Adoro Blue Magnetic

Happy January 2nd!!

I hope you all had a fabulous time ringing in the New Year! I stayed at home with my mom and just chilled out and ate some good food. It would of been a little bit better had we not had to deal with my grandfather falling down in the early morning at his nursing home and cracking his head open and giving himself a Subdural Hematoma. Yeah it was a very stressful day not knowing how bad it actually was, but all is good and god kept watch over him and now he is stable :)

What a way to start out the new year huh?

Anywho, I have a nifty new polish to show you all today! This polish is also from the swap that I did with Adri back at Christmas time. She had seen on my wish list that I wanted a blue magnetic polish and so she sent me one from a brand that is exclusive to Costa Rica called Adoro. I have five other polishes by this brand that Adri sent me I believe in the beginning of 2012.

I know magnetic polishes have sort of come and gone and some brands are just jumping on the band wagon like Revlon, Essie, and Sinful Colors just to name a few. I was more than excited to see how a polish from outside the U.S, would hold up.

Lets take a look...

This Adoro Blue Magnetic doesn't have an actual name, usually just a number under the company's name. This blue is a medium-dark  metallic color that is just super pretty. I would wear this on its own with out doing any magnetic effect to it.

Application is pretty good, one coat does cover the nail but we all know its best to do one coat of a magnetic polish, let it dry and then do a quick second coat nail by nail and bam stick the magnet over top for the placement of the design. Your other option is to do one thick coat and work quickly from nail to nail.

Lets talk about the magnet that is provided. The magnet is in the top of the nail polish like most other brands. However like most brands the magnet is circular; Adoro's is square with rounded corners. This means if your nail beds are a little wider than average you can still get an awesome design.  There is a sticker on top of the magnet that showcases the design, the design that came with this one kind of reminds me of a mesh fence. The one thing I would of like to see with the Adoro brand that we only saw with some of the U.S. brands is that there is that special lip to rest on your cuticle so you don't hit the polish. I also notice the magnet fell out easily if the polish was hit hard enough.


Time to take a look at the photos:
*All photos taken with no flash under indoor lighting.

As you can see by the designs on my nails I didn't use the magnet that came with the polish, only on my pinkie finger. For some reason only if I took the magnet out of the top and help it as close as I could to my nail would I get the design. The other three designs on my fingers was a magnet that came with my Pretty Woman Cosmetics. As you can see though the magnetic pull is freakin' awesome! I did not have to hold the magnet over my nail for long at all to get the design to pull through! Score!

All in all I really, really like this polish, out of all the magnetic polish I own this one seems to be right up there with the Pretty Woman Polishes! I can't wait to wear this one again and see how my co-workers and friends react!

Talk to you all very soon!
Nicole

SNAAARKM Challenge Day 5. Your favorite Effect!

Hello!

Hope you all are having a good start to your week!

Today is SNAAARKM Challenge Day 5! Wow it is going by so fast! Today is all about my favorite effect!

There are a ton of different effects out there for nails these days! There are holographic top coats, flakies, crackles, magnetics, this could probably go on! Today I chose to showcase a magnetic polish. When magnetic polishes hit the market I bought into them instantly. The first ones I got were from Clarie's in the mall. Then China Glaze came out with theirs, ( I had such high hopes for that collection) then literally every company was coming out with them. I was just in Rite Aid the other day and saw another smaller brand had come out with some and that Sally Hansen has released theirs as well. 

Unfortunately I don't think I want to pay the $10 price tag on them :(. Today though I bring you one of the Color Club Magnetics. I am definitely noticing that Color Club is becoming more readily available to people via Hot Topic, which is where I got this magnetic polish.  Also Rite Aid now sell Color Club polishes!

This polish is called Hypnotic. It is a bright medium fuchsia polish that when the magnet is applied it brings out a lighter fuchsia with a wavy design. Color Club had six polishes in this collection and this is really the only one that stood out to me. Now I see it everywhere!

