Claire's Magnetix Gold stamped

I'm still so much in love with magnetic nail polish.  In fact I don't think I will ever get sick of it as a trend.

I want magnetic polish in ever colour and I want every shape magnet design there is.  I can't wait for the new China Glaze magnet with the concentric circles and the grid, and I just have to get me a bottle of Nails Inc magnetic polish with the fish net magnet.  Which brings me to this post.

This is Claire's Magnetix gold, which is really thick and gluggy, but still a beautiful colour on it's own without the magnet.  I then stamped it using a fish net design.  I really love how these gold magnetics end up looking like the stone Tiger Eye.

Nothing fancy for all us hard core nail buffs, but there was a lady at work in my team who saw these nails and I tried to explain firstly about magnetic polish and then about how to do stamping etc.  Her comment after that explanation was "And your just going to take this off tonight?"

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Color Club Steel of The Night

Long time, no see! How are you doing? I have been swamped with uni work this year. Not sure if I am excited or scared for next year... 

Today I have Color Club's Steel of the Night to show you!

As you can see, Steel is a magnetic polish. I've been painting a lot of my friends' nails at the moment and they just go nuts over the magnetics! I think they're the most used polishes from my stash at the moment. I adore nail art and this is such an easy way to do it.

To get this effect I applied a reasonably thick coat (just one) and immediately held the magnet over my nail for around 15 seconds. The formula is nice too, not thin or goopy.

I was really surprised that you only needed one coat. As always, I was a little bit skeptical over how it would work but it's just so easy.

They will be available in Amazon surf stores and pharmacies. RRP $21.90. But if you are super lucky, you may win the whole set! 

Just send an email to nailjuice@live.com with the subject "Color Club Magnetic Force Entry" along with your name :) I will email the winner June 30th!

A big thank-you to Color Club New Zealand for sponsoring this :D!

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Icing - Magnetix Blue

I had a really fun coffee catch up today with the lovely Alana from Pretty Purple Polish. She's in Canberra for the weekend and she even visited Bankstown Nail Supplies for me before leaving Sydney.  She picked up some extra OPI DS Original's, one of my missing China Glaze Kaleidoscope polishes, as well as two polishes I've wanted to get for ages, China Glaze Ruby Pumps and Emerald Sparkle. Oh and OPI Ink too! Awesome nail day!  Thanks so much Alana!

But today's polish is one I received as part of a swap with a lovely reader in the USA.  She grabbed me some of the Icing and Claires magnetix polishes. Specifically the thing I really wanted was the curvy magnet.  For some reason I feel compelled to own every sort of magnet style that exists.  I really love this wavy magnet design when it's applied vertically down the nail, and in the blue polish it just looks like water ripples.

Unfortunately, by the time I met up with Alana, I was in day two of this polish and I had some serious tip wear and two chips off the edges - I felt terrible not having a perfect mani when meeting up with a nail buddy!  

This polish didn't seem to last very long on me, but generally that's not an issue as I change my polish so regularly anyway.

Also, I'm thinking of placing another order with Layla Cosmetics in Italy.  I want to get the just released Mirror effect polishes.  I'm sure they will just be like most other chrome polishes, but the only real chrome polishes I have are an old Revlon and China Glaze 2030.  I missed China Glaze Millennium, and Layla's Number 8 below looks to be a nice silver chrome.  I'm guessing they will be great for stamping just like other chrome polishes are - that's the main reason I want the colour selection.

So if other Aussies want in on the order, just let me know (that way we can share the international shipping).  Don't forget they have the holos too.  The holos are 11.90 Euro and the mirrors are 12.20 Euro. Email me if you want in.

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Switched up magnetic french tips

Yesterday I was looking at the magnetic polish I was wearing (Layla Magneffect Deep Violet) and thought "I wonder what it would look like if I added a matching french tip striped the other way".

So I grabbed the polish, tried to do a neat swipe across the tip and quickly applied the magnet in the other direction.

Here is the result.  As usual, some nails are better than others. I quite liked the ring finger.

So what do you think? Too weird?  It certainly got noticed anyway.

