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Sat-ART-Day Club: Amethyst Pattern Skittle


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The Sat- ART- Day Club has started again, and this first Saturday we are all making an amethyst pattern skittle. I chose to use my amethyst magnetic nail polish; Deborah Lippmann Berry Metal, and used five different magnets to make a different pattern on each nail. As usual you can find thumbnails with links to all the participants' amethyst pattern skittles at he end of the post.

Amethyst Pattern Skittle


I've written about Berry Metal from the Steal My Kisses set earlier. To see it, click here.

Amethyst Pattern Skittle


Here are the magnets I used:

Magnets used for the Amethyst Pattern Skittle

Magnets:
IsaDora- horizontal stripe pattern: thumb
Deborah Lippmann- magnetic wave design: index finger
IsaDora- star pattern: middle finger
China Glaze Magnetix II: ring finger
IsaDora- diagonal stripe pattern: pinkie

Amethyst Pattern Skittle


Deborah Lippmann describes the color of Berry Metal as amethyst. Here you can see how close the color of the amethyst stone is to the color of the nail polish.

Amethyst Pattern Skittle
It looks like many are doing the Laid- Back 31 Day Challenge, that started this month, but if anyone have had time to do this Sat-ART-Day Club challenge, you should find their thumbnails below :-)

Lani

November hauls and snowflakes


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November 2012 hauls

Today I'm going to show you what I bought in November. I know it's a little late, and some of the polishes are probably not available any more. But I'll just show you anyway. This might seem like a lot, but this year I tried to make a deal with Santa, so that I could buy my own nail polish presents, and get money for Christmas. Also these are mostly low price polishes in small bottles. So I feel that I got a lot for the money, and I had fun testing them all on nail wheels. I'll start with what you haven't already seen in the first photo! :-)

Messy Mansion:

Messy Mansion stamping plates MM01, A39, my one stroke mani


Christmas stamping plates: MM01 and A39. I love the images, but sadly some of them are for those with larger nailbeds than mine. I chose these plates because of the dromedaries, snowflakes, trees and the lghts, and wish I could use the large images to. Messy Mansion is an Australian brand. The diameter of the plates is 7 cm (and that is bigger than many other well known brands). One more picture to show you the images on A39:

Messy Mansion stamping plate A39


Flakie, Base- & Top Coat:

IsaDora #600 Clear, Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat, Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French


Pierre Reneè: 

Pierre Reneè #11 Transparent French


Pierre Reneè: #11 Transparent French (orange- green flakies)
I used this flakie in the one stroke mani. I was very curious of this flakie. Then I found out that I didn't need it, and gave it away. (I already own Nubar 2010... and Nfu- Oh #49... I also couldn't find Pierre Reneè on the animal organizations' cruelty- free lists...)

Seche Vite:


Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat
Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat
This is now my favourite top coat. I have been very pleased with it, except for the day I made my one stroke mani, and it made the hobby lacquer I had used crackle. This top coat really is fast drying, and it makes a thick seal.

Seche Vite: Dry fast top coat



IsaDora:


IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat


IsaDora #600 Clear extra long lasting quick dry base- & top coat
This is my favourite base coat, although it actually is a top coat too. I love the wide/ double brush, it's easy to apply, and it dries fast. I only wish the bottle was bigger than 6 ml or that the price was lower. Luckily these were on sale before Christmas.

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

IsaDora #600 Clear base- & top coat

Cala:


Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel, my Bling nails


Cala nail decoration: Hologram Jewel. These were easy to apply, because they are like stickers, but they need a top coat to stay on your nails. I bought them for my Bling nails mani.

Hennes & Mauritz (H&M):


Zipper plastic bag with nail clipper, cuticle pusher?, file, and Frangipani fantasia hand cream, which smells good. (I carry this little bag with me everywhere. Together with a little box of nail polish remover pads, it's my emergency nail stuff.)

H&M: Nail polish kit:
H&M Nail polish kit


Metall Me, Purple Potion, Golden Days, Nude Dude, Peacock Green, Purple Sparkle
H&M Nail polish kit

Thank you H&M for naming your mini bottles! These are 5 ml. I fell for the two glitter polishes with holographic glitter on each end of this kit, and also liked the purple.

