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    Nail Art Favourites: Sweet Color Liner Polish

    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus

    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
    If you’ve been keeping up with this blog recently, you may have noticed the Sweet Color Liner Polish popping up quite often. Today’s post is wholly dedicated to this little bottle of magic nail art juice! I haven’t always got along with liner polishes but on a whim, I decided to add this one to my shopping basket and I’m so glad that I did. 
    I’ve always used nail art brushes with nail polish or acrylic paint for everything in my nail art. I felt like liner polishes were gimicky and almost constituted ‘cheating’. Despite this, I still tried a few but just wasn’t happy with the brush and/or paint inside – at this point I was conviced they were one big gimick.
    Enter the Sweet Color Liner (you have to read that in a booming, Brian Blessed voice). A liner polish with a thin but sturdy brush and pigmented paint. I don’t think I’ll ever use anything else for painting white lines in my nail art from now on although it’s not ideal for more delicate, swirly details. It really just does what it says on the tin – lines!
    To get an even finer line, I trimmed off a few bristles to make the brush even thinner and now it lets me do my thinnest freehand lines ever.
    I’m not 100% sure what the paint inside is. The consistency is runnier than nail polish but it’s very, very pigmented like acrylic paint. It also dries quite quickly so you do have to keep dipping the brush to keep it replenished and prevent it from drying up. Whatever it is, it’s brilliant and works perfectly with nail polish.
    I also have this in black but I’m not quite as blown away by that one. The consistency was a little too thick but a few drops of polish thinner made it more usable and it’s now a great liner. There’s also a small range of other colours and glitters that I haven’t had the chance to try yet but they’re going on the wishlist!
    If anyone is on the prowl for a good liner polish or curious to try a liner for the first time, I can’t recommend Pure Color enough.

    Where to buy Sweet Color Liner Polish

    This white liner polish is $4.59 from Born Pretty Store. Browse the range of colours here.
    You’ll get 10% off your order with the code, SAX31.

    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
    For this nail art, I used Rimmel You Had Me At Hello as my base colour. On first glance, I thought this was a plain old bright coral polish but it actually has micro gold particles that shimmer in the light so that was a nice surprise!
    Of course, all the lining detail was done with the Sweet Color White Liner Polish.
    The gold glitter on my index finger is Lac Attack Felix Felicis and I added a few 1.5mm white studs.
    It’s all finished with two coats of Glisten & Glow HK Girl.

    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
    Sweet Color White Liner Nail Polish Review | The Nailasaurus
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    Tooty Fruity

    Today’s nail art features an amazing fruity coral shade from piCture pOlish called Electric Dream. In the bottle, the colour looks like a shimmery coral but on the nails it really pops a lot more pink with loooads of shimmer!

    piCture pOlish Electric Dream

    The main colour here is piCture pOlish Electric Dream and I added some simple nail art using a Pink Tease White Nail Art Striper.

    For the accent nails, I started with one coat of Barry M White then added two coats of W7 Salt n Pepper.

    It’s all topped off with two coats of Glisten and Glow HK Girl.

    W7 Salt n Pepper

    piCture pOlish Electric Dream

    piCture pOlish Electric Dream

    piCture pOlish Electric Dream
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    Stamping, Uncategorised

    Remember, Remember


    The highlight of my week was going to a firework display yesterday for Guy Fawkes Night. In firework terms, it’s the closest we get to Independence Day in the UK and I was like a little kid at Christmas stood there gawking up at the sky! What does that have to do the nail art, you may be wondering? Well I always think of V for Vendetta on November 5th and today’s nails feature red roses, as does the movie. Can I have that? Oh go on!

    For this mani I used Sinful Colors Island Coral as my base. I used more colours for the Nimbus accents than I can list here! I just kept picking out colours and adding them on top to get the effect I wanted. The main ones you see in the mix are Barry M Papaya and Sally Hansen Sun Kissed.
    For the rose patterns, I used Barry M Passion Fruit to stamp from MoYou Plate Pro 04 which isn’t on the site any more but you can get the same images on Pro 07 in the XL size.
    It’s all topped with two coats of KBShimmer Clearly On Top.

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    Maroon Half Moon

    For this mani I used two coats of Essie Lollipop (the moons) as a base coat and then freehanded on Essie Bordeaux, a deep maroon, for the rest. I used a nail art brush first for the crisp line and a bit of filling, then I used the brush from inside the bottle for the rest. I had to use about 3 coats of Bordeaux to get it looking opaque so there was a huge bump where the colours meet!

    I finished it off with a coat of Seche Vite which did a little to smooth out the bump but not much. I need to think a bit further ahead next time I do a half moon and make sure I pick a top colour that’s opaque in one coat!

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