Category: Nail Polish

Jindie Nails – Pickled Tink

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Today I have a limited edition polish for spring 2013 from Jindie Nails. This is Pickled Tink and oh man, I’m in love!!! Here’s how Jen describes it ” It has a bright hot, neon pink jelly base that can be fully opaque to a crelly finish in about 3 coats.  It has silver and light pink metallic tiny stars, silver and light pink smaller dots and light pink holographic larger dots.  It also has bits of blue, green and purple iridescent, glowing glitters (does not actually glow, just appears to light from within)”. She also calls it magical and that it is. I love this shade so much! It really glows and the shade of pink is just perfect!

 

Pickled Tink is again on the thinner side and application is flawless. I did turn the bottle upside down for a bit before applying each coat. That helps to get the stars and larger dots out easily. Dry time is also fast. Pickled Tink is juicy and squishy looking perfection in the bottle!

Jindie Nails polishes are available to US and Canada customers at www.jindienails.com. International customers click here to find a distributor that works the best for you. Jindie Nails can also be found from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 

 

***This was sent for review





Jindie Nails – Mango with the Flow

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TGIF! Let’s continue with another new Jindie Nails shade, Mango with the Flow. This is another shade from the new Spring Chic collection and here’s how Jen descripes it: “pastel peach crelly (cream/jelly) with metallic silver hex, blue & purple iridescent hex, lime green/gold iridescent hex”. The base color is just lovely and also has subtle shimmer in it. I’m in love with the iridescent glitters. They give this one such delicate look. I’d love to see a polish like this with just iridescent glitter. I bet it would give me magical, sparkling fairy fingers ;D

 

Application is the typical glitter bomb, not difficult but requires some attention. Some of the iridescent glitters got stuck together and I used an orange wood stick to pick them apart a little. That’s not an issue with me, I often do that to spread out the bigger glitter pieces anyways. Mostly this applied very smoothly.

For this I used three thin coats of Mango with the Flow, a coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and HK Girl top coat. This one didn’t want to let me capture all her prettiness but the close up photo show some of the glowing iridescent glitter quite nicely.

Jindie Nails polishes are available to US and Canada customers at www.jindienails.com. International customers click here to find a distributor that works the best for you. Jindie Nails can also be found from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

 


***This was sent for review

Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter A-Peel and Is Someone Loving You?

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Second post of the day and I was supposed to be posting less ;) I have fell behind on my posts and answering the comments, so I’m trying to catch up a little here. I also want to get this post out now cos Nail Pattern Boldness is having a restock tomorrow, Friday at 3 PM EDT and it’ll be the final restock for the Hello? collection. So last change to get yourself some of those beauties. Here’s one of them revisited, Is Someone Loving You?

This is two coats of Is Someone Loving You? alone, no undies. A coat of Glitter Food and HK Girl top coat.

 

Also I have some GREAT news for you who love glitter but hate the removal process. Nail Pattern Boldness has come out with Glitter A-Peel, a peeling base coat. I have purchased a bottle but I haven’t been able to test it out properly yet so I can’t say much. I have read reviews saying it works excellent on natural nails though. So you might want to get a bottle for yourself asap and test it out. I will be writing a full review as soon as I have been using it enough to give my opinion on how it works with UV-gel coated nails :)
Nail Pattern Boldness products can be purchased from their Etsy store. You can also find NPB on Facebook and Instagram plus they have a blog.

 

Jindie Nails – Fantastical

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I just received the Jindie Nails Spring Chic collection and I’m so excited to show you guys these pretties! Here’s the first one of the six polishes in this collection, Fantastical. There’s so much going on glitter wise that I just use Jen’s own description of this polish: “Bright, pastel coral crelly (cream/jelly) with a mix of satin matte aqua hex and regular sized stars, metallic and holographic teal smaller sized stars, squares, hex and large dots, turquoise, green/gold iridescent hex, plus beautiful color shifting teal shimmer”.

 

This is truly unlike anything in my collection and the color combination is quite interesting. In the bottle this looks a little dull but on the nails, just wow! The crelly base color is so fresh and summer-y looking. This is a little bit on a thin side for a glitter bomb and application was just flawless. No need to fish for the glitter, even the stars came out easy. I did turn the bottle upside down for a bit before starting to use it. This was three coats but it was almost opaque already on two. Based on the bottle pics I didn’t expect to like this as much as I do. It’s always nice to be pleasantly surprised :) This is a perfect shade for my skin tone and will look awesome when my hands are a little tanned during summer.

