Femme Fatale Amanita

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I had time this past weekend to play around with magnetic polishes, so pulled out Femme Fatale's first magnetic effort ever.

Femme Fatale Amanita
indoor, CF lighting
Amanita was part of the December 2018 "Enchanted Forest" PPU, and has a whole lot going on in this bottle.  The deep sapphire blue jelly base is filled with iridescent flakies, a dusting of aurora shimmer, and a metallic green magnetic shimmer.

Femme Fatale Amanita
window-filtered overcast daylight
Also sold with that round of PPU was a new  "top coat for magnetic polishes" from DRK nails, which promised to "help you achieve a great magnetic effect even with weaker magnetic polishes."  When I held my strongest magnet to Amanita's bottle, I could easily get the mixing balls to snap right up to the glass, but after lots of shaking I still got only the most subtle magnetic line in the bottle.  To be fair, the listing from Femme Fatale did say that it was intended as a "medium" magnetic effect, not a super dramatic one.  When I tried out DRK's topcoat, which appears to be just thinner per the ingredient list (ha!!  that actually should work out great!), nope, absolutely no magnetic line visible at all.  I redid another layer of Amanita on one nail to try magnetizing directly, still no dice.

Femme Fatale Amanita
window-filtered daylight
Oh well.  The color is still lovely, a deep midnight-sapphire blue that starts off quite sheer but builds very nicely in 3 coats.  Wanting a little more drama (I was really hunting that green line!), I stamped a brocade design using the sparkly lime green Esmaltes da Kelly Boba Fett.

Femme Fatale Amanita
indoor, bright CF lighting
Rating:  3 out of 5 stars.  The total lack of magnetic effect is a bit disappointing, though the color is gorgeous on its own.  I'll try it again sometime not worrying at all about the magnet, or trying over an opaque black or navy base to see if a single thicker coat will work more.

Where to buy:  PPU is a one-time sale only, so look for this one in blog sales & destashes.

~Michelle

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