I found myself painting my nails on a weekend day with no other pressing to-do items, so had more time than my usual paint right before bed sort of thing. The extra time meant I could go right ahead and pull out a neglected magnetic polish.
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| indoor, CF lighting |
Thunderball is from Dance Legend's collection of magnetics with James Bond-themed names. This one is a rich navy blue with a sorta chunky heavy gold shimmer that gets pulled into the magnet's stripe.
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| outdoor, bright sunlight |
Immediately after painting, I had some nice, crisp diagonal stripes evident... but about 3 hours later, they'd tragically melted back into the polish, despite my magnetizing both the 2nd coat and the topcoat for at least 30 seconds each, using a quite strong neodymium magnet. In very bright light, the stripes remained pretty clear on my nails, but in lower or overcast lighting, they vanished.
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| indoor, window-filtered overcast daylight |
Now, I consider myself a confident magnetic polish user; this is a trick I have down solidly. This one was more than a bit of a PITA to work with, though. Reasonably thin coats dried instantaneously (at the rate matte polishes often do), so a medium thick coat was needed for it to stay liquid enough to even use the magnet. I'm pretty sure that's why it softened back up as the whole thing set completely, and the thickness of the overall mani meant that I got some minor chipping and definite edgewear within just a couple of days. BOO.
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| indoor, bright CF lighting - about the best these cat's eyes looked. |
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars. I love the color combo, but the wear time and the flabby magnetization were not so loveable. I'm hoping that if I thin this down a bit prior to next use, it'll be more fluid and therefore slightly slower drying if I'm using thin coats.
~Michelle
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