Franken Feature 4: Superficially Colourful Fascinated

So here is the second of the three polishes Jin RAOK'ed me in January - and since I waxed poetic like nobody's business about Impulse, I'll keep this short and to the point: EFFING GORGEOUS!!!

 

 We had sun!! I get totally carried away on sunny days in the winter since we don't get them much here - so I am lobster hand Ma'm in most of these pics :D

 

 Shimmer, shimmer, glass fleck shimmer! YAY!! And multicoloured...Double YAY!!!

 

 

 I have fallen totally in love with these colour changers, almost so much that I want a whole lot more of them :D

Thank you again, Jin, for being such a wonderful friend!!

And please return later this week for the last of the Superficially Colourful Color Changing Franken Polishes :)

Franken Feature 3: Superficially Colourful Impulse

In January I received a ridiculously awesome RAOK (Random Act Of Kindness) from some of my lacquer friends, one of whom is the lovely Jin who runs Superficially Colourful. Besides two polishes I have been wanting for quite some time she also sent me three colour changing polishes she made herself that are ABSOLUTELY gorgeous. I will be show casing all three here and first up is Impulse, a dark green polish that changes to a neon lime green.

The pigment Jin has used reacts on heat so your tips will be dark and your nail bed will be light.

I was truly lucky the day I wore this. The sun was shining which happens rarely here during winter, so I didn't need my light tent :D

She has also packed it with a beautiful glass fleck like shimmer - and you know I'm a sucker for glass flecks!!

 Look at that shimmer - gorgeous I tell you!!!

I really like this shot, it makes me relive how much I looked at my fingers when I wore it :D.

Thank you so much, Jin for this awesome gift - I love, love, love it.
And for the rest of you: Make sure to keep an eye on the blog for the other two!!

Franken Feature 2: Nailant New Years Day (Sick in Snow)

So today you are going to see the second of the polishes I won in the giveaway that Nailant had in January. To be absolutely honest I didn't think much of it when I saw the pictures, it was Kinky Panties I had the hots for :D

And to make matters even worse, I am not really a gold kind of girl, actually I'd prefer a silver polish any day to go with my skin tone! But was I in for a surprise with this little stunner:

I proudly present: New Years Day (Sick in the Snow):

The shimmering golden base has so much going on it's ridiculous - but then consider that fiery orange hex glitter and you get awesomeness in a bottle. I have to admit I am a sucker for fiery orangey glitter these days - I blame it all on Dandy Nails Grave Robber!!

And an added bonus is, it is like a glitter sandwich without the hassle of layering glitter polish between a jelly polish!! So much win and awesome!!!

I love it even more than Kinky Panties! And I found it was the easiest of the two to work with.

Thank you Stinna, for creating such a wonderful polish!!!

And this is not the last time I'm featuring franken stuff here! The super sweet Jin from Superficially Colorful gifted me some awesome colour changing polishes that will blow your socks off. If everything goes according to plan *crosses fingers*  you'll see the first of three tomorrow!!

Franken Feature 1: Nailant New Year's Eve (Kinky Panties)

Long time, no read. It is holiday time here in Denmark and the girls went to visit their grandparents last week. So hubby and I decided to do things we rarely have time to: Dining with friends, going to the movies and other great things...and no blogging whatsoever ;).

The next couple of days on the blog will be franken related, I have received 5 franken polishes during January and really want to show you guys how talented some of my friends are.

First up is a franken polish I received in a giveaway hosted by the wonderful Stinna who runs Nailant. I was so excited when I won it 'cause Stinna really make some awesome polishes!!!

This gorgeous polish is called New Years Eve (Kinky Panties) and is a black jelly with magenta shreds - I lurve it!!!

This is three coats: 

What I really like about it is that the shreds aren't drowned in the black base but shines through.

The polish on my ring finger is the second half of my prize but that one will be featured tomorrow ;)

I am looking forward to showing you that one in all its glory - see you then.

Untried Sunday on a Monday: Ninja Polish Zultanite

So I've been in a blogging funk here - I polish and take photos but when it comes to the write-ups I seem to find my self at a stand-still. Which you might have noticed has resulted in me not getting those sunday untrieds up here.

