Rockjewel reveals a dark and a bright side with Lilypad The Angel Duo

The Angel Duo is a Norway Nails exclusive duo from Lilypad Lacquer. 

The dark polish is called Angel of the night and is a dark, somewhat blackened violet with a scattered holo and a bit of a textured finish. 

The light polish, Angel of the light, is almost white, with some violet tint and lots of shimmer. It has the same textured finish as the dark.

The holo effect is, as said, scattered, and more visible in the light polish. The dark need some more direct lighting to show the effect, but it is still very beautiful. Though difficult to capture in a photo...

I decided to do some stamping on this, shown in the bottom photos. I used Lilypad Almost Famous on Angel of the light, and Vylet silver on Angel of the night. The pattern is from a Cheeky XL plate. I was very happy with this and actually kept it for three days, that's unusual for me.

The formula is really good. I used two coats of both, but I think I might use three of Angel of light next time, there were tendencies to VNL in som angles. Angel of the night was more than opaque in two coats. Easy to apply, and also fairly easy to remove, for being a textured polish.

You can buy the duo here. Norway Nails have an excellent customer service and quick delivery.

Rockjewel is blown away by Smitten Polish Tornado Skies

Blogsales are great! Especially when you get your hands on a polish as lovely as Tornado Skies by Smitten polish.

Tornado Skies is a medium dark grey cream with a green-turquoise, deep shimmer. In some angles  and lightings it looks like a plain, but really nice, grey cream, in other lightings it has a green tone. Both colors looks great. But of course it is the shimmer that does it. As said it is not always visible, but still not too shy. 

The formula is ok. A bit patchy first coat but smoothe after a second coat. 

I thought this would be nice to stamp on, so I did. I used Lilypad Cayman Island Delight, Messy Mansion MM21, and I put on Gosh Matt Effect topcoat.

Rockjewel's roses are not red but bronze, at least on IsaDora Peacock

Wanted to change polish yesterday evening but it was quite late so I needed to do something quick. Decided to choose one of the new IsaDora polishes, they are often very opaque, they have a wide brush and are fairly easy to apply. 

I picked Peacock, a deep teal polish with intense gloss. It has almost a mirror-like finish. I've been looking at my nails all day. :-)

When I got home I decided that I wanted to do some stamping too. I had an idea but time and patience was not available so the result wasn't really as I wished. But I think it turned out OK.

The wreath is stamped with a light blue Konad and plate Bundle Monster BM-314. The rose is Konad bronze and plate MessyMansion MM07, one of my favorite plates (and plate brands).

I wanted the rose to be a bit more visible and crisp in the shape, and I also wished that I had been a bit more careful placing them on the nails. Next time...

Rockjewel reveals favorite flower

A quick blog post. 
This will be this Sunday's contribution to the weekly challenge in the FB-group Adventures in Stamping. The theme this Sunday is Favorite Flower. 
I love the Aquilegia because it's many varieties and willingness to "mutate" into new variants without any human involvement. However, my absolute favorite flower is the rose. Preferably a long-stemmed, deep dark, blood-red rose.

I used yesterday's mani as base, Glitter Gal Belgian Chocolate. I tested a (to me) new stamping polish from Mentality: Dapper. Really good quality, will probably buy some more of the Mentality Stampers in the future.
The plate is MessyMansion 07. Also excellent quality. I will most certainly buy more from MM too.

The result: