Flakie Lavender Nails

Happy Memorial Day! Thanks to all who serve to keep the United States safe.


Now here's a somewhat old design...


The story to this manicure is as follows. Wore a lavender creme, got bored of it. Put a mint green triangle in the middle of all ten nails, got bored of it. Then added a flakie polish. I didn't take photos in between steps unfortunately.


The lavender polish is Revlon Gumdrop. It's the perfect shade of light purple and even smells like gumdrops. The triangles were created by taping off a section to expose a triangle space. I believe the mint green to be Revlon Minted. The reason I'm not entirely sure is that I do have an affinity for mint greens. I can't seem to stop buying them though I have slowed down my purchase rate. The flakie polish is Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure. I found this polish around the release date in a random Walgreens. I remember how excited I was afterwards.

Do you tend to refresh old manicures by changing an aspect or do you do a look and keep it that way?

On To The Next Polish,

Katie

Nails Inc Franklins Row

I can't describe how much I love this polish. You can't buy me love but you can buy me polish. This polish is my new love.

This polish was one of the polishes in my first haul post. 

Nails Inc Franklins Row is described as a "metallic bright purple" on Sephora's website. To me it's an amazing purple with pink and blue microshimmer. Since it flashes more pink in some lighting and more blue in other lighting I think it might but a duochrome. Am I classifying this right?

Nails Inc is a brand new to me. The brand originates in London but has recently made the jump across the pond. It's available in select Sephora stores and online now. The elephant in the room: it actually costs less in the USA than in the UK. That's not fair at all. Sorry!

I'm in love with the brush on this polish. It spreads out nicely but isn't that long. It made application a breeze. I applied two coats of Franklins Row for opacity. With thicker coats you may be able to get away with one. 

I got great wear time with this polish too. I think I've had it on for six days now and only experienced tipwear and a slight chip. Mind you, polish usually does not seem to last on me. It could be because of my base coat change, using Orly Bonder now, but it could be the epic polish that is Franklins Row.

This post is picture heavy. Honestly there are a lot more pictures I could have put on here. I couldn't get enough of this polish.

The next four photos are inside with artificial lighting.

It seems to lean more pink in these indoors photos.

Close-up shots. Click to enlarge.

The next three photos are in indirect sunlight.

It looks more blue here.

These last photos are in direct sunlight.

The polish tends to look like this the majority of the time. 

This purchase was a great success. I love it. It's totally going to get me sucked in to Nails Inc polishes. By the way, I can't wait for their magnetic polishes to launch. They are more expensive than the regular line but look awesome. 

So what do you think? I am right by classifying this as a duochrome? Have any Nails Inc polishes? Think I should stop writing my posts late? I would probably write better and more comprehensive. I would get more sleep too.

On To The Next Polish,

Katie