Basic Autumn Stamping

 Here is a beautiful yellow, Princessa's Picking on Waikiki stamped with Maybelline Racing Green.

All are oldies, but still beautiful. I will be posting a lot of backlogged images. Right now my nails are super short and kind of weak, not that this image couldn't have been taken yesterday! LOL. 

The Magic Garden is a plate loaded with beautiful images, best for large nails. I can't figure out if DRK is still making plates, they were out, they have polish that shows up on the limited time sales like Polish Pickup and Hella Handmade Customs, but I am not sure what the status is on plates. It's a big plate that has a bird cage in the middle, not the one with the Christian imagery. May be on the reselling facebook places or ebay etc.

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Fair Neon Green

Let's jump in.

Fair Maiden Limey Bean:

Neon green fluorescent shade with a red/orange to green flakie (the traditional flakie) that is densely packed and has some large enough sizes to show up with a pop.

Now a few caveats. I did put mine over white. It is definitely a BRIGHT LIME GREEN that makes no apologies. Love it!

It needed 4 coats to get real opacity, but I think three might have done well enough. 

I'd almost be upset if the formula wasn't so absolutely great. I mean GREAT. You all know I wrestle with stuff that won't dry on me, but does well on others. Well I am wearing the heck out of this baby and zero tip wear (my biggest bugaboo with natural nails) and not a dents.

My layers are:

• Two coats of a ridgefiller frankened with a nude
• Two coats of white frankened with a base coat to sheer it out very slightly and make managing the polish better. 
• Four coats of Fair Maiden Limey Bean

That is a lot of coats. I know. 

On my left hand the ridges on my ring finger are so popping that this didn't even do a good job, but on my right hand all is well.

Normally I would have given up and trashed it because I know I would have gotten a mark, a scrape, or a dent in the polish, but no, nothing. 

Neons are tricky as can be and this one is in the realm, but Fair Maidens formula dried well, never got fussy over the top of the ridgefiller (thin applications and dried well) and the white polish (same process).

YAY!!!

This was from the Polish Pickup from May 2020. A bright spot in a dark year.

It may show up on a blog sale or or facebook destach post. I really recommend this a lot. I have a handful of neons in comparison to many of the polishes I own and that's because they are not really giving me much win.

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Soft Spring Shades from Chain Stores

Pretty simple, it's just a couple of shades that feel soft and easy to use.

American Apparel Cotton

Three coats, beautiful pale butter yellow. Almost an off white, but definitely in the yellow camp.

Probably could do two coats easily, too.

I love this baby. Very hard to fault. Doesn't self level perfectly, but on par with my favorite formulas. Nice!

This was from a huge job lot that I found on eBay from the batch AA came out with that had unannealed bottles.

H&M Miss Stone Heart

Soft medium gray, two coats, nearly a one coater. Have worn this twice and it's really quite a great gray. 

Pure and simple!

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Neon Frost

Late summer makes us all think of fall collections. It's still hot during the day and I have summer on my mind even as the days shrink and the nights cool down.

Of course the odd Milani crops up at the Dollar Tree. It's about the only place I pick up polish locally any longer. 

Here is Neon Lites, a now-discontinued shade:

A weird combo of finish and color. 

Pretty greenish neon yellow shot through with gold. It ends up looking more frosty on the nail than it does in the bottle. 

Three coats over a white. I think it's actually a buff white, an old SH french tip. 

This is a wee bit sheer, however the formula was perfect. Hard to find fault except for the sheerness. 

No topcoat.

It's also on eBay as well as the Dollar Tree.

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Sunny Yellow Redux

I found that I'd really not played around too much with a glitter polish, Cover Girl Ice Slick named  Crystal, and decided to intensify the glitter in a recent no name Richon yellow jelly/glitter combo.

I blogged it here.

As a polish the Richon No Name was great, however the iridescent glitter was buried in the milky base.

Adding Cover Girl Ice Slicks helped bring that iridescence out, front and center.

It's a thick polish and has some of the stinky chemistry of Kleancolor, but it's pretty neat. I think thinning would have helped. My middle finger has a bit of a glob at the end toward the right.

Two coats. No thrills glitter. Some small and some smaller still!

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Bright Skittles

I have another green post after this one, but I did need a break from green.

Here are some fun summer skittles!

From left to right:

Sinful "Dream On" - deep fuschia neon, a little transparent
Sinful "Rise and Shine" - bright seafoam type of green
Sally Hansen "Solar Creme" - yellow creme, with a subtle shimmer
New York Color "233" - bright pink, also a little transparent
Sally Hansen "Pacific Blue" - the most beautiful blue!


Here are the bottles:

How they worked for me:

Sinful "Dream On" - Needed about 5 coats (!) Dried ok.
Sinful "Rise and Shine" - 3 coats, dries like satin and quickly, decent coverage
Sally Hansen "Solar Creme" - Sally, chintzy on pigment, 5 coats, usual SH "eternity to dry"
New York Color "233" - pretty, jelly-like, about 5 coats, but so pretty
Sally Hansen "Pacific Blue" - 3 coats, mutable color in different light. Goes from peri to royal blue.


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