Mega Mix Nails Review Part 2

You may remember a couple of days ago I tried a new product called Mega Mix.

Mega Mix is a product that turns your nail polish or mica/glitter pigments into gel polish.

My first testing wasn't a complete success, you can read it HERE


So I thought it best to try out a more pigmented polish and see how that faired.
I figured that my most pigmented polish might be a Gelly by BarryM so I used Pomegranate.

As per my previous post I applied BarryM Pomegranate on the index finger and a mixture of Mega Mix and nail polish on the remaining three nails. 

2 coats on the index and 4 on the rest. 

This mixture fared considerably better than my previous one of Essie and MegaMix. 

Its not perfect though. You can still see my smile line and it has a jelly like appearance. 

But how can we expect it to be opaque when its effectively "watered" down by mixing in the clear gel? 

Would it not be better if the gel was tinted white?

Another point worth making is that this is time consuming and I ran out of mixture half way through so I do wonder if by mixing up a new batch half way through would the colour or coverage be the same?? 

What are your thoughts on this?
Do you prefer gel to polish?

Nautical Nails again :)

 

 I apologise for the messiness of this application, i had a few problems with this design and i was getting abit annoyed ;P

 

OK so here we have another nautical design using Barry M polishes.

I used Cheeky Plate CH36 from the summer 2012 collection.

Stamped using Barry M Gelly Pomegranate and Blackberry.

Base is Barry M White

Holographic striping tape and diamante to finish.

I do love this design as i really like this stamp, but i maybe should have kept all the nails the same design as i think it looks abit "busy"

 

I used Lumos top coat to help the tape stay down and i left the polish a good hour before applying and is STILL smudged the stamping.

does anyone have any tips on how i can prevent this?

I'm thinking of changing to Seche Vite as i find the Lumos only completely dries on professional polishes and not on budget or high street ranges. I find it works really well on China Glaze for instance but not very well on say Barry M or Kleancolor.

 

 

Star Manicure Design, Peel Offs

 

 

I went to my Nans and had a rifle through her craft room, that's right a whole room dedicated to craft *swoon* In her card making supplies i found some peel offs and thought i could use them as stencils......

and it worked! i use tape for alot of my nail art anyway so i suppose its not much different.

 

just make sure the nail polish is really, truly dry before you put the stickers on or it'll peel off the polish.

 

The cuticles are a half star

 

i used Essie Neo Whimsical and Barry M Gelly Pomegranate

 

Ive used Neo Whimsical alot recently but i just love it. Its a lovely spring colour.

 

 

Barry M Gelly Nautical Style Stripes

 

 

It was 3 for 2 in Boots again, so i decided to pick up a few of the Gelly Range from Barry M

 

For this i used the shades, Pomegranate,Lychee and Blackberry. The silver is Foil Effect also by Barry M

 

 

I'm sorry but i really cant see any difference between the Gelly and normal nail Polish. Its not any shinier or anything? I wouldn't call it high shine, But they are lovely colours none the less.

I have always been a fan of Barry m as they provide a huge array of colours at a very good price and they are also very up to date with trends etc.