The CND Pink Wishes Duo has been sitting on my desk for a little while. I’ve covered quite a few of the CND duos (I think I’ve actually gotten them all) and there are ones that I love and ones that I hate. Pink Wishes is a split decision. Pink Wishes Color is a pale [...]
As promised on Monday, below is CND Plum Truffle Sparkle over my standard base colors. Although I thought Plum Truffle Sparkle seemed to coordinate well with the Plum Truffle base color, I think it loses some of it’s oomph on many of the other colors. There’s a subdued sparkle, but nothing earth shattering. The full [...]
CND has come out with another glitter effect. The last time they did this, I was perturbed. Although I’m not a huge fan of CND touting a glitter as an effect (which, in my opinion, minimizes the awesomeness of the original effects), this one didn’t piss me off like the last one. Maybe my lack [...]
Much like the colors this effect was meant to be layered over, my feelings were rather neutral about CND’s Perfectly Bare Shimmer. It’s not one of the “yowsa!” effects. But it’s also not one that I disliked on sight. There’s a slight opaqueness to this effect that mutes the base color and then addes just [...]
I really go back and forth with CND’s new line of Colors and Effects. I was pleasantly shocked with their one coat colors. I adored their initial Effects. Hated the Red Hot Effects addition. Absolutely loved the Night Factory duo. I liked their Gold and Silver Effects. And now the Jason Wu set which, despite [...]
As much as I resented Red Sparkle, I LOVE Teal Sparkle. This is what Red Sparkle wants to be when it grows up (or wins the lotto). Depending on the light, Teal Sparkle goes from green to blue to gold. It has a metallic sheen to it that makes it shinier than hell.
Gold Sparkling had a little surprise for me. While the base glitter may be gold, the rest of the glitter is holographic. It shows up best on the darker colors. On Oilslick and Asphalt, I think you’ll be able to see the green, red, blue and orange specks. It’s also there on the other colors, [...]
While Silver Sparkling might not have the wow factor like some of the effects, I actually liked it quite a bit. It’s a tad more demure. The minute sparkles are like pinkpricks of light shining through the mani. Oddly enough, on some colors, it has a gold cast to it. The full CND Effects Line-up [...]
Much like Gold Sparkle, Sugar Sparkle appears to have the tiniest of flakies in it. This Effect will add some oomph to a mani, but it’s not as spectacular as some. The full CND Effects Line-up is here. I’ll add this week’s pics to the pile-up at the end of the week.
Let’s finish what we started, shall we? I have five more CND Effects to show you this week. I usually would list these in numeric order, but I’ll be damned if I end up the week with this batch. I acutally got to the point of resenting having to swatch this lame ass, cheap-o, sparse [...]