H&M Nail polish kit: Metall Me, Purple Potion


Red glitter 2- pck:

H&M 2- pck: Super Red, Super Glitter

Super Red (red cream), Super Glitter (clear, with small red glitter that needs a good top coat). These are 6ml bottles, and I guess they are meant to be used together.

Star shaped mini bottles:
H&M: Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish


Orange Reddish, Grey Dark, Purple Reddish 
These are 4 ml, so they are actually much bigger than they look in real life!

H&M: Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie  

Je t'aime, Antique Gold, Oh La La, Mon Amie. These 8 ml bottles are all with gold shimmer.


Did you notice the SNOWFLAKE in the picture above? The snow was full of big visible snowflakes when these photos were taken!!! :-D  It's easier to see it when I zoom in:

H&M nail polish bottles in the snow

Snowflake! :-) and H&M: Antique Gold


Look at the big snowflake above to the right!!!

H&M: Purple sprinkles, H&M: Fabulous Nails Honey
Fabulous Nails Honey (brown) 9 ml bottle

H&M: Purple sprinkles



Purple sprinkles: clear base with lots of small hexagonal purple glitter, holographic string/ bar glitter, and very few big hexagonal blue glitter. Although it looks small, this is a 12 ml bottle :-)

It has a similar length to the Orly (Be Brave) bar glitter, but the H&M bar glitter looks thicker. Each H&M bar is more visible, but the Orly bar glitter is more dense. Over black the bars look mainly silver, and over white they look holographic and can shift to any color of the rainbow when you move the nail wheel. But I think I see green more often than other colors. I tried to capture it in these 4 photos.

H&M: Purple sprinkles
H&M: Purple sprinkles


Gosh:


 GOSH: Nero



Gosh: Nero  I really needed a black creme.

GOSH: Nero


China Glaze: 

Ghina Glaze: Magnetics II magnet

Magnetix II: magnet with 3 designs. I have already used it twice: here and here.

Catrice & Color Club:

Color Club: Cloud Nine, Catrice: Heavy Metallilac


Catrice: #800 Heavy Metallilac is a medium purple metallic with pink shimmer. The bottle is 10 ml.


Color Club #900 Cloud Nine is a light pink strong linear holographic. I have used it on it's own, and for stamping in my new year's eve fireworks mani. I'm very glad that this bottle is 15 ml :-)

Orly:

Orly: Be Brave

Orly: Be Brave: Pink holographic bar/ string glitter in a clear jelly base. This bottle is 18 ml :-) It's my third from the Flash Glam FX Collection.

Gina Tricot: 

I bought two sets with 5 ml minibottles i November, and of course these were on sale in December :-(

This first set is called Nail Polish Pack 2:
Gina Tricot Beauty Nails: Pack 2: Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

Holographic pink, Holographic multi, Holographic blue, Holographic green

I wish this photo was much better. Holographic multi has pink shimmer, and Holographic blue is a little darker, and has green and pink shimmer, and Holographic green looks more green. These look interesting in the bottle IRL, but I found out that the green is slightly linear holographic. The others are not holographic. So, because of the names, I got disappointed.

Nail Polish Pack 3:
Gina Tricot Nail Polish Pack 3: Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

Lilac, Shimmer, 3D, Iris

A few more photos to show the shimmer in these:

Gina Tricot: 3D, Iris
Gina Tricot: Shimmer, 3D, Iris


I love purple, so of course I bought these. When I applied the first coat of Iris, I could see the blue shimmer. But it disappeared :-( I could see it again when I applied top coat, but the shimmer disappeared again when it dried. But luckily the pink and blue shimmer in Shimmer was visible on the nail.


I don't think I needed all of these, but I love to try new polishes, and I really love some of them, and when I look at some of them I can't understand how I used to survive without them.


Did you buy these nail polishes too? What do you think of them? Do you want to see what I bought in December now, or should I wait a few days?


