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Trying to get the look of Ray Of Light+ a purple flakie accent



Hello everyone!



After trying some Deborah Lippmann testers, I wanted to keep "Ray Of Light" on my left hand, and "Sweet Dreams" on my right ring finger, and try to make the same look on the other hand. Sweet Dreams is a fuchsia flakie, so it looked purple over Gina Tricot #48 "Diva" (a blue cream with a little purple in it, similar to "I know what boys like"). So this is where last post continues!

As yesterday, please overlook the scratches! I am very clumsy, so now there are new scratches too. But if I did not show the photos with scratches, you would not see the color shifting flakies so well. This is just something I did for fun, so some of the fingers ended up with way too many layers. My left ring finger is the worst: base coat+ 2 coats Diva+ topcoat+ 2 coats Sweet Dreams+ top coat+ Nfu- Oh #51+ I love Candy+ 2 or 3 layers of flakies...

The first thing I did when I came home with the testers on my fingers, was to see if I had something similar.



This is:
Thumb: Gina Tricot #48 Diva (2 coats)+ Deborah Lippmann Ray of Light (2 coats),
# 1: H&M Sweet Blue Dreams+ Nfu- Oh #52,
# 18: H&M Notoriously Beautiful+ Finger Paints Twisted, and
# 13: 2 coats Dior Addict #220 (beige) + Nfu- Oh #51(3 coats)

Well, lets start with the left, and try to make the ring finger purple with pink flakies.
The first thing I did was to put Nfu- Oh #51 over Ray of Light, (but of course that did not give the desired effect. I do not know what I was thinking.) If you have always wondered what Nfu- Oh #51 would look like over Ray Of Light, take a look at this ring finger:






Next, I put on Hello Kitty by H&M "I love Candy":



And I got the look after some layers of flakies. I do not remember exactly, but think this is Nubar 2010+ Nfu- Oh 49:



Then, on the right hand, I tried to get the "Ray Of Light" look:

After comparing Ray of Light with similar polishes and combinations on the nail wheels, I removed the polish, except for the ring finger, and put on base coat + H&M "Notoriously Beautiful":




I put Nfu-Oh 59 on the thumb, but it made the blue too dark:


I tried to find out which flakies would look pink over the blue.

With flash


Then, I ended up with Nubar 2010 (one coat) on the other blue nails. This looked close to Ray Of Light, but had more color shift:








I was very pleased with the result. But the next day, in the sun, the blue in Ray Of Light looked better. And I took it off, thinking that I need both the Deborah Lippmann polishes.





I could probably have added some drops of "Blue" (from the H&M 5-pack set of mini nail polishes) to make a better blue base color. But I do not know if it would help.

A few days after this experiment, I read about a franken called "Rami", made as a tribute to Deborah Lippmann's "Ray Of Light". It looks like the flakies shift less when they are mixed into the base. So I think Ice Queen made the flakies look very similar to the original. But if you like more flakies, and have the original, you can simply add a coat of flakies.

Cruelty- Free brands used in this post: Deborah Lippmann, H&M, Hello Kitty, Nubar, Gina Tricot, and GOSH (base/ top coat). I could not find Nfu- Oh on the animal organizations lists at all. Please send me an e-mail if you have.

In the next post, you can see Sweet Dreams on its own, but only on one finger, next to Helena Rubinstein: Red Magma , and my untrieds.


Lani

pekal

Swatch after testing Deborah Lippmann Ray of Light


Hello everyone!


I was very surprised when I found some Deborah Lippmann testers, when I was shopping. Here is what my left hand looked like afterwards:



This is two coats. Under all this is Gina Tricot 48 Diva. I was in a hurry, and had no time to take pictures of it for you, before I left home. I hope Ray of Light is opaque enough to not show the color beneath it.

There are some scratches because a woman came into the shop, and "had to" stand very close to me, and I therefor had to move my bags with my wet nails. :-( But some of the scratches were there before I put the testers on.





RAY OF LIGHT




"Ray Of light" is a bit difficult to photograph, so I put it next to some other colors that you might know. But I do not know if that helps.
1) The blue you see everywhere this spring, (Do you call it ultramarine or International Klein Blue (IKB)? Look at the sweather- photos)
2) The flowers of my plant (Streptocarpus Hybrid). Although the flowers are more purple, and the polish more blue, they look similar on the photo. The flowers also look different in real life. (Look at the first photo)
3) Mermaids Dream (below)












They did not have all the new ones. But I am very happy that I got the chance look at the bottle colors in person, and to try them on. Both because I was curious about the new ones, and because some of them were very different from what I had expected.




My opinion:

RAY OF LIGHT has a very beautiful, dark blue/ indigo base color, with evenly dispensed medium size bronze-pink flakies. The flakies look the same all the time, except in extreme angles (and on a few of my photos), and then they look green. And that is as close as it gets to 3D or holographic in real life. My other flakies are more color shifting. But Ray Of Light is a very nice dark blue with not so obvious flakies, so you look beautiful, but not too eye catching.

Green flakies on the right side.
This is a polish I would have been wearing a lot. But to my surprise, when I came home and looked at my nail wheels, I have a similar blue. And I have different flakies to put over it. Mine are not so pink, though.

I have to be hard and chose the ones that I find most unique and like best, because I do not want to use a lot of money.










And as always, I like to mention that Deborah Lippmann nail laquer is not tested on animals, as you can see written on the bottle box above.


Lani

pekal

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