Monday, July 11, 2011

by Kitties26 on Monday, July 11, 2011 15 comments

Ozotic 518

I had a request from the lovely Swååfie to show the Ozotic Pro red holographics. So today is 518 (the linear holo) and tomorrow will be 621 (the scattered holo). I love getting requests, it makes it so much easier to pick a colour to wear.

Now I don't wear red polish very often. I find red polishes very unforgiving as far as application goes in that you have to be really neat, otherwise it is very hard to get it clean around the cuticles. But I have decided I'm going to commit myself to a red week and wear a different red polish every day!

Ozotic 518, also known as Flame, is a slightly pink toned red linear holographic. This was three coats with a top coat of Seche Vite. Unlike the Ozotic scattered holos, these don't go dull or change with the top coat.

I believe that this polish is one of only a few known red linear holographic polishes that are readily available (as long as your prepared to drop the $$$ for it). I got this from piCture pOlish.

Red linear holographic - it really doesn't get more spectacular and in your face than this.

I'm off now to pick my favourtie reds to wear and swatch this week. Happy Monday.

Saturday, July 9, 2011

by Kitties26 on Saturday, July 09, 2011 7 comments

Ozotic 608

I'm really loving these new Ozotic pro polishes I got recently. Although I suspect they are old stock because they have the older shape bottle, which is tapered at the bottom, unlike the current large round bottles.

608 is a hard colour to describe. So when in doubt, I ask my mum her opinion. We ended up deciding this was a lilac toned pale pink

This one is a little sheer and needed three coats to be almost opaque. I didn't bother with a top coat because a) I knew it would probably mess up the holo effect and b) I was only going to be wearing it for a day. While I'm talking about wear, these have all been great, no chipping or flaking of anything like with Nfu Oh China Glaze OMG holos.

These polishes really remind me to the China Glaze Kaleidoscopes, although I don't think any of the shades are the same.

Time to go off now and re sort all my polish sticks to include all these Ozotic Pros I hauled. The problem is they look so different under artificial light than they do in sunlight that I will probably have to re sort again tomorrow.

Friday, July 8, 2011

by Kitties26 on Friday, July 08, 2011 13 comments

Ozotic 602

I got my polish numbers mixed up yesterday, and had to edit my post. Today is Ozotic 602 (yesterday's was actually 604).

Ozotic 602 is a bronze toned gold scattered holo. Again it has chunky holo particles, but is totally smooth on the nail. I kinda reminds me of China Glaze It's My Turn from the Kaleidoscope collection, but this is much bronzer, where as It's My Turn is yellower.

I applied Seche Vite top coat to this, and found that this polish does not like top coat. I've heard so many people say not to wear top coat on holos because it dulls the holo effect, but I have yet to experience that with all my other holo polishes - I usually wear top coat on all of them and they are still perfect. But finally, today I see it with this polish. I had only put top coat on a few nails before I could see what it had done, so I took the polish off and reapplied it.

This is two coats, no top coat.

I'm such a sucker for gold polishes, and gold holo polishes - I could wear them everyday.

The Bureau of Meteorology says its currently 4 degrees outside here in Canberra at 12.05pm, but now the fog has lifted it's really sunny. Who say's holo polishes are best in summer. Wearing them in winter makes me feel like its 30 degrees outside!

Thursday, July 7, 2011

by Kitties26 on Thursday, July 07, 2011 19 comments

No buy in July & Ozotic 604

That's it, I'm officially on 'No buy in July'. I have spent way, way too much money in the last four weeks on nail polish. Most of my hauls have arrived, I'm just waiting on my Kleancolor metallics.

I haven't taken a photo of them all, but this is what I have hauled:

Chemistry multi-chromes 507 and 519 (although they look identical to me)
Chemistry holographics 510, 512, 514 and 517
Ozotic Pro holographics 511, 513, 516, 518, 522, 524, 525, 526, 527.
Ozotic Pro scattered holographics 600, 601, 602, 603, 604, 605, 606, 607, 608, 609, 617, 619, 621 and 624.

So I'm telling you now, you are going to be seeing A LOT of Ozotic Pro swatches coming up.

With the exception of 509 (linear Silver holo) I believe I have every multi chrome, every linear holo and every scattered holo in the Ozotic/Artform/Chemistry/B Range - Lumineye range. Once July is over I might just have to get a Chemistry 509 so my list will be complete, although I have so many silver holos I don't really need it, but OCD in me needs it to complete the collection.. Also, once I have all my swatches together I will put together a colour guide.

The first polish I tried out of my haul was Ozotic 604. This is a pale champagne gold scattered holographic polish. Spectacular to look at and easy to apply. This was two coats.

The holo particles look rather chunky, but they are still silky smooth on the nail without top coat and remove easily. So no stupid foil method required for these babies!

Many of the Ozotics (and when I say ozotic, I'm referring to the whole dupy range of Ozotics/Artforms/Chemistry/B Range/any other private label Lumineye polish) have the same colour in both the scattered and the linear polishes. Here is a link back to Artform 514, which is the linear holo version of this polish. I only have half a bottle of Artform 514 left, so I bought a backup Chemistry version (as Artform's are all gone and they will be selling Ozotic soon too)

Now if you have any requests for which Ozotic or Chemistry you would like to see, please let me know, otherwise I'm just gonna be working my way through them.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

by Kitties26 on Tuesday, July 05, 2011 56 comments

Yes - a holographic multichrome

I want to take all the credit for this one. I really, really do. But it was mum who said to me, "what if you added some of that powder to one of your multi-chrome polishes?". "Are you serious", I thought. "Mess with a precious multi-chrome".

