FiA#10 Favourite Sweater

This one had me stumped. My favourite sweater feels like wearing a hug, but it's got snowflakes on it and it's not winter yet, so I didn't want to do it =( Another time! The rest of my sweaters cause me some problems because they're solid colour cable-knit. So, well, that leaves me with a cable-knit pattern to attempt. I decided I wanted to put down a solid colour and draw over it in Sharpie.

I picked one of the sweaters I have from Bluenotes.

A very old photo of me in this sweater.... Ugh my hair O_o;

I chose Color Club Electro-Midnight

 After it dried, I drew on some stripes and on the index finger I tried to do the crossing that I think of when one says "cable-knit". Since it's Remembrance Day in Canada, I added a little poppy as well =)

The poppy is Revlon Get Reddy and LA Colors striper

This isn't my favourite design to be honest. I took it off and started planning my Autumn Dotticure (expect that soon!). Hopefully next time this comes up I'll have some more interesting sweaters =P

Check everyone else! They have much more interesting clothing.
Hannah from Polished Prisms
Stephanie from A Little Polish
Suer from Creative Nail Design By Sue
Katee from A Girl And Her Polish
Ashley from One Nail to Another
Karine Assemien from Karine's Vernis Club
Kayono Lan (aka Johanna) from Neues vom Kellerkind
Charlotte-Louise from Charlotte's Nails
Alyson Epstein from Beads. Nails. Food.
Maribeth from Obsessive Cosmetic Hoarders Unite
Becky from Glam Fiend
Angie from Our Painted World
Alethia from Never-Ending Nail Art
Sarah from Dakila's
Amanda from Mandy's Polish
Lisa from Lisa's Nail Obsession
Kelly from Nails for the Sake of Sanity
Stephanie from All Things Beautiful
Martina from From Head to Foot

Swatch: Julep O Canada

I had this idea in my folder for a while - I thought it'd be interested to layer Julep O Canada over the Color Club Magnetic Force Electro-Midnight. Buuut.... after doing the initial swatch of Electro-Midnight and having it turn out SO well I was really wary.

Luckily for me (and you?), I take some chances on my nails ;)

Because of the dark blue, both the opalescent, light blue and the red glitter stand out, which I found was a problem over white (we lose the opalescent bits). I thought the glitter would cover up the waves too much but they still stand out and it looks AMAZING. I am extremely happy.

As for Julep O Canada, this is one "coat" with some dabbing to get the red glitters to spread out.

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Swatch: Color Club Magnetic Force Electro-Midnight

Hi! When I first heard about magnetic polish, I was in Ulta and say the Laylas for $15.50USD! It was REALLY cool, but there was nooo way I was gonna spend $16! And then I saw Color Club on A Girl And Her Polish and I started my hunt! On a trip down to the states, I found them in Hot Topic just like she said =D

I bought it because Katee just makes it look so good! When I tried it I realized I had actually been hoping for a more teal colour which I wasn't going to get in this one. HOWEVER, for $7, I couldn't regret it <3

This is my second attempt at using this polish. I put down one coat on each nail and then, one nail at a time, I put down a nice thick coat and held the magnet as close as I could get it. On thicker attempts, I saw the polish even reaching up to try and mess itself up on that magnet! Bah xD I was careful though, and it didn't happen. By the time I got to the pinky on the first hand, I had it down.

Tips:

1. Hold the magnet really close and really still.
2. Hold for a long time.

That's it! Here's the pictures!

This is the first layer. I tried to magnetize on the index finger but you can see it doesn't work too well =)

This is after I figured it out on the pinky and went back

 I used 2 - 3 coats depending on how strong I managed to get the stripes.

 And then I did the other hand.

I hate when my off hand turns out better!

 GAH the depth of those stripes!

=D Sorry for the messy cuticles. I love it! And this is one of the most affordable magnetics so I'm glad I picked it up. As you can see, the magnet I have is waves but I really wish I could get a set with that fishnet pattern that nails Inc has =P

Last comments: This dried super quick but stains like mad! Wear basecoat =D

What do you think?