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Hello Lovelies! My internet connection is back up and running so I'll be doing a little catch up today. I'll have my letter "O" post for the ABC Challenge later today, but I regret that I will not have the Daring Digits swatches that I was working on, since those were lost with my original letter O pics and I'll have to re-swatch it.
Today I have one of my favorite flakies to share with you. For awhile there Gold leaf flakies were HUGE. Everyone was putting out a gold flakie topcoat. I love the effect of thsoe gold leaf topcoats, but I'm not a huge gold fan and tend to lean toward Silver when I can. I stumbled across Nail Pattern Boldness while browing Llarowe one day, and found Tin Man. Woohoo! A Silver flakie top coat! You can bet that I snatched that polish up right away!
Tin Man, or Silver Flake depending on where you shop, is a mass of different size and shapes of silver flake in a clear base. It is NOT real silver, so you won't have to spend a small fortune. I love how this looks over blue, so I chose Maybelline Color Show in Blast of Blue as my base color and layered one thin coat of Tin Man over the top. In hindsight, I should've gone thicker with Tin Man, since the silver flakes are very heavy and textured, and since my base color was not 100% dry I did have some wrinkling of my base polish due to the movement of the flakes on the surface. A thicker coat would've helped avoid that mishap, but since it's not noticable IRL I'm not all that bummer. I do want to make a point that what you see there is operator error and not the polish itself.
This is 1 coat of Tin Man over Color Show Blast of Blue, topped with Glitter Food and HK Girl Top Coat:
Gorgeous! The different sizes of flakie really do it for me. And silver! This flakie would look good over pretty much any polish.
Tin Man was a bit tricky to apply, if only because the flakes are textured and a touch heavy. As I mentioned before, I used very thin coats, which cause the flakes to grab onto my base polish and create some wrinkles. I recommend using thicker coats to avoid that little snafu. Thankfully I know about that little snag for next time since I can see myself wearing this often. Tin Man also dries very textured, so I added a generous coat of Glitter Food before topcoating to smooth things out and protect my mani.
I have some brand new and totally incredible creations from NPB coming up soon as well, including NPB's Glitter-A-Peel! You can find Nail Pattern Boldness on Etsy, as well as Llarowe. Full size bottles retail for $9.00, and Glitter-A-Peel and Glitter Food both run $8.00 per bottle. Glitter-A-Peel is available on the etsy shop now, so grab it before it sells out! Be sure to follow Nail Pattern Boldness on Facebook for updates, new releases and restock info!
Don't forget to head on over to The Subtle Shimmer to check out Susan's Flakie Friday nails! We don't always post weekly, but she has a ton of Flakie Friday posts to check out. Be careful though - those posts have created a whole list of lemming for me. Susan's blog is dangerous that way!
What do you think of Tin Man? Do you prefer Gold or Silver flake top coats?
Be sure to check back later for my letter "o" post, and I have some beauties from Daring Digits, BG Cosmetics and Wingdust coming up!
Thanks for stopping by and Happy Polishing!
-Kimber
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