Some more neons I picked up from China Glaze's latest collection.
Are You Jelly?
Medium purple, jelly finish. Pictured is 3 coats.
You Drive Me Coconuts
Bright hot pink. Pictured is 3 coats. Very opaque for a jelly, in my opinion.
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China Glaze - Are You Jelly? & You Drive Me Coconuts
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China Glaze - Highlight Of My Summer & Shell-O
Some more swatches:
Highlight Of My Summer
THIS ONE IS SO AWESOME IT IS MY FAVORITE AND IN FACT THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY SUMMER!
Yes, that's right I just shouted at you. And I'm not sorry for it. This polish is so freaking cool. Neon, pale, mint green! Creme finish. I didn't have any issues with the formula and got this coverage with just 2 coats.
Shell-O
This one ended up being my least favorite.
It's not as vibrant on me as I've seen on swatches from others.
Coral jelly. Pictured is 4 coats.
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Feather Bright
Here is a bright, almost neon gradient look I worked up for an afternoon by the pool.
I used China Glaze Too Yacht To Handle, Color Club Power Play, & Orly Oh Cabana Boy for the gradient. Then the feather stamp is from Bundle Monster BM15 and I used Konad black polish for stamping. I freehanded the other swirl & dot details with a black striper polish.
Here is a swatch pic of just Too Yacht To Handle. It is a close cousin to For Audrey, but with a brighter kick. I can justify having both ;)
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Tough Girl
I chose to an edgy look for this one. Combination of pink, a girly bow, and barbed wire.
These rhinestone bows can be found for $2.98 at Born Pretty.
The wheel comes with 12 individual bows. (Mine had a freebie extra black bow that was loose within the bag this wheel was sealed in. Bonus Jonas!)
I used Wet N Wild Pom Pom Kelly layered over a white polish to make it pop.
Then I stamped black with BM 323.
These bows are quite big. I put it on my middle nail because it was just too overwhelming to the others.
They are completely flat, no curve to them. This makes them hang and catch on every little thing. This can get annoying very quickly.
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Neon splatter/shredded/hair spray marble
I tried to play around again with the shredded effect/hair spray on a water marble (first attempt was here) I wanted to see if I could mimic this look from amkuch15, white base with neon splatter.
This is Sinful Colors Snow Me White, Wet N Wild Pom Pom Kelly, & Wet N Wild Nerd Alert: Screech.
I first tried layering 4 different neon shades, but I couldn't get consistent splattering sizes so it was just a garbled mess. :( Too, this entire process was a big pain in the butt. These 4 nails took me several hours. No joke! It was ridiculous. Maybe it was the particular aerosol hairspray I was using, but sometimes it would just create big spots in the polish, then the next time it would blow all the polish to the edges and shred it into tiny little specks. So frustrating.
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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*
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.
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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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Orly - Oh Cabana Boy
Another Orly I picked up on Hautelook.
Oh Cabana Boy is a beautiful neon pink with blue/purple shimmer.
Pictured is 3 thin coats.
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Color Club Fiesta - Wild Cactus & Flamingo
These are 2 new colors from Color Club's Fiesta Collection. Interestingly enough these polishes are listed for 2 different prices on their website..... Hmm...
$6.00
Sorry that some of my pictures are fuzzy. My camera freaked out and thought this polish was teal. My iphone's camera actually picked up the green accurately.
Pictured is 2 coats and it applied absolutely perfectly.
The color is the true emerald tone that is one of the "it" colors of the season.
I LOVE IT! Home run in my opinion.
$8.00
3 thin coats. Applied kind of thick and remained "dentable" even after it should have been fully dried.
Indoors the polish looks mostly just intense bright pink.
Outdoors, the polish definitely takes on a neon tone.
Meh, I have many different neon-ish pink polishes that are less tricky to apply, so I'm not totally in love with Flamingo.
*These products were sent for review as part of the Color Society Bloggers Network*
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