First Spring Mani of the Year!

Finally spring! And the super warm weather called for a springtime mani!

 

So, I used two colors here, Orly Ancient Jade (green) and Orly Frisky (blue). Over that I did a coat of Finger Paints Special Effects Twisted, and Seche Vite to top it off. On my right hand I have Ancient Jade on my pointer and pinky, and on my left hand I have it on my thumb and ring finger, just to switch it up lol

I wanted somethings bright but not super neon.  I was iffy about Twisted over it at first because I really liked it on its own, but then it grew on me. Kind of reminds me of Easter and speckled eggs. I think it's springy enough for me... now if the weather would only stay nice...

Until next time,

The Wicked

Finger Paints Special Effects Twisted vs. Nubar 2010

I thought I would do a comparison of Twisted and Nubar 2010 because some people seem to think they look the same, but they look nothing alike!

Twisted on the index and ring finger, Nubar 2010 on middle and pinky.

 This is one coat of Twisted over black and one coat of Nubar 2010 over black. As you can see the Nubar 2010 flakes are much smaller than the ones in Twisted. Also the flakes in Twisted are multicolored while the ones in Nubar 2010 are all the same color. These are definitely not dupes! So if you already have Nubar 2010, you can totally still get Twisted or any of the other Finger Paints Special Effects polishes!

But when you tilt your nails, Both Twisted and Nubar 2010 have a very strong green flash.

So they actually are pretty different. I like Twisted more; I think it's just way more festive and fun. I love that the flakes are all different colors opposed to all the same color. I do love Nubar 2010, but I love Twisted more at the moment lol

Until next time,

The Wicked

Some more fun with Finger Paints Special Effects Twisted!

Since Twisted is seriously my new favorite thing in the world, I've been playing around with is over different bases. Here are just a couple of things that I've tried.

I call this one Twisted Mayo! It's two coats of Twisted over one coat or Manglaze Mayo! I originally had it over OPI Alpine Snow, but I thought it needed a white with some shimmer behind it. It got a little wonky when I put Seche Over it tho. The Seche kind of settled into the flakes and wasn't smooth and any Mayo at the edges that didn't have Seche over it started to separate and was just strange. Also, as you can see the color flash wasn't so prevalent here because they base is so light, but you could definitely see it in the sun. In this picture, which you'll probably have to enlarge, the color flash looks more pastel, but that's just my camera, it was definitely brighter and not pastel in person. So overall, I think I actually like it better over Alpine Snow.

This is two coats of Twisted over one coat of nails inc Kensington. I chose Kensington because its a really nice dark teal that lends itself nicely to flakie polishes (obviously, since it's part of the Wyndham set). You can see how awesomeeeee two coats of Twisted really is. So many flakies, so awesome. 

Two coats of Twisted over one coat of Sinful Colors Black on Black. The lighting might be kind of weird on this one, sorry about that. 

This one is the same as above, but I wanted to show you the green/ yellow flash that happens when you tilt your nails. 

So there you go, those are all my Twisted experiments (hah) for now. I'll probably be putting this over everything for a while since I love it so much and if I come up with any cool combos I'll definitely share them with you all. 

Until next time,

The Wicked