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Some Layla Magneffects

Have you jumped on board the magnetic nail polish train yet?  I'm such a sucker for fancy effects in nail polish like these.  I must say that I never really got into the crackle phase, but I am totally getting on board the magnetic phase with gusto!

Here are a couple of the Layla Magneffect polishes that I picked up with my Layla Holo order last week.  These have been around for quite a few months now, but the colour range of the Layla Mageneffects is one of the best I have seen. I think they have 16 colours.

Each bottle of the Layla Magneffects has a small round magnet on the top of the bottle with a line on it.  You can use that magnet to create lines .  For these manis I actaully used other magnets that I had.  The Layla bottle magnet works very well, but it's lines are further apart than these.

Metallic Sky

Purple Galaxy

Sparkling Champagne

Turquoise Wave

The formula on all these was excellent.  Some of these polishes could be one coaters (thick, but it would work) but for all these photos I did one coat without the magnet, then a second coat using the magnet.

The star magnet is most definitely the trickiest to master.  It's very hard to line it up correctly on the nail both vertically and horizontally.   I'm totally getting the China Glaze magnetics as well as the magnet as soon as I can, but what I'm really lemming for is a bottle of one of the Icing magnetic polishes with the wavey design as seen here. Any US readers interested in a swap with me so I can get one of those?

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Layla Magneffect Black Metal

I won my first magnetic polish from the lovely ladies at The Polish Lab. Thanks ladies!! Magnetic polishes are very exciting to me. It's just such a cool idea.
This is 1 coat of Layla Magneffects in Black Metal. The polish applies very easily and covers in one coat. I had a bit of trouble with the magnet; I think my nails are just too rounded to get good stripes. I can only get them in the middle or off to one side. I don't think it has anything to do with the product though. It just doesn't work well for my particular nails. I'm passing this one on to a very happy friend with much smaller nails & I fully expect it to work great for her. A starburst pattern magnet is probably much more suited to my nails.
You'll have to vary your routine a bit when using a magnetic polish. You want to do one nail at a time & then quickly use the magnet. I also recommend skipping the topcoat as it can blur the pattern. The polish dries fast so it wasn't a problem for me to skip the topcoat.

 

I hope magnetic polishes continue to catch on & that we have a wide variety to choose from in the coming year!

Thanks for reading!
April

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Magnetic Silver Grey

Would you believe that one of the top search terms for people coming to my blog is 'magnetic nail polish'.  So if you just googled magnetic nail polish and came here, welcome!

I recently hauled myself three new magnetic colours from the same place that I have purchased my previous magnetic polishes (Nail Art and More in Austria).  This one is called Magnetic Silver Grey.  When the  polish is applied it is a neutral taupe gray colour, but when the magnetic is applied it pulls through a great gold colour beneath and leaves very light silvery magnetic lines.

I used the star magnet for this design, and like always I had a little trouble lining it up perfectly on my nail, but I still got a finish I was very happy with.

This is a really pretty magnetic polish.  The other two colours I got were Khaki and Pigeon blue.  I'm worried the khaki might look a bit poopie, but they didn't have a colour chart, so I'll just have to wait and see.

I also got two more magnets, one with horizontal lines and one with vertical lines.  I'll use them on the other two colours. 

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Another magnetic holo franken - purple

I was going to show my next favourite Ozotic pro multichrome polish, but to be honest, they are so dupey of the Artform ones, I'm just a bit bored with writing about them.  Not bored with the polishes, they are just amazing, I just can't be stuffed writing stuff up about them.  My bad.

Instead I have another magnetic holographic polish today.  This one is purple.  ** umm der, did I really need to tell you this was purple **

This was made using half magnetic polish, then equal parts of Artform holographic polish in Mauve, OPI DS Original and China Glaze LOL.  My franken is only in a small 5ml bottle, so I didn't feel too bad about frankening with my beloved DS Original or LOL.  Plus I was confident it would work perfectly because I have done it a few times already with other colours.

OOHHHH, magnetic stripy and holoy all at once.

