World Turtle Day

Are you familiar with Nailpolis: Museum of Nail Art?

It's a place where all nail fanatics post their swatches and nail arts.

Besides this museum part they also host challenges and contests with prizes (internationally)!

This time the challenge was an event: World Turtle Day which is today May 23rd.

 

This is my entry:

 

 

I started with applying Sally Hansen Marine Scene.

Then I took acrylic white paint to make the waterlines and added another coat of Marine Scene to make them less visible and therefore more natural looking.

With a detail brush and acrylic paints I painted the turtle.

 

Here is a swatch of Sally Hansen 280 Marine Scene:

 

 

Swatches, review and nail art OPI Brazil Beach Sandies Mini Set

Part of the OPI Spring Collection 2014 is this mini set with sand polishes:

 

 

There is only one store in town where I can purchase OPI.

Most of times there aren't any swatches or try-outs available which I find very annoying as a big bottle of OPI sells for €14,25 (19,62 USD) and a mini set costs €18,95 (26,09 USD).

But luckily they did have swatches of this collection...including this mini set.

 

Swatches in store looked like this:

 

Source: timtam00.blogspot.com

Looking at the swatches above I immediately fell in love with this mini set.
It totally looks like bright and neonish textured polishes.

Well, I have swatched them for you and here are my swatches:

 

 

 

Samba-dy loves purple

 

Purple with silver shimmer.

Not as bright as I expected.

Two coats gave good coverage.

Application wise this polish was the worst.

It dried less fast than the others and the texture was best after complete drying time.

Before taking this picture I ruined the top finger and therefore applied a third coat to smooth out the damage. As you can see on the picture the texture didn't really kick in yet on the top finger.

 

I'm Brazil nuts over you

 

 

Coral pink with purple shimmer.
Again not as bright and pink as I expected but nevertheless a beautiful color.
Two coats was enough for good coverage and application was smooth.

What's a little rain forest?



Bright blue with silver shimmer.
Finally a color that met up with my expectations!
Very bright and beautiful.
Application was smooth and it needed two coats for complete opacity.
One coat of basecoat isn't enough to wear under this polish because I did have some staining afterwards. I recommend using at least two coats of a clear or white basecoat.

You're so flippy floppy



Goldish yellow.
Again not as bright as I expected but not bad either for a yellow.
Perhaps on a white base it can totally pop.
I've used two coats for the picture above but I would prefer a third.
Application was smoothly.

Final verdict:
I am a little disappointed with this mini set.
I had hoped for more neon textured polishes...which is about the only textured polishes I'm missing ;D
The colors aren't bad and do fit the Spring/Summer season but aren't neon.
My favorite is 'What's a little rain forest?' (except for the staining that is!).


Of course I also made a nail art with this collection and I decided to keep it tropical :D

 

Tropical nails:


 

Day 196) Nail art jellyfish

For today a jellyfish nail art:

 

 

Made with the needle dragging technique.

 

Day 153) Nail art seahorse

I'm in some kind of crea group at the children's school.
We help making things for big events and through the year we see to it that the many windows of the school building are decorated by theme.
Right now we are making the last decorations of this school year with of course a summer theme.
The whole day I've been drawing and cutting seahorses and when I was finally done, I thought: "I don't want to see another seahorse again!"
Less is true, after that I decided to do the same seahorse as a nail art.
But now I'm really done with it! No seahorses anymore please!