Chick polish swatches: All A Twitter, Moss and Gavie Green

Today I have three green Chick polishes for you. The formula from Chick is always good, and so is the dry time – enjoy!

All A Twitter:

Chick All A Twitter is a pale blue-toned mint, very delicate. It was a nice surprise that it was as well pigmented as it is, I think you might get away with one rich coat, but here you see 2 coats without a top coat.

Moss:

Chick Moss is a one-coater in one rich coat, but here you see 2 coats without a top coat.

I wouldn’t call a moss green; it’s colder and leaning more towards teal.

Gavie Green:

Gavie Green is a bold, strong green with a lovely shimmer - very unique in my collection...
This is 2 coats without a top coat.

Do you like them - what's your favorite..?

Flowers for a cutie pie

 

 

The base color is Chick Cutie Pie, a beautiful pale mint pastel with a flawless formula. I painted the leaves and quick, simple flowers with acrylic craft paint, and the top coat is Seche Vite. 

If I were to redo this, I would have added a little detail to the flowers, but they are OK as is.

Grundfarven er Chick Cutie Pie, en smuk lys mint der er let at påføre og arbejde med. Jeg malede bladene og de hurtige og enkle blomster med akryl farve og toplakken er Seche Vite. 

Hvis jeg skulle lave dette om, ville jeg give blomsterne lidt detajler, men de er nu OK, som de er.

When polishes bleed, effects and how to (maybe) fix it

Top coating your nail art painted with acrylic craft color gives a beautiful depth in the colors. BUT once a while a polish bleeds through the acrylic craft paint (and often also other polishes) when you top coat - and I tested this using 5 different top coats (normal + quick drying) with the same result.
It can be a cool effect, it you are prepared and make it work for you - but it also can ruin your design completely - and that is of course not cool at all!
NOTE: Bleeding polishes are not a problem if you do not paint nail art on them (or possibly only use darker colors for the nail art), they are fine for normal use.

Below I'll show you the bleeding polishes I have in my collection. Interestingly enough they all are high end brands...
For the test I used a top quality, well pigmented white acrylic craft color that never gives me any kind of problems. I let the polishes dry a little longer than normal between coats and after the second coat before I painted with white, yellow and a mossy kind of green.

First we have the beautiful Illamasqua Optimist, a very intense yellow based orange with a rubber finish. This is a really severe bleeder - no top coat to the left and top coat to the right. As you can see the yellow even penetrates the white on the one without top coat.

Can it be fixed? - I repainted the lower row and top coated once more.
Verdict, it's not worth the time and effort, you hardly can see any difference at all, so my advice is to use it as is or as a perfect color in a gradients with other polishes.Or try with dark acrylic craft colors.

Next we have Illamasqua Force, a beautiful blue with a rubber finish, also a pretty severe bleeder, but not totally uncool...

Can it be fixed? - I repainted the lower row and top coated once more.
Verdict, it did help just a little bit, so it's up to you...

Next we have Pretty Serious Santa's Sunburn, a gorgeous red with a slight orange/yellow hue. As with Force I find the effect kind of cool.

Can it be fixed? - I repainted the lower row and top coated once more.
Verdict, it can be fixed rather well, but I likes it just as much before...

Hipster Chick from Chick lets a little yellow through the white - not much, but in a not so cool way.

Can it be fixed? - I repainted the lower row and top coated once more.
Verdict, no not really, use other colors than white and you will be fine...

Finally we have the beautiful red holographic Glitter Gal Code Red. I think the bleeding here is cool unless of course you are painting a snow man or something that really has to be really white.
I'm not showing a can it be fixed photo, because it can, if you want to go over it again and top coat once more.

Tuesday I'll show you a mani on Optimist that was ruined because I didn't know it was a bleeder...

Abstract Honey Bunch - quick doodling mani

 

The base color is Chick Honey Bunch, and I did some simple and quick doodling with acrylic craft color before I top coated with Seche Vite.
Grundfarven er Chick Honey Bunch, og jeg skriblede et tilfældigt, hurtigt abstrakt mønster på den med akrylfarve før jeg lagde Seche Vite toplak.

