Sunday Spam: Pure Ice polishes

Pure Ice is a brand we don’t have in Austria (all of Europe I think, but correct me if I’m wrong!), and mostly the colors didn’t tickle my fancy and I wasn’t too interested. Until M sent me some “velvet” colors, which made me take out all the Pure Ice polishes I had collected from swaps, and take a second look.

Pure Ice Affair to Remember (1 coat over Jessica Flirtation) is a sheer pink polish packed with light reflecking particles. I can’t say if they are some sort of glitter or shimmer or glassfleck particles. The main color reflection is pink, but there’s a hint of blue in them as well. If you like your nails sparkly, but you dread glitter removal, this is your thing. I personally don’t like this type of topcoat all too much.

Pure Ice  Grunge: this is one of the “velvet” colors. In the bottle the nail polish looks like a purple with intense silver shimmer, but on the nails it dries to a soft looking purple with a silver hue that only matte polishes manage to have. Beautiful, even though purple!, and it dries in a heartbeat.

Pure Ice Vegas Strip (over Finger Pains 15 Minutes of Fame) is the green version of Affaire to remember (see above). Color-wise I prefer the green version, it looks very healthy and vivid. It shimmers mostly green but also golden depending on the light.

Pure Ice Vintage Glam is a yellow creme polish. As to be expected of yellows, this one had a horrible patchy formula, and even after three coats I didn’t manage to get this to look nice. Also the color is rather unfortunate: do you know those wallpapers from the 70′s, the brown/orange/yellow ones, mostly with flowers? Well, it’s that kind of yellow.

Pure Ice Stunning is absolutely what the name suggests. I adore this kind of pink,  matte, silver hue, vibrant pink. I don’t really have to tell you how much I like it, I’ll just mention in passing, that I have 4 shades just a tad different that look the same to the untrained eye. Love!
 

The Wild Thing Ruffian

I’m still not over the ruffians. I don’t wear them all the time, but sometimes I really feel like it and then it has to be colorful – which explains my choice of colors for this Ruffian manicure.

As a base I used ANNY Yellow Cab Flash which is a soft pastel yellow. Application is the same as all pastel yellows (aka pretty shitty, even though I try to deny it for the sake of the pretty yellow), but since I’m wearing it as a ruffian, I didn’t mind too much. I used two coats and waited for it to dry. Meanwhile I decided that I would need to use Pure Ice Wild Thing for the Ruffian because the pastel yellow was too cute and I wanted some edge. One coat of Wild Thing was enough for good coverage!

Afterwards I felt like flakies would look awesome on top of this and therefore I picked up Fingerpaints Motley. The flakies don’t show up too much, so this isn’t super flashy, and I’m happy with the effect.

What do you think? Ruffians: hot or not?

Blogger Challenge PINK: Day 7 – The Final Challenge

Nail Polish Blogger Challenge

If you aren’t yet following my facebook page, here’s the link – there are picture albums of my swatches and I heard a little bird sing that there’ll be a giveaway soon!

Today, for the final day of the challenge, I wanted to really, really, really challenge myself. Those of you who have been following my blog for a longer time will know that I’m at war with tape manicures. They never really work for me, maybe because I’m too impatient, or maybe because I just don’t do it right. As this is a challenge, I decided that my last post has to be one with a tape manicure, to prove to all of you that I really was challenging myself!
Well, enough with all the talk, here is 2 coats of “my” pink, OPI Do you think I’m Tex-y?, with some scotch tape design over it. The black I used is Illamasqua Scorn, because it’s a one-coater and it dries quick (because it’s matte).

You can see that my index finger worked out really ok, while I had some struggles at the middle and ring finger… And since I’m a very precise person, I had to do something about that, because I kept on being annoyed with myself that it didn’t work out like Chloe’s tape manicures! So I added one coat or OPI Rent. I like that much better!

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And then my head went crazy and I wanted to see how it would look like if I put crackle polish over it, so I grabbed my Pure Ice Crackle in Hot Couture, and here is what that looked like:

I think that looks rather wild. I wanted to show you the result, but this is not a submission to the challenge, as you can’t really see “my” pink anymore, and that was one of the rules! I should have left it be anyhow, because OPI Rent over the Scotch tape manicure looked quite nice.

What do you think about tape manicures? Did you enjoy the 7 day PINK Challenge? I’d love to hear your thoughts on the challenge, as I do feel up for another one in the future (with a different colour though – I never thought I’d say that about a Pink, but I’m happy to wear something else tomorrow!!).

Last day, and all the ladies are giving their best!

Ulmiel from Did someone say nail polish? uses Finger Paints Give Pink A Chance
Sarah from Lucky Lacquers uses W7 Shocking Pink
Rebecca from Rebecca Likes Nails uses Color Club Peppermint Twist
Sidrah from beauteous blog uses sally hansen pink blink
Inge from Polish Sis uses Hema nr 84
Maestra from parokeets uses essie knockout pink
Gejba from  parokeets uses essence Love This City
Leslie from Polish Art Addiction uses China Glaze Laced Up