Dazzle Dry Passion Purple & Konad Plate M56

Good morning, Dear Reader!

I used another Dazzle Dry nail polish last night, this time a moderate success - not the raging failure of the first, not the complete success of the second. Again, the ridges in my nails show even after three coats of color. It's a bummer - theses are good colors and really do dry fast, but I'm just not willing to weaken my nails with buffing to make them look right.

Here's what Passion Purple looks like on its own.

Ridgetastic, no?

I like the color though. It's the same color as the amethysts in my favorite earrings. I won't punish you with more pictures of jewelry, but my favorite earring have square cushion cut amethysts bordered with tsavorite garnets. I decided to add some true green to this manicure to make it even more like the earrings, added a tip pattern from Konad plate M56, then slapped on a coat of Diamont. Not quite as ridgerific, but still pretty bad. I might just redo using Pasadena Purple, we'll see. The nail polish used for the stamping is Konad Special Nail Polish in green.

In the Konad pictures, you can see that the Diamont smoothed things out considerably, but that the ridges are still really pronounced. That may drive me too crazy to leave on!

That's what I have for you for now, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!

Dazzle Dry Success!!!

Good evening, Dear Reader!

I published a picture of my failed Dazzle Dry Oasis manicure this morning, and I was pretty bummed because some of the colors the company sent me looked really promising in the bottle. Also, it really did dry quickly, and they're 3-free, so I was hopeful that I'd found a new brand to check out. Not being one who's easily defeated, I decided to give them another go just a minute ago, and I had success!

Here's the deal with Dazzle Dry, so you don't have to go back & look, plus a little more info: they're big three free, but it's a totally different formula than other B3F nail polishes, so you really do need to use the whole Dazzle Dry "system" of prep (a liquid to clean the nails with a saturated piece of felt or cotton), base coat, color, and top coat. The company recommends two coats of color, and after two coats, the one I just used successfully, Evening Song, was opaque. However, the failure this morning was that the vertical ridges in my nails showed badly, and they showed a tiny bit with two coats of Evening Song (though nothing like with this morning's Oasis). For the heck of it, I tried a third coat, and they're good! In the time it took to take pictures, add text to them, upload them, and write this far, my nails are completely dry. All's well so far. Here's Evening Song.

My only concern now is that for a couple of months now, I've exclusively used Nu Nails as a base coat to grow out the stains on my nails, and Evening Song is one dark color. I'm hoping, really really really hoping, that the Dazzle Dry base coat doesn't let me down. I will be very sad if my nails are stained tomorrow! We'll see then.

Until then, Dear Reader, love and nail polish to you!

Konad, A Sweet Addiction, and Dazzle Dry

Good afternoon, Dear Reader!

I have a few things for you today. Yesterday, I got a package from Dazzle Dry nail polish, and I tried one out this morning. It's like Zoya in that you have to follow their specific routine, but it was no big deal. It consisted of using their nail prep solution, base coat, two coats of color, and top coat. On the up side, the colors are very pretty and it did dry very fast. On the down side, it's very thin, so the ridges in my nails show through it. The color I used, Oasis, is a shimmer, but the vertical lines are not streaks in the polish, they're ridges in my nails.

I'll try the other colors and see if they work better for my nails. This seems like a good product, but this color certainly didn't work on these nails, and the last thing I'm going to do is buff them and weaken them.

So then I took a nap, and when I awoke, the ridges bothered me just as much as before. I decided a quick change was in order, and changed to Barielle Sweet Addiction. Here's two coats.

All better - no more lines! It looked too plain though, so I busted out the Konad. I used plate M15, Konad White Spcial Nail Polish, and Konad Psyche Pink Special Nail Polish.

Now I'm all set!

That's all for now, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!