Showing posts with label duochrome. Show all posts
Showing posts with label duochrome. Show all posts

Tuesday, 31 July 2018

Born Pretty The Universe Series - Chameleon Stamping Polish

Continuing to review the products Born Pretty (Amazon Store) sent me for review, these are chrome stamping polishes - the Universe Series.
There were 3 in the set I received, available here.
The individual polishes are BPU 01 Leo, BPU 02 Galactic Centre and BPU 03 Pink Planet.
These polishes all stamped really well and I tested each of them over black and white. Although they stamped well over white they were quite subtle, the contrast over a dark base was much better and the full chrome nature of each polish was much more evident.
BPU 01 Leo is a gold to green, with gold being the prominent colour, BPU 02 Galactic Centre green to blue, green being more apparent and BPU 03 Pink Planet I would say pink to gold but mostly a beautiful rose gold.
I used a clear jelly stamper to test them as that seems to be the most fickle of my stampers and therefore the toughest test. I used Born Pretty plates BPL005 and BPL029.
I also stamped them over the Born Pretty Pearl Lustre polishes (over a black base) and that gave a nice effect.
This following pictures are over white - BPU 01 Leo in the first shot and the BPU 02 and 03 Galactic Cente and Pink Planet in the second. As you can see, clear stamping but subtle.
BPU 01 Leo
BPU 01 Leo
BPU 02 Galactic Centre and BPU 03 Pink Planet
BPU 02 Galactic Centre and BPU 03 Pink Planet
These are the photos over the Pearl Lustre polishes. I tried all 3 polishes over Pearl Lustre Moonstone, the blue shimmer. (Pink Planet on index and little finger, Galactic Centre on midde finger and Leo on ring finger)
BPU 01,02,03 over Moonshine
BPU 01,02,03 over Moonshine
Then I used Pink Planet over Lotus in Moonlight, the pinky red shimmer
BPU 03 Pink Planet
BPU 03 Pink Planet over Lotus in Moonlight
Then Galactic Center over Jade Sky
BPU 02 Galactic Centre over Jade Sky
BPU 02 Galactic Centre over Jade Sky
And finally Leo over Only You.
BPU 01 Leo over Only You
BPU 01 Leo over Only You
The polishes looked pretty over the Pearl Lustres but they were most impressive over black. I also painted a full nail with each so show the multichrome effect.
BPU 01 Leo and  BPU 02 Galactic Center.
BPU 01 Leo and  BPU 02 Galactic Center
BPU 01 Leo and  BPU 02 Galactic Center
BPU 03 Pink Planet
BPU 03 Pink Planet
BPU 03 Pink Planet

Overall I really like these polishes. Of the 3 sets I have reviewed these are my favourite.





Monday, 24 February 2014

Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy

24th February to 2nd of March is BEAT eating disorder awareness week and purple is the colour of the UK eating disorder charity, so our facebook group thought we'd do our bit. The facebook page is filled with purple manis and pictures of lots and lots of purple polishes.
I have quite a few purples but I am staunchly sticking to my rule of only using untried polishes so my choices were a bit limited, however this little beauty recently came into my possession courtsey of a friend.
Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy is a purple/green duochrome with tiny delicate pinky red flakie glitter. The tones are very pretty but I have to say, I do find duochromes quite tricky to apply. I seem to have a problem with brush strokes on these types of polishes, no matter how careful I am. It probably didn't help that I applied it late at night, in artifical light. Anyway, enough of my excuses!
I did 2 thin coats of Galaxy, and a top coat. The glitter is quite subtle, picked up in the pics as small flecks, but I think I've captured the duochrome shift quite well- it's quite strong and rather lovely!.
Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
 Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
 Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
 Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy
 Nail Lacquer UK Galaxy