apple that I would use. The photo below is 2 coats with NO TC.

Here is Claire`s Candy Apple, layered over Sally Hansen Gilded Pearl Chrome. My thumb is 1 thick coat, the rest of my nails are 1 coat each of varying thickness.... the only photo I have to show the transparency of Poison Apple.

sun

shade with flash

These next two photos are interesting, its amazing that this is even the same polish!The one immediately below is a photo directly under my light source.....

.... and this one is less than 8 inces away from my light source! = weird, but pretty♥

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Excellence in Layering, Pure Ice Oh Baby layered over Wet n' Wild Disturbia

This is sooooooooo pretty, Pure Ice Oh baby is a lovely, lovely polish. This is 3 thin coats layered over Wet n Wild Disturbia. No TC. I love these flecked duo-chrome polish's from Pure Ice- there are several sparsely flecked Duo-Chromes such a s Rio, Oh Baby and another jelly-ish blue one  (Heart-Breaker, maybe).

And of course |I cant talk about department store fleck-ey duo-chromes without mentioning N.Y.C. Love Letters, if you don't have that YOU NEED IT ASAP!

below; NYC Love Letters

From N.Y.C. POLISH

Here is a few more pic's, this is really really pretty and I think I may add another coat of the Pure Ice Oh baby.

Outdoors

Indoor Fluorescent

2 coats of Wet n' Wild Disturbia

w/ Pure Ice Oh Baby

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Claire's Venomous

Claire's Venomous, 3 coats layered over 2 coats of Claire's Matte Cobalt with 2 coats of Nailene TC. Ring Nail is 3 or 4 coats of Claire's Venomous ( I forgot how many coats....oops! )

Claire's Venomous is a lovely fleck-duo-chrome with a jelly teal base. I meant to layer this over a teal or green polish but for some-reason I applied this over a dark blue polish.... The base on this is a teal, so I thought it would really look its best layered over a teal... next time lol.

I picked up Candy Apply, and left behind Evil Queen, because it sorta looked like and random dark purple with Pure Ice Bused layered over it. I have already painted my nails with a dark purple and pure ice busted and its drying as I type this.

I HATE buying Claire's polish if it isn't on the 10 for $10 rack or not at half price ( it is reg $5.75 CAD ) even at BOGO it is still over priced. 

any-hoo Here is a few ore photos for you - no sunshine unfortunately, but this type of duo-chrome polish does it's best work under crappy lighting conditions anyway. I ♥ duo-chromes!

TOP nail is 3 or 4 coats of Claire's Venomous

ALSO: I found some of those micro-beads at the Dollar-Rama ( Canada), They are a small portion in a tiny bottle - it should be interesting to see what I can some up with for nail art with these...... ( there soooooo cute!  look @ those lil' corks!!!)

these next 2 photos are enlargeable - the first & second on the left are soooooooo pretty!

above - L-R ..............all with TC

2 coats of Wn'W Disturbia, 1 coat of SH Green w/Envy 2 coats of Pure Ice oh Baby
2 coats of Wn'W Disturbia, 3 coats of Pure Ice Oh Baby
2 coats of Claire's Matte Cobalt, 3 coats of Claire's Venomous
2 coats of Claire's Matte Green, 3 coats of Claire's Venomous
3 coats of Claire's Venomous
2 coats of Claire's Matte Cobalt, 3 coats of Claire's Poison Apple
3 coats of Claire's Poison Apple

 I layered Claire's Venomous over a 2 coats of dark blue polish. My ring nail is Claire's Venomous @ 1 coat... this is really sheer and I initially meant to layer Venomous over a green/teal polish.

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