Breast Cancer Awareness

During October you would have seen a whole lot of nail art designs dedicated to showing support for breast cancer awareness.  The end of the month just run away with me with Halloween designs and I never got to show this.

I don't wear pink very often, so wearing this very bright pink mani was really a show of support from me.

I used Jade Delirio Rosa holographic pink and Ulta3 lily white with a holo topcoat on the ring finger.  I applied a pink ribbon sticker I received in a swap and stamped with Konad pink on top of the Jade polish.  You can't really see the stamping in the partial sun photos, but you could see it in the shade and indoors.

Jade Fasicinio Violeta

I just checked the 'Find my iphone' app cause I couldn't find my ipad. There it is - the little dot showing it must still be sitting on my desk at work. Damn it! Now I'm going to be about 200 blog posts behind on Feedler tomorrow (and I wont even mention the stupid dragons I was wont be able to try breed tonight). Bugger.  I will just have to play with polish instead.

We've had lots of sunshine here lately, I can certainly feel summer on the way and soon the pool out back will be warm enough to swim in.  Sunshine = holographic polish, so I went through my significant pile of untrieds and selected this stunning holo.

Jade Fasicinio Violeta.  Bright squishy purple jelly holo.  Completely different to the finish to the Layla holos, and so unbelievably easy to apply. No special base required and no issues using fast drying top coats.  Those Brazilians really know how to make a holo polish.

I still have several Jade polishes that were sent to me by the wonderful Rafa at Nails Ink. *waves*  Now that the warmer weather in here, I know I will be wearing these Brazilian polish quite a bit.

Which is your favourite Jade holo shade?

Jade Magia Negra

Jade Magia Negra is one of the amazing Jade holographic nail polishes I received from Rafa at Nails Ink in Brazil.

Jade Magia Negra really sets the new bar when it comes to black holographic nail polishes.  If you only ever get one black holo, in my opinion, it should be this one!! Here are some reasons why:

• It has fantastic coverage and is fully opaque at two coats.  
• The wear time is excellent.  I wore my mani for three days with zero sign of tip wear or chips.
• It truly is one of the blackest holos whilst still retaining spectacular rainbow fire.
• Quick dry top coat does not dull the effect.

The goldish sheen showing in this photo is apparent in this polish, but not as pronounced as this photo, where it is exasibated by the bathroom lighting.

On day two, I added some simple stamping from Bundle Monster plate 215. Stamped with China Glaze 2030.

Finally, for you comparison needs, here is HITS Zeus, Jade Magia Negra, Ozotic 526 and Layla Flash Black all lined up for a comparison.

Ozotic 526 is easily the blackest, but it's blackness also reduces its ability to let the holo shine through.  Ozotic 526 really is a one coater,  if it were a two coater maybe it would show its rainbow fire more.

Hits Zeus and Layla Flash Black are both most definilty dark grey holos.

Jade Magia Negra - most definitely my new favourite black holo.  

Like I mentioned, I was gifted mine from a friend in Brazil, but you can get them online from Llarowe or Ninja Polish.

Jade Mystic Gold

Last week I received the most AMAZING belated swap package from the wonderfully generous Rafa at Nails Ink. The package she sent me contained 29!!! stunning Brazilian polishes.  She sent the entire Jade holo collection, the entire HITS Mari Moon collection, there were Rivka Holos, Ellen Gold duochromes, 5cinco flakies and a few other goodies too. I am still completely blown away by the amount of polish that was included in the little box.  This is one happy little nail polish addict rolling around on her beg amongst bottles of polish!

Choosing one polish to wear first was a real trial, in the end I chose Jade Mystic Gold.  1. because it was a sunny winter's day and 2) because it is the most amazing rich gold holo I have ever seen and I have nothing like it in my collection.

After wearing it for a day, I added some stamping from the new Bundle Monster plates, that I just had to order after seeing everyone wearing the new designs.

I really need to practice my nail stamping.  It's ok, but I wish I had stamping skills like the nailXchange. Practice makes perfect, right!

Love the Jade holos. They are a completely different type of holo polish compared to the Layla's.  These are jelly like, transparent by opaque.  Can't wait to wear them all. Thanks again Rafa - I have something special planned to send you!