Gold and Sugar

Recently bought a new polish which is a rough leather effect from Kiko called Poppy Red from the Sugar Mat collection.

Fell completely in love with the colour and realised it matched a dress of mine perfectly.

I chose to wear the shade with a gold ring finger manicure which I thought picked up the golden flecks in the rough polish rather well.

with flash

- Nail Art Love - 

Gem

Birds at dusk

Another one in the series of "I want to try my new colours ASAP!" Base is from Maybelline's Color Show Series and is called Purple Gem. The birds were done by drawing with a toothpick, meaning that some of the lines got squiggly or bumpy. To break the "birds sitting on a line" pattern I decided to paint "foot traces" on my ring fingers. The design was mimicked for left hand.

Dotted lines

I recently went off and bought some new colours, all of which I was very keen  to try out. These were two of them, Papaya from Berry M's Gelly series and Grey Matter from Rimmel London. I was unsure of how to combine them, but then came across this design of three dots with (at least attempted) decreasing size. Ring-finger designs have long been popular but because I was unable to decide which way around to flip the colours, so I did one hand of each.

The gelly polish isn't all that easy to apply since it easily becomes too thick. The grey one, however, has a really nice brush. The design is good if you want something plain, even work appropriate but still a little more than a single colour.

Cheers NASA for Spectrachrome technology

I mentioned receiving some awesome colour changing polish which I was itching to use. The polish is one colour indoors with artificial lighting and then via the spectrachrome crystals transforms into another colour in direct sunlight. Firstly I tried out the Ruby Slipper shade which is silver glitter indoors and turns red in the sunlight. In the shade outside the polish turns a bit pinky, however in direct sunlight it turns red, as demonstrated below.

Also the longer it was in the sun, the darker the shade of red it became. 

I also tried out the Electrick shade which is metallic blue that turns metallic green. In the image below, the indoor colour is shown of both Electric and Ruby slipper (fourth finger).

Out in the sun this metallic green and dark red was obtained.

I finally added some patterns to the colour changing polish, which involved adding a zig zag design with the Steel Gray holographic polish.

In the sunlight the Electrick polish still turned green successfully regardless of the other polish.

So thank you NASA for creating this rather cool Spectrachrome technology!

This has now sparked an interest in other unique polishes i.e. could there be ones that could glow in the dark?! etc...