NOTD: Gold & Coral Water Marble + Tutorial

This did not come close to being my favorite, but I was mostly pleased with how it turned out. The China Glaze Tronica collection, pretty much every color I've tried has worked so well for marbling. This one has Mega Byte as the base color, and then marbling is done with Mega Byte & 3D Fantasy:

Here's the tutorial:

Work was sucky this past week but I'll try to fit in a few more posts this weekend to make up for it =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: Layla Metallic Sky

OK, so I didn't get much done over the weekend but never fear - I'm not going AWOL again =) One more magnetic beauty before we get to March - which I treated as a theme month on YouTube.

This is a combination, the polish is Layla Metallic Sky, but I used the China Glaze magnet for the star design - which, if you don't already know, is THE trickiest magnet pattern to get looking decent LOL.  But I was pretty happy with my results:

For the second day I added Warpaint Beauty Mattify:

Finding some other cute things in my trek through old pics - these were, after all, taken in February - and while I was out taking pictures I couldn't resist the perfect snow & made a lil mini-snowman:

Next on my catchup list - water marbles, water marbles & more water marbles as I revisit Water Marble March!

Thanks for reading.

~Colette

NOTD: China Glaze Drawn to You

I was on a magnetic kick this week back at the end of February, apparently. This one is from the China Glaze Magnetics collection - the Magnetix II collection is already available online & in stores soon too by the way, and I like the colors but really am looking forward to the magnet with 3 more different designs.

This particular color I had a bit of trouble, I remember having to redo several nails & you can see a little bit of a blemish on my index finger where the magnet either touched or just pulled up the polish too much, Anyway, this is China Glaze Drawn to You:

I still love the whole magnetic look, but I never did get through wearing nearly all that I bought - & never got around to swatching the THIRTY Nabis that I bought either.  Yeah -30 bottles of magnetic, at what I considered a very reasonable ~$70 on ebay for the whole lot.

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

NOTD: Color Club Hipnotic - Magnetic Force Polish

I picked up some of the Color Club Magnetic Force polishes at Hot Topic, and then I started seeing them all over the place - under the labels of different brands! If I recall, Finger Paints didn't even bother to change the names of the colors, and I saw another set of dupes from another brand that doesn't come to mind right now, but come on - come up with your own stuff polish companies!

This was another favorite, both for the juicy berry color, and for the design that I ended up doing, by holding the magnet at alternating angles every other nail.  This is Color Club Hipnotic from their Magnetic Force collection:

I did take one vid of this but upon review, it being an extremely dreary cloudy overcast crappy day it didn't really do the polish even as good of justice as the pics, so I skipped uploading it.

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

NOTD: Layla Black Metal Magneffect Polish

This one I remember very fondly & I do have something to say about - it was at the time, and still is, my favorite magnetic polish that I've worn to date.  The contrast is just so dramatic & as you will be able to see in the PiM (Polish in Motion), it's 3-dimensional & just generally awesome.  Layla Black Metal Magneffect Polish:

Here's the vid:



I have, at this point, a ton of magnetic polishes.  And while I have yet to wear many of them, I think this one will reign on top for quite a while =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette