October Challenges - Galaxy nails

Today's prompt was Galaxy for #wnac2015
Last week my lovely friend Anna posted up the most fantastic mani where she sponged a selection of magnetic polishes, top coated them all and used a magnet with a stunning result, My first thoughts were, what a great idea as a base for Galaxy nails so that's what I tried.
I think maybe I didn't add enough polish, or maybe my magnets were too precise, either way it didn't turn out quite the way I planned but pretty enough I think.
I started with a base of a blue/black holo Desk Clear polish from Above the Curve and sponged Avon Blue Attraction, Avon Spellbound Green, and Avon Fuchsia Force onto my nails. The red is particularly lovely as it has holo glitter in it. I top coated and tried with the magnet - some worked, a bit too well so the pattern was too defined and some not all, so some practice needed here I think.
Then I stamped with Hit the Bottle Snowed Under and Uber Chic UC 2-03.
Despite my limited success in copying Anna, I am still really pleased with these.

Galaxy nails

 

 

 

Avon Blue Attraction

Today I let my husband chose what I would wear on my nails, and he chose "one of those magnety polishes!"

He rarely shows any interest in nails but I happened to be watching a QVC Nails Inc show ages back and he came in just as they were doing a demo of one of the "new" magnetic polishes. He was genuinely fascinated and I will admit I was tempted but not at those prices.

Anyway, months later Avon brought out quite a sizeable range of magnetic polishes. At £3 a time, I bought 3, Fuschia Force, Spellbound Green and Blue Attraction. Fuschia Force is beautiful as it has tiny glitters in it too, but it was high time I tried one of the others so I went for the blue.

Blue Attraction is a denimy mid toned blue. As a plain polish it is pretty blue, a bit on the pale side for me but good quality, applied and dried well, with a nice finish. Often these metallic style polishes have a brush strokey finish,but to the naked eye the finish looked good to me. It does look a bit streaky in the picture but not the worst I've seen.

You bought the magnets separately for these polishes, and I have tried the wavy line so I went for the diagonal lines this time. As I mentioned when I reviewed the last one, my nails are really curvey so the magnetic effect was stronger down the centre, and didn't really have the full effect at the sides. I like the finished effect though and the end result is darker than the unmagnetised form, which is a definite plus for me.

Avon Blue Attraction
before the magnet!

Avon Blue Attraction