These are the nails I've worn for the last couple of days - more thermal polish with stamping, which is one of my favourite things to do.
This is Dance Legend Thermo Trio, which shifts from a pretty pale lilac when warm, through pink to dark purple when hot. I then stamped over this with Barry M Silver Foil and Born Pretty Store stamping plate BP-48.
I love how this came out, although it was really hard to capture the cold colour, as it's been so warm recently. I'm always really hot at the moment!
The Born Pretty 48 plate is fast becoming one of my favourites. The pattern is so pretty. I especially like the swirly bit on my ring finger.
I've showed you this Dance Legend thermal polish before (see post here), but last time I wore it, my nails were very short. While the polish looked good, I was looking forward to seeing what it looked like now my nails are longer again.
The answer is - pretty damn good! There's some tip shrinkage here from the Seche Vite topcoat, as I'd been wearing this for a couple of days when I took these pics.
This is two coats of Dance Legend Termo 181, with topcoat for shine.
This is a red to black jelly polish, full of red and gold glitter. When it's cold it's a glossy black, with some of the glitter hinting through. When it's warm, it's a gorgeous orangey-firey red.
This is immediately after holding my hand under the hot tap...
And this is the polish gradually cooling down on the tips...
And this French mani look is the appearance it's had for most of the last two days - warm fingers, cool nail tips.
This morning, I wasn't ready to take this off yet. So I stamped over the polish with Konad Black and MoYou London Pro XL 14.
When cold, the stamping isn't at all visible. It's just black polish with a few bits of glitter.
But when I come inside from the cold, the design starts to appear!
And a bit more...
And a bit more...
And a bit more! I touched up the tips slightly with the Konad Black to cover the shrinkage.
I'm thrilled with how this turned out! I think it looks really cool and quite elegant. It sort of reminds me of posh damask wallpaper or something.
This is the last of the thermal polishes I bought last week from Rainbow Connection, and I've saved the best til last!
This is Termo Shine 181, which is a red to black jelly glitter thermal polish.
This is two coats, with topcoat for shine. 181 is a beautiful black jelly when cold, packed with gold and red glitter. The formula is nice, and dries to a matte finish.
When it's warm, the black jelly changes to a vivid scarlet red.
Even with my shorty broken nail, I get a gorgeous gradient red to black effect as my hands warm up, which I think is just stunning.
Isn't this just beautiful? I LOVE this.
You know how much I love a thermal polish! Last week I finally caved, and bought several from Rainbow Connection.
This is Dance Legend's Thermo Trio. I was really excited about this one, as it's not only two colours in one, it's THREE!
Dance Legend is a Russian brand, and I'm sad enough to be really excited about all the cyrillic writing on the bottle.
This is three thin coats, with topcoat. The formula is fantastic - really smooth, very pigmented, and it dries ridiculously quickly. This dried to a really nice matte finish, but I added topcoat because I wanted shiny today!
I have to say, the trio effect isn't THAT obvious, but the colour change between the deep purple colour when cold, and the pretty lavender blue when warm is really strong and quick.
I did manage to snap this photo with my phone, just to prove that it really DOES do the three-colour thing. I found that it seems to happen when there is a sudden colour change though - like when you have warm hands but suddenly go outside into the cold. It blends from the pretty lavender colour, through pink to purple.
Isn't it pretty? I can't wait for my nails to grow a bit, because I think the gradient effect will be far more obvious with more free edge. (I had to cut them, I broke the corners off three of them in one day! Stupid lever arch files!)
