Hey Beauties!
When Avon sent me their new line of nail polishes called Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal, I knew I'll be doing a bit different post. Instead of just showing you the shades, I wanted to show you ways of how you can add sparkle to your manicure. Sometimes full on glitter nail polish can be overwhelming and looks too much for day to day wear. That's why I'll show you 5 simple ways of adding glittery nail polish to your everyday manicure.
1. Accent nail
You can add sparkly nail polish to just one nail. It's usually ring finger, but you can choose other. You can also apply it on two fingers. It just adds a bit of sparkle and breaks the usual one shade routine.
Here I used Maybelline Colorshow in 465 Brick Shimmer as my base color. Then I added Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal in Graphite to my ring finger.
2. Dots
Very easy way of adding sparkle and not being worried about how you're going to take it off, is to make some dots. Dots are easily created with dotting tool or home made dotting tools - you can use bobby pin, straight pin from sewing kit or toothpick. If you spread your dots in an even pattern the manicure will look super pretty.
As a light blue base I used Models Own Hyper Gel in Powder Blue. I created dots with Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal in Blue Steel.
3. Straight Line
Lines are another great way of adding just a bit of sparkle. If you're not skilled at making straight lines or using striper, you can just pull a straight line in the middle of your nail. Line will be as wide as your nail brush. If you want you can put less pressure on it and create thinner lines.
I used Essence Gel Nail Polish in 52 Amazed By You for a purple base. In the middle I drew lines with Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal in Gold.
4. Pattern
You can obviously create more intricate patterns. I opted for something dear to my heart - leopard print. It's still an easy pattern and you can't really go wrong with it, but it will take you a bit more time. The end result will also be more impressive.
I used Kiko Nail Lacquer in 322 Caffe Latte as a base. Then I took Maybelline Colorshow in 677 Blackout to make leopard pattern. You can just use toothpick and create opened uneven circles. It's easy. Then I added Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal in Copper in the middle of leopard pattern.
5. Ombre Tips
The last option is to make some pretty ombre tips. This is best done with a little peace of sponge. You take a sponge and concentrate most of the nail polish at the end of nail and then slowly go up, when you have little nail polish left on the sponge. All you need to do is put nail polish on sponge and slowly tap it on the nail and build it up.
I used Maybelline Colorama in 303 for my base. Then I took sponge and and created ombre tips with Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal in Titanium.
Now let's see these beauties up close. I still wanted to show you how the shades look like applied. All of Molten Metal collection is so sparkly and pretty. It's one of those special occasion looks that you wish for, especially in the upcoming festive season. I expected these nail polishes to be metallic, because of the name, but are in fact glittery. I understand the name Molten Metal, because they look like metal in a liquid form with semi-sand finish.
The glitter is small and more like shimmer. It's all the same size. I call it semi-sand finish, because with sand finishes there is a lot more grit and texture to it. Molten metals also have a bit of texture, but because the shimmer is very small it's not as gritty as a true sand finish.
As with any other sand finishes, these are also pretty long lasting and hard to take off - because of all the shimmer.
The brush is standard and easy to apply with. Nail polishes are quite liquid and easy to apply. With lighter colors you need two coats or one very thick one. The formula dries quickly.
Glass bottle is standard Avon nail polish bottle with black top. Avon nail polishes always come in black paper boxes, which is nice for giving them away as a gift.
Regular price of nail polishes is 5.90€ - but you can currently get them for 3.90€ (Slovenia) and in each nail polish is 10 ml of product.
I am sure you might have thought of
Avon Mineral Crush range, which is pretty similar to this one. The difference is that Mineral Crush nail polishes have different sizes of glitter, which are bigger and the texture is more like sand, a lot grittier.
Molten Metal range has 5 shades. They are mostly neutral with one pop of blue.
Gold is a light gold shade with gold and silver shimmer.
Copper is coppery orange with copper, gold and silver shimmer.
Titanium is taupe shade with silver shimmer.
Blue Steel is light blue shade with silver shimmer.
Graphite is dark grey shade with gold, copper/bronze and silver shimmer.
I love a good sparkly nail polish. Those will definitely come handy in the upcoming festive season. They are super sparkly and give that extra glamour to any manicure. I really like all the shades, but my favorite have to be Titanium, Copper and Graphite. What are your favorite shades?
