17 - Fury

This is 17's "Fast Finish" polish, called Fury.  

I haven't bought any 17 polishes before, apart from the magnetic ones I bought recently that were my first. I bought this one because I love gold nail varnish, and this was a different sort of gold that I hadn't seen elsewhere before.

I really like the colour. It's a nice rich, warm browny gold, and has a lovely shine to it. 

However, I hated the application. The brush strokes were really visible, especially on the first coat. The second coat helped, but the polish was also quite thick and gloopy, and was quite uneven. Seche Vite topcoat did help, but it's still not particularly even on the nails. It also didn't wear particularly well. I put this on last night, and wore it to work today, before I took these photos, and it is wearing on the tips already.

So, overall - I was a bit disappointed. Their magnetic polishes were really good, but this one not so much. Having said that, it's dead cheap, so I suppose it's to be expected.

I wore it with my Fantasy Fire ring though, and I thought they went really well together. The ring reminds me of Coca Cola! It's mostly a firey goldy brown colour, but turns bluey-green in certain lights, especially in natural light.

17 Magnetized - Lilac

I liked the last 17 magnetic polish so much (see here) that I got another one. 

This is the dark purple version. It's called Lilac, I'm not sure why, as it really isn't lilac in the slightest. 

Application was good, exactly the same as the green version. This is two coats - one coat on all ten nails, left to dry, and then one nail at a time adding a second coat and holding the magnet above the nail.

This dried quite matte and a bit dull-looking, but once I added topcoat, the shine is gorgeous.

 

17 - Magnetized Nail Polish, Green

I don't have a good track record with magnetic nail varnish, so I wasn't holding out much hope for this. Around Christmas time I bought a (quite expensive) Nails Inc magnetic polish in a lovely gold colour. I think I expected it to look like a tiger's eye stone. But it was awful, and not only did NOTHING happen with the magnet, no effect whatsoever, but the polish by itself was also really ugly and rough and unpleasant. It was so bad that I took it back to Boots and got my money back. Nails Inc never did reply to my email asking about it... 

Anyway, this is my very first 17 nail varnish. This is the Boots own brand, and I had quite a bit of their makeup when I was in my teens (way back in the dark ages!) I did want to give magnetic polish another go, and there was no way I was giving any more money to Nails Inc for one.

This is 17 Magnetized Nail Polish in Green. They also sell a silvery grey one, and a dark blue one, both of which look ok, but green is far more my thing. I would really like a dark burgundy red one! This was £5.99, significantly cheaper than the Nails Inc equivalent.


You apply the polish as normal, then immediately hold the lid, containing a magnet, over the nail. The polish dries very quickly, so this has to be done pretty quickly, or it's too late! I found that one coat had a pretty good effect, but that two coats was far better, with a far more defined difference between the two colours.  I did one normal coat which I allowed to dry, then did one nail at a time with the magnet. The initial colour is a greyish green with some shimmer to it, but the magnet turns it into curves of black and brighter green.

I love how it looks in the sunshine! 

(It's nice to have sunshine for once!)