Simple neon nail art

Hi lovely readers and followers! :) I'm finally back. It has been nice taking some time off from the whole blog thing and I've been really busy working almost all the time. I still am, but now everything is in phase. And I've missed blogging and reading blogs. Will try to answer comments today and tomorrow. :)

Today it is Nail Art Sunday, an occasion I hate missing so I thought it would be a nice idea to start blogging with that! ;) Lela has decided that "Neon" is the theme of this Sunday and I had tons of ideas. I went with a simple idea, a simple layering with a neon glitter polish and neon metal studs. The neon polish is Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights, which I've swatched before, and as most of the LL's the application is hard so I layered it over a white creme, ended up with two coats but it looked more neon with just one. I liked the result of this, it looks like a children's birthday party or clown outfit, but I don't mind, neon is always cool! ;)

Polishes and materials used:
Nordic Cap - NP13
Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights
Square metal neon studs from ebay

31DC2013 Day 17; Icy glitter gradient

Hi lovelies! I just got home from a job interview/test and figured that I deserved some fun time and I also figured that I wanted to catch up in the 31 day challenge and by posting this I'll be in phase. Day 17 propsy is glitter nails and I figured that there's a lot of ways of making glitter manicures. After a while my eye went to Lush Lacqer - Blue Gypsy (which is a glitter polish with a pastel blue base), and if you remember that post or any of my Lush Lacqer posts, the formula of the polishes are horrible and application is super messy. However, my thought was that maybe BG (Blue Gypsy) would be great for sponged gradients. Then I could control the glitter amount on each nail and also the thin formula perhaps would blend perfectly. OH, how wrong I was.. BG just continued being a mess; the glitter didn't show so well, it got really thick as the pictures shows. To hide the worst problems I painted my nails with a matte opaque white glitter and suddenly I like it much more! Suddenly my nails looked like ice and snow and the half hidden glitter from BG looked kinda cool. So what do you think about this?

And yea, a big hint, the darker blue does not look like it should in my pics, so not color accurate. IRL Beach Blue as it's called, is much more aqua, it's a blue with green in it without being a teal or turquoise. BG looks like it should though. In general I don't like these pics so much, the light is very off.. Hopefully you can see past this.

Polishes used;
Oopise Daisies - Zeus
Kleancolor - Beach Blue (as I said, not color accurate in the pictures)
Lush Lacqer - Blue Gypsy,

Lush Lacquer - Blue Gypsy

For this Blue Monday at Lindas Nailorama, I mean Nailme...and I'm showing Lush Lacquer - Blue Gypsy. I guess everyone has seen it by know but that wont stop me.

 Blue Gypsy is a bright pastel blue crelly with smaller matte dark blue and matte purple hexagon glitter, larger matte orange hexagon, small matte black stars and prismatic circular glitter in orange and purple.

 This Lush Lacquer has the same problem as the other; application sucks. It could potentially cover in two coats but the large glitter sweeps the polish around leaving bold spots so I ended up with three coats. The formula was a bit tricky too.

This polish has a lot of potential, I love the base color and the matte glitter hex glitter and also the stars even if they are too sparse, but I HATE the large circular glitter.

There's three reasons I don't like them. One I've already mentioned below and that is that move around when I try to paint and leave marks in the surface even with the first coat. On my pinky finger in picture below you see another reason, they aren't flat on the nail and stick up leaving the surface bumpy and weird. And the third reason is that I think that the crelly is too pigmented to have prismatic glitter in it.. now it looks like the glitter breaks, like if it was a sauce and the two ingredients can't be mixed..

Lush Lacquer - Green Genie, swatch

It's Wednesday and I'm participating in Vacker&Underbar's Green Wednesday with this green polish from Lush Lacquer called Green Genie.

You know, I always makes notes about each polish I try and this is what I've written about this; "3 coats, horrible formula, too much glitter".

 Well as the other Lush Lacquer this is a glitter filled pastel green crelly and as the other the formula is a mess. It's sticky and there's too much glitter making the surface uneven and the large glitter chips easily of and if they where at the tip of the nail the rest of the nail polish chips of too which happened so fast I didn't get the chance to photograph it unchipped like above..

The glitter are matte hexagons in different sizes and in the color range of orange, purple, neon yellow, neon pink and neon blue.

I think that the idea of this is great but the result isn't my favorite. If you're intending of buying this you really should be aware of the application problems.

Lush Lacquer - Neon Lights, swatch

Today I'm showing the ultimate summer polish, it's neon in lots of colors in one polish!

Basically by looking at it it's a gorgeous polish with four sizes of hexagons in four matte neon colors. The colors are neon pink, neon yellow, neon green and neon orange.

 The base color is white and I would call it a crelly and I used 3 coats. I guess two coats could do the trick too, and I'd also recommend this for layering on white. The drying time was fast, before I had got the to last nail it has completely dried on the other hand which is amazing.

Now to the problems; the formula is a bit grainy with the glitter, making application hard. I'd almost go so far that I'd say that the polish contains a little bit too much glitter, there's definitely no need for fishing, almost the opposite to get less glitter on the brush. Top coat is a must for this, there's reflective curling on the glitter and since there's so much glitter they almost stick up from the surface. I think I used two coats of SV for this and I think I refilled with another coat of SV the other day.

When I wrote this post I remember being more positive than I am now, despite that I will definitely use it again, the hazzle is worth it because I love the color combination.

I've tried my other Lush Lacquer I bought so you'll see them here soon. :)

What do you think about Lush Lacquer? and Neon Lights?

Lush Lacquer shopping

More polish shopping;

I've really fallen for the indie polishes, I really like the combination of crelly with glitter, since it mostly look like jelly sandwiches but effortless. I especially like them now in the end of school when I got so much to do and can't make nail art's every other day like I usually do.

This is six polishes from Lush Lacquer and I'm really looking forward to try them out. The photos aren't the best but you can see the name of the polishes on each photo.

I haven't decided which one I'll try out first, but probably some in the upper row. :)