Chick Cutie Pie, Baby Cakes and the blind passenger Honey Bunch - swatches

 

 

I chose to buy two of the spring 2013 polishes from Chick Polish - but those Chciks are outta control, it seems like a tradition now - a blind passenger jumps in the parcel when Julie looks the other way ;)
Thanks a lot Julie for these gorgeous Chicks!!
First we have Cutie Pie - no top coat, but just look at that shine, it's amazing. It's the most subtle mint, almost like a white with a mint hue, but still clearly a very pale, pastel mint.
Application was flawless, and the drytime is super - and this goes for all Chick Polishes I have tried!

 

Secondly we have Baby Cakes, the most perfect pastel yellow - again with flawless application unlike many other pastel yellow's. I simply LOVE this one, and I showed it with nail art HERE!

 

Finally we have the blind passenger, Honey Bunch - a beautiful dusty lavender cream polish. It also makes me think of ice cream with berries from the wood....  Thank you so much Julie, once again!

Hanging flowers on baby cakes - Easter

 

 

The base color is Chick Baby Cakes, one of their new spring polishes – I’ll show you swatches on Saturday. As many of you know I have an addiction to pastel yellows, and this is in my book absolutely perfect!!

I painted the hanging flowers with acrylic craft color. The top coat is Seche Vite.

Grundfarven er Chick Baby Cakes, en af deres nye forårsfarver, som jeg vil vise swatches af på lørdag. Som mange af jer ved, har jeg en stor svaghed for pastel gul, og denne er set med mine øjne helt perfekt!

Jeg malede de hængende blomster med akrylfarve og toplakken er Seche Vite.

Even rocker chicks likes flowers

 

 

The base color is as you might have guessed it Chick Rocker Chick, also a blind passenger, a gorgeous, blackened dark purple with shimmer. With the brush in Kiko 234 Sparkle Touch I painted the tips, and then I painted the flowers with acrylic craft color and top coated with Seche Vite…

Grundfarven er som du måske har gættet Chick Rocker Chick, også en blind passager - en smuk helt mørk lilla med shimmer. med penslen er Kiko 234 Sparkle Touch malede jeg tipperne, og derefter malede jeg blomsterne  med akrylfarve og toplakken er Seche Vite…

Flowers for a hipster chick

 

 

 

The base color is Chick Hipster Chick, the BLIND passenger, a yellow-based green polish with holographic micro glitter. I was pretty sure it would clash completely with my skin, and it did. So I painted a dark green flower vine with bright flowers in acrylic craft color, and top coated with Seche Vite.

Grundfarven er Chick Hipster Chick, den blinde passager, en gullig grøn lak med holografisk mikroglitter. Jeg var ret sikker på at den slet ikke ville gå sammen med min hudfarve. Derfor malede jeg mørkegrønne ranker med klare blomster med akrylfarve, og toplakken er Seche Vite.

New Year - Artsy Wednesday

 

 

 

This weeks theme in Artsy Wednesday is New Year.
I painted my nails with two coats of Essie Midnight Cami and highlighted an area with Chick Raven's Egg by sponging it on. With acrylic craft colors I painted the fireworks, and to enhance the effect I finished with inm Northern Lights Hologram Top coat in Gold.
Check out what the other girls in Artsy Wednesday did in this weeks challenge: 
Michelle - Lab Muffin,  Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish, Melanie - Nail & Polish, Jessica - Beauty Gnome,  Emily - An Accent Nail, Catrine - Unnakednails, Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished, Jean - Laquered Lunatic,
Denne uges emne er nytår.
Jeg lagde to lag Essie Midnight Cami og highlightede et lille område ved at duppe chick Raven's Egg på. Derefter malede jeg fyrværkerier med akrylfarve, og for at give endnu større effekt brugte jeg
inm Northern Lights Hologram Top coat i varianten Gold.