Picture Polish Bohemian

I wore this polish last week, firstly sponged over black and then as the base for my galaxy nails. Picture Polish Bohemian is a multi-chrome in the most gorgeous shades of pink and red through to gold and bronze with a holographic shimmer to it.
I will admit I was not too sure about this polish for me. The range of colours for a multi-chrome intrigued me but they are not shades that I would normally wear. My skin tone just doesn't seem right for some colours and my hands look either grey or red against these shades. Despite that, I wanted it because all the pictures I'd seen looked so pretty.
On my nails I like it more than I thought I would, but it's not going to be my most loved polish. However, I really liked it when I wore it over black and I do think I need it in my collection. I have a plan to stamp over it too as I think it will make a brilliant base.
It applied beautifully, two coats giving perfect coverage. It dried in good time and all pictures are taken with a top coat.
It was sunny today so I have a mix of sunshine and shade shots and you can see how the colours change from the pinkier shades to the more golden tones depending on the light - personally I prefer the pinker shady shots.

Picture Polish Bohemian

ILNP Cygnus Loop

Today I have another stunning multi-chrome to show you. This is ILNP Cygnus Loop from their Ultrachrome collection.
This polish is essentially purple but moves from blue, through purple to a reddish brown. It also has a fine red shimmer to it even when you can't see the multi-chrome effect. I have layered one coat over Nails Inc Lily, from the Gossip Girl range - a red so dark it is almost black.
Cygnus Loop applied well, dried quickly and I certainly didn't feel the need for a 2nd coat.
I managed to capture a reasonable range of the colours, I think it helped it was a nice bright day today although it was hard to photograph in the sun and I ended up skulking in the shadows for the better pictures.
I have already worn Mutagen and Birefringence. There were 4 in the collection but I didn't fancy the yellower one, Nostalgia - not really a me colour.
I know they've been out a while and I avoided then at first as I have struggled with duo and multi-chromes in the past - the tip to apply them over a dark base is definitely the way to go. These 3 ILNPs  are now very welcome in my collection :)

ILNP Cygnus Loop

  

 

 

 

 

 

ILNP Birefringence (with nail vinyls and black stripes)

I am very pleased with the way today's nails turned out although they took so much longer than I expected. In my mind it went like this - paint the base, top coat, add the vinyls, paint using the multi-chrome, remove vinyls, top coat, done... erm maybe not.
I wanted to use nail vinyls that I'd bought from She Sells Seashells and I spent quite a while deciding what colours I would try. I didn't want a huge contrast and then it struck me - black and something that would look good over black - glitter? flakie? or... multi-chrome - the perfect opportunity to try I Love Nail Polish Birefringence. I knew that this one was a pretty powerful multi-chrome and I thought it would be strong enough for a good contrast against plain black.
I used Nails Inc New York Noir for my base, and added a top coat. I did wait a while before using the nail vinyls but I should have done the base the night before, it does need to be really dry. I then started to apply the vinyls, thinking that if I was going length-ways I would not have such a problem as I did when I did my Jack Wills style bold stripes. Actually the problem was pretty much the same, I found it quite tricky to apply the vinyl so that the stripes were parallel, they seemed to bow out in the middle, but to be honest when I'd finished that wasn't particularly apparent. Because I kept lifting them and replacing them there are couple of areas where the base coat lifted a bit.
I added one coat of Birefringence, carefully removed the vinyls and wow! this is some awesome multi-chrome! I added top coat and all the slightly smudged edges disappeared and there were these wonderful multi-coloured humbugs!!
Birefringence looks essentially bluey purple in the bottle, but it shifts from green, then teal through blue, purple, dark red towards orangey brown. Typically I couldn't capture the full range on camera, did manage to catch the rain drops though! Anyway, I captured enough to see the stunning effect and was delighted that the contrast between the multi-chrome and glossy black was clear enough to see.
I love what you can do with nail vinyls, I just need to practice and stay calm - these finished off way better than I thought they would as I was doing the mani. I do feel the need to say, the problems I had are not with the vinyls themselves - they are great if you use them properly!!
I think the end result with the length-ways stripes is actually quite elegant and I love the variation in colour against the black.
Lots of pictures taken over a couple of days but in the end I decided I was never going to catch the green :)

ILNP Birefringence

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 

Picture Polish Illusionist

I have something rather lovely for you today. This is my first Picture Polish. They come all the way from Australia although I ordered mine from Sally Magpies, when she had a sale recently. Picture Polish released a set of Limited Edition polishes, all special effects top coats, and there was a lot of excitement about them. I wasn't too sure although I'd seen some great pictures but when Sally was selling everything at half price I just couldn't resist, and I am so glad I was in the right place at the right time as I expect these sold out very quickly!

This is a multi-chrome, with tiny silvery holographic glitter and it is truly beautiful. They are designed as layering polishes and most effective over black, although I have seen some lovely shots of them over paler shades. Illusionist shifts from a teal green through purple to deep pink and onto a gingery bronze at very extreme angles, so obviously I have taken lots of pics to try and capture some of those shifts. I used 1 coat over 2 coats of Nails Inc Black Taxi. It was very easy to apply, no streaking or patchiness and dried well.

The bottle says, just above the main name, "now you see me, now you don't" and that is quite true. In some lights the colour shift almost disappears and you just see the glitter, so over the black base it looks like a starry night. In fact at almost all angles the nails look like a night sky, with twinkling stars, with varying dark sky colours - absolutely mesmerisng. I could spend hours moving my hands around and watching the colours change!

Picture Polish Illusionist

Girly Bits Go and Shake a Tower

This is the third of 3 Girly Bits polishes I bought from Rainbow Connection a couple of months ago. I love Rainbow Connection as Annette makes it easy for us to buy foreign polishes without all the stress of overseas postage! Not quite sure why this beauty had to wait to so long to be worn, but here in all it's glory is Go and Shake a Tower, another spoonerism, like Lack of Pies. And like Lack of Pies, this is also a holographic multi-chrome and it is stunning.
It painted on nicely, I have used 2 coats here and top coated it. The main colour I'd say is a dark blue, then it moves through purple, teal and then a bronze tone and ultimately, in low levels of light, red! All with a gorgeous holographic shimmer which softens the whole effect and a makes this polish extremely wearable. The thing about multi-chromes is you can't help just sitting flexing your fingers and watching the colours change!!! The red was a real surprise, I just went through to another room, barely lit, looked down at my nails and there they were, red and then tinged with green and gold. No way I could capture it on camera, the flash lit the nail up and it was back to blue again, no flash and it was too dark to pick anything up at all. You'll have to buy it and see for yourself!
Well, as you can imagine I've taken loads of pics, but I've been very strict and only posted a few here, but this is lovely, and I particularly like how well it goes with my heathery blue purple cardigan :)

Girly Bits Go and Shake a Tower