Ninja Polish - Pinkelbell swatch

Hi!
I figured that I should show another "floam like" polish when I'm at it. This time I'll show Pinkerbell. I wore it yesterday when the snow was pouring down.

Anyhow, this is how Pinkerbell is described: "Pinkerbell has matte bright blue and yellow fine glitter and bright pink ultra fine glitter in a clear base". And yes it has. :)

Outdoor

I used five coats as usual with these polishes. I used two coats of top coat to get it shiny but I guess that there could be a need to add another coat after some day or two if you want to keep the shininess.

Outdoor

As I've mentioned in an earlier post about these polishes is that I think it dries as fast as regular polish. Ninja Polish recommend that you should wait extra long for each coat to dry, I do the opposite however. I think that the glitter sticks better to a sticky surface if you know what I mean. I finish everything of with SV fast drying top coat and it dries in no time.

Indoor with outdoor lightning

Indoors

 

 

Above is a closeup of the glitter, as you can see the color of the glitter seems well distributed. Maybe there is less yellow. The yellow glitter some time seems more transparent or perhaps more reflective to light making them disappear as you can see more clear at the photo below with flash.

With flash indoors

I guess that with this three colors mixed together everything turns a bit blueish or grayish. It's in close up it look really great. I would almost say that it would fit Cactus theme "work appropriate". However I'm glad I got it, it's ugly-pretty and I'm looking forward to wear it again in an nail art or layering. :)

What do you think about this? :)

Floam Funky french

Here we have Floam, or more specifically a Floam funky french with a thin black line. I actually really like this.  And I can't understand that I've kept this in my archive for so long, but here you have it! ;)

outdoor cloudy

Floam has matte neon blue and yellow-green fine glitter in a clear base. At ninjapolish where I bought it they say that it covers in 2-3 coats but I use 5 and has done so with all floams I've used. I think i could be because I partical use thin coats but also because on my long nails with my white (yellow toned heheh) smiley.

outdoor sunny

One thing I still don't understand is what brand I should write that Floam belongs to. I know that Amy at I'm feeling nail-venturous created it but on my bottle the only thing written is NinjaPolish. I know other brands use Ninjapolish bottles too, but then they've written their own brand also.

indoor

My base coat for the funky french. Blue pearl shimmer polish by "Bang on the door".

Polishes used:
Bang on the door (pearl blue shimmer)
Ninja Polish - Floam
Jordana Pop Art - Black

Girly Floam - Ninja Polish swatches

Hi!
For today I have a floam to show. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it, pink isn't my favorite shade but matte glitter is so I figured that I should add it to my other "floam family". ;)

This is five coats, however I've used five coats for my other floams too and others use three I've read. I guess that I make thin coats or something. It contains of matte pink and purple fine glitter and is in a clear base.

 It was more purple than I thought and had a more "dull" pink color than I thought but I still like it, especially for nail art I guess.

A downside with this floam comparing to my other floams was that it was very top coat hungry.  I first painted one and the surface was still gritty and then I added another thick coat. The next they it was gritty again and I painted another top coat on it. Because I really like the surface to feel glass like. :)

Humble Bee funky french

Let's continue with another one of my awesome favorite polishes! ;) This polish is also one of those I hold closely to my heart. And a funny story is that I wasn't aiming to buy it in the first place, I was actually buying Floam, saw this one and figured that I needed fill up the basket. Now I like this one better than Floam, way better actually. In my dreams I wish there was a green humble bee, or a red humble bee or a blue humble bee..you know. I just love matte neon glitter! :)

Humble Bee from I'm feeling nail venturous/ninja polish is glitter polish in a clear base. The glitters appear in two sizes, small round matte yellow neon glitters, small round matte black glitters and larger hexagon matte black glitters.

For this I used 5 coats to reach opacity. However I used very thin coats to make drying time acceptable since I'd heard that this one (and like Floam) take some time to dry. And I honestly think that for a full manicure maybe 3 coats would be enough. Here when making a funky french, VNL is totally unexcepted since that would look like crap.

 More about the opacity.. When I paint my nails with nail polish I start by shaking/rolling the bottle to mix the inside and then start with my right hand, thumb to pinkie, then my left hand. For this polish I recommend mixing the bottle before EACH hand because I noticed that my right hand which I started with got opaque on the third coat and the left on five coats. Even though there is suspension base holding up the glitter in the bottle, there so much glitter that it fells down anyhow. So I think it's important to mix it to be able to get the most on the brush.

More about drying time.. On the web site they claim that it has a bit longer drying time, and that you should wait for it to completely dry between each coat. I didn't wait that long for each coat and rather made everything in one go. And in my opinion it has a normal or even faster draying time than other polishes. Base coat and five coats on that might take some time for any polish but I didn't think this was no problems for me. It gets surface dry very quick and within some hours it was dried all trough, and this was with out Seché Vite. By this I compared with what I wore the day before this, 1 base coat + 1 coat of black + 2 coats of Chunky Holo Scarlet by Kleancolor which took all night to dry and some more.

A warning for Humble Bee and also Floam is that the edges of the nails get real sharp since of the glitter sticking out when it has dried completely. I actually scratched my self leaving small surface scars in the face during night time so a good idea is to gently file down any glitter sticking out, or painting the edge with top coat to smooth it of.

And about removing Humble Bee, yes and yes, it is hell removing, but SOO worth it! And with cotton drenched in acetone it only take at most a minute more than any other glitter, so like three minutes in total so I can't complain. ;)

I bought this from Ninja Polish and the shipping was quite fast, about 1,5-2 weeks.
(I think that they've changed the name to HumbleBee Floam now, I guess to show that it's alike as the regular Floam)

Hope you liked it and that you'll will have a great Sunday! :)
(A tip is to click the pictures to see them larger!;D)

Package recieved with lemmings!

I thought it was unreachable but it wasn't, and now it's mine.

I guess everybody already knew it but it it is Floam and Humble bee created by Amy at I'm Feeling Nail-venturous. Bought at ninjapolish.com. I'm not fully understanding why they are just called ninja polish at the bottles and not also added "by nail-ventuous", but that's a miner problem. They have new bottles too!

Floam: A clear base filled with matte neon blue, yellow and green glitter.
Humble bee:  A clear base filled with matte yellow fine glitter and matte black fine and medium glitter.

Can't wait to try them on and perhaps do some nail art with them. :D