Disappearing Ink Surprise Nail Art

I feel like I've seen this on another blog before, so I'm not claiming this idea is original to myself. The idea of stamping with a UV changing polish over a base polish of similar color.

I used Ruby Wing Crowd Surf over Color Club Power Play, these are exact dupes indoors. 

 Indoors this combination looks like just a simple solid color manicure.

Once outdoors and in the sunlight, the design comes to life! I stamped with a zebra pattern (and first it wasn't opaque enough of a stamp to show on it's own, so I later freehanded over it to "darken" the stripes.) Once the design is stamped or freehanded, make sure you use a topcoat so it smooths the lines nicely.

I think this is a really cool idea for the summer time!

I tried this same concept again with Color Club Get Your Lem-on and Ruby Wing Electric Firefly. I used the skull and crossbones stencil from this set available for $3.89 on Born Pretty.

 

The stencil didn't pull off perfectly cleanly, you can see little flecks of red stuck on my nail. My index nail didn't take the pattern very well at all and it really blobbed up and garbled the design.

I also added a thin freehand line of Electric Firefly for a french tip.

 *The stencil was provided for review by Born Pretty*

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Ruby Wing - Festival Paint Collection - Electric Firefly & Crowd Surf

These are a few of the color changing Ruby Wing polishes from this summer's collection "Festival Paint."

Electric Firefly

(Can be found here for $10)

Turns from neon yellow with green shimmer (exact dupe for Color Club Get Your Lem-on) to an orange shimmer in the sunlight.

The neon is so bright it'll make your eyes bleed. This is 2 coats over a white polish base.

In direct sunlight, the polish transitions to orange. 

The shimmer is still the same, but it looks less obviously green.

Crowd Surf

(Can be found here for $10)

Changes from neon pink/purple to a deep magenta in sunlight. 

Note that it also dries to a semi-matte/rubbery finish.

Indoors, bright pinkish purple. This is just 2 coats.

In direct sunlight, the color transition is quick.

Here I shielded my index nail from the sun while the other nails darkened. 

Then took a quite shot to compare them side by side.

 

 

 *These products were sent for review as part of the Color Society Bloggers Network*

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Ruby Wing - Poppy & Sunflower

These polishes from Ruby Wing are both SCENTED and COLOR CHANGING. It was quite interesting to find those 2 in one polish. 

Poppy

(Can be found here for $10)

2 coats indoors. It's a vibrant medium pink.

 The little hanging tag that shows the color change and says it's scented. The scent is very strong. I'm not good at describing smells... but the best I can come up with is "grandma put on too much floral perfume again."

Outdoors the polish changes to a deep wine/grape shade.

Sunflower

 (Can be found here for $10)

Fine gold glitter in a clear base indoors. The pinky is 3 thin coats, which results in complete coverage/opacity. The other nails are all just 1 coat of Sunflower layered over white polish, black polish, and Ruby Wing Poppy.

 The tag shows it changing from a pale gold to a brighter yellow gold?
Scent.... I guess it smells like Sunflowers, I honestly don't really know what that smells like. The scent here is quite strong again, and to me it smells almost like a clean cotton/fresh linen manufactured scent.

In sunlight.

In my opinion, I didn't see much of a change. The pinky looks just slightly more bronze colored in sunlight.

The index finger (Sunflower layered over white) shows that the clear base turns yellow.

And of course the ring nail is over Poppy, the other color changing polish, so it looks really different.

 

 

The inside of the tag just has basic directions and a cute quote.

The formula on both of these polishes is really great, dry time is fast, and the brush is standard quality.

*These products were sent for review as part of the Color Society Bloggers Network*

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