The Venetian Duo

We're halfway to the weekend!!

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Sounds like a good day to talk about polish ;)

Recently, Pahlish and Elevation Polish collaborated and came out with the limited edition Venetian Duo.  

This duo consists of "The Wayfarer" (Pahlish), a mix of ultra chrome and platinum flakes with iridescent glitters, and "The Merchant's Son" (Elevation), an aqua turquoise thermal with green micro shimmer.  I did not catch the thermal shift in my photos, partially because I'm lazy, but mostly because it's still too dang hot out here to properly photograph the shift before the cold state changed back to warm.  C'mon, Fall!!

 

Did a big ole order from Ali Express at the beginning of the month and all the nail art accessories are starting to come in, so I've been playing ^_^  

The application of both polishes was super smooth.  The Merchant's Son was a "thicker" polish but still applied smoothly and leveled out very nicely.  I'm wearing two coats in the photos above.  The Wayfarer spread out evenly and gave me some great coverage - also shown in two coats.  Overall, it's a fantastic duo!  And the thermal shift is very strong and looks beautiful with the topper.  Wish I could have gotten a good picture of it >.<  Damn you Phoenix heat!!

The duo is sold out on the Elevation site, but IS still available on the Pahlish site here :)

What do you think of this duo?  Did you pick one up yourself?

Challenge Your Nail Art: April Showers

I'm very happy that this month, the Challenge Your Nail Art group, led by the lovely Jessica of Be Happy and Buy Polish, had a round of prompts based on blue!

I love blue - it's one of my favorite colors ^_^  And I knew instantly what I wanted to do for this first prompt!  You all know how much I adore doing freehand silhouettes, so it's probably no surprise to you that I did that here:

I used Pahlish's "Light Upon the Water" bespoke as the base color, and painted rain streaks using "Jackson" by 77 Nail Lacquer, and "Island Waters" by Gothic Gala Lacquers.

I freehanded the silhouette, and I left it a bit ambiguous on purpose - is it a little girl?  A woman?  A man in a trenchcoat?  A child in a rainslicker?  You decide :)

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Earth Day Nails

Good Day lovelies!

Did an Earth Day mani for a nail art group and completely forgot to share it with you all!  I'm so far behind lately - forget March Madness, I've got April Madness >.<  Good thing the month is almost over.

The prompt for Nail Crazies Unite is "Earth Day," and I did a very simple design:

My intent was to emulate that way Earth looks from space :)  I used "The Phantom and the Fly" by Pahlish for the "water," and "Losing Lime" by Carpe Noctem Cosmetics for the "land."  I watermarbled using clear and white nail polish for the clouds/weather.  Since Earth is 71% water, I did most of my nails in blue ^_^

Did you do anything special for Earth Day?  Any fun manis you created?  

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