Also, cause its still Thursday in Hawaii and on the west coast of the Americas (you crazy people living a day behind us Aussies - at least you will always know that the world wont end today, because it's already tomorrow in Australia (I know, old joke, sorry)) Where was I, oh yes, you still have just under 6 hours to enter my franken polish contest.

I have also decided to increase the size of my pictures by just a tad.  I don't bother making my pictures clickable, mainly because I never bother clicking on other peoples images, and I would rather save the storage space in my profile to add more pictures.  Hopefully the size increase wont screw up my template design.

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Magnetic holo franken

After my last post I had to don my white coat a try to franken up a magnetic holographic polish.

I chose to do a blue franken because I have most holographic polishes in blue, and if it didn't work then I had only used up a common colour in my stash.

So here it is.  I only mixed up a tiny bit (about 3ml all up), in case it didn't work, but the ratios were, 1/2 magnetic polish, 1/4 OPI DS Glamour, 1/4 Nfu Oh 65.

The mixed colour was gorgeous.  A holoie cornflour blue.  Then the big test, did it still work with the magnets?

Yes, it did.  Not as pronounced as it is on its own, but it was definitely magnetic.

Here it is up close to show the holo a bit better.

Here is a comparison swatch of just the magnetic polish next to my franken.

If I hadn't added the Nfu Oh 65, and just used DS Glamour, it would have been darker, but I really wanted a bit of linear holo in the mix too.

I think I will definitely do more of these.  My next will probably be a mix of my two favourite purples.  I'm just not sure if Im prepared to franken with my OPI DS Original.  Other combos I could do are:

Black magnetic with Lets to it in 3D or Nfu Oh 61

Green magnetic with L8R G8R or Artform green holo.

Red magnetic with Artform red holo

So its nothing like what I would like a 'real' magnetic holo to do, but its still beautiful.

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Magnetic Bottle Green

Here comes another one, just like the other ones.  As you can see, the team at Nail Art and More have come through with great customer service and shipped my missing bottle green magnetic polish in record time.

This polish is truly amazing.  The rich green colour that comes through with the magnet is just awesome.  And another thing, this is just one coat!!  Yep how is that for pigment. Also wear on these is great.  I had a massive cleaning day today, including steam cleaning the front of all the kitchen cupboards and the splash back.  I didn't wear any gloves and I'm so happy cause I only have a tiny bit of tip wear, no chips nothing! 

Not great swatches as the sun was a little shy today.

This polish dries really fast, and one thing I have learnt with these magnetic polishes is that you need to apply a thickish coat and quickly apply the magnet.  Otherwise it dries too fast and you don't get the full effect of the design anywhere that is already dry.

I've just noticed on their site that they are now selling these polishes in mini 5ml bottles (4.75€) as well as the 11ml ones (8.95€) and you can take 20% off those prices because they include tax. Given the excellent pigmentation in these, you could certainly be happy with a mini bottle.

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Magnetic polishes - Purple and Rust Red

Here I have two more of my new magnetic polishes from Nail Art and More.  This one is called Purple and its super pretty.  The bottle colour is the same as the pale colour on the nail, then when you use the magnet it brings our the darker purple colour.

These polishes have the most beautiful colours in them.  This one has a blue, pink and purple shimmer which can be seen the pic below.

My application of the magnets is getting much better too.

Here is Rust Red. Again the bottle colour is closer to the pale colour on the nail, then with the magnet the darker rust colour lifts out.

I think I prefer the lines magnet to the star one, maybe because its a little more forgiving with bad alignment. 

If you don't get the star magnet lined up correctly on the nail it looks pretty shoddy.

As promised, here are the magnets and the positioning tool.

The base of the positioning tool has a little target on it so you know where to put your finger. 

You then tread the magnet design you want to use onto the fork and position it at the right height for your nail.  I then paint my nail while its still on the target and immediately place the fork, with the magnet, over my finger and hold for 10 seconds.

There you have it.  I'm now just waiting for my Green polish that was missing to turn up, and then to go shopping on their site again, as they have told me there will be seven new colours on their site in the next couple of weeks.

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