Dance Legend Magnetic top coat

I understand that magnetic polishes were a trend a couple of years ago and may not be as popular anymore, but they're still a fun thing to play with from time to time! What is even more fun is a topcoat that will help you turn any polish into magnetic, and I have one for you. And since it's something I haven't seen any other brand release, I reckon we can call that innovation :) 

Я понимаю, что магнитные лаки были в моде пару лет назад, и сейчас они далеко не так популярны, с другой стороны, тот факт, что это веселая лакоигрушка, время не изменит. Да и вдруг еще у какого-нибудт люкса позднее зажигание сработает. А я вам покажу еще более интересную вещь: топ, который из любого лака сделает магнитный. И поскольку в других брендах я такого продукта ни разу не видела, его вполне можно назвать инновацией :) 

Monday Blues: Layla Metallic Sky

Hey everyone!

Всем привет!

So I should have returned to blogging nearly a week ago, just as I passed all exams, but just as I started putting together a post my wifi software went crazy, and for some reason the wifi adapter shut down. Under no circumstances would my poor laptop turn back on, and it took me a week to finally figure out where I could switch it on manually, still I'm not skipping this week's Monday Blues and I'd thought I'd have to. 

Я должна была вернуться еще неделю назад, как только сдала все экзамены, но только я начала писать пост, как решил вырубиться вай-фай приемник на моем ноутбуке, и обратно включаться он никак не желал. Неделю спустя я нашла, как его включить вручную, и вот я, наконец, здесь, и даже не пропускаю Monday Blues этой недели, хотя думала, что опять придется. 

The blue polish of the week is Layla Metallic Sky, a medium (pre-magnet) to dark ocean blue metallic magnetic polish. I know probably everyone have already played with them and have had enough of them, but I'm always late to the party, aren't I? The diagonal lines pattern has always been my favorite and that's what I went for in my mani (lucky me that that's the default magnet you get on top of Layla magnetic polish). Layla probably has one of the strongest magnetic effect, so I didn't have much problem with the pattern to show up, but what was a pain in the ass is to get the tilt degree of the lines even on all of my fingers. The polish is opaque in 1 coat (some of my nails ), but the drying power is less than average, also I forgot that top coat smudges the magnetic effect, which resulted into those streaks visible on the photos. 

Синий этой недели - Layla Metallic Sky, в "домагнитном" состоянии - средний, после магнита - темно-синий магнитный металлик. С магнитными лаками, по-моему, наигрались уже все, ну а я, как всегда, медленный газ :) Из всего многообразия узоров больше всего мне всегда нравились простые прямые линии, расположенные под углом, стандартный магнит Layla именно такой. Магнитный эффект у Layla, как пишут, один из самых сильных, так что проблем с перенесением узора на ногти были, гораздо сложнее было расположить магнит с одинаковым наклоном над всеми ногтями. Лак плотный, одного слоя хватает для идеального покрытия, но вот большой скоростью высыхания он не отличается, а я забыла, что топ имеет гадкое свойство смазывать магнитный узор, что и вылилось в продольные полосы, которые видны и на фото. 

Polish Us Pink: Nabi Magnetic nail polish Cinnamon swatches & review

Hello, everyone!

Until this year, October was only special to me, because my birthday is in October and so is my father's. This year, I learnt that October is also Breast Cancer Awareness month. The Subtle Shimmer is holding Polish Us Pink days, which are basically 5 Mondays of October, on which we post pink nail polish! Learn more here, and if you are a fellow blogger, you'll find the inlinkz code to join the event there, too.

The first polish i'm featuing at Polish Us Pink days is Nabi Magnetic in Cinnamon. It arrived about a month ago from evilbay and was sitting in my stash waiting for its moment. As I had intented to do ABC challenge (you choose the nail polish you're going to wear by its name, in accordance with the alphabet), too, and this was day 3, i had the letter 'C'. I've also decided to do the 30(31) days nail art challenge, starting from tomorrow, so ABC will have to wait.

I'm sorry to say that the nail polish kind of disappointed me. It has a metallic finish, thus it's quite brush -strokey, but i would have forgiven it, if the magnetic effect show well. I even used Layla magnet instead of the original Nabi one (which Scrangie said was hald as strong as the Layla one), but the effect still was very subtle. visible only under certain angles and nearly unnoticeable if you look directly on your nails. In addition, the formula was really goopy, so 2 coats felt like 5. And finally, the dry time was ve-e-e-e-ry long.

I'm going to give it another try when i have more experience with magnetic nail polish (this was my first attempt), but judging by the swatches of it i've seen on the Internet, I think the problem is the polish, not me.

Now, onto the photos.

 natural light, no flash

 natural light, no flash

 natural light, with flash

 natural light, with flash

natural light, no flash; how it looked 90% of time

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