Hi Goddesses
Right, before we get started, let me tell you how this is gonna go, okay? Yesssss, there is flipping glitter everywhere, and all round my nail and yessss, I have tried to remove it, but d'you know what, you're just not gonna notice ok, cos Crumpet is tired, and this is the 5th dance with the glitter devil in 2 days, and I have 1 more Prismatic to go and I just can't take it sob any sob more !!!!
Jeez this glitter is driving me wild. It's everywhere. And why doesn't it come off with polish remover and a brush - why does it require a chisel or a jackhammer to remove it? Why ?? Why, it makes no sense. Why be so pretty and yet so stubborn, why?
Deep breath, Crumpet, deep breath. Phew. Actually, this, Liquid Crystal, aka the blue one, is the prettiest of all 5. It really is.
This is an icy blue (I sooooo wish they'd released these before Christmas) that is predominantly scattered with pink glitter. The pink in this is most boisterous, and makes for a dramatic combination.
There are 2 coats on every nail - index has Essie Borrowed & Blue as underwear and ring has OPI Ogre The Top Blue (and looks pretty damned sensational, I'd say).
This is the fox of the collection. This is the looks demure but then flirts like a cougar glitter, the "I'm made of ice but my knickers are made of fire" of the collection - it's icy yet racy, cold yet minxy. I love all its contradictions.
This is by far my favourite of the 5 so far - I'm going to stop, but honestly, I could go on for a fair while yet!
The final one is the pink, and then we'll do a good ole round up post.
Enjoy xx :)
Tweezers to remove it from cuticles? that's what I've had to do before...poor baby :(
ReplyDeleteDeb, do you remove this using the foil method? If you do and it still makes sooo much mess, I'm not too sure I want them !
ReplyDeleteYou are you funny! Thanks for the pretty swatches. Have you tried the foil method? It really works like a charm, and with considerable less agony and frustration.
ReplyDeleteObviously you've already had one person comment about the foil method. I haven't tried that one yet, but I saw someone (weeks ago, so I forget who, should have pinned it...) mention using a kitchen scrub sponge (the kind with a sponge on one side and scrubber pad on the other) to take off glitter. So the last time I had a glitter mani, I tried it, and it worked great for me. Use the scrubber side, but remover on it, and then hold it down on the nail for a bit. This allows the remover in the sponge to squeeze out onto the nail the entire time you're holding it there. Then scrub off with the scrubber, and it comes off pretty easily.
ReplyDeleteGlitter is always going to be harder to remove than regular polish, clearly, but if you use one of these soaking techniques (it's basically what both foil and sponge are doing, but I like that the sponge allows for continual remover application *while* you're scrubbing the last bits off) it gets rid of the headache that goes along with it. :)
hhmmmm that's an interesting one. I use the foil method, but without the foil. So I soak my cotton wool, hold it in place for a couple of minutes until it slide off. But then i find the stuff that came off can smear, and you don't catch everything. It's not so bad that it puts me off glitter, it was just I was getting so bored of it, doing 1 straight after the other !
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tips xxx
I have the nail polish remover that you just stick your fingers in the sponge I just let it sit for a few seconds and then pull it out and most is no longer on my fingers. Now another tip for getting glitter or regular polish off of your skin is to take a cheap tub of chap-stick and rub it around the edges of your fingers with out getting it on the nail. Then when your done just take a dry q tip and run it around your nail and the polish comes right off. The chap-stick creates a layer between your skin and the polish. I have do this before when I have done the water marbling and it works wonders and it much quicker then taping off my fingers.
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