HPB Presents Smoke Nail Art

Hobby Polish Bloggers (HPB) presents New To You, our theme for January.

My "new to me" is smokey nail art. I saw this done by Chalkboard Nails and thought it would be something possible for me to try. My nail art skills are fairly limited!  You can see the tutorial HERE.

My black base is Formula X Dark Matter and the smoke was made using Essie Absolutely Shore.  This was easy enough to do. I actually wore this as a full mani on both hands. I'm curious to try this using different colours to see if it still has the same effect.
Make sure to check out the rest of the posts below!
*nothing to disclose*

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Formula X for Sephora Omni and Bionic

Formula X for Sephora is their new line of polish. To view the collection please visit Sephora.

Omni is a royal blue creme polish. The formula had great coverage, but didn't self level. Top coat did help, but not completely. Photos are two coats with top coat. No issues with staining.

Bionic is a matte glitter topper. Various sizes of matte black and matte pale lime green glitter. Photos show one coat of Bionic. No digging or placement of glitter was necessary. No top coat used in photos.

Overall thoughts are I love Bionic! Omni didn't really do anything for me. Of course, blue isn't usually a fave of mine, so that could be part of the problem.
Thanks for stopping in today. Hope to see you back soon!

*polish purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Formula X For Sephora in Zap

So.... Have I mentioned before that I'm not a fan of yellow.
This is Zap. It's part of the neon line from Formula X for Sephora. It's yellow. And really sheer. And really nasty. Sorry, I said it. Maybe it's just because I don't like yellow, but I just couldn't like this. The only good thing I can say is that I didn't end up with lobster hands. Anyway, the photos show 4 coats of Zap. As you can see, still lots of VNL. It dries to a waxy finish. No top coat in the pics.

So, if you own this and haven't tried it yet, I recommend using a white base to eliminate the visible nail line. I personally, won't be wearing this again, but will keep it for now. Maybe for nail art? I've tried a few of the Formula X shades and for the most part, I'm pretty happy with this brand. Huge selection in store. And of course available online as well at Sephora.

Thanks for stopping by, and I promise my next post will have something prettier!

*polish purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl manicure

Can you tell who I am routing for! 

Apologies for the bubbles in my decals. I need more practice. Anywho, the water decals are from Pine Galaxy on Etsy. 

Blue is Picture Polish Midnight Meteor
Grey is Formula X Extraordinary
Green is (brand that shall not be named on my blog) The Limelight

Go Seattle !!!!

Emily de Molly Soon and stamping

Today I have Emily de Molly Soon and some stamping using plate EDM02.

Soon is a medium grey crelly with various size hexagon glitter in blue, green, fuchsia, and purple. I had full coverage in three coats. You could also layer over a similar colour base. Not too chunky, completely smooth with a coat of Seche Vite. 

Emily de Molly recently released five stamping plates. Below is the image I used. I stamped over Soon with Racy by Formula X For Sephora. It is a metallic lavender. I have a review of that polish HERE. Because I have small nails only some of the image is on my nail. Image is also rotated differently on each nail. For those with larger nails, these images should fit. Had no issues with my stamper picking up the image.

For more information on Emily de Molly please visit her site. You will find information on international stockists and her full line of polishes and plates. Plates can be sent worldwide but polish is only directly available for shipping if you are in Australia.

Thank you for stopping in! Have you noticed that my stamping is getting better. Yeah me!

*products purchased by me and all opinions are my own*

Formula X For Sephora - Racy

Racy is one of the new chrome effect polishes from Sephoras new polish line. I have to say that normally I really despise chrome finishes, but this was a pleasant surprise! Actually, I had two surprises. The first is that I had full coverage in one coat. The second is that it wasn't streaky. Imagine that. On the Sephora site this is described as a metallic lavender. Pretty accurate. The photo they use on the site I find a bit deceiving. It looks more purple in that photo then it does in person.

Photos are one coat of Racy with top coat. Natural light. I did not test this for wear time. I did test this as a stamping polish though. It works! In fact it worked really well, so even if you aren't a fan of chrome finishes you should consider it for that fact.


*polish recieved as a gift*