Picture Polish - O'hara

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you all had a wonderful time.  As for me, I was cozy and snug in my bed, the days of seeing in the new year are long gone for me.  That's what small children do to you!

To start the year, I'm excited to show you a brand new shade from Picture Polish.

O'hara - for the Scarlett in all of you! That's the little catch phrase on the top of this bottle.  Is there anyone out there who doesn't know who Scarlett O'hara is?  Well, Scarlett O'hara is the protagonist in the novel Gone with the Wind.  I've not read the book, but I certainly remember seeing the movie when I was in my teens.  I still recall the last words Rhett says to Scarlett - do you?

This is the brightest scattered red holo polish I've ever seen.  The formula on this is just like Kryptonite and Cosmos with the same shard like scattered holo pieces.  The red base is so amazingly bright, it's a blazing cherry red.  This one isn't as much of a jelly as kryptonite and cosmos, I'd say it's more of a crelly (a cross between a creme and a jelly).  The holo bits shine through easily but it's opaque in two coats.

These pictures are two coats with a coat of Seche Vite top coat.  Formula was great and I didn't need to do any clean up for these photos.

O'hara will be launching later this month, so make sure you like the Picture Polish facebook page to find out when it's available.

Picture Polish Pastels Spam

Summer is in full swing here in Australia, and I know that pastels are so spring, but I thought I would share the Picture Polish pastel manis I wore during spring.

Given the size of my Picture Polish collection, I also thought I would put together another colour guide.  I've linked it from the left bar as well.  I've still got a number of Picture Polish shades that I haven't worn yet, so I have them as 'coming soon' images.

Honey Dew - a light pastel turquoise creme, more green leaning that Tiffany (shown below)

Mellow Yellow - soft pastel yellow creme.

Sky - pastel blue creme. I've used this a lot in gradient manis which call for a sky blue colour.

Tango - pastel salmon orange creme.

Tiffany - a light pastel version of tiffany blue, bluer that honey dew (above).

Twinkle - pastel pink with blue undertones, with subtle silver shimmer.

I really can't recall if these photos show two or three coats, or whether it was different for each one.  They do all have Seche Vite top coat.  I also recall that the formula on all these was excellent, smooth and easy to apply.  Sometimes pastels can be hit and miss formula wise, but these were all great (even the yellow one).

Picture Polish - Cosmos

I saw Cosmos launched on the Picture Polish facebook site and I was instantly in love. A rich dark blue jelly with scattered holographic effect.  This is the blue sister to Picture Polish Kryptonite and in the same family as the Ozotic 600 series.

This is three coats of Cosmos, although two was really enough.  Just like my beloved Kryptonite, this is perfect in every way.  The formula is smooth and easy to apply and it has just the right amount of tint to make it a jelly for the holo particles to shine through, but still providing good opacity.

For anyone that hasn't tried the Ozotic 600 series or the other scattered Picture Polish holos, you need to know that the holo particles are not glitter.  They are ultra thin and irregular shaped, like little shards of holo.  Because they are so thin, the polish dries completely smooth and you don't need top coat. Although you can add top coat (like I have for these pictures) and it wont dull the holo appearance.

Cosmos is available for $11.50 AUD from www.picturepolish.com.au and in other currencies from their network members.  So while you're on sites buying Kryptonite :), you may as well get Cosmos too.

This polish was provided for review.

New piCture pOlish glitter collection

Today I have the five new glitter polishes from piCture pOlish to share with you. Three of them are single colour glitters and the other two are multicoloured.  Let's get straight to the swatches. Details on formula etc at the bottom.

Ariel's Tale - two coats layered of Picture Polish Marine.  This one has small square and medium sized hex, aqua green glitters.

Gene Doll - Two coats layered over Picture Polish Violet Femme. I just loved this combo, these two polishes were made for each other.  Gene doll has small and medium sized fuchsia pink hexes.

Mardi Gras - Two coats layered over Picture Polish Sky. This one has small silver hexes and small aqua squares as wells as medium sized hexes in silver, aqua and fuchsia.

Ruby Blou - two coats layered over Picture Polish Opal. Small and medium sized hexes in red, blue and silver.  This one has a real patriotic feel to it (at least for where that red, white and blue is patriotic)

Splash - Two coats layered over Picture Polish Electric Blue. Bright blue small and medium sized hexes.

The formula on all these was excellent  They are definitely glitter top coats rather than polishes you could built up to opacity. They dried very glossy and smooth for a glitter and only needed a single layer of top coat. Drying time was normal.

I did notice some very slight reflective curling on the silver and aqua glitters in Mardi Gras and the silver, red and blue glitters in Ruby Blou. I found that odd, because it appears to be the same blue glitter in both Ruby Blou and Splash, but there are no curls in splash. I also didn't notice any curls in Ariel's Tale, but they look like the same aqua hexes is Mardi Gras. No sign of curls on Gene Doll. Go figure.  Anyway, as you can see, these all were glossy and smooth with just one layer of top coat.  But I thought I'd mention it, as I know you eagle eyed girls would pick it up!

The only polish that is similar to any of the new Ulta3 glitters is Splash.  Although the shade of blue glitter is very slightly different, and the Ulta3 polish has three sizes of glitter and a higher glitter per wipe ratio. 

I really like this collection, they are simple and fun. I think my favorite would be Gene Doll, which is so very unlike me to choose a fuchsia glitter.  Maybe it's just the colour combo that smacked me in the face.  Which is your favourite?

These polishes were provided for review.

Picture Polish - Dorothy and Attitude

I had really hoped to share pictures of the new Ozotic Scatter Chromes today, but I was out the backyard this afternoon when the DHL man arrived and I missed my nail mail. Boo hoo!  Plus I had the afternoon off work so I would have been able to swatch them all. Now I will have to wait until the weekend.  Damn you well paying job that I need to fund my polish habit *shakes fist*!

Instead I have two more Picture Polish shades to share with you today. 

I was really excited when I first saw pictures of  Dorothy.  I was always going to get this polish, cause it bears my mum's name, and my mum would definitely be my closest nail buddy!

Dorothy is a red jelly polish that is jam packed full of silver micro glitter.  Because of the silver glitter this polish leans very pink.  In fact it looks more like a dark pink polish than a red.  It's a little thick to apply because of the quantity of glitter, but it covers very easily.  

This is two coats of dorothy and two layers of top coats to get it smooth.

Attitude was another shade I was really looking forward to trying.  Because it was a purple large particle scattered holo, I thought it might by like the purple Ozotic large particle scattered holo, #624. However it is absolutely and completely different. Ozotic 624 is a very red toned purple, whereas this is much more blue toned and much much darker.  This also has a strong purple shimmer and isn't really a jelly finish (although it is transparent enough to see through to the holo particles and get some depth).

This is three coats of attitude with Seche Vite top coat.

These polishes were provided for review.