Hi sweet people!
Mea culpa on the hiatus, I sure didn't plan it. Life is a changing thing and unfortunately the blog fell to the back of the list on too many days.
I found China Glaze Magnetix (II apparently, I did not know there was a I) at Ross as a fluke many months ago, perhaps even a year.
Here's the box:
As I've just finished putting together Helmer number 5 (hoping to unload a Melmer that just drives me crazy) I am buying a lot less.
So this is part of my main goal: swatching!
If you've read my blog, I've been pretty free and easy supporting one coaters as a potential stamping polish. I've changed my policy: not until I've stamped with them will I go down that garden path again.
First the polishes, then the stamping.
Some basics:
Bond-Tastic
Beautiful terra cotta shade. I have a couple of similar shades, I love these, very retro.
That silvery sheen of frost helps make it pop. Otherwise this would be a fairly bland creme.
Dense, easy to apply.
Gold Fusion
Rich metallic gold. I feel a gold comparison coming on because this does remind me of Color Club's Golden Girl from their Haute Browns collection, link here.
Dense, pretty easy to manipulate. Dried to a satin finish.
The pinkie looks darker, but it's only due to a shadow.
Get Charged
Another rather modern shade of purple. Understated, very demure. Silvery frost like Bond-Tastic.
This wasn't as tight as Gold Fusion or Bond-Tastic, but it was actually not impossible. I did do cleanup on this one, though.
In the same family of purples as Dior Silver Purple and Maybelline Purple Rage, blogged here.
Con-Fused
I really love the color of this one, but it was a bit patchy, even at two coats. Brushstrokes abound, too.
Though it covered in two coats, a third would definitely have helped.
I don't hate it, who hates green? I sure don't!
Sparks Will Fly
Pretty medium blue that goes into the teal/peacock realm in warmer light.
In the bottle there really was a color shift, it was one of the reasons I picked up the set. But alas, there is nothing on the nail.
Bit of a brushstroke shimmer. Not very memorable on the nail. It was a let down for me.
Positively In Love
In keeping with the electric theme, they added a gorgeous electric purple. It's my favorite in the bunch.
A bit loose, but not bad, but the payoff is great. Very metallic. Like the rest, it turns more satin-y when I don't top coat it.
This is the end of part one, part two real soon!!
Thank you for reading my little nail polish journal!
Mea culpa on the hiatus, I sure didn't plan it. Life is a changing thing and unfortunately the blog fell to the back of the list on too many days.
I found China Glaze Magnetix (II apparently, I did not know there was a I) at Ross as a fluke many months ago, perhaps even a year.
Here's the box:
As I've just finished putting together Helmer number 5 (hoping to unload a Melmer that just drives me crazy) I am buying a lot less.
So this is part of my main goal: swatching!
If you've read my blog, I've been pretty free and easy supporting one coaters as a potential stamping polish. I've changed my policy: not until I've stamped with them will I go down that garden path again.
First the polishes, then the stamping.
Some basics:
- No top coats
- All are two coats
- Some have a bit of a frost to them
- None are magnetized. Homey don't play that way. ;]
Bond-Tastic
Beautiful terra cotta shade. I have a couple of similar shades, I love these, very retro.
That silvery sheen of frost helps make it pop. Otherwise this would be a fairly bland creme.
Dense, easy to apply.
Gold Fusion
Rich metallic gold. I feel a gold comparison coming on because this does remind me of Color Club's Golden Girl from their Haute Browns collection, link here.
Dense, pretty easy to manipulate. Dried to a satin finish.
The pinkie looks darker, but it's only due to a shadow.
Get Charged
Another rather modern shade of purple. Understated, very demure. Silvery frost like Bond-Tastic.
This wasn't as tight as Gold Fusion or Bond-Tastic, but it was actually not impossible. I did do cleanup on this one, though.
In the same family of purples as Dior Silver Purple and Maybelline Purple Rage, blogged here.
Con-Fused
I really love the color of this one, but it was a bit patchy, even at two coats. Brushstrokes abound, too.
Though it covered in two coats, a third would definitely have helped.
I don't hate it, who hates green? I sure don't!
Sparks Will Fly
Pretty medium blue that goes into the teal/peacock realm in warmer light.
In the bottle there really was a color shift, it was one of the reasons I picked up the set. But alas, there is nothing on the nail.
Bit of a brushstroke shimmer. Not very memorable on the nail. It was a let down for me.
Positively In Love
In keeping with the electric theme, they added a gorgeous electric purple. It's my favorite in the bunch.
A bit loose, but not bad, but the payoff is great. Very metallic. Like the rest, it turns more satin-y when I don't top coat it.
This is the end of part one, part two real soon!!
Thank you for reading my little nail polish journal!
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