Picture Polish Honey Dew and China Glaze It's A Trap-eze

First of all, my apologies for a lengthy disappearance- sometimes life (regrettably) gets in the way of blogging about nail polish. I should be back to posting fairly regularly, however. And to kick that off, I've got a great spring manicure to show you: Picture Polish Honey Dew, with a single layer of China Glaze It's A Trap-eze layered overtop of the ring finger as an accent nail. I love the way this turned out- Honey Dew is a gorgeous, dreamy, melon green, and It's A Trap-eze is sheer enough to let the base colour shine through to create a delicious milky effect. 

Speaking of Picture Polish, did anyone else get the chance to try the new glitter base, "Revolution"? I was able to get my hands on it through Nail Polish Canada when it first went up on the site, and have only really tried it with Cirque's French Roast (a pretty glitter dense polish), and can't say I noticed a dramatic difference in removal. If I did it again, I'd probably just opt for foil method. I'm assuming it's more to do with my particular body chemistry, as others have reported excellent results using Revolution.

What about you? Any great successes (or otherwise) to report with Picture Polish Revolution as an aid in glitter removal?

Picture Polish - Atomic

Tonight I have Picture Polish Atomic to share with you; this has a scattered and subtle holographic shimmer in a soft silver/white base. Not visible in the pictures, but more visible in real life is a golden-pink flash. Quite pretty, and definitely better in reality than in my pictures. The holographic shimmer in this is kind of flakey and really interesting, although visible mostly in bright sunlight (unfortunately on the day I took these, sunlight was in short supply). I used three coats to achieve full coverage. 

What do you think of Picture Polish Atomic? Did you pick up any of the recent Picture Polish collaboration shades?

Experimental Layering Post

I've been meaning to do this post for ages, as I've accumulated requests for the last month or two. Anyways, finally it's here! 

Top to bottom we have Lynnderella Chocolotta Love over a white base, Ozotic 505 over black (which makes the colour shift look incredible!), Picture Polish Mask-a-rade over black, and Up Colors Beijo na Boca also over black. 

On the thumb you can see Nails Inc Cheyne Walk over black, which doesn't really discernibly change the look of it so much; with one more coat it would look the exact same as it would without any base colour.

I hope these layering swatches were helpful for you! Out of these, I think Ozotic 505 and Picture Polish Mask-a-rade benefit the most from being layered over black- it really brings out the colour shift.

Ozotic 505 + Picture Polish Mask-a-rade = Multichrome Madness!

Combining two of the most multichromatic polishes known to humankind? Yep, you're gonna see that here.

Let's start with Ozotic 505, on it's own (3 coats): 

As you can probably tell, Ozotic 505 is a very sheer polish, and next time I'll definitely be layering it over black so the multichrome shows up more dramatically. Even despite that, this is pretty amazing! It blows me away how chameleon-like this is. It's even more jaw-dropping in person.

So, having applied this, I decided to indulge myself and layer Picture Polish's Mask-a-rade overtop for twice the multichrome madness. This was the result of two coats of Mask-a-rade overtop of Ozotic 505:

And because I've seen Kas at the Varnished Valkyrie use this technique to great effect, here is an underwater photo to convey the full multichromatic range this has!

Pretty amazing, right? This ended up being a few too many coats of lacquer for my liking, but I'm really happy I tried combining these two because it resulted in a multichromatic extravaganza.

I purchased Ozotic 505 from Llarowe, and Picture Polish Mask-a-rade from Harlow and Co, but both websites carry both of these lines. Harlow and Co. ships from Canada, so that's something to keep in mind if you're Canadian- shipping is quite cheap, and very quick. I've been very happy with my experience ordering from both websites in the past. 

What do you think of my Ozotic 505 and Picture Polish Mask-a-rade combination? Do you have any awesome duochrome/multichrome combinations you'd like to share?