BLACK RADIANCE - PASSION

I have had this polish for a while, but when I looked back, my swatches were done with my old camera which equals - suck! And I wanted to do a dark color after my neon bright mani I had planned wasn't working out.

This is one of those frustrating colors that doesn't have the cool colors that you see in the bottle and it mostly looks dark, unless it is in bright sunshine. But boy when it is, is it sure pretty!

I got this from Walmart, but I have noticed that this brand isn't at all Walmarts so you will just have to check. I thought they were a little expensive for the size of polish, maybe around $3-$4 bucks. Also the brushes are uneven and it makes it very hard to apply the polish.















And matteified for those of you curious :)

SWIRL NAILS

I rec'd a great request for me to try out some swirl nail art from my fellow blogger Katee from e-polishblog. I tried this out Friday night, and was pretty impressed with the results. I was really trying to get pictures up Sat., but we had some unexpected guests this weekend, so I just waited until Monday morning.

It was fairly easy to do, the technique took a couple of nails for me to get down. I kept mixing the colors instead of swirling them. You can find the tutorial for how to do the swirl nail art here. I tried out two different "sets" of colors on each hand.

For the first set of colors I used all Color Club nail polishes in Limelight (neon green), Power Play (pink) & Screamin Fuchsia (neon pink). I then used one coat of China Glaze - Fairy Dust, a great glitter polish. I thought after I added the Fairy Dust that it made my nails look like sand art! You know the sand art where you picked out a bottle and then added layers of different colored sand in the bottle, well that what it reminded me of.

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For the other hand I used Zoya - Delilah (red glitter), Love My Nails - Black Rage (black creme) & Black Radiance - Tease (gold shimmer). These colors didn't seem to swirl as well. It might have been in part because of the black. This black is so watery and clear, it isn't a very good black at all. Also the Black Radiance tends to be a little on the watery side and usually takes at least two coats to get to opaque. However, I was still pleased with the results. I used one coat of China Glaze - Golden Enchantment, which is the gold version of Fairy Dust.

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Katee - Thanks for the request. I had alot of fun doing this! I would love to hear if anyone tries this out for them selves and see any pictures you take of it.

If anyone else has any request I would love to hear them and try them out - so please send them my way!

BLACK RADIANCE

Well I promised that I would have some new nail pics up for you guys today, and I delivered. However, I must admit they are a little boring. They are simply painted.........no nail art.........no glitter...........no stickers..........nothing but paint. See, boring, huh!

I used Black Radiance - Passion, from the Bold & Sexy Collection. I love the colors of Black Radiance! They are so beautiful to me. Passion is a deep dark purple plum color, with a small amount of gold shimmer. You can only see the gold shimmer in the bottle, the shimmer doesn't transfer to the nail, but it is still a beautiful color.

My only complaint is the brushes! These have got to be some of the worst brushes I have ever used! The brushes are really thick, and kind of on the short side. The brush is really hard to use, especially for me because my nails are so slender. The ends of the brush bristles are uneven as well, but I love the color enough to still use it.

I think it is a perfect fall color. On the nails it loses all of the shimmery goodness and lighter purple color that you see in the bottle. On my nails it pretty much looks like a really dark maroon, almost black. The sun was not out today, so my outside shots didn't do much to help.

This picture is a little blurry, but you can see the pretty purple color and even see a little of that gold shimmer I was telling you about.

These are the outside shots, just looks dark, huh?

Look at all that SHINE!!! I even took a picture of my other hand so that you could see that I finally fixed my broken nail!!

That's all I have for you today. I had a really good idea for a Turkey Nail Art design last night. I'm hoping I can get it to come out as good as I have envisioned in my head!

ARTSY FARTSY INDEED...

Well I did get down and dirty in the polish and n.a.p.'s (nail art pens). However, I am not too pleased with how my pictures turned out. My camera did not take very good pictures last night. I think it was in part due to it was 10 pm and the lights in the house were not the sort of bulb or watt that I needed. Anyway - on to the pics!

I tried to change the brightness contrast on the camera, so take your pick of the snaps above that you like best and just ignore the other ;).

Below I have up close pics of each nail and the details of each pic.

THUMB

The base was painted with two coats of NYC - Saffire. I then used my So Easy Stripe Rite - White n.a.p. and painted a ghost outline and painted the inside completely with white. Next I used Nubar NAP - 129 Black and made two little dots for the eyes and an oval shape for the mouth. Top coat was Poshe.

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The base was painted with Finger Paints - Shades of Dark. You can see in the pic that there was some cuticle drag with this color. I then topped it off with Black Radiance - Hot Steppa. This is such a gorgeous color!! It is clear with gold and copper colored glitter in different sizes. The colors remind me of fall leaves. Final coat was Poshe.

MIDDLE

This is a cat, I know the picture is b-a-d. It turned out so cute though! Disappointing to say the least. Anywho, the base was done in China Glaze - Cat's Eye (that's where I got the idea to do a cat face). Then I painted on a face, ears and whiskers using different n.a.p.s - So Easy Stripe Rite - Gold Glitter & Silver Shimmer and Nubar NAP - 129 Black. I did two dots of the gold glitter for the eyes and it reminded me of those old pins that had the cat face and rhinestone eyes. Top coat is Poshe.

RING

This is a leaf. Once again the picture does not do all my hard work justice :( For the base I used Black Radiance - Tease. This is such a pretty shade of gold, and it looks orange in the picture - just so wrong. I used Nubar NAP - 151 Emeraldes to outline the shape of the leaf. This is a green color with green glitter. I then went over the green with So Easy Stripe Rite - Gold Glitter, but leaving some of the green to show through. Topped off with Poshe.

PINKY

A witch's hat. The base was 3 coats of Color Club - Yell-Oh!, a very neon yellow color. Some cuticle drag with this, but not too bad. I used Nubar NAP - 129 Black to draw a hat shape, and then I filled it in. I used So Easy Stripe Rite - Silver Shimmer to make the band on the hat. Top coat of Poshe. This was super shiny. The base neon yellow color just made this look pop, and once again disappointing results with the camera.

Anyway, tell me what y'all think! Only 13 more days until Halloween.........