Quality-control to Major Tom

What do you get if you put gold (red and silver) glitter in a red nailpolish? You get something that from a far looks like it's copper. I don't like copper. Sounding like a character in a Bret Easton Ellis' book, "It's just, ah baby, not cool. It's just so 90's man."

Del Sol's Heartbreaker look like a copper-polish in a certain light. Quite fugly, but you can't help staring. Jingle bells and Eggnog, Santa's not coming to town - this is a polish that's supposed to make you think of long lost love. You're probably supposed to feel vampy in this polish. I don't. I feel like I'm getting $5 an hour for being Mrs Santa in a local shopping mall. The fact that it takes atleast 4 layers to get decent coverage and that it get's so thick it won't dry certainly doesn't help.

But hey, even Mrs Santa has to leave work and go outdoors, doesn't she? That's when I truly get the Heartbreaker-polish. The copper makes way for a blueish tint and the polish turns bordeaux. You know Mrs Santa's going to go home and make some Santa's little helpers...

Over all, this is an okay nailpolish but it's most definitely overpriced ($10 at their website) as all Del Sol-polishes are. The formula is watery, the color-change isn't that dramatic and it seems like the quality-control department is on permanent leave because I haven't read a single review that is the other alike. I know this product has been around for ages, but it needs some work.

Edit:
The polish lasted for 3 days which is more than I expected as the first chipping occoured before I had finished painting my nails. That's a big plus. On the downside though is that it stained. My nails are now an odd shade of coral. That means, use a basecoat unless you like the free nailcolor that staining is...

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She's got zombienails for zombiehands

First I'd like to apologize for the crappiness of these photos. They're taken with my old cellphone because I haven't been able to bring my Pentax. Add to that, on 2 different days but woth with dog and kid in tow.

Anyhow, I'd like to show you what happens when you take 3 layers of Ruby Slipper and add one layer of Electrick! (both Del Sol). I got tired of Ruby Slipper and when it started to chip, I added another color-changing polish to see if something weird would happen.
Nothing weird did happen, but I did manage to get zombie-nails in a certain light!

Indoors, it just looked like plain old silverfoil - clear with glitter plus a shimmery baby blue. Outdoors, albeit no full sun, the red from the Ruby slipper broke through the cold shimmer and it looked like a nice lilac/raspberry duochrome!
I can't wait to see what this looks like on a sunny day. These polishes may not be longlasting (they chip within a day) but mixing, blending and layering might make it a lot of fun.

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Uhu, don't say a thing!

Ever since I Told Iggy there are color-changing nailpolishes, she's been nagging about getting one. To be honest, I think it's quite interesting as well. Have since I was 14, in language-school over the summer in Brighton and bought my first moodring. Thinking it would change the world as I know it and from now, I'd be all mysterious and nobody would ever be able to pin me down.
It didn't happen. The ring rarely changed color and according to it, I was living my life in a slimegreen maner. If I remember corectly, that meant I was not a cool bird, but a stone cold fish.

However, I'm older and wiser these days. Plus, I have a kid that wanted it and I do have a growing nailpolish-addiction to feed. When Nailmail had Del Sol (which is free from the 3 evils)as a subscription-offer, I signed up for a membership and 3 polishes. It's a novelty-item, I know, but sometimes you need things like that to brighten your mood and make you remember what it was like to be an odd tosser.

The polish arrived and sat around for a while. Looked cute on the shelf. Iggy tried them but managed to peel it off before she even went in the sun. So, for the love of my child, and of course, nailpolish, I tried one of them, Ruby Slippers, so she could see what it would look like if she managed to keep it on for more than 15 minutes. It's a clear polish with silverglitter but when you go out into full sun, it turns into a ruby red sparkle.

My Ruby slippers might be cute slippers, but they ain't Ruby red. Raspberries and cream (with glitter on top), sure, but it never really pops like I though it would and has seen at other bloggers. Maybe I need to stay out in the sun for more than a minute? Maybe it has something to do with skincolor and the fact that I'm ultra-pale with a yellow tint?
What ever the reason may be, it's a fun novelty polish and might be great fun to use in nailart. I think I'm going to use this for layering.

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