For this mani I used: three thin coats of Fantastical, coat of Nail Pattern Boldness Glitter Food and HK Girl top coat.

I also have good news for those of you who don’t like the star shaped glitter in your polish. This will be available without the stars in a near future along with some other Jindie Nails shades.

Jindie Nails polishes are available to US and Canada customers at www.jindienails.com. International customers click here to find a distributor that works the best for you. Jindie Nails can also be found from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.



***This was sent for review

Jindie Nails Be Someone Cute revisited

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I have already photographed Jindie Nails Be Someone Cute a while ago. On those previous photos I layered it on a base color. This time I decided to wear it on it’s own, no undies. I have to say I like this even more just on it’s own. This is two coats and HK Girl top coat. This is very pretty and being all small glitter it’s different from anything else I have.

 

 

 

***This was sent for review

 

ABC Challenge – P is for Port-folio

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Today’s been another super busy day for me so this late post is also gonna be pretty short ;) For the letter P I chose Color Club’s beautiful Port-folio. I got this a while ago and it was still in my untrieds pile so I saw this as a perfect opportunity to finally wear this one. Port-folio was released in the Fall 2012 In The True Fashion collection.

This is a purple and green duochrome. The duochrome effect is pretty strong. This applies well and dries fast. On the photos I have three coats of Port-folio and HK Girl top coat. Two coats will easily be enough for shorter nails.

 

 

Orly – Lemonade

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I bought a mini bottle of Orly Lemonade to for nail art stuff like dotting tool dots. I have read about the bad application so of course I had to try it myself too and boy, oh boy, it was pretty bad. It’s thick and streaky. Even with three carefully applied coats it was nowhere near perfect or even good. My HK Girl top coat totally saved the manicure and smooth it out enough to at least take a swatch photo. Such a shame cos I absolutely adore this pale yellow shade. I will keep this bottle though and use it only for the purpose I got it for in the first place. It’ll still be perfect for some dotting tool flowers etc.

 

 

Enchanted Polish – Flamingo Freckles (Mei Mei’s Signatures exclusive)

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Today I have another Mei Mei’s Signatures exclusive polish for you, Enchanted Polish Flamingo Freckles. This one is so pretty, feminine and unique! I love it! On Mei Mei’s this is described as “A gorgeous hot pink jelly with scattered holo, iridescent flakes and glitters in hot orange, bubblegum pink, and tiny white color”. It just screams summer to me. Perfection in a bottle!

Flamingo Freckles applies nice and smooth. This is quite sheer so if you want 100% opaque result I suggest layering this on an opaque base color. I myself love squishy jellies so for me this is perfect on it’s own. On the photos I have two coats of Flamingo Freckles and a coat of HK Girl fast drying top coat.

This can be bought only from Mei Mei’s Signatures. Her store will be closed from 25th of April to 7th of May due to moving house and inventory check. For more information you should follow her FB page.

 

 

 

Coco Allure – Cleopinktra

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Happy Saturday everyone :) Been a busy day hence the late post, but better late than never. Today I have another new to me indie brand Coco Allure and their Cleopinktra glitter polish for you. This has gold, pink and fuchsia glitter in different shapes and sizes on a clear base. This must be a new formula cos it is somewhat different than the swatch photo on their store shows. The swatch photo has more square glitter and none round ones and the polish I got has a lot of circular glitter. So this is not quite what I expected but I still like it very much.

Cleopinktra applies well and is really packed with glitter. Just one coat was enough layered on a black base (Essie Licorice). No need to turn the bottle upside down, a lot of glitter comes out without any tricks. This is quite blingtastic polish and I love the colors. This will work on many different base colors. Awesome Gini from Sassy Paints suggested layering this over a subtle yellow and I think that is exactly what I will do next time.

Coco Allure polishes can be bought from their Etsy store.

 

 

Essie – Licorice

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I’ve been wanting to try another black creme polish besides my trusty Color Club Where’s The Soiree? I’ve heard good things about Essie Licorice, so when I was able to find it on a good sale from a local store I decided to give it a try. I have to say I wasn’t disappointed. Two coats was enough for my nails and shorter nails might even get away with just one coat. Application was nice and smooth too. This is definitely a keeper :)