Good evening!
I bring to you tonight another one of my recent purchases, China Glaze's Sparks Will Fly from their latest Magnetics collection. I wasn't even going to get this, in spite of the fact that I got the new magnets last month. I just hadn't had alot of luck with CG's magnetics, but I figured if nothing else, I could wear it plain.
Sparks Will Fly is pretty greyish blue that pulls out purple when you use a magnet on it. In strong light, it looks like a duochrome when you just leave it plain, which is what I ended up doing. I just didn't have the patience to use a magnet last night :P
I applied 2 coats for opacity, and really, I could have done just one. I haven't tried yet, but I'm betting I could stamp pretty well with this.
But not too bad either, lol!
This is the mani I was sporting yesterday, I'll be putting today's up later tonight. Yesterday, I gave one of my new China Glaze Magnetix a try. While it's not too terribly difficult, it is an exercise in patience. It took me several attempts to get 8 fingers to look alike, and we won't even discuss my thumbs :P
The instructions included with the magnet tell you to use a single coat of the color. The one I chose, Pull me Close, most definitely needed to thin coats, since it's a pretty blue-grey frost. You do need to have a steady hand for this; my problem wasn't necessarily bumping the wet polish, it was the design coming out nice. But here is what my final result looked like.
The mark on the middle finger wasn't from bumping it, it was from the polish reaching up to the magnet! It was kinda cool watching it.
I certainly need more practice; maybe next time it won't take me so many tries to get them to look the same :P
