NailImplant: Deutsch You Want Me Baby

Senin, 27 Januari 2014

Shoot The Butterfly by Crows Toes

Hi NaiLovelies!

I've been having a bit of a play in my polish this evening and have a swatch of another stunner from Crows Toes. I think I may have saved the best of my Crows Toes polishes till last... This is Shoot The Butterfly and it is absolutely gorgeous! I love everything about it!!!!

Shoot The Butterfly is part of the Spring THIS 2013 release which also included the beautiful Milquetoast. Both polishes in my opinion are stunning and are unique in my growing collection.

I realised that Shoot The Butterfly was the perfect polish to team with my current OPI Gelcolor Deutsch You Want Me Baby? manicure.

Shoot The Butterfly is a black jelly with warm orange holographic hex glitter, small matte white hex glitters and tiny super sparkly holographic hex glitters. For this manicure I layered two coats of Shoot The Butterfly over black undies (Nails Inc New York Noir) I had alot of trouble capturing the true beauty of this polish including the glowing shimmer from the holograpic hexes.

As you can see I got a little creative with this mani and decided to bust out my stamping plates. Once again I used the MoYou XL plate. They are super easy to use and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to stamp a butterfly on this mani - it would have been rude not to. Infact, I had two amazing butterfly images so I used them both, one on my middle finger and the other on my thumb.

I think Shoot The Butterfly is a beautiful polish and kinda makes me think that an Admiral butterfly has been smooshed into the bottle! Not in a bad insect harming way of course. Crows Toes has captured all of the beauty of one of the most magnificent buttlerflies in this polish and in the process has created something truly special! I purchased my bottle of Shoot The Butterfly from Llarowe along with Milquetoast and Indian Summer.

I'm happy to say that this polish applies like a dream! The jelly formula applies incredibly well to the nail and as do the glitters which just flow onto the nail with ease. There is no need to dab this polish on, the base and plethora of glitters glide easily onto the nail. I am a sucker for a jelly formula which applies easily, I don't have many jellies but I think I have hit the jackpot with the ones that I do own!


One coat of Shoot The Butterfly

Two coats of Shoot The Butterfly over black undies

Side by Side comparison

Shoot The Butterfly - Crows Toes

Deutsch You Want Me Baby? - OPI Gelcolor

New York Noir - Nails Inc

Pro XL 05 Image Plate - MoYou

These are the stamping images I used for this mani. The image in the top right is on my thumb and the image on the bottom left is on my middle finger

I think I prefer the stamped image used for my thumb.

I added some of the orange hexes to the wing tip of my thumb and some of the white hexes to the main part of the wings. In hindsight, I probably should have added more of the white glitters but I am very happy with how this manicure turned out.

Ciao 4 Now

Minggu, 26 Januari 2014

OPI Gelcolor Deutsch You Want Me Baby?

Comparison Deutsch You Want Me Baby Nails Natural Nails OPI Gelcolor Orange Soak Off Gel

Hi NaiLovelies!

Oh my goodness, I have a right scorcher of a swatch for you today. This beauty is OPI Gelcolor Deutsch You Want Me Baby? Deutsch You Want Me Baby? is from OPI's Germany Collection released in winter 2012. I’m not going to lie, this is right up there in my top 10 of gel polish colours. I absolutely love this colour. I just can’t stop looking at my nails!

It is stunning and is the first soak off gel colour that I have worn more than once! I love this colour so much I and I also have it in regular polish which I purchased for a steal at Sallys for just under £6!

Deutsch You Want Me Baby? is a deep rusty orange base with strong red undertones and firey orange micro shimmer which totally sets it alight. The combination of the base colour and the heavy glitter make this another tricky trickster to photograph because one minute it looks dark almost red and the next it is lighter glowing orange wonderful fabulousness.

Now I want to get it out there in the open that I am not usually an orange nail polish wearing kinda gal. In the past, the most orange I would get would be coral and even then I tended to opt for the more pink toned corals. Well this colour totally changed how I feel about wearing orange as it is super classy and so incredibly sexy! The only thing that makes this particular outing better than the last two is that I think it looks even better with my new nail shape.

The regular polish version of this polish has a beautiful metallic finish with more gold toned shimmer. I have never seen a soak off gel polish with a metallic finish so I believe this is why the Gelcolor version is super shimmery.

I have provided some side by side comparison shots of the Gelcolor and lacquer formula of Deutsch You Want Me Bab? so you can see the similarities as well as the difference in finish. In low light conditions both formulas look amazing but the RNP version is truly stop you in your tracks stunning!

I love both and definitely pleased to have them in my stash. To me the finish of the regular polish is more complex and more stunning, it has a 'lit from within' look to it which looks like the glowing embers of a fire.

Index finger and ring finger have the regular polish formula on them. The middle finger and pinky have Gelcolor formula of DYWMB?

The pictures for comparison between Gelcolor and RNP were taken during the daytime so there is more light being thrown onto the nails which makes the colour lighter.

You can see from these photos that the shimmer of the regular polish version looks more golden and more reflective than the Gelcolor version.

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The formula of Gelcolor DYWMB is a toughie. Whilst it is very pigmented and shimmery which assists in great coverage easily being achieved, it is unfortunately a bit of a shrinker. Luckily, it is not a crazy shrinker but it is one that slowly creeps away from the cuticle, sidewall and free edge. It is a slow shrinker so this can be easily rectified by going over the all the nails with the brush before immediately curing. It is more of a problem on the first coat which it is important when it comes to capping the edges and getting a neat finish along the cuticle and side walls. Thankfully, by the second and third coats it’s not so much of a problem and therefore doesn’t affect the neatness of the mani. Besides, to me a quick brush over or flash curing is more than worth it for a colour like this!