Lani

Sat- ART- Day Club: Magnetic color blocking


Hello everyone, and happy 12.12.12!!! :-)

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club

I like that I get to try new techniques in the Sat- ART- Day Club. I do have a "to do list", but this challenge helps me to get started. For Saturday we were making a colour blocking mani. I'm going to use magnetic nail polishes to add a little pattern, and because i want to use an untried magnet and two untried magnetic nail polishes.
This mani is inspired by this post by Esmaltes da Kelly who was the first I saw to use several magnetic nail polishes on the same nail with one pattern. My mani started out as a color blocking mani, but evolved into something that I'm not sure if can be classified as color blocking any more. Anyway, here's what I made on Saturday:



Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club

Before the magnet was used:

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club


What I used:


*Magnetic nail Polish:
IsaDora #858 Magnetic Mania (purple with blue shimmer)
Deborah Lippmann: Magnetic Wave Love is A Battlefield (magenta)
Prestige: #03 Topaz (blue/ blurple)

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club. Bottles: IsaDora: #858 Magnetic Mania, Deborah Lippmann: Love is A Battlefield, Prestige: #03 Topaz


*Striping tape:

Using striping tape to make "Magnetic color blocking", Sat- ART- Day Club.


*Magnets:
China Glaze: Magnetix II (I used the bulls eye pattern and the square pattern)
IsaDora: (the one that came with the bottle)- wave pattern
IsaDora: star pattern
IsaDora: narrow stripes pattern

Magnets used to make "Magnetic color blocking", Sat- ART- Day Club


*Small round brush
I used the brush to paint the big and small color block areas, and to go back and fix things.

*Base- and top coats:
IsaDora #600 Clear- as base coat
GOSH: #01- as top coat

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club


What I did:

Being a two coater, I started with one coat of Love is A Battlefield. Then I used the striping tape. Then I went in with the brush, and made more areas on that finger, which I now regret. I made the patterns on one finger at the time, and let them all dry. Then I repeard and/or changed the patterns, and let it dry. Then I used a regular top coat (I mean a not "fast drying" top coat) to soften up and wake up the thick layers of magnetic nail polishes, and to give me enough time to use the magnets. I top coated one nail at the time, and used a different magnet on each nail. It didn't turn out as expected, but now after I did this, I understand why. It's because the color patterns were on the same place as the magnetic patterns. But I'm very pleased with the thumb and the index finger! I also like my ring finger.

Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club, Bottle: Prestige: #03 Topaz


So what I learned is that the magnetic pattern lines should be in the opposite direction of the color pattern's lines. And I should try to avoid too thick layers, so that I don't get bubbles.

Below you can see thumbnails with links to the other participants' color blocking nail art!

Lani

Teal Magnetic: IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart


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IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart








This is IsaDora  #856 Steel My Heart.



IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart








It is a dark teal and grey magnetic nail polish with a beautiful teal shimmer.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart







It is one of the 5 magnetics that I bought last month. I must say that I like the names of the magnetics.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart







I have already written about the IsaDora magnetics, their magnets, and how to use them in the post about #854 Opposites Attract (the green magnetic).

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart









But this time I got some bold spots when I used one coat (as was recommended). I don't think you can see it on the photo below, but it's there.


IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart







So this was my first try, without top coat.

IsaDora separate star magnet, IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart








Maybe I didn't use thick enough coats. But I took it off and tried "the two coat method" (that I used with the Deborah Lippmann set). And this time I was pleased with the result. And I applied my GOSH top coat.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart









Here is what one coat of Steel My Heart looks like, without the magnetic effect (no top coat). I liked it like that too.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart, one coat, before magnetic effect









For those of you who like variation, it's of course possible to just use one coat like this the first day, put on a second coat and use the magnet the next day, and add glitter or flakies the third, and mattify it the fourth day.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart, star pattern magnet

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart, star pattern magnet











This is the magnet i used. And as you can see, it has a star pattern. On the nail it looked more like a mix of cross pattern and star pattern. And it didn't work as well on the right side of the nails. I wondered if it could be because of the security anti- theft thing that was still attached. So I tore it off just in case it would help. But it made no difference. But this kind of pattern is fine. Then it's not that eye- catching.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart



IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart







Unfortunately it started chipping the second day, although I had tried to wrap the polish. I wore the green magnetic for days, but then I added several top coats. You might have seen it briefly in my last haul post.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart








Here is a link to IsaDora, where you can read more about their magnetic nail polishes, or see the rest of their nail polish and cosmetics collection. You can also find IsaDora on facebook.

IsaDora #856 Steel My Heart








Lani