Flormar - 410 swatch

Today I'll show the polish I used as a base for yesterday's converse nail art. I bought it in Turkey for about 4-5 years ago just because I sounded fun to test a new brand. I bought in a grocery store in a shelf filled with Flormar, however I remembered that there where only "boring" colors with a range from pink to red and some purple. I don't remember the price.  I think I picked the funniest color in the shelf but the color however hasn't really triggered me and I've looked at it several times and then put it back in the drawer.

The bottle actually had a description hos to paint the polish (!) and it said that I should paint one coat, let it dry, then paint the second coat, dry and then apply top coat. A two coater I thought and started painting but realized that it still was streaky after the second coat. I ended up in three coats but realize that I would have needed 4 coats to reach opacity as you might see from the photos, especially the sun photo it looks very uneven. The three coats didn't bother me so much since I was going to cover it in nail art.

I think that the photos show the color quite well, it's a aubergine like color going towards red. In some lights it looks really darker and in other very lighter, but many polishes are like that.

My feelings for this polish isn't excited ones. I'm not seeing my self reaching for this wanting it like a full manicure because I got far more beautiful polishes for that. However for nail art it works and I really liked it combined with black and white in the converse nail art.

sunlight outdoors

If I would go to Turkey again and would see a new shelf filled with Flormar in the same boring color range as before I'm definitely not buying any more.

Have you been in contact with Flormar before? Did you like it?

Purple Converse shoes nail art

Nail Art Sunday again, and the theme for today was Converse, since Lelack wanted to compel spring to arrive. I must admit I wasn't stoked over the theme, I'm not a converse person but I've seen some people which look good in the shoes too. First I aimed for something that would be a free interpretation of Converse. Maybe some other spring sign? Spring flowers? Any other shoe? The city Converse in Texas? Texas? America? converse as in conversation? Maybe do something graphical of a cool converse shoe? Maybe something graphical of the all star-logo? and etcetera. And then I chickened out, saw a cool converse nail art and remembered that I had an aubergine colored polish untried bought in Turkey about 4-5 years ago. And figured that it would look cool for this nail art. I also figured that it would be cool since the only time I've been close of buying converse like shoes, it was a purple high heel converse.

Enough rambling and on to my nail art. We can put it like this, I'm not that content over the lacing, it looks if a child did that,  but I promise, it was me! ;) haha

 I like my thumb the best and if I'm going to redo this some time I'll make the lacing more like that.

 And yes, all then nails got conversed, I had a plan that this would look cool and I'd were it for some days. Now I'm not sure but they've yet not been removed anyhow. I mean I do like laced nails.

I'll show better shots of the purple polish some other day. It actually looks different in different lights but I think the one below, the picture at the very top and the bottle picture looks most accurate.

 And here above you also see the Converse Heels I almost bought. (and I realize I still want..)

This manicure is actually very "foreign" in all ways. Converse shoes are American, the purple is Turkish, I think Jordana comes from America, the white fine liner is from Hong Kong and the white large bottle is from Crete.

Polishes used:
Flormar - 410 (purple)
Rapsodi - 165 (white)
BK Nail Art Color (white)
Jordana Pop Art - Black Mark