2015 31DC2015 - Day 8; metallic - Gear / Sprocket nail art over duochrome polish

Today's nails is a simple stamping but I'm still happy with it. Still not perfect, I notice that the free edge of the nail is the hardest place to get the pattern on for me, when I had shorter nails, like 3MM shorter, it was way easier to stamp tbh. Today's 31dc theme is "metallic nails" and I decided to use a duochrome/multichrome base'll take more about in a future post.  I'm not sure if a chrome polish finish counts as "metallic" but here goes, also I could perhaps claim that a gear or sprocket is made out of metal.

Here's the base polish and wow how much I liked it! I love when polishes looks even better on the nail than in the bottle. I will as I said above make a swatch post of this Rival de Loop polish after the 31dc.

This and below is just bonus pics of the manicure in a different light and therefor more purple to blue looking.

Polishes used:
Rival de Loop - no 06
MoYou's special black nail polish
Born Pretty Store Image Plate BPL-022 (itemID: 20787 http://www.bornprettystore.com/geek-pattern-nail-stamp-template-image-plate-born-pretty-65cm-p-20787.html)

Don't forget you can use my 10% dicount code NGL91 for your Born Pretty Store purchases (which isn't on sale already). I've talked more about the BPL-022 HERE. For posts with inspirational BPS nail art which I've reviewed and done, feel free to click the Born Pretty Store label in the end of this post or search for it in the left side-bar of this blog.

 
***Some products in this post have been provided for review, however it has not changed my opinion about them.*** 

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R de L Young - Two Face, swatch

This is a duochrome polish going from bright cold toned purple, to bright warm toned purple and all the way to brown. I just love this polish, other duochromes with brown color shifts can easily look "dirty", but this one never does, probably because the purple base color is so bright. The shifts are also easy to see and this looks great in any lights. Also I just love R de L Young's flat rounded brush and the formula was awesome. I needed 2 coats and I can only recommend it!  <3

I love the flat wide brush! Some of you has asked me how I get such a clean and even line close to the cuticles and it SO much simpler when the brushes are like this.

9 ML bottle and 1,3 euro at Rossman.

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Catrice - Call Me Princess, swatch

An unusual purchase to be me, it's pink! ;) Basically I thought that Call Me Princess from their Crushed Crystal collection was a texture polish, similar to something Isadora had 2014. However, as it turned out, there is no noticeable grit! Surprisingly I liked this and the color shifting has a huge part of it. When angeling the nail I think the pink goes from gold, to warm light pink to dark hot pink in the edges. Basically it contains color shifting glass-flecks/tiny glitter ranging from pink to gold, all in a pink jelly base.It covered surprisingly well and I used 3 coats even though 2 could have been enough (the 3rd didn't make that big of a difference), there is some VNL going on but adding more coats doesn't hide it in this case. And I must say it shows a bit more in the pictures than IRL. The polish formula is good and covers fast however the brush is more of a wide "brom" even though I prefer wide over tiny brushes.

I think this picture shows the color shifts the best, darker hot pink going towards warm golden pink.

This last picture is the only picture taken with cellphone, it's also in the sun because I wanted to show how much CMP is glittering. ^^

Awesome price; 1,35 euro (on sale) at Rossman.

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R de L Young - Mermaid of Calabria, swatch

Picked up this polish which is part from the limited edition R de L Young Bloggers collection. This particular polish is made "by Jessica" from the blog http://www.blackberry-peaches.blogspot.de/

Mermaid of Calabria is a duochrome polish which has a base within emerald green polish to even more teal, blue and in certain angles I see a purple toned blue in the edges. Above that this polish also has a golden light green shimmer where ever the light hits. And additionally (if that wasn't enough) this polish also has iridescent shredded glitter! The shredded glitter isn't all over the place, but looking close you can see them glowing in different colors looking like broken sea shells.. And on top of all this, perfect formula, goes on like butter, flat brush and covering in 2 simple coats.

I could seriously look at this polish forever... You can probably also guess that it was hazzle to photograph this.. My camera originally tried making this polish too blue on the nails but irl emerald green is what I see the most. Therefore, this is my contribution to Green Wednesday.

Natural light.

Natural light.

Natural light.

Natural light.

Weird angle I know, but some sort of half shadow/natural light to show of the blurple tones.

Natural light.

Natural light.

In shadow; here you see a glimpse of how the shredded iridescent glitter looks like.

With flash

Natural light.

Dat bottle... jum :D

Bought at Rossman for 1, 69 euro.

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Kicks - Moondust, swatch (matte and shiny)

Moondust is dark color shifting glitter texture from Kicks Sugar Lacquer collection from 2013. The glitter is typically teal/green but in certain angles it looks pink. In the bottle it looks even more fantastic shifting from green, teal, blue, purple, pink and all the way to gold... but that's mostly just visible in the bottle. The formula is good and it takes two coats to cover and I don't remember the drying time to be a problem. After I had tried the matte version for awhile I decided to make it shiny so 2-3 coats of tc I managed to get it smooth. (If you apply 2 coats you have to reapply tc the next day or by the evening.)

Bought at Kicks for a "buy 3 pay for 2-deal", which meant I payed about 50SEK (5 euro). The ordinary price was 79SEK (~8 euro).

Do you like this? Do you prefer it shiny/glossy or matte textured?

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Ciaté - Heirloom, swatch

Bought this at HM for 50SEK (like 5 euro) and it's my first Ciaté. I was amazed how duochrome/multichromed it looked in the store and when I got it on my nails I was still amazed.

The finish reminds of color shifting glassflecks in a green/brown jelly base. The color shifting range is usually within something like burgundy red and hot pink to golden/orange/brown. But looking close one can see navy blue/purple glassfleck spots in the burgundy/hot pink and in some lights the edges of the golden/brown turns almost green.

The color shifting is visible in literally all lights, maybe not in direct sunlight though, then it's more pink, but you get my point, you don't have to search for it. The only down side here is that the polish is sheer, very sheer. I needed 5 coats.. I'll definitely try layering it over perhaps black in the future.

Sorry about the photo being blurry, don't know what happened there. :/

Can you see the blue flecks here in the hot pink? :)

Here is one example of how it looks greenish in the edges.

Flourecent light (also similar to direct sun light)

And just for fun. Had to google "heirloom" and the meaning of it, I didn't know what it meant but maybe you already did. Anyhow, basically it's something antique, perhaps a jewelry or other family treasure which has been passed on through generations. 

Overall, I really like this polish despite the sheerness. I have a weak spot for multichromes/duochromes, that's for sure. Have you tried this polish? What do you think about it? :)

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