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

 

 

Avon Fuchsia Force

Today I have a nice little bargain to show you. When magnetic nail polish first came out a couple of years ago I wasn't that interested, and certainly not at £11 a bottle that Nails Inc were charging, but I've seen the products demo'd a few times on QVC and the idea has grown on me.
When Avon brought out a range, at the introductory price of only £3 a bottle I decided what did I have to lose? especially as you can send them back if you don't like them! The magnets come separately on little wands, at 99p each so I splashed out and bought 3 magnets and 3 polishes. There are 4 magnet designs and 8 polishes to choose from, so it's a pretty good range and I have to say I am very impressed with the 3 I got.
I think this one is a little bit special. Avon Colour Attract magnetic nail polish, in Fuchsia Force has extra sparkle in the form of tiny micro glitters, invisible to the camera of course but I can see them! The other 2 colours I got, Spellbound Green and Blue Attraction are just shimmery, but they worked well when I swatched them. I am not sure if there is sparkle in any of the other shades.
Fuchsia Force is a lovely raspberry red/pink and once magnetised it makes me think of raspberry ripple, I love the intensity of the colour in the ripple and the sparkle is very pretty!
They were relatively easy to apply, if I had practiced I may have done a better job, on one finger I think I didn't hold the magnet long enough so the pattern is less distinct and my nails are quite curved so the ripple effect doesn't quite go from side to side but not bad for a first attempt. I am pretty surprised at how much I have enjoyed wearing this, the pinky red is a lovely shade, and the sparkle is an unexpected extra that I really like.

Avon Fuchsia Force

Flash pic to capture the sparkle