Fancy Friday #42: Love is in the Air

And my second Valentine's day mani is part of the Fancy Friday challenge - if you need to recap why this is a darker version of a Valentine Mani you can go read my little rant here.

As I wrote in my last Fancy Friday challenge I wanted to try the fan brush gradient with regular polishes so I did that as a base. I started with a layer of China Glaze Pelican Gray and when it'd dried I used the tutorial at Neverland Nail Blog I talked about last week using Pelican Gray, YSL Gris Orage, and Dior Gris Montaigne. The look can best be seen on my ring finger on the picture below:

It became the perfect base for the rest of this mani I think, I'm just bummed I totally forgot to take pictures of it. I love that the effect is so subtle that you hardly realise it is a gradient.

I used MoyouLondon Princess Plate 10 for the girly skull and heart doodle stamp and VividLacquer plate VL007 for the kissy lips - and like my other VDay mani I also used Leighton Denny Indulgence as stamping polish here.

And La Pièce de Résistance: Elevation Polish Yeti's Broken Heart - an awesome glitter topper with a wide variety of white matte glitters and heart shaped glitter in white, black and purple. Add a little bit of holographic micro glitter pieces and you got a killer polish. I think it is a brilliant polish with a slight nudge to all the Valentine frenzy...

 

Lastly here are all the polishes together that I used for this manicure:

China Glaze Pelican Gray, YSL Gris Orage, Dior Gris Montaigne, Elevation Yeti's Broken Heart, Leighton Denny Indulgence

Ugens Fælles Fredag udfordring er Love is in the Air - det er Valentins dag og det fejrer jeg ikke ;). Jeg kan ikke rigtig få armene op over en begivenhed som er blevet indført af rent kommercielle årsager, en dag som vi aldrig har haft tradition for at fejre før i Danmark. Og nej, vi fejrer heller ikke Mors og Fars dag i den lille familie ;). Men det skal da så ikke forhindre mig i at lave en Valentinsmani med et twist - min base er en grå gradient i stedet for en lyserød eller rød lak, som jo ofte bliver brugt i den sammenhæng, og så har jeg valgt en anti-valentinsdagsneglelak til at toppe et par af fingrene: Elevation Polish Yeti's Broken Heart.

Elevation Ama Dablam

I was extremely lucky to get hold of this beauty when Lulu at I Dig Brown Nail Polish aka the creator of Elevation Polish did preorders for the very last batch of this wonderful glitter polish. This is a very complex polish with different copper and teal glitters.

 

For this combination I layered it over YSL 142 Ultra Orange and Leighton Denny Plush Pink.

 

I used two coats for this level of coverage.

 This polish was very easy to apply, there was no need to dab it in order to get this to cover properly. I used one coat of Gelous and one coat of top coat to get full cover of the glitter though I think I could have gotten away with one liberal coat of top coat.

Some of the glitters do have a tendency to "cling" to each other but in my experience it is a common trait in glitter layering polishes when they are packed with glitter the way Ama Dablam is.

 This is really gorgeous, the way the copper glitter seem to light from within in indirect sunlight is absolutely amazing!!

Even in shadow it lights up!

You can purchase Elevation Polishes at Lulu's BigCartel Store, right now there are quite a lot of polishes in stock. She usually restocks new colours the 7th of each month but due to technical issues she has moved this month's restock to the 22nd, that is usually a restock of recurring colours - so there will be loads of polishes to get a hold on. I myself will be getting Marmolada and Jungfrau if they don't sell out too quickly.