Nail Juice - Ice Cream ChocChip Series

Nail Juice's Banana ChocChip is a glorious glossy yellow crelly filled with tiny 'chocolate' flakes. Look at that shine! I'm wearing two coats without top coat here.

Berry ChocChip is a beautiful deep pink sprinkled with tiny black flakes. This is two coats here without top coat.

 Bubblegum ChocChip - my absolute favourite of the bunch. A sweet pink crelly with little flecks of 'chocolate'. This is two coats here without topcoat.

Mint ChocChip - Ok maybe this one is my favourite too?! Mint ChocChip has been my favourite flavour of ice cream of all time. If only this was peppermint scented! Two coats here without top coat.

Links:

http://www.nailjuiceshop.com/

Guest Nails: French Flake Manicure

My sister let me take a photo of her french manicure!

She used a base of Color Club Milky White Base Coat, followed by a coat of Essie Mademoiselle, topped with NFUOh 050.

Very simple and easy to do :)

Nail Art: The Joys of Thinner

It only just dawned on me why I haven't been doing as much nail art these days, it's because all of my glittery polishes are so thick! Luckily mum had a bottle of thinner on hand.

I was reunited with an old flame, Sinful Nail Junkie. To think that I even considered getting rid of it because I used it no longer makes me want to, 
(ﾉಥ益ಥ）ﾉ︵ ┻━┻

For this manicure I used Color Club Ready to Royal as the deep purple base, a small and short layer of NFUOh 050 followed by a sparse coat of Sinful Nail Junkie, topped with another thin coat of NFUOh 050.

Just a little bit more on Sinful Nail Junkie, here is a different look I did with it for the new year of 2010:

And here is a franken with it in it as well as Sinful UFO (orange version of NJ):

I hope you have a great week!

NFUOh 52 over OPI DS Fantasy

After trying 52 over Fantasy, I had to wear it as a full manicure. So here it is!

I only wore one coat of 52 over one coat of Fantasy. It was one of those manicures where everything just worked and looked awesome in the end!

I love how you can see the sparkles of Fantasy in the sunlight.

You are probably sick and tired of NFUOh posts by now! I do have a few more lined up, but won't be posting just yet :)

NFUOh 052

Today I have NFUOh's 052 to show you. 052 looks quite navy in the bottle but it's actually quite purpley, like 051. All you need is a blue to layer it over and you can get the same results as how it looks in the bottle.

I decided to layer 052 over bare nail, OPI DS Fantasy, Australis Blue Tiger and Australis Limited Edition 2.

052 went on a little bit uneven over the lime but I did love it over the two blues. Fantasy especially.

We're on two coats here. As you can see 052 is a little bit sheer by itself but can be layered up to be worn alone. Fantasy brings out the green more, Blue Tiger brings out the light blue and Limited Edition 2 the purple side of 052.

Here we get to see the green, blue and purple duochrome a little bit. It's definitely stronger in person, I wasn't able to capture it nicely with my camera.

052 is my most favourite NFUOh polish along with 050. As soon as I did that first swipe over Fantasy, I knew 052 was the one. The only navy with blue and green flakies I will ever need.

More NFUOh posts on the way!

NFUOh 046

Now I have NFUOh's 046 to show you. 046 is a red based flakie with orange flakies and shimmer that turn gold. 046's base is quite thick and overpowering. This is one you could wear by itself at two coats but in return quite a subtle flakie effect.

I've layered NFUOh 046 over bare nail, China Glaze Dress to Kill, Color Club Wham! Pow! and Color Club I Always Get My Man-darin. 

046 deceived me! I assumed it was a yellow toned red just from how it looks in the bottle, but by itself it is much bluer toned than when it's layered. I really liked 046 over Wham! Pow! as it gave quite a punch. Dress to Kill gave the perfect result of how 046 looks in the bottle.

046 kind of dries a little bit matte, so you need a topcoat over it to see it's pretty flakies and shimmer.

More NFUOh posts coming!

NFUOh 050

Next up I have NFUOh's 050 to show you. 050 is an almost clear purple base with blue and green flakies. If you start to layer 050 up the purple base slowly builds up on some colours but doesn't alter others.

Here I have one coat layered over bare nail, Makeup Store Young, OPI Mermaid Tears and Color Club Secret Rendezvous. I chose these three colours because these are the shades that 050 reflects; green, blue and purple. 

I think 050 over these pastels looks really sweet and delicate.

We've got two coats of 050 now. Of course you can do as many layers as you like with 050, the flakies just get more and more intense and you start to lose the base colour more.

I really like how these flakies show variation in colour and you get something different at every angle.

050 is my favourite NFUOh, right beside 052.

Here are a couple of other times of when I've used NFUOh 050 in a manicure:

Opal Manicure

Layered over Black


More NFUOh Posts coming!

NFUOh 059

Today I've got NFUOh 059 to show you. 059 is similar to 051 and 052 in the way that it has more of a base colour to it. It isn't as sheer as the glass flecks. 059 has a berry/wine base colour and is loaded heaps of orange flakies that turn gold and green. 

For 059 I chose to layer it over bare nail, Orly On The List, Glitter Gal Copper and a generic black creme.

We step it up to two coats here. In the sunlight you get to see more of the orange side of the flakies but it's more of the base polish that is showing through.

In the shade you get to see the flakies and the duochrome starts to come out to play...

Here you can see the gold/orange/green duochrome starting to show.

I think all of the base polishes look just as nice as each other with 059. The black gives you  the more orange/fiery side of things, Copper gives you a subtle holo, On The List was my favourite. It's a deep berry with pink glitter. 059 you can wear by itself but it will need at least 3 coats to get full coveage.

More NFUOh posts coming!

NFUOh 055

Today I've got NFUOh's 055 to show you. 055 is a sheer green glitter base with orange flakies that shine from red to gold. Sometimes you get a glimpse of blue in the bottle but it's very hard to see it on the nail.

For this experiment I've layered 055 over bare nail, OPI Jade Is The New Black, China Glaze Emerald Sparkle and Sally Hansen Glow.

We're on to two coats here. So as you can see, like a few of NFUOh's polishes, they look quite bland by themselves but when added to something else, they just bring a whole other dimension to the polish!

I am in love with 055 over Emerald Sparkle. It just looks like they were made for each other. The effect of 055 is quite subtle of the like green frost. I do like it over Jade but I think it just pops against the darker green of Emerald Sparkle.

Keep an eye out for more NFUOh posts!

Australis Blue Tiger and NFUOh 053

Here is my original photo and post of Blue Tiger if you are interested, http://nailjuice.blogspot.com/search/label/Australis.

For this manicure I used two coats of Blue Tiger (I forgot how awesomely pigmented this one is) followed by two coats of NFUOh 053. They're like a match made in heaven!

These next few weeks I'm going to be focusing on my NFUOh polishes and trying different combos with them. They always wear so well, I don't like removing them before I have to. Flakies tend to stick to your nail.

These angles seemed to be the only way to show accurate colourings in this crappy weather today. It's really nice to see variations of green, blue, orange, gold and purple through out the day.