Now this is what I like to call a real summery mani! Now, I went a little crazy here, using nail art stripping tape and nail art jewels, geometric shapes – woah! I just felt like it wouldn't look tacky combining these three colors but very much interesting and clean, with just a hint of a feminine touch. As a base, I've used my fave white nail polish – China Glaze White On White (14ml | $7.50). True, pure white with a creme finish is perfect as a base for any neon polish. The shade I have most trouble defining, describing and even capturing is the cult favorite which is China Glaze Pool Party (14ml | $7.50). This should be a very loud, very bright hot pink. However, I've noticed that many people have different descriptions of it which vary from reddish pink, hot pink, strawberry pink, coral pink etc. Many have reported that it looks different on nails than in bottle but all agree that it's crazy bright. As you can tell, it turned out as a true, straight up neon orange – both on nails and in the bottle. I usually have no problems with keeping colors true to how they look in real life as opposed on photos but this polish definitely isn't as orange as pictured here. In all honesty, it does seem much more on the orange side even in real life, compared to photos I've seen online, so I'm not sure if I have a dodgy specimen or what? Nonetheless, I love it! After I've painted all nails white, I've used pale blue nail art stripping tape on my index and ring finger to create an elongated triangular shape. Thumb was left white, pinky was colored with Pool Party whilst the middle nail is colored with a peculiar blue nail polish. Pool Party was reserved for tips of my accent nails. This moody blue is China Glaze Wait'n'Sea (14ml | $7.50). It has a distinct Mediterranean vibe and is absolutely stunning! It's the azure, aqua kind of blue which leans teal and is of a creme, almost jelly finish. Rather interesting shade which has a good formula but applied over the White On White, on photos I can see the white showing through at the edges. I think it could've benefited from another coat – this is just one layer. I was too optimistic, obviously. Applied alone (without a white base) it looks perfectly even, though. To finish things off, I've dropped a pale blue flower-shaped nail art jewel from the Revelique Nail Art Set on the top right corner of each accent nail. They've rounded the manicure as the most beautiful bow, don't you think?
Ovo ja zovem pravim ljetnim manikirom! Moram priznati da sam sebi dala oduska pa sam se poigrala trakicama za nail art, ukrasnim kamencicica, geometrijskim oblicima – kreativnost je dosla do izrazaja. Imala sam osjecaj da, iako koristim vise razlicitih stvari, sve ce skupa lijepo da izgleda te da sklad nece biti narusen. Tri boje takodjer nekako lijepo idu jedna uz drugu a sve ima jedan cist ali i interesantan efekat uz mali dasak zenstvenih detalja. Za bazu sam koristila meni omiljeni bijeli lak – China Glaze White On White (14ml | 7,50KM preko Facebook stranice Lilocosmetics). Radi se o istinski cisto bijeloj boji creme zavrsnice koja je idealna baza za svakog neonca. Nijansa laka koja mi je iz nekog razloga najproblematicnija za definisati, opisati pa cak i vjerno prenijeti uz pomoc fotografija je kultni favorit China Glaze Pool Party (14ml | 7,50KM preko Facebook stranice Lilocosmetics). Ovo bi, prema definiciji, trebala biti vristeci glasna hot pink nijansa. Ono sto sam primjetila je interesantno – dosta ljudi je razlicito opisuje a ti opisi variraju od crveno/pink, drecavo pink, jagoda/pink, koraljno/pink varijacije i lista se nastavlja. Jos vise ljudi je prijavilo kako ovaj lak izgleda drugacije na noktima u odnosu na boju u bocici ali se svi jednoglasno slazu da je ovo jedan zestoki neonac. Kako mozete primjetiti, u mom slucaju je ovaj lak cisto narandzasti neonac – jednako na noktima i u bocici. Obicno nemam problema da mi na fotkama boje izgledaju vjerno kao u stvarnosti ali moram vam reci da ovaj lak ipak nije bas cisto narandzast u ‘stvarnom zivotu’. Doduse jeste vise narandzast u odnosu na vecinu slika koje sam vidjela na internetu tako da ne znam – da li je kod mene neki neobican primjerak ili sta? Bez obzira, meni se jako dopada. Nakon sto sam sve nokte nalakirala jednim slojem laka White On White, koristila sam nail art trakice u njezno plavoj boji kako bih na noktu kaziprsta i domalog prsta napravila oblik izduzenog trokuta. Nokat palca je ostao bijel, nokat malog prsta je premazan sa dva sloja Pool Party laka dok je nokat srednjeg prsta ofarban u neobicnu plavu nijansu. Ovaj divni plavac je China Glaze Wait'n'Sea (14ml | 7,50KM preko Facebook stranice Lilocosmetics). Ovaj lak ima neki mediteranski smek i stvarno je krasan! Miks je azurno plave, aqua plave a naginje i ka teal varijaciji plave boje dok je creme zavrsnice koja kao da malo naginje ka jelly finishu. Dosta je interesantan i jako se lijepo nanosi ali sada kada gledam fotke – vidim da bijela baza proviruje kroz njega oko ivica nokta. Mislim da sam mogla nanijeti jos jedan sloj a ne ostati samo na jednom premazu (bila sam preveliki optimista!). Bez bijelog laka ispod, izgleda savrseno. I za sami kraj sam ostavila ukrasne kamencice njezno plave boje a oblika slatkih cvjetica koje sam namjestila u gorenjem desnom kutu, gdje se nail art trakice spajaju. Cini mi se da su zaokruzile cijelu pricu ove ljetne manikure, zar ne?
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