Surprise! Did I shock you with my appearance?
Today, I have brought you a polish perfect for holidays such as Memorial Day. Paris Sparkles Election Day. This one turned out better than I had anticipated after seeing swatches online! I am happy to see that I got a reformulated version. I really like this polish and am so glad I chose it. I have nothing like it and there are many possibilities with it.
I swatched this three different ways so you could see the variances based on what you decided to do for undies. I think the thumb is my favorite but I imagine this polish would make a great jelly sandwich, too.
Per the Paris Sparkles etsy store, this is a "white base with beautiful holographic glitter and tiny blue and red hex glitters" and needs no base or top coat or undies. Take a look at my pictures and judge for yourself.
I used Seche Base on all nails, various undies as noted below, varying layers of Election Day, Out the Door top coat on all nails. These were all taken outdoors. Pardon the "claw hand". I don't like those images and I don't want to do them but when I've done such varying swatches on the same hand, it may be a good idea to do a claw hand so you can see it all at once.
- Pinkie Finger: no undies, three thin coats of Election Day
- Ring Finger: same as pinkie finger but attempted to make less jelly sandwich
- Middle Finger: two thin coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu, two thin coats of Election Day
- Index Finger: three thin coats of OPI Don't Touch My Tutu, one thin coat of Election Day
- Thumb: two thin coats of a Color Club white stamping polish, one thin coat of Election Day
You can visit Stacy's store, parissparkles, here. I hope you have enjoyed the post. Not until last night did I realize other bloggers only swatched one hand for their blogs. Maybe that was why I felt like it was a tiring process. I thought it would look odd if I ran to the store, for example, and only one hand was complete. I am new to blogging; can you tell?!
Feel free to give me your input, via comment or email. Should I have jumps for my posts? Are the photos too large? Do you prefer to click on them to make them larger? Are my posts too long? Should I make the photos smaller and more compact? Do you like the collages? Do you think I need less or more photos or are there just enough? Do you prefer darker backgrounds? Would you like photos taken indoors with indirect sunlight instead of outdoors? I have an awesome camera but am a newbie to the features so future posts may be some playing around with different settings, backgrounds, locations. Hope you all don't mind being guinea pigs!
Have a safe, happy Memorial Day!
Disclosure: Election Day was sold to me by Paris Sparkles at a discounted price for review. All of the opinions in this review are completely my own.
You know how you always have good intentions to do something specific but then life gets in the way and those specific things have to be put on the back burner? That is what has happened with my blogging. It has been put on the back burner.
On to the good stuff without any more ado.
I was recently playing around with the Paris Sparkles Celery Stalker indie polish. I was trying to decide if I wanted to do undies (a polish under the Celery Stalker) or not. I thought about doing green but ended up using Sinful Colors Candy Coated. Candy Coated is a lavender with shimmer. I didn't realize there was shimmer in it until I had it on my nails. Nice surprise! However, I do now regret using underwear that was a different color family from Celery Stalker. Hindsight is 20/20! Next time, I will use a green underwear or no undies at all!
All photos are after 45 hours of wear. I had hoped the Paris Sparkles Celery Stalker would be milkier than it is. I used one coat of Seche Base, two coats of SC Candy Coated, three coats of Celery Stalker, one coat (which was not enough) of Out the Door top coat. I thought one coat of INM would be enough to make the manicure slick and shiny. It did not. I did not like how the manicure looked after one coat of Celery Stalker probably because of the lavender underwear. I was not too fond of how it looked after two coats of CS either. So, I opted for three coats. The first coat was thin and each coat after that got a little bit thicker. I see I failed to completely cover the undies. I also see there is tip wear after 45 hours but I did hand wash dishes and do every day tasks during that time frame. Celery Stalker also pooled in some areas around my fingernails. I didn't clean this up during clean up just so my readers could see this.
The photos were taken in the sun and in the shade. None were taken indoors or using artificial light. Stacy describes Celery Stalker as "a soft green base with beautiful holographic glitter and tiny explosions of color." Per the etsy listing, "Paris Sparkles nail polish stands alone [and has] no need for a base coat, top coat or anything in between like so many other polishes." I will try Celery Stalker again with no underwear but not sure about the base coat or top coat. In my opinion, a top coat is most certainly needed.
Do you always use undies in the same color family? If so, why? If not, why not? Do you have Paris Sparkles Celery Stalker and does it look like mine? You can see Stacy's creations here.
Disclosure: Celery Stalker was sold to me by Paris Sparkles at a discounted price for review. All of the opinions in this review are completely my own.
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