I sat there at my table, with my bottle of Ozotic 505 and decanted it into a mini bottle. I grabbed my tiny baggie of Spectraflair and carefully opened the zip lock seal. A small puff of the powder released into the air and I sat there feeling like Hermione Granger (I'm a chick, I can't be Harry) about to mix some amazing concoction in a black cauldron.

I used my custom measuring device (my cut plastic straw) to gently scoop out some Spectraflair and moved it slowly to the rim of the bottle. I could feel a ginormous sneeze coming so quickly dropped the magical silver power into the bottle and screwed the lid on tight.

I shut my eyes as I shook the bottle. Did I just ruin 5ml of Ozotic 505? The bottle still looked good, but what would it be like on the nail? I quickly slapped on a black base and applied two coats of my new franken polish. I ran to the nearest window, but it was dark and stormy outside. I stood there for five minutes and suddenly a crash of lighting came shooting from the sky, hit my nails and blinded me (alright, maybe I made that bit up), but what did happen is what you see below.

In full sun you really see the holographic magic. But indoors and in the shade you still see the awesomeness that is Ozotic 505, being aqua green shifting to purple and almost pinky maroon.

I took a heap of pictures of this, just to try and capture the awesome crazy colour shifting multi-chromey goodness.

The above photos show the aqua green multi-chrome shift, which makes it look like a green holo. But below you can really see the purple, which makes it look like a purple holo.

Below, the multichrome shifts to almost red, but still with the holo.

This next photo shows the two nails looking different colours, the left one is much more blue, and the right one purple, yet both still super holographic.

So there you have it. My favourite franken ever, combining my two favourite sorts of nail polish finish, holographic and multichrome. Any suggestions for a name for this franken?

Sunday, July 3, 2011

by Kitties26 on Sunday, July 03, 2011 15 comments

More Spectraflair fun

I showed a sneak peek of this at the end of my last post. This is another super quick and easy spectraflair franken polish.

All this was was half a bottle of Ulta3 Black Satin, half a bottle of clear and 1/8 teaspoon of spectraflair.

I have no inspiration for writing today. I have the dreaded lurgy passed on from my kids. I have so much snot that when I........... my bad, I'll spare you those details. *off to curl up on sofa with a blankie and 3DS Zelda*

Thursday, June 30, 2011

by Kitties26 on Thursday, June 30, 2011 53 comments

450 polishes swatched

Today I’m sharing a little project that I have been working on for the last few weeks.

I was sick of not being able to readily see each of my polishes to decide what to wear, what to layer (or stamp) over what. Of course I could look at swatch pictures, but that would take way too long, and what then to do about all those untrieds? I could swatch them all out on colour wheels, but how do I sort them for swatching? Sure I could swatch similar colours on a wheel, but what would I do when I got a new polish, it's not like I could insert it into the colour wheel in it appropriate place if that wheel is full.

So this was my solution. I bought many sets of nail art sticks off ebay. Each tray holds 64 sticks. The beauty of this system is each stick is totally removable and they can be sorted and moved around on the trays allowing for new polishes at any time.

Here they all are lined up on our dining table. Yes, it took weeks to paint these.

Now here they are in colour groups.

Yes, it took ages to sort these into colour groups. Actually it didn’t take ME very long before I said “that’ll do”, but my mum (as a painter) sat there for hours (upon hours) adjusting and sorting. Anally retentive anyone?

So this is what the little sticks look like. Nice clean and shiny Perspex.

There is even a little flat spot to write on. I wrote numbers, which correspond to numbers listed in a spreadsheet that details brand, polish name and the number of coats. I love the fact that I can look among all my sticks of a similar colour, and then take them over to my outfit and pick the best complementary colour.

So, what do you think? Do you have a system in place to see what all your polishes are and to help choose a colour to wear? I used to paint a falsie and sticky tape that to the top of the bottle. See some old stash pics.

*edit* for those interested, the ebay seller was "4ushop777", they were called "Nail Art Tips 64 Stick Display Stand Rack Practice Tool" I paid $7.65AUD for each set of 64, with free postage.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

by Kitties26 on Wednesday, June 29, 2011 13 comments

Avon Colour Morphing over LA Girls Groupie

Something a little fun today. I thought it about time to pull out my AVON colour morphing top coat and try it layered over a different polish. I chose LA Girls Groupie from the Rock Star collection. There is so much going on with the mani, first the purple flecks from Groupie, then the amazing shifting shimmer from the top coat, going from gold to green.

I was amazed how easy it was to see both gold and green shimmer at the same time, but I wonder if this would have been better over a creme polish rather than a glass fleck one, because the shine coming from groupie started to hide the other two colours.

The green and the purple looked so awesome together.

Aaahhhhh, Colour Morphing top coat, I really love you. We shall never be parted.

Also - received an email from piCture pOlish last night saying they have 10% off Ozotic polishes at the moment (until 6:00pm 5 July Aussie time), as well as saying they have cheaper standard mail for international orders. I have no idea how much cheaper it makes the international postage, but I thought I should let you know, as they are the only place you can get Ozotics that post internationally (even if their Ozotic prices are a bit higher than some other resellers).