Haulin'

Woohoo! Don't you just love long weekends? Not only do you get an extra day but the next week of work is short :)  I meant to post this yesterday but was enjoying my weekend too much lol. During the weekend I did some hauling, read on to see what I got.

To start off I have Sally Hansen nail polish strips. These were reduced at my Superstore location. They had these bins with random beauty products all reduced to $2.95! Score! I picked up Groove and Glitz Blitz.

Next I picked up some long time lemmings of mind that I owner for around to purchase, Essie Lapis of Luxury and Turquoise and Caicos. Swatches are below the bottle shots.

 On this trip out I also spotted the Limited Edition Wet n Wild quick dry glitters (Sparks and Stripes) and picked up Explosion After Dark. This collection surprised me, usually I can't find these in Canada!

Lastly I found some Nabi polishes. I have heard about these from the States but never seem them in Canada before. They are a good size and I picked these up for $2 each! I got Baby Orange, Light Green and Ocean Blue magnetic! I think I'm going to have to go and pick some more up! The quality is pretty good on these polishes and they have some really nice colours. Again swatches are below the bottle shots.

I'm heading to the States this weekend, I hope to score some good deals! Any tips or places you think I should stop by?

A Magnetic Polish Review + 10% off!

KKCenterHK.com was kind enough to send me some goodies for review. I chose a navy magnetic polish and the three pack of magnetic design strips. The polish colour is named Blue and is a deep, dark blue. surprise right? It remindes me of denim :)

I love how the magnets came. First of all, this is sold as a set of 3, starburst, striped vertical and striped diagonal. They are all held together on this plastic frame which makes it easier to use the magnets.

The formula was thick but quite manageable and the brush was a decent enough size and shape for application. From what I've read you should move fast in your application of the magnetic polish and apply the magnet directly over the nail without touching. The plastic frame makes it easier to hover over the nail as quickly as possible.

The stand that the magnets are packages with also serves as a holder which suspends the magnet directly above the nail, pretty neat!

I find that timing varies to get the desired magnetic pattern. Sometimes I didn't wait long enough and there was little or no effect on the nail, or I kept the magnet on the nail for too long and I just got what looked to be a blob of black :(

Here is my first attempt with each magnetic pattern.

Starburst

Diagonal

Stripes

The diagonal stripes gave me the best design and the magnet was only of the polish for a couple if seconds.

Removal of the polish was a little harder than I expected, It has a weird kind of texture but I guess that has to do with the magnetic particles or something and although I was wearing a base coat it stained my nails a bit during removal :( Another weird thing about the polish, refer to the bottle photo below:

The bottle reads 15mL ... I wish now I had taken a comparison photo between this bottle and lets say a China Glaze or Seche Vite bottle. Seche Vite is labeled as 14mL and still looks to be double the amount of this bottle. That was actually my first thought when I opened the package, wow, this polish is small!

Back on topic now...It's hard to know whether the polish or the magnet are at fault, I would bet the magnets or me not working fast enough, since I did get the diagonal pattern to work pretty good.

Tips for magnetic polish:

- apply the first coat normally to all nails

- apply the second coat individually to each nail while applying the magnet for effect inbetween

- make sure the second coat is thick

- hold the magnet above the nail for 10 seconds, slowly raise the magnet and check the pattern and gauge if more time is needed

What do you think about magnetic polish? Did you have trouble your first time too?

KKCenterHK.com was also generous enough to share a promo code for you guys!


For 10% off use this code at checkout BLGB786EN10


This code is good untill January 31 2013!

*This product was sent to me for an honest review, all views expressed are my own honest option.