December 21, winter solstice. Ok, I admit it, today's mani has absolutely nothing to do with winter solstice ;-)
My pinkie and ring finger show three coats of Femme Fatale Dream Bough. Dream Bough has "A sheer bruise-purple base with green shimmers, various green/teal hexes, iridescence and a scattering of lavender. Suitable for layering rather than wearing alone."
(Source: Femme Fatale)
Wearing Dream Bough on it's own works pretty ok, as it's really packed with glitters, so the sheer base isn't really visible after three coats. For layering I'd recommend a dark base color, as the tinted base is pretty dark itself. Due to the huge amount of glitter, Dream Bough dries very gritty, the surface still felt kind of rough after one coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.
On my middle finger and thumb I applied Colors By Llarowe Behead The Drama Queen, a shimmering, sparkly duochrome shifting from emerald green to royal blue. The green part was really camera shy, my pictures show mostly blue with just some green sparkles. IRL it was the other way round, mostly green with the blue only visible at flat angles.
Application of Behead The Drama Queen was perfect, two easy coats, no clean up needed, that's how I want my polishes. One coat of KBshimmer Clearly On Top helped with drying time and shine (not that it was really necessary, though).
On my ring finger I added three coats of Models Own Green Flash, a bright lime green foil. No issues with application here either. On coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top here as well.
Femme Fatale polishes are available at their shop (new with international shipping), Harlow & Co. , Norway Nails and Color4Nails. Dream Bough is discontinued, but maybe you're lucky and get one of the last bottles at the Femme Fatale Shop.
Colors By Llarowe are available exclusively at Llarowe. Behead The Drama Queen seems to be discontinued, but there are so many gorgous colors, I'm sure you'll find something else that catches your eye.
Green is one of my favorite colors, so with a mani like this you can't go wrong for me :-)
ReplyDeleteGreen's beautiful, as is purple. Do you know what these two colors have in common? They both contain blue. And everything with blue in it is gourgeous ;-)
DeleteWoaw, der Models Own Lack ist hammer *_*
ReplyDeleteSchön dass er dir gefällt (ich finde ihn ehrlich gesagt den langweiligsten der drei ;-) )
DeleteBeautiful Skittelette!!! I just love Dream Bough and of course the Drama Queen both sitting in my untrieds :-S, I Wonder how many racks the two of us could fill with untrieds LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThat depends on the size of the racks. If you take an ordinary IKEA Billy shelf, maybe three or four racks might suffice, if we'd fill the complete rack space ;-)
DeleteHa Billy müesse go google, jo - locker 3-4 Tablar ;-P, und denn hette mir no 2 vorig - Gott sei Dank :-D
DeleteMe cha d Tablar o separat choufe, de mögte no es paari meh ine ;-)
DeleteAll three shades are amazing. I specially like the Llarowe one!
ReplyDeleteThe Llarowe is my favorite, too :-)
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