Saturday Nail Art - Jelly Sandwich of Sorts

This week's nail art is a little bit of a hard sell. I had two polishes with holo in them, and two polishes that were a jelly finish. I did a little experimenting (outtakes at the bottom of the post) and realized that Zoya Aurora and LA Colors Atomic actually combined to make a pretty awesome deep plum.

I decided to go with a dry brush mani. I did a base coat of Aurora, then swipes of Atomic and Liquid Sky Lacquer Babi's Bur-Bindi, the polish I was afraid would clash hard with the other two. In fact, it got kind of lost in the Aurora sandwich. I knew the formula was pretty opaque in one coat, so I thought I would see if it stamped...

...and so it does! The red-brown still doesn't stand out super well against the warm purple, but maybe you can tell that these are roses. I am pretty sure this pattern was from a Born Pretty plate, although I am terrible at making a note of what plate I used or remembering what they are called.

Not sure if I would call this mani a success, or just a surprisingly pleasing failure. 

Here's the test run, when I discovered how cool the two colors look together and that Babi's could be used to stamp a lovely little fern. This was a pretty good week overall; come back next week for some stranger things.

LA Colors Atomic

So I know a complained a lot last week, because the polishes I was swatching were ugly and annoying. I hesitate to criticize polishes too harshly, though, because I have been wrong in the past. For example, here's a polish I hated when I bought it: LA Colors Atomic.

I hated it because it was sheer, and at the time (sometime in the summer of 2015), I didn't know what crellies were. Yep! So I wrote off the polish and the brand, which is for the best because otherwise I would have a million of them, since they are $1 or less. Swatching Atomic for the blog, though, for the first time since I bought it, I realize it's actually a winner. Yes, it takes three coats, but the formula is smooth and easy to apply and the finished result is beautiful. These pics are with no top coat, Atomic is just that shiny. Join me Wednesday for another winner, and the blog's first polish from my favorite mainstream brand.