I tried Blushing Rose first. It's a light candy pink creme. I needed 3 coats to get reasonably even coverage, and added a top coat to further settle things out.
It's a fine pink, with maybe just a touch of purple in it, which is always a good thing to my eyes. I'm not really into just pink right now, so I had to amp things up somehow and decided to do a half moon mani. I slapped on some hole reinforcers and alternated the medium purple creme, Lavendarling, and the purpley rose creme, Sweetpea, adding two coats of those over the pink then followed with topcoat.
I used the remaining three colors together, painting most of my nails with Hydrangea Kiss, the periwinkle-leaning blue creme, and using Blue-ming, the light teal creme (not blue), as an accent. They were both two coaters. Over that, I added two coats of Diamond Drops, which has silver holographic glitter shards in a clear base. Like a lot of chunky glitters, it required some fiddling to get the glitter bits to not clump on the nail. I put on a layer of topcoat over it to smooth things out.
Not so long ago, the irregular shapes in Diamonds Drops would have really bothered me, but I've gotten to place where I rather enjoy the randomness. It helps a lot that the colors shift with the light; I love a polish that entertains me.
It's quite possible I have dupes or close enoughs in my stash to match all the cremes in this collection, but the same cannot be said of Diamond Drops. It's the one I bought my own bottle of after I swatched these (the set shown will be going to live with Lucy).
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I like the blue manicure better, but that's probably because it's my favorite color haha. Diamond Drops is very pretty!
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ReplyDeleteI love both!
Pretty pastels! I like the way you did the half moon mani. OMG I love that blue though! I am very interested in Diamond Drops. I am going to have to look for this set.
ReplyDeleteLove that shredded holo!
ReplyDeleteBlushing Rose is gorgeous, but I really like the Diamond Drops and Blue-ming too :) Great swatches!
ReplyDeleteI love Blushing Rose & Blue-Ming.. Diamond Drops is pretty too
ReplyDeleteWow! You really caught the holographic shift in the last picture! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteThose are pretty cremes! Not sure how I feel about Diamond Drops though..
ReplyDeleteI agree with Meredith Anne, I like all cremes...But still can't appreciate 100% the top coat "randomness" :-)
ReplyDeleteLovely! I like the way you applied Diamond Drops :)
ReplyDeleteI did not know about this trick instead of using nail guides use hole reinforcers. Amazing I have to try this :)
ReplyDeleteGot to love a polish that amuses you!
ReplyDeleteI love ALL of these. Hmmm might have to go shopping.
ReplyDeleteI never thought to use those little paper hole stickers for my nails! What a useful idea. I'm going to try that sometime.
ReplyDeleteFound your blog from Lucie's blog :) like your half moons a lot!
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