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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Thrifty Thursday! Pure Ice Silver Mercedes

This one is short and sweet...

Tonight I thought I would show you my favorite silver polish. I have lots of silvers, but this one is my favorite because of the finish, application and it's a "classic" bright metallic silver.

Pure Ice Silver Mercedes

Pure Ice Silver Mercedes

And I thought I'd see how my franken Spectraflair top coat looks over it!

Pure Ice Silver Mercedes with franken
Spectraflair top coat accent

I like. It's not quite as strong as the MUP Greta I showed you last night, but I'm still tweaking. And I love that it goes over any color. For photos of my top coat over other colors (and the formula I used) click here.

Pure Ice polishes are available at Walmart for $1.97 or online at Bari Cosmetics for around $3.00.

Have any of you tried frankening? Either with regular polish, glitters or Spectraflair?

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Friday, December 2, 2011

Linear Holo Franken Topcoat - Spectraflair

Four reasons I added Spectraflair to my topcoat:

1) I thought it would be easier than to pick and choose which polishes to try and holo-up.

2) It's a little spendy and I didn't want to waste it.

3) As a topcoat, it doesn't seem to wash out/lighten the colors as much as adding it directly to the polish.

4) I can still use my polish "regular" or I can use the holo topcoat. Adding directly to the polish keeps me from using it normally again.

Does it work?

Yes! I think it actually works better as a topcoat - see reason 3 above.

Here, I've swatched five colors side-by-side with and without the spectraflair topcoat.

I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dry topcoat - about 2/3 of a bottle - and added two small bits/scoops (about the size of a grain of rice each) and two little ball bearings because topcoats usually don't have those.

L to R: Butter London Bluey, Nicole by OPI Sealed with a Kris, NARS Koh Lanta, Orly Wandering Vine and Zoya Petra

Butter London Bluey

Nicole by OPI Sealed with a Kris

NARS Koh Lanta

Orly Wandering Vine

Zoya Petra

And these were all taken in artificial light - indoors at night. I'll try and get a good sunlight photo tomorrow if the rain lets up. And I'm not really hoping for it to let up. It would need to rain for 40 days and 40 nights to get us over this drought!

Adding daylight photos (I can't really say sunlight photos because it decided not to come out today) - as always, you can click on photos to enlarge...