China Glaze Pastel Blue, Green and Pink Water Marble

Sorry for the lack of posts, sometimes life gets in the way of time for lovely nails and being time poor means no time for photos. Today though, my dear friend from work Lisa requested Mint nail polish. So this post is for you Bangers :) As I have recently discovered water marbling and how lovely this looks I thought I would do a minty marble look. My base mint polish was China Glaze Re-freshmint from the Up & Away Collection (2010) and I though Bahamian Escape (Bahama Blue Collection) and Something Sweet (also from the Up & Away Collection) would go lovely for water marbly goodness :)

 L-R, China Glaze Re-freshmint, Bahamian Escape and Something Sweet

I started with Ulta3 Base coat and 1 coat of Re-freshmint, I didn't take a photo so have referenced the Swatchaholic :)

China Glaze Re-freshmint, so minty and lovely :)

I then proceeded to water marble with the 3 colors.. some nails turned out better than others!

 Left Hand water marble, loving the middle finger nail marble effect :)

Left Thumb water marble

Right Hand water marble, loving the pointer finger nail marble effect :)

Right Thumb water marble

The photos have turned very pastel color wise, which they are in certain light. In non-bright light they are more vibrant, so I have color corrected a photos to show you this, don't mind the Opmpa Loompa skin effect!

Loving this water marble effect and the mint is awesome :) Thanks Lisa for suggesting the mint polish idea in my head (I even bought Re-freshmint on Tuesday with this in mind!). I am missing the happiness different nail polish color brings at my work so much now, what to do, what to do :(

On another note, I got up today like a good nail polish slave to buy some Sonoma Nail Art polish and had some in my cart on Etsy when I realized they didn't ship to Australia. Darn it. I did manage to get a bottle of all of the Dollish Mario Collection on Friday night (didn't think I was going to purchase any initially though!). I am getting a little bit glitter indie polish saturated..not sure how everyone else out there feels, but the hype is running it's course with me. I don't want to bun fight for polish anymore. I am wanting some Zoya's and Essies though so might focus on calmly purchase some colors there!

Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Grey

 Today I have for you another of my fav sheer and pastel choices for those jelly sandwiches when the craving hits :) The question at hand though is, is Sheer Pastel Grey really Pastel Grey? Not so much. From the bottle pics you can see that it it appears Pastel, so check on that score. To me in the normal light it looks lavender/lilac tinted and under flash, I can see milky white..not really grey.

 Sheer Pastel Grey without and with Flash

Lets see how the swatches look.

 Sheer Pastel Grey, 2 Coats with Ulta3 Base coat and no top coat. Lilac-ey :)

 Sheer Pastel Grey with flash, some grey here maybe?

 Sheer Pastel Grey with flash, milky white!

This particular color is a little bit misleading. It's not grey by any stretch of the imagination. If anything it looks similar to OPI Care to Danse? but with great opacity in 2 coats. It's lilac tinted in the bottle and in some lights on the nails. In other lights it's pink and milky white. Despite the misnomer this polish is still lovely and interesting. It is opaque in 2 coats and applies really well. Apparently OPI Care to Danse? is not opaque with even 4 coats, so for those who do not like the visible nail line, it's a less time consuming choice :)

Do you like this color or is it not your cup of (Grey) tea? On that bad pun, I am working this weekend making polish adventures a little difficult, but I am sure I can fit in some stamping! :)

Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Cocoa..erm, Pink, just call it Pink!

Evenink! First off can I say, yes..I am lame, but my FLOAM came today. Tiny bit excited by this matte glitter goodness in a bottle. I almost squeed with excitment when I opened my nail mail but instead I just giggled a bit with excitment, I don't squee, hehe. I am thinking though that Friday may be redubbed Floam Friday this week!

Anyways, onto the topic at hand and that would be Kleancolor(KC) Sheer Pastel Cocoa (151). I bought some Kleancolors from Evilbay a while back and KC Sheer Pastel Cocoa was one I threw in to make up the numbers. I used it on my Jelly Sandwich a little while ago with disastrous results (nail polish landslide off my nails!) so I wanted to try it again see if the color is worth the effort!

 Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Cocoa without and with flash

This was 2 coats with a basecoat and no top coat.

 Without and With Flash, no visible nail line which is good

 Dusky Pink

Light Pink in a slightly different light.

Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Cocoa is a pink that is dusky to light pink depending on the light. For a "Sheer" color it has surprisingly good coverage in just 2 reasonably thin layers of polish, so not so "Sheer". I didn't wear this as a full mani, but I do know that the Kleancolors can dry a bit slower so a fast dry topcoat would be a must or it would squish on touch. The polish itself dries nice and shiny which is awesome and Kleancolors are notoriously smelly but worth the effort I believe :) I bought this polish on ebay for around $2 as I haven't seen Kleancolors in Australia. 

Kleancolor Jelly Sandwich

So tonight I have a quick change of polish after taking mine off today midway through the day because of performance appraisals. I don't have a problem with my polish but I am sure not every one thinks all my colors are "work appropriate"! So the black Orly Androgenie mani went and tonight I created a quick mani so I wasn't naked.....a Jelly Sandwich!

I wasn't quite sure which way to go with the sandwiching colors, but I thought pinky/nudes were quite safe so the first color I applied was Kleencolor 151 Sheer Pastel Cocoa with 2 coats so there was no nail line.

Next was Kleancolor 192 Afternoon Picnic for the glittery goodness

I then used Picture Polish Nude as the top layer of my sandwich

A top coat of Seche Vite and the result...a sheer nude glittery sandwich!

Not 100% sold on my Sandwich of choice. I always love the thought of nude nailpolish, but I think it makes me look a little dead! Overall I like the Sandwich look :)  I do love the Kleancolor Sheer Pastel Cocoa...will have to do a nail stamp with it as a base in the future. The only issue I had with the Kleancolors (apart from that they are very smelly apparently, but I have a terrible sense of smell!) is that the Kleancolors can be a little thick and not very fast to dry. I didn't rely on just my Seche to make sure didn't kill this manicure, I added a few drop of OPI Drip Dry to make sure it fully drys before I go to bed. It seems to have worked a treat after the recommended 5 mins. 

I am currently taking photos of my nailpolish choices with my phone camera..yes, it's not the best it can be but I do have a proper lightbox which I am setting up this weekend so hopefully the quality of my pics will be getting better!