Category Archives: Ozotics

CND Effects Sapphire Sparkle + Ozotic Elytra 529 = Blingy Goodness

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I’ve not played about with nail art and layering and glitters sandwiches or whatever they’re called much at all yet. Am still too busy discovering what I like and trying to get more polish on my actual nails than I do on the skin surrounding them:). It’s not that I’m not interested but rather that I just haven’t really got there yet.

But the other day I tried on an Ulta3 cheapie I’d come across at the local chemist store called ‘Midnight’. Midnight looks like a basic black creme in the bottle but on opening it you see that it appears to have a very dark purple tinge to the black. However, on the nails that purple tinge disappears and it dries semi matte, very reminiscent of Illamasqua’s Scorn. I haven’t got any pics of Scorn handy but here is two coats of Ulta3 Midnight without top coat.

Ulta3 Midnight

Excuse the dodgy cuticle on the middle finger:(. Ulta3 polishes are bin dive lovelies that cost between $2.00 to $3.00 AUD depending on where you find them. Generally the formula on these, as far as I’ve found to date, is pretty good although the brushes could be better. But for the price they’re great. Midnight wont be getting binned anytime soon.

Anyway, I decided to play about and slap on CND Effects Sapphire Sparkles which I’d bought off eBay a month or so earlier.

Ulta3 Midnight & CND Effects Sapphire Sparkles

So having come this far, I decided to drag out one of the Ozotic Elytra polishes I’d bought a while back and not yet christened. Cue Ozotic Elytra 529.

Ulta3 Midnight & CND Effects Sapphire Sparkles & Ozotic Elytra 529

The Ozotic Elytra polishes are multicoloured glitters in clear lacquer. Ozotic 529 has blue and red glitter. It also has quite a duochrome effect which must be inherent to the glitter. If you like the look of Ozotic 529 you need to get a wriggle on as they are being discontinued along with the rest of the Ozotic 500 series. As of today they were still available on the Picture Polish website. I can’t comment as to what availability there might be internationally through Picture Polish’s network members but if you’re keen go now!:)

Ulta3 Midnight & CND Effects Sapphire Sparkles & Ozotic Elytra 529

Ok, it’s a weird shot, mostly featuring my palm, but I wanted to show the variance of colour. This was two coats of Ozotic 529 over the rest of it, plus a coat of Seche Vita.

By this stage CND Effects Sapphire Sparkle is clearly a little overwhelmed by Ozotic 529 but I think the effect is still there, even if it is the subtlest polish on the nail by this stage:).

It was fun mucking about with these. The most I’ve tried previously is a flakie or glitter coat over one colour. Hannah of Polly Polish has arranged for Polish Days, including a coordinated glitter sandwich mani day in early July . I thought I’d participate to make myself try something different so I’m looking forward to mucking about some more with some glitter and jellies for that.

Thanks for reading and tolerating my very amateurish attempts at layering:). Do you have any layer combinations you particularly love?

xx

Glitter Gal glittery bits: Operation Untrieds

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I’ve been on a mission to try all my untrieds as my untrieds by far and away outstrips the number of polishes I have worn.I also hacked off my nails whilst I wait for my right middle fingernail to regrow. It will be a slow process sadly.

Back to Operation Untrieds. Amongst those untried were two of my three Glitter Gal polishes. It wasn’t long after discovering the world of nail polish blogging back in February that I came across Lizard Belly by Glitter Gal. That was thanks to the beautiful nails and polish skills of the owner of Fashion Polish. Lizard Belly was just stunning in her photos, so off I went to investigate and order. I ended up ordering Lizard Belly and wore it straight away.

Glitter Gal Lizard BellyGlitter Gal Lizard Belly

Glitter Gal Lizard Belly

I also order Turbulence and Code Red. But I’ve only just got back to them, having got swept away with a range of other new polishes shortly after buying them. Glitter Gal have recently brought out some new polishes and I dearly want to buy a few of those to try as well but I felt I can’t go there until I’ve worn all the GG polishes that I already have:). Here’s Turbulence.

Glitter Gal Turbulence

Glitter Gal Turbulence

And Code Red:

Glitter Gal Code Red

Glitter Gal Code Red

These are two coats each, except for Turbulence which took three coats because it’s a little more sheer that the other two. No base coat or top coat. These are the only holo polishes I’ve worn so far. They seem to take longer to dry than your average polish and fast dry top coats don’t seem to make any difference. Am unsure whether that is just a feature of holo polishes generally or Glitter Gal holos. Anyone know? I have a number of holos in a brand called Chemistry (made by the same manufacturer as Ozotics) so I will experiment with them soon and see. It just means it’s not a polish to apply when you’re about to rush out the door:)

I thought I’d better pull my finger out and post these as I’m off to Noosa for a week as of Friday morning. My lovely partner is home alone for the week whilst I get to have a girls week away. For those of you not familiar with the east coast of Australia, Noosa is a lovely cluster of beach and river-side villages and resorts about 90 minute drive north of Brisbane. Most importantly it is well and truly feeling like Autumn in Canberra where I live, inland in the south-east of the country. Overnight temperatures are getting down to zero degrees celsius here so it will be lovely to spend a week in climes where it is still warm enough to swim at the beach. The trip has kind of snuck up on me and I got a surprised when I realised how close it was. But now my head is used to the idea I’m starting to get excited about it.

So there’ll probably be limited further action here until I get back home on 11 May, that is unless we manage to find internet coverage and iPhone photos don’t look completely awful.

xx