OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

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Today I just want to show you what I was wearing in a birthday on Friday. I had a very limited time to get ready, so please don't look at the scratches and the too quick clean- up. But I liked this "dark purple with flakies look" so much that I took some photos of it when I came home.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

I was going to wear a pink top and white trousers. I had thought about wearing a pink nail polish, but not that eye catching, perhaps just a medium pink like GOSH Bubble Gum. But instead I decided to wear Cult Nails Seduction over Deborah Lippmann's Private Dancer, because I feel comfortable wearing purple, and thought the pink/ red flakies in Seduction would match the top.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

I had prepared my nails with black, to try to make an animal themed nail art entry. But I didn't get time for that and the other things I had planned. And then I got a chance to meet my brother, whom I hadn't seen for a while. So to save time I just put one coat of Private Dancer over the black I was wearing, and ran out of the house to meet him. I realised that my right hand looked really bad, and that I would have to redo it before the birthday, but I didn't have time to change both hands. I also didn't have time to do 2 coats of black (OPI Lady in Black), but managed to make the right hand look quite similar to the left, using H&M Hello Kitty "I love Candy", Private Dancer and Seduction, although it didn't get as dark as the left hand. I was so stressed that I can't remember if I put an extra coat of Private Dancer on my left hand. But I layered Seduction over it, cleaned up around the nails as fast as I could, and slapped on Wicked Fast, and was luckily able to change cloths without ruining my manicure. I actually saw that the polish on one nail had moved a little, and looked wrinkly, but managed to drag it into place. Anyway, you 'll just see the left hand in this post.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

Look at the colorshift in the multichrome and the flakies!

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

And here are some more flower photos.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

Here are the nail polishes I used:

Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer, Cult Nails Seduction (middle), OPI Lady in Black

OPI: "Lady in Black"
Deborah Lippmann: "Private Dancer"
Cult Nails: "Seduction"
and Cult Nails base- and top coat ("Get It On" and "Wicked Fast").

Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer, Cult Nails Seduction, OPI Lady in Black

For those of you who are not familiar with these polishes, I'll tell a bit about them:

OPI: Lady in Black: black cream. I used 2 coats to get it opaque, and a third to make the surface more even. In addition I had to use a top coat to make the surface look nice and even. I bought it on sale in January, and it's my only black cream nail polish. I use it as a base, if I need a black base for nail art or something.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

Deborah Lippmann: Private Dancer: purple multichrome. It is sheer, so I have usually used 3 coats. But it's not as sheer as the Ozotic mulitchromes. But this time, when I tried it over black, one coat made a dark very beautiful purple. My nails look as if I have put purple aluminium foil on them. (Not that I've seen that anywhere.) You can use Private Dancer over black if you want to achieve a darker color, and over black or similar colors to use fewer coats of polish. But I also like Private Dancer on its own. I have used it some times, but struggle to capture the color with my camera. I have read many descriptions of the color shift, but on its own, I find that it changes from purple to purple- brown. And the color looks more toned down in the evening or inside. One of the times that I was wearing it on its own, I stopped to look at some polishes, and a manicurist who worked there said my nail polish looked like a chameleon, and asked what I was wearing, and asked all her colleagues to get up and look at my nails. I didn't expect to get that much attention... The green flakies in Seduction looks fantastic over private Dancer, so I think I will try a blue/ green flakie over it next time. Private Dancer was released this spring together with two other mirrored chromes, and you can see them together on a nail wheel in my post about what I bought in April. If you want to see comparison bottle- photos, you'll find them there too.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

Cult Nails: Seduction: a sheer purple jelly base with red and blue flakies that shift to green. Especially now in front of the PC they look green when I hold my hands in odd angles. Over Private Dancer, the blue flakies were hardly visible. The first time I tried Seduction, I wanted to see what it looked like over beige/ nude. But it took many coats to get closer to the bottle color. It looked fantastic on the photos, but not in real life. (And I like pastel purples.) I was a bit disappointed by that, and didn't try it over pink, as I had planned to do next. So I think I will layer it over a medium dark purple cream next time. Seduction is very different from Nfu- Oh 51: The Nfu- Oh doesn't have blue flakies, and the Nfu- Oh has micro glitter with the same color shift as its flakies. Also Seduction has a little bit bigger flakies, but not as many as Nfu- Oh 51. I don't own Finger Paints Asylum, but that is the only flakie polish I could think of that could have similar flakies to Seduction, but Asylum has a clear base. Seduction is often compared to a discontinued Cult Nails polish called Clairvoyant or Unicorn Puke. (I love the name "Unicorn Puke", and don't understand why they changed it to "Clairvoiant".) I've never seen it in person, but if I've understood it correctly they both have a purple base but not exactly the same, and they have similar flakies, but Seduction has less green flakies. Seduction is the first Cult Nails nail polish that I've tried. I bought it together with a base coat and a fast drying top coat, "Get It On" and "Wicked Fast", and I'm very pleased with them. You can see photos of them in the post about what I bought in May and June. I hurried to buy Seduction because it's limited edition, and although I couldn't find it on the animal organizations lists, I hope I can trust that Cult Nails products are cruelty- free when they say so on their web cite. Seduction is from the Divas and Drama collection. It's possible to buy this collection of four polishes (which is on sale at time of writing), or to just buy a bottle of Seduction as I did.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

The most beautiful way to wear Seduction that I've seen so far, is as a base for butterfly- inspired nails. I would like to try that some time. Here you can see it done at Sincerely Stephanie. I also want to try to paint black tiger stripes over Private Dancer some time. That also looked very beautiful. Here you can see that done at Set In Lacquer.

OPI Lady in Black+ Deborah Lippmann Private Dancer+ Cult Nails Seduction

I don't know if you've noticed, but my pinkie nail looks nearly broken. I had a little accident when I put on new sheets. It hurt a lot then, and it felt as if the whole nail got bent.