Review: Revlon Sweet Tart and Sally Hansen Ionic Indigo

Oh magnetic polishes. Sure, you're a cool gimmick but you're just not that interesting once the polish has dried. Your colours aren't particularly special (special to me either being sparkly or bright) and you're usually expensive too. That being said, I have a few of them but like to mix up the application. With my rolls of striping tape arriving in the mail last night, I couldn't resist combining the two. I've done it before, but I love how it turns out so too bad!

First up, two coats of a new Revlon polish I picked up the other day, Sweet Tart. It's a perfect pink bubblegum creme that happened to contrast nicely with Sally Hansen Magnetic Ionic Indigo. Once the Seche Vite on top of Sweet Tart was dry, I added the striping tape in the sunburst pattern. Looking at it, I should have either fully committed to the sunburst pattern or stuck with vertical stripes, but whatcha gunna do. Next, on went the magnetic polish, using the magnet before the polish dried. Off comes the tape (my favourite part) and viola!

The Verdict: I think I preferred my first go at this particular mani but I still like the colour combo here. I love the pink here.

The Polishes:

Revlon Sweet Tart
Sally Hansen Ionic Indigo

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

Polish All the Nails

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