I am so excited today I cannot even begin to express how much!! It’s the little things in life.. lol
First, I have some swatches of the GORGEOUS “Alexandrite by Ninja Polish” that I had posted about last week here. and the second excitement is an amazing lighting setting on my camera that I learned about today, that makes things wonderful (some of you can benefit from this, some can’t, some have way better pictures than me already, so you must have known! ) But, can I just take a moment to first say how awesome Rhonni from NinjaPolish is. Someone had told me about her website when I was trying to find a hard to find polish. I then saw that she has a blog too and I was instantly hooked. I also followed her on twitter and was so excited when I tweeted that I ordered from her and she tweeted me back. She is super friendly, has amazing products, and ships crazy fast!
Okay, on to what I learned today… So, I painted my nails last night and like any other amazing color changing, neon, holo, etc. I could not capture its beauty! (you know what I am talking about ladies well some people can, but I have seen many a complaint about having this same issue and this color unfortunately was no exception) I took some pictures in the bathroom lighting, kitchen lighting, morning sun, dark with flash. No matter what I did, the color looked either green or navy never all three colors like I see in person. Today on my camera, I messed with the settings and one of the lighting settings is “Flourescent H – For shooting in daylight flourescent lighting” perfect! I took some more shots with this setting today and what a difference, this is for sure as close as I am going to get on a camera for these harder to capture polishes!
Now on to the polish, just as I thought I would, I LOVED this color. The website says: “The Alexandrite gemstone is known as the ‘Emerald by day and Ruby by night’ due to how it shifts its coloration based on surrounding lighting. However if you have seen an Alexandrite the ‘ruby’ shift color is often a magenta with flints or purple. The green to purple shift of this polish can only be represented by this captivating gemstone. This polish is ideal over dark colors, especially a dark purple and shows truest over black”
I put 2 thin coats of “Alexandrite” over 2 thin coats of “OPI – Russian Navy”. I really loved how the navy poked through the shimmer of ever-changing purples and greens. Oh – Em – Gee!! Since I am so excited about this mani and my newly found setting on my camera, there are many pictures 😀
So, what do you think of this fabulous color, are you in love with it like me, or is not for you? What do you currently have on your nails?
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This is a great color! I’m wearing Zoya Jem on my fingers right now and I’m in love!
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Thank you so much! ooh I will have to look that one up, I love Zoya!
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Thank you so much! ooh that is a gorgeous color! I love Zoya
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Oooohhhh! That color is super gorgeous! And you did a great job on capturing all the colors in your photos. Great job! I am wearing Diva from Geneva by OPI.
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Thank you! It’s so frustrating sometimes capturing it I was so excited, I think I jumped up and down a little. Very Pretty color Ginny!
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OMG, that looks stunning!
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Thank you so much!!
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This is absolutely stunning, I love it!
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Thank you, definetly one of those, can’t stop looking at your nails kinds of manis for me! Glad you liked it 😀
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Gorgeous polish and great pics!
Sent from my iPad
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Thanks so much Judi!
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Jup I am IN LOVE! It is GORGEOUS!
I currently have on a mani I saw on weheartit. Don’t know what it’s called but you paint your nail in 3 colour lines next to each other, put on nail strips then paint black over that & once dry take the strips off obviously. Reminds me of disco lights
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Yay, thanks! Ooh that sounds fun!!
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It’s looks soo classy..I’d love to do that to go out!
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Thanks! 😀
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Wow, beautiful! I love it! I’m currently wearing Butter London in Old Bailey. A metallic nude color. It’s definitely not a fab as this though.
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Thank you so much!! That sounds very pretty I don’t have any Butter Londons yet, I just cant see forking out the 14 bucks.. someday I will own one.
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Gorgeous!
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Thank you love! 🙂
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wow, you really did capture this gorgeous color!! Great job, n your nails are looking great too Mae.
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Thank you! They are finally getting long again 😀
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Oooo this is seriously pretty. I know what you mean about lighting and frustration. I’ve done the whole living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom…even bathtub lighting lol. It got much easier once I got a light box, but even then that can be a pain sometimes.
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I was thinking anout a lightbox and i might eventually buy or make one but i was extatic when i found that setting, that will work for now. 😀 so frustrating before ugh
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Okay, let’s say it all together:
SPACE NAILS.
Seriously though, these are GORGEOUS.
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Haha! Thanks!! ❤
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I alsolutely love this!
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*absolutely
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Thank you so much! ❤
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This is great! I’m definitely going to look into buying some of this polish 🙂
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Thanks so much, you totally should, its amazing!
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I am so jealous! This is gorgeous!
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Hehe thank you so much
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