Today I have a Nail Prism for you. I have been hearing a lot about them lately, it seems they are making a come back in dollar stores in the States. I had originally purchased mine this year at the discontinued cosmetics warehouse I always talk about. I kept going back every so often to build up my collection, I have a pretty large collection of prisms now thanks to that place, all for 50 cents each :)
Anyways, moving on, this polish is almost impossible to photograph properly! there is so much going on in this colour it is nuts! This nail prims, by the way, is called Turquoise Opal. you have to click on all the photos to see the colours up close.
The above photos were taken with my camera flash and you can see the green turquoise shimmer. For the most part I saw purple/blue/green. Because of daylight savings time it is hard for me to capture polishes like this in natural sunlight, and unfortunately I was not wearing this polish on the weekend so I do not have natural sunlight photos :(
lamp light
I did, however get some decent pictures without the flash, in these picture you can definitely see the many colours little bottle of polish has.
washroom light
washroom light
washroom light
The pictures above remind me of space cadet a bit, but those 2 polishes are totally different, same idea with the mutichrome though.
lamp light
lamp light
These last 2 photos remind me of galaxy girl, this polish literally has a rainbow of colours in the bottle ;)
So I'm sure the photos speak for themselves for the pros of this polish .... now on to the cons:
- polish is super thin, I layered it over a medium blue and I'm pretty sure I used 3 or 4 coats to reach full opacity
- the polish bubbled, this is probably due to all the coats and my impatience in between coats lol
- takes a while to dry, but again this may be due to all the coats of polish.
What I will do next time I wear a nail prism is layer it over black or a really dark base colour so I hopefully will not have to use so many coats to reach opacity.
On the bubbles note, I find that a lot of my older Sally Hansen's bubble on me. I think I have to be a little more careful with them in the future, applying thinner coats and allowing time to dry in between. Does this happen to you too?
What do you think of this polish? If you own it, how do you deal with the bubbling and opacity?
Holy cow! That's all the same polish?! LOVE!!! I have the red of this line and now I really want to wear it (but I did notice how thin it is).
ReplyDeleteI just had this polish out last night and mine appears to be predominately purple and blue-your pix seems green-I guess its all in the lighting!
ReplyDeletePretty pretty! I just picked up some of the Nail Prisms yesterday but I like yours better :)
ReplyDeleteMegan - yup, it is intense! I wish it was a little bit more pigmented and thicker
ReplyDeletemrssexy - I agree, in the bottle it looks more of a deeper blue, purple with a turquoise flash. On my nails in lower lighting it was mostly purple, but if you look at it in different lighting and angles you'll see a whole bunch of other colours! It's so distracting lol
Anita - Awesome! which ones did you pick up?
Layering it over black would be great. These colour are so awesome, I love duochromes.
ReplyDeleteFantastic photos! Turquoise Opal is one of my favorite duochromes ever :D
ReplyDeletemisscarley - thanks, i tried my best with the lighting I had!
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous - I tried to look up a translation of what you have written to English, but the site wasn't that great. From what I did understand though, I am glad that you visit my blog and like my posts :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not too sure what you were asking about the Sally Hansen/Nfu-Oh polishes, sorry about that :(
What do you think of this polish?
ReplyDeleteIt's in my lemmings list, and I can't find it anywhere :^/
Smaltoitaliano - its an awesome colour with a crazy multichrome finish but keep in mind it also has its flaws, these being the thin formula and long dry time.
ReplyDeleteIf you can still find it I would pick it up :)