Beauty Product Junkies

Here's a hint you all probably know, but I just learned: If you want to change the polish on your toenails, wait till you're ready to change the polish on your fingernails as well. Luckily, I only dinged the corner of one nail, because ( this Konadicure came out much better than the last: )

Tonight I used this color as a base for my second ever Konad manicure. My first one was over Essie's Lilacisms and if I ever get off my butt and transfer the pics from my phone I'll post them.

"Apple" does what it says on the tin. It's a sparkly bright green - someone else's blog has pics here. My color turned out deeper and darker, because I did three coats - I do my nails under an Ott light (left over from my beading days) and I'm very paranoid about coverage.

For the Konad I did the flowery full-nail image from plate M73. I quickly found that this is a tricky design to work with; I had a hard time getting the whole design to transfer from the stamper to my nail. Of course, I'm still pretty new to Konad, so I think I'm going to switch to the small designs for a while and wait on doing anymore full-nail ones until I've had more practice.

That said, this color really isn't good for stamping over. It's a gorgeous, happy spring-y color, but designs just don't show up against it very well. I used the Konad Black Pearl polish and the design doesn't stand out as much as I'd like. I don't think a lighter color would have done any better. I'm suspecting that the glittery, reflective colors in general don't make good backgrounds for Konad.

I do love this color, though, and I will definitely be wearing it again.

(A note: The Konad link goes to their main site, which is in Asia. If you want to order and live in the US, I recommend either going to Wowsocool or checking the Konad USA site to see if there's a retailer near you. I ordered from the Asian site for my first round of stuff, only to find out that there's a kiosk that has everything at a mall less than fifteen minutes away. *headdesk*)