[Frankenpolish] The Significant Otherness & Turquoise Delight

Stupid names, I know… I’m quite into blue/turquoise shades these days and created two frankens. This is The Significant Otherness, a vibrant royal blue with a visible shimmer finish.

Here’s what I used – I just started mixing. There are: Mystic Mermaid, Pure Turquoise, Cobalt Blue and Gigantic.

Two coats.

Bad lighting but it’s more colour authentic; this is how it actually looks like.

I did a second one, which is turquoise-based, so I called it Turquoise Delight (ha ha!). It’s, well, turquoise with holo glitter.

Ingredients: Pure Turquoise, Cyan Blue, Make Mine Lime (only one or two drops), Time For Reflection, Hello Holo and Out of My Mind. The first version of this, which I disposed of, turned out too greenish, but the second try was just what I wanted.

Three (thin) coats. Looks a bit like a turquoise version of Barielle’s Myrza’s Meadow.

Hope you like them!

[Yves Saint Laurent] Utopian Turquoise (Turquoise utopique)

I thought this was sold out everywhere and I wasn’t really after it. But when I saw it yesterday, passing by a small perfumery round the corner of our flat, I was struck right away by the bright turquoise (I’m totally into turquoise this summer, remember Saint-Tropez).

This ist just great. It’s my first YSL varnish and I had no idea of what to expect from its formula or application. Both are stunning; Utopian Turquoise is almost a one coater. It applied evenly too. When doing the first coat, I thought that the brush was a bit too long but the second one was done with more confidence.

With different light.

And my boyfriend surprised me with Surreal Yellow today!

NB - Day three with this, still no chipping or tip wear!

Reloaded: Atlantis and Saint-Tropez

I’m currently doing a Turquoise/Blue Week; here is China Glaze Atlantis again, this time on longer nails. I used two coats and about four layers of top coat to get a smooth surface.

Dior Saint-Tropez again, my current mani. This is so beautiful! Here it is with base and top coat (essie fill the gap and good to go).

[Dior] Saint-Tropez

The sun has come out and it’s a beautiful late afternoon now, thus I swatched Saint-Tropez. On Facebook, Dior describes it as follows:

(…) a vibrant turquoise blue nail polish, specially created by Dior for the opening of its boutique in Saint-Tropez. A reminder of the sparkling waters of the French Riviera.

Two coats. I love turquoise shades for the summer.

Baby Blue and Turquoise

I got my hands on Dior Saint-Tropez (401) but unfortunately can’t do a swatch – the wheather is still cloudy and thus, it’s a bit dark in the flat too. However, the shade is a beautiful turquoise, and I did a quick bottle comparison.

Chanel Riva, Chanel Nouvelle Vague, Dior Saint-Tropez, Barry M Pure Turquoise.

Saint-Tropez has a slightly bigger proportion of green in direct comparison with Nouvelle Vague, but it is as creamy as Pure Turquoise, while both Chanels have this subtle shimmer, which becomes nearly invisible after application.

[Chanel] Nouvelle Vague

My current mani is Chanel Nouvelle Vague from their Summer Collection 2010, “Les Pop-ups de Chanel”. It’s a creamy turquoise with a slight shimmer, which is almost invisible on the nail.

Two coats.

As for her sisters, Mistral and Riviera, I featured them earlier. Please see here and here.

I like this collection so much, for its extraordinary colours!

(As for my final remarks in the post below, I didn’t mean to be feisty or rude, but some sassy twaddle about crackles and some people’s sick associations made me frown. I mean, mentioning crackle effects in one breath with prostitution seems a little far-fetched! By they way, I doubt that they ever heard of craquelé, which can be used as an induced arts technique too; crackle coats are just craquelé applied to nail arts, as many nail arts techniques obviously derive from fine arts. I will spare you the link to the crackle polish slander mentioned above, since this is meant to be a happy place for people who love nail polish. )

[Barry M] Pure Turquoise

In my opinion, more a light blue than turquoise, but nice anyway.

Two coats.

[Zoya] Charla

Charla is part of last year’s Sparkle Collection. In the first place, I ordered it because the name is similar to mine (Carla), and I also have a passion for glittery, unique stuff. In the bottle, I recognise golden, blue/turquoise and silver glitter particles.

On the nails, it’s gorgeous! Like a mermaid’s scales.Two coats. No wonder that, with all those glitters, the finish is slightly iridescent.

I’ve heard that OPI Catch Me In Your Net, Orly Halley’s Comet and essence Choose Me! are possible dupes for Charla, but I haven’t tried any of those yet.

[OPI] Lil Shooters (Texas Minis)

I really like the OPI minis, the little bottles are so cute!

l/r:
Austin-tatious Turquoise
I Vant to Be A-Lone Star
Do You Think I’m Tex-y?
RapiDry Top Coat

Austin-tatious Turquoise, what a name! This is a bit sheer; it took me three coats to achieve a nearly opaque look.

I Vant to Be A-Lone Star is a blue-ish grey with a hint of a shimmer. This one is after two and a half days and taken in a coffee lounge; there are certainly better pictures on the web of this colour. It reminds me of Eyeko Rain which I do not own but it appears to me that I Vant to Be A-Lone Star is lighter.

Here’s a more or less official swatch, taken on the balcony on a bright sunny day. I messed up the ring finger… I had done many swatches that day.

Do you think I’m Tex-y is a favourite jelly berry red.

The top coat is brilliant, it dried really quickly!

[p2] so cool

One of the lighter turquoise shades. Foil finish which is a bit iridescant between turquoise, teal and a hint of yellow.

Two coats.