Canadian Ice: A vibrant blue with micro-flakies custom polish!

Today I've got a different kind of post for ya, a nail polish collaboration with Beyond the Nail! A couple months they contacted me to design a custom polish along with a nail vinyl. I had always thought a zipper vinyl was something that was missing from the vinyl world, and now we have one!

My initial vision for the polish was a vibrant cobalt blue jelly like Cirque's Midsummer Night, but with instead of pink shimmers, I envisioned loads of iridescent baby blue shimmer flecks, like the shimmer in Ozotic's 903. The end result colour is pretty close to what I was picturing, but the composition turned out more of a tiny micro-flakie rather than iridescent shimmer that would catch your eye. Maybe it's the jelly consistency muting the little flecks, I don't know, I'm no nail polish mixer I just put it on mah nailz.

I named it 'Canadian Ice' cause I saw it and said "hey it looks like ice chips, eh?" to myself and in saying that I realized I'm such a Canadian saying eh all the time. So being really creative and all I went with Canadian Ice.

Holo Christmas Jellies from Beyond the Nail

It's holo jelly time - Christmas style - with Beyond the Nail! You may recall I swatched their summer galaxy collection a couple months back. The two polishes I have to show off today are the same in formula - a linear holo jelly that go on sheer and can be built up to full opacity in 2-3 coats! Below are 2 of the 10 polishes in Beyond the Nail's Christmas collection. On my accent nail I've re-created a cross-hatch plus gradient look I did a while back - it uses the 'lead-lighting' technique by layering colourful holo jelly polishes over a pattern of white and black I made with striping tape.

 

VIDEO TUTORIAL AT THE END OF THE POST!

Lorde gone mild: Clear to black-tipped gradient with pink holo jelly

When I was playing with my new neon holo jellies from Beyond the Nail (see swatches and review here), it dawned on me that I should probably try and create a more modest mani using these unique and extremely versatile polishes, as opposed to the colour crazyness that I've demonstrated can be done with these polishes here and here. I went for a more uniform look and thought I'd try out just their pink polish, Supernova, over a black to clear gradient after finding out how awesome these polishes looked over black. If Lorde were to take it down a notch and try on some pink lipstick for a change, perhaps her nails would look like this as opposed to the 'frostbitten' look she's popularized (which, like a lot of 'haute couture'/runway styles, is really impractical for us people who live here on Earth).

 

VIDEO TUTORIAL AT THE END OF THE POST!