Mara ~ Isabel

Mara ~ Isabel

Red jelly base with red glitter

Here's the last gorgeous polish that a dear friend brought home from a trip to Turkey. It's an adorably glittery and shiny red polish - it's right up my alley!

The formula is good and it took two easy coats to achieve full opacity. The drying time is good. I didn't add any sort of nail art because I love this just the way it is.

Here's the final result, including a layer of topcoat.

Mara ~ Isabel

It's a gorgeous polish!

Mara ~ Isabel

This is the last of four glittery polishes I got, and I love all of them!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Glitter
Overall impression: Very sparkly and shiny, amazingly beautiful

Buy again: Yes

Mara ~ Christina

Mara ~ Christina

Blue jelly base with blue glitter

Here's the third gorgeous polish that a dear friend brought me from a trip to Turkey. It's an adorably glittery and shiny blue polish.

The formula is good and it took two easy coats to achieve full opacity. The drying time is good.

I made a dark blue stripe and a deep magenta stripe down each nail. I used Miss Sporty's #510 and Colors by Llarowe's "The Heart Bleeds" for that.

Here's the final result, including a layer of topcoat.

All the sparkliness almost freaked my camera out.  

Here's "Christina" alone; two coats and no topcoat. It's spectacular!

Mara ~ Christina

These are the polishes I used today.

I got four different glittery polishes from Mara and I have got one left to try now. Stay tuned for that!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Glitter
Overall impression: Very sparkly and shiny, amazingly beautiful

Buy again: Yes

Mara ~ Beatrix

Mara ~ Beatrix

Purple jelly base with purple glitter

A very dear friend brought me some glittery polishes when she was in Turkey. Beatrix is an adorably glittery and very shiny polish.

The formula is good and it took two easy coats to achieve full opacity. The drying time is good.

The stamp is from Born Pretty Store's stamping plate "BP-L003" and the dots are made with El Corazón's stamping polish "Emerald".

Here's the final result, including a layer of topcoat.

This is so incredibly sparkly!

Here's "Beatrix" alone; two coats and no topcoat. It's amazing!

Mara ~ Beatrix

These are the things I used today.

I am really impressed by the Queen Series of Mara's glitter polishes, they're really awsome!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Glitter
Overall impression: Very sparkly and shiny, amazingly beautiful

Buy again: Yes

Mara ~ Elizabeth

Mara ~ Elizabeth

Orange/copper jelly base with gold glitter

Here's another gorgeous polish that a dear friend brought me from a trip to Turkey. It's an adorably glittery and shiny golden polish.

The formula is good and it took two easy coats to achieve full opacity. The drying time is good.

The stamp is from Moyou London's stamping plate "Illusion Collection-02" and I stamped with Colour Alike's stamping polish "B. an Aurora".

Here's the final result, including a layer of topcoat.

Look at how amazingly sparkly this is.

I wasn't quite sure which colour I wanted to stamp with, so I was very pleased to see the result - I think these colours look great together.

Here's "Elizabeth" alone; two coats and no topcoat. It's spectacular!

Mara ~ Elizabeth

These are the things I used today.

I got four different glittery polishes from Mara and I can't wait to wear the others as well! They're amazing!

Number of coats: 2
Drying time: Good

Finish: Glitter
Overall impression: Very sparkly and shiny, amazingly beautiful

Buy again: Yes

Mara ~ Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green

Mara ~ Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green

Multichrome that shifts between purple, magenta, gold and green. Shimmer.

Mara is a brand that is new to me. A very dear friend bought this bottle of beautiful polish in Turkey. Hooray for great friends! ♥

"Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green" (yes, that is its name!) is too sheer to work alone; it requires some kind of coloured underwear. I decided to play it safe and go with black. So I painted my nails black and then I applied a layer of the duochromatic polish.

When that was dry I applied two butterfly stickers and made golden dots by the base of three of my nails. I used Sally Hansen's "Gilded Lily" for the dots.

Here's the final result photographed in daylight, in the shade.

  Look at that beautiful shift!

The polish shows its beautiful purple side.

Mara ~ Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green

Isn't this just pretty?

Mara ~ Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green

Last picture.

Mara ~ Rainbow Pink-Gold-Green

Here are the two polishes I used. I forgot to picture the black underwear :D

I love this polish! And I got some glittery Mara polishes as well that I can't wait to try out!

Number of coats: 1 over black
Drying time: Good

Finish: Duochrome, shimmer
Overall impression: Very pretty colour shifter

Buy again: Yes