This is what the Hypnotic looks like before the magnet and its only one coat! So if you don't want the magnetic effect then this polish is really pretty on its own!

                                                     This picture is natural sunlight.

These last two pictures are in the shade. You can see how dark the polish actually is.

I think I'll keep this on for a little while before changing back to a bright neon for summer!

So now that you have seen my favorite effect, go and check out the other SNAAARKM girls!

Ryan                 Alaina                       Megan                                Stephanie!
                                                                              Kristen
           Ave                             Amanda                                 

Until next time!
Nicole

100th Post! China Glaze Magnetix.

Hello!

Two things I am sad about today, 1: The weekend is almost over and 2: Daylight Savings Time....loosing one hour of sleep is not fun...

Enough about that, today is my 100th post!!! And it also coincides with the fact that my tiny little blog will be one years old one week from today!!

Today I bring you, finally China Glaze Magnetix. I bought these as soon as they came out in January, I held off on swatching them for the blog because I needed practice with this. Plus every time I would try them, they wouldn't work or I would mess them up.

I ordered three colors, Drawn To You, Instant Chemistry, and Pull me close. I ordered them through 8ty8 Beauty's website for I believe $4.06 a bottle. Each online retailer has different prices so you can sort of shop around for a few cents.

This is the magnet that you can buy for an additional $4.06. To be honest I was not happy about having to buy the magnet, I would of like to see the magnet in the cap like, Nails Inc. and Clarie's. This magnet is not the strongest either and you will see that in some of the photos. You have to hold it extremely close to your nail to get a good design, and with that you risk hitting your nail greatly and messing up the design.

The designs you can choose from are the star, which is my personal favorite, the diagonal stripes, and the chevron. The chevron design was the one I wanted to work the best but it was the worst.

Since I had lots of time to practice and I also tried other brands of magnetic polish, I feel China Glaze could of done better with this collection. The colors are nice, but brighter ones would have drawn me to buy more.

Application of these polishes are iffy, on some you can get away with one coat and others you need two, but I found especially with Drawn To You, if you used two coats the design did not show. As where if you used two coats with Pull Me Close and Instant Chemistry the designs showed up more.

This is one coat of Drawn To You, and the diagonal magnet. No top coat.
I found a top coat would muddle the design. 

These two pictures of Instant Chemistry are two coats and a top coat.
I used the star design here except on my pointer finger.

Pull me close is by far the best one out of the three with creating the design.
Once again two coats with a top coat.

If your a nail polish addict like me then maybe adding one or two of these to your collection is worth it. Plus if you have any other brand magnetic polish you can use the magnet from them to create a design on them. Although no one else I think has a star pattern out. If you just want to have a magnetic polish my honest opinion is that they are plenty of other brands out there that are worth your money than these. Sorry China Glaze.

So that's my swatches and review of China glaze Magnetix. Not my favorite collection and not the best magnetic polish unfortunately.

Hope you all have a great start to your week. Talk to you all soon!
Nicole

Nails Of The Day! Pretty Woman Magnetix Nail Polish! (Pic Heavy)

Good afternoon!

Today I have this awesome nails of the day to show you as you can probably read by the title! I just found this at Rite Aid today!! I have been lemming this polish ever since I heard G. over at Nouveau Cheap show it on her blog!

I have magnetic polishes from Claire's and from China Glaze that I still have yet to post reviews about, I'm hoping to have those up sometime after valentines day. I wanted to wear them to work and see how they held up and try different magnets on them.

The reason why I am not giving myself time to really review this polish is I had to show you the awesome color! When I heard that Rite Aid was going to carry the Pretty Woman Cosmetics Magnetix Nail Polish I was stoked! They retail for $7.99 and with tax they come to $8.63. Not too bad for one polish, but you get two magnets with it. You get the wavy magnet and the diagonal stripe magnet.