Then I thought I'd just post some photos of this beauty without that many words so I at least can keep up with my goal for this year: 120 posts before 31st of December :D

I proudly present: Ninja Polish Zultanite, a gorgeous colour changing polish with colour changing glitter in it, just to make it even more awesome.

 It needs layering, here it is on top of a-england Camelot.

Application was a breeze and only one layer is needed for this effect.

This polish is unlike anything else I own!!

 

The underlying colour scheme is very much alike Color Changing Garnet, but there are some slight differences:

Totally gorgeous polishes both of them, if you are into duochromes/multichromes you definitely need them both.

Neither of the polishes are in stock at NinjaPolish right now but be sure to sign up for their restocking notices here and go grab one when the opportunity arises, they really are need-to-have polishes!!

Girly Floam vs. Girls Rule Boys Drool

So here is a new type of post that I will do every once in a while. Comparison Posts :D.

Today I am looking at two polishes where the creators actually released promo pictures of their new girly polishes on the same day: Ninja Polish Girly Floam and Dollish Polish Girls Rule, Boys Drool.

Dollish Polish Girls Rule, Boys Drool(GRBD) was a very limited edition with only 400 bottles made that could be acquired through a raffle style sale. You signed up to get a bottle and then Dolly chose radomly who was going to get one. When you got your notification you then had 48 hours to pay your invoice or the polish would be raffled onwards to someone else. And I signed up for the raffle.

But since my life always seem to be very hectic my short term memory is working as bad as Dory's. So when Ninja Polish released their Girly Floam I went ahead and bought it /facepalm. And a week or so later I got confirmation that I had won the right to acquire GRBD - and since I was curious as to whether the two were real dupes I ended up buying it.

So here they are:

Girly Floam and Girls Rule, Boys Drool are filled with pink and dark lavendar matte glitter.

Pinky: Girly Floam, two coats over nails inc. floral street. With top coat.
Ring: GRBD, two coats over nails inc. floral street. With top coat.
Middle: Girly Floam, two coats. No top coat
Index: GRBD two coats. No top coat.

As you can see Girly Floam is way denser than GRBD. I would think you could get Girly Floam opaque in three layers while GRBD would take at least one layer more. 

 

GRBD was thinner than Girly Floam but both seemed to pool the glitters when I applied them. They both behaved better with undies than without.

As mentioned earlier both polishes are with two layers - you'll get the same look from Girly Floam with one layer as two layers of GRBD give you.

They do dry slightly gritty but that can be remedied with either a glitter tamer or an extra layer of top coat. I just thought it would be nice for once to see how a glitter like this looks with only a regular layer of top coat.

If you'd like to get your hands on Girly Floam it is in stock at the Ninjas at the moment and if you're quick you can get it before US shipping rates rises on Sunday.

Untried Sunday: Girly Bits Stormy Skies

It is no secret that I love Girly Bits - I have quite a few now,  and luckily I have had a lot of them gifted to me in secret swaps. As you could see on the picture I posted when I wrote about Boo-Berry, Stormy Skies was also in that lot. And I didn't wear it.

Seeing these pics I have absolutely no idea why!!!

It is a gorgeous light gray that leans slightly blue with the most amazing glass fleck shimmer - and the name is perfect for this polish.

Please bathe in the beauty that is Stormy Skies:

Formula was fantastic, didn't have any application problems and dry time is fast.

Ooohh, glass flecks - did I tell you I love glass fleck polishes?

Just look at those lovely glass flecks in the bottle:

Did I mention the glass flecks?

This is actually quite close to the elusive Illamasqua Raindrops (which at the re-release sold out in no time), but it is opaque in two coats which is way better than the oodles of coats it takes to get Raindrops opaque. If any of you  would like a comparison post, leave a comment and I'll get on it as soon as I can.

Girly Bits will soon be available to buy from a European e-tailer when Foxy Fingertips opens shop. Until then you can either buy them directly from the BigCartel store - or buy a select choice from Llarowe, Harlow & Co. and Overall Beauty.