Tammy Taylor Matte Neon Plush Glitters

Tammy Taylor sent me some cool new products to try. These are glitters that are matte so you can use them for a 3D textured effect. Once they are available on their website, I'll update with a link here.

Pink, Kiss, & Squeeze

I applied them by sprinkling it on top of a still wet topcoat layer. I faded them together into a gradient look.

Pink is a straight up neon pink (blue toned)

Pink fading into Kiss then Kiss fading into Squeeze

Kiss is a more red toned pink 

Squeeze is just neon orange.

You can see the texture better from this angle. They are quite coarse to the touch. These aren't meant to be worn with topcoat layered on top. It would probably take 3 coats or more to smooth it out anyway.

I wore these over Color Club Wham! Pow!, Warhol, & Poptastic. They were the perfect pairs.

The remains that overflowed onto the paper plate as I sprinkled. This shows you just how tiny the particles are. It reminds me of the size of particles in Floam.

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Color Club - Poptastic Collection

I know this is an old collection, but I just recently added it to my stash. I found it at a Burke's Outlet for $8.99, so I figured it was about time to own it.

 

Almost Famous

Pictured is 3 coats. Bright medium yellow creme.

Wham! Pow!

Neon orange. Pictured is 2 coats.

Poptastic

A beautiful neon pink. Pictured is 2 coats. 

 Warhol

Pictured is 2 coats. A deeper pink, more of a hot pink than a neon pink.

 

Pucci-licious

Pictured is 2 coats. A bright purple that is incredibly hard to photograph.

 

Twiggie

Pictured is 2 coats. Similar to ChG Highlight of My Summer, but that one is still my favorite.

Chelsea Girl

Pictured is 3 coats. Vibrant blue, that also was hard to photograph.

 

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Revlon Scented - Gum Drop & Mad About Mango

My local CVS had some of these marked down 75% making them just $1.49! So I picked up the two that looked most interesting to me.

The formula on both of these left a good bit to be desired. 

Both were thin and watery requiring 4 coats to reach opacity

Gum Drop

A light purple. The scent smells like generic chewing gum to me.

Mad About Mango

Medium tone orange. The scent was fabulous! A refreshing fruity, definitely mango scent. Delightful.

I wouldn't have paid full price for these, but $1.49 was on par with the quality I got out of them.

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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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OPI Liquid Sands - Jinx & Honey Ryder

These are part of the OPI Bond Girls Liquid Sand Collection. 

The gritty texture trend in nail polish was a turn off when I first saw swatch pictures. And when I first applied these I had a big case of the heebie jeebies because it felt so.... wrong! But I wore Jinx for 3 days and by the end I had gotten used to it and felt it was pretty cool after all.

They were provided for review by Beyond Polish.

Jinx

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Bright orange/coral with gold glitter. Being a liquid sand, it's meant to have this gritty texture.

Very easy to apply, just 2 coats, dry time is fast.

Honey Ryder

 Can be found for $6.95 here at Beyond Polish.

Light neutral gold tone. This polish seemed less textured than Jinx. 

Pictured is 2 coats. The formula was equally easy to apply.

 

*These were provided for review*

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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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OPI - HTF - mystery polish....

This is the third polish that I scored from Goodwill for only 99 cents. It's label is missing so I have no idea which one it could possibly be.... But the simple lettering on the back of the bottle matches the bottle of Plymouth Lox. It's not like the newer OPI bottles that have a lot of lettering and symbols. 

The fill line hits at the horizontal line just below the OPI letters.

It's a warm orange with hints of coral. Creme finish. Pictured is 3 thin coats. The lid of this one was quite stuck and required some effort to get into. Then I had to add a couple of drops of thinner because it was slightly gloopy. Once I thinned it a bit, it applied perfectly.

So do you have any idea what it could be? I don't have much knowledge when it comes to old OPIs. I'd appreciate any help I can get.

Then I decided to use it in some nail art inspired by this look I found through Pinterest.

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