Nailene artist expression kit

I got pretty excited when I opened up the package and very quickly realised that the Artist Fx Sparkle Coat was in fact a gorgeous duochrome top coat.  The sparkly particles are suspended in a clear base, meaning you can layer it over any colour you want.  To see the natural colour of the sparkles I layered one coat over a black base.  The sparkles shift from bright blue through to a rich purple and is clearly obvious on the nail.





Next I used the other to products to create a simple free handed nail art look.  On my pinky and index fingers I put sprinkled some of the silver holographic glitter onto wet top coat.  On my middle and ring fingers I used the silver striper polish to create some simple nail art.  My thumb was a bit of a combo of the two.






The striper brush works nicely, and I'm glad that it's pigmented enough not to have to go over the lines you painted to make sure they are opaque.  The silver holo glitter is a nice bright and colourful silver holo (sometimes you see them and they holo is pretty poor)  The tube was also easy to get the glitter out of.  But I did have a hard time trying to get many nail art designs to work with the loose glitter.  I originally tried doing some stripes with top coat and sprinkling the loose glitter onto the nail, hoping it would stick to just the wet top coat, but it ended up sticking onto the entire nail (hence my thumb being a combo of glitter and stripes)  This of course might just be because I wasn't letting the base colour dry enough.

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