CrowsToes - Wonder Woman

I recently purchased a couple of CrowsToes polishes from Llarowe, which included this one - Wonder Woman.   Wonder Woman has red, blue and yellow hexes in various sizes as well as a few white hexes here and there.  Some of the hexes are holo too, I think the yellow gold ones are holo and some of the smaller hexes too, but there are so many colours reflecting that it's actually really difficult to pick out what is there.

My bottle was unbelievably thick, definitely the thickest polish I've ever tried to apply.  This was two wiped coats as thin as I could do them, layered over Essie Good as Gold.  I also created a quick Wonder Woman logo water decal for my feature nail.

I mentioned above that my bottle was really thick. It was almost like it had dried out.  The photo below shows how it first came out of the bottle.  I added lots of thinner to my bottle until it couldn't fit any more and it made it workable to apply, I just hope that the brand of thinner that I'm able to get here in Australia doesn't do anything to the glitters.

This polish is also top coat hungry.  I needed three coats of top coat to get it glassy smooth.

When you google image search for Wonder Woman (which is what I did to find the logo to create the water decal) you will see many photos of the gorgeous Lynda Carter, plus many other dressed up, rather sexy looking ladies.  In complete contrast, I couldn't post about Wonder Woman nails with sharing my Miss One.  This photo is about seven months old when she was about a month past her first birthday, and I blacked out the background (which included me in my jammies), but isn't she just the cutest Wonder Woman EVA!

Peace out ladies!

CrowsToes - Absolum - your potions master

After seeing a photo of CrowsToes Absolum - your potions master over on steffels blog, I made sure I snagged a bottle of this off Llarowe last time it was in stock.

This is my first CrowsToes polish and I have to say this lady isn't stingy with the glitters, it was jam packed.  This did mean that the formula is quite thick, but I like thick glitters.  I really hate a runny glitter where you lift your brush out and the polish runs off with all the glitters.  This was sticky and the brush was coated in glitter, which meant applying a single layer using the dabble method worked perfectly.  Don't bother trying to brush this on because you will find the thick formula hard to work with (or if you want to brush it on, just add some thinner to your bottle).

This is one coat of Absolum - your potions master layered over one coat of OPI DS Fantasy, all on a PVC glue peel off base coat.

Here is OPI DS Fantasy on it's own.  This is another polish that I picked up from the beauty supply store at the same time I got the OMG polishes.  It's absolutley stunning and this is just one coat applied over PVC peel off base coat.

I peeled this off in the shower and it took about two minutes to do. I was really easy to remove once you lift that first edge and it was actually rather fun to peel it off in an icky, pick at your scab kind of way!  Here are my peeled off tips, of which there are only nine cause I lost one down the drain. 

What amazes me about the PVC peel off base coat is that it really sticks to the nail well. I thought cause it peeled off that it wouldn't last well, but as you can see in Alanna's wear test, it lasts just as good as any other base coat.  It is so much easier to peel off in the shower, and I think I would always do it there, or at least after soaking my nails for a few minutes in water.  I've used it for four glitter manis so far and I've noticed no adverse effects to my nail surface and my cuticles are loving not being soaked in acetone.  Have you tried the PCV base coat yet?