Over The Harvest Moon For You

From green to blue an wednesday...

Today's polish is Pretty  and Polished Over The Harvest Moon For You, a sheer dark blue jelly with silver holo sparcles and blue glitters in hex, dot and moon shape, some of them holographic. Since the base was so sheer, I layered one coat over a dark blue base (two coats of Essie Midnight Cami). One generous coat of KBShimmer Clearly On top gave the mani a smooth finish.

Pretty & Polished sadly decided to close, but maybe you get lucky and find some bottles on blog sales or so...

Oppulent Sapphire Flowers

After the last rather monochrome week, let's start this one with some color.

My base are three coats of P2 Oppulent Sapphire (Secret Splendor LE), a sapphire green shimmer with iridescent flakies. At first, I was planning to wear it on it's own, but the flakies didn't really translate to the nail, so it looked somewhat bland...

For the stamping I used Kiko Mirror Nail Lacquer 626 (Lawn Green) and MoYou London Pro Collection XL plate 24. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top fixed the stamping.

The final Frontier

Today I have a rather old mani to show you, I wore this one on a SciFi convention about a month ago.

As base I used ILNP My Little Glacier (H), a multichrome with a subtle shift from an icy blue to a little darker shade and a as well subtle holo effect. For the stamping I used black Born Pretty Store stamping polish and MoYou London Sci-Fi Collection plate 10. I added one coat of Bundle Monster Smudge Free Top Coat and one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

ILNP polishes are available on Etsy, Hypnotic Polish, Harlow & Co. and at their own shop.

Thunder & Lightening

Since the last mani I showed you was all white, let's continue with a black one, shall we?

Today's polish is Models Own Thunder & Lightening, a black jelly with tiny holo sparkles. I used four coats, but didn't get it opaque nontheless. If you're aiming for a competely opaque mani, better use a black creme base. This one dries somewhat satin matte, but one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top gave it a lovely shine. 

When Colours Collide: Negative Space in White

Negative space in white was the latest prompt of the When Colours Collide challenge.

This one really was a challenge for me. Not because it was a very complicated mani, I did a simple stamping. But I've been wearing nail polish on a more or less daily basis for the last, well, almost 25 years, and so my nails are quite yellow (that's why I usually don't show them without polish). I did use a whitening base coat, but my tips just don't get really white... But in the end, I liked this mani much more than I expected. I used white Born Pretty Store stamping polish and ÜberChic Lovely Leaves 2 plate. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top, that's it.

4th of July

Happy Independence Day to my american readers! Of course, it's not a holiday here in Switzerland, but I'm going to a Kiss concert tonight (my first and probably last, since this is supposed to be their final tour), so it's a special day for me, too ;-)

With a polish called Star Spangled, canadian brand Girly Bits pays a lovely hommage to their southern neighbour with lots of blue and some red and silver glitters in a blue jelly base, that builds up to opacity with three coats.

To be honest, I wore this mani quite a while ago and didn't think of this day, that's why I chose not white but silver for the stamping (Barry M. Silver Foil) and flowers instead of stars (MoYou London Pro Collection plate XL-24), but I hope, you can still accept it ;-) Of course, I added one coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

Girly Bits polishes are available at her own store, Harlow & Co. and Mei Mei's Signatures.

Mickey in Aragon

Let's start the week with some multichrome flakies.

As base I used three coats of OPI Here Today... Aragon Tomorrow, a very dark green creme. Then I dabbed on one coat of Colors By Llarowe Mickey, a clear based flakie topper shifting from blue over aqua to green, plus some tiny glitters that shift thgough the whole rainbow. One coat of KBShimmer Clearly On Top was the finishing step.

Colors By Llarowe are available at their own store,  Hypnotic polish, Color4Nails, Harlow & Co and a lot of other retailers.