Ko mi je Avon poslal svojo novo linijo lakov imenovano Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal, sem vedela da bom naredila malo drugačno objavo. Namesto da vam samo pokažem odtenke, sem se odločila da vam pokažem nekaj načinov kako dodati bleščeč lak v vašo vsakdanjo manikuro. Včasih je lahko izgled vseh nohtov v bleščicah preveč za vsakodnevno uporabo. Zato sem želela prikazati nekaj preprostih načinov kako bleščeče lake dodati v vsakodnevno manikuro.
Poudarjen en noht
Lak z bleščicami lahko dodate na samo en noht. Ta je po navadi prstanec, lahko pa si izberete tudi drugega. Izpostavite lahko tudi dva nohta. Tak način doda nekaj blišča in prekine navadno rutino.
Tukaj sem uporabila Maybelline Colorshow v odtenku 465 Brick Shimmer kot mojo podlago. Nato sem dodala Avon Magic Effects v odtenku Graphite na moj prstanec.
Pike
Zelo lahek način kako dodati bleščice ne da bi vas skrbelo kako jih boste spravili dol, je z pikami. Pike lahko z lahkoto ustvarite z čimerkoli okroglim. Lahko gre za bucike, zobotrebce ali kar koli drugega z okroglo podlago. Lahko uporabite tudi tako imenovan dotting tool. Če pike enakomerno razdelite po nohtu, dobite zelo lep izgled.
Kot svetlo modro podlago sem uporabila Models Own Hyper Gerl v odtenku Powder Blue. Pike sem ustvarila z Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal v odtenku Blue Steel.
Ravna črta
Črte so še en način za dodajanja bleščečih lakov. Če niste najbolj izkušeni v ustvarjanju popolno ravnih linij, lahko ustvarite eno ravno črto po sredini nohta. To črto lahko ustvarite kar z čopičem laka. Če med nanosom zmanjšate pritisk čopiča na noht, lahko dobite tanjšo črto.
Jaz sem uporabila Essence Gel Nail Polish v odtenku 52 Amazed By You za vijolično podlago. Na sredini sem potegnila eno ravno linijo z Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal v odtenku Gold.
Vzorec
Seveda lahko ustvarite tudi malo bolj zapletene vzorce. Jaz sem ustvarila nekaj kar mi je zelo pri srcu-leopardji vzorec. Gre za zelo enostaven vzorec, ki vam bo zagotovo uspel. Potrebovali boste samo malo več časa. Končen rezultat je zato tudi bolj impresiven.
Uporabila sem Kiko Nail Lacquer v odtenku 322 Caffe Latte kot podlago. Nato sem vzela Maybelline Colorshow v odtenku 677 Blackout s katerim sem obrisala leopardje vzorce. Za to lahko uporabite zobotrebec in ustvarite nepravilne odprte kroge. Je zelo preprosto. Nato sem dodala Avon Magic Effects Molten Metal v odtenku Copper na sredino teh vzorcev.
Ombre konice
Zadnja možnost je lepa ombre konica nohta. To je najlažje narejeno z uporabo gobice. Z gobico koncentrirate večino laka na samo konico nohta in greste počasi navzgor, ko je na gobici vedno manj laka. Lak samo namažete na gobico in počasi nanašate na noht in povečujete intenziteto.
Uporabila sem Maybelline Colorama v odtenku 303 kot podlago. Nato sem z gobico ustvarila ombre konice z Avon Magic Effect Molten Metal v odtenku Titanium.
Zdaj si oglejmo te lepotce od blizu. Še vedno vam želim prikazati kako izgledajo odtenki namazani na nohte. Vsa Molten Metal kolekcija je bleščeča in čudovita. To so vsekakor laki za posebne priložnosti, ki pridejo v uporabo še posebej ob prazničnem času, ki prihaja. Glede na ime sem pričakovala, da bodo ti laki kovinskega izgleda, ampak so bleščeči. Razumem zakaj se imenujejo Molten Metal (staljena kovina), ker izgledajo kot kovina v tekočem stanju z napol-mat finišem.
Bleščice so zelo majhne. Vse so istih velikosti. Jaz pravim, da gre za napol-mat finiš, ker ima pravi mat finiš več teksture in zrnatosti. Molten metal laki imajo resda teksturo, ampak ker so bleščice tako majhne, ni toliko teksture.
Kot je značilno za sand finiš lake, so tudi ti kar dobro obstojni, ampak težki za odstranjevanje – zaradi bleščic.
Čopič je standarden in omogoča enostaven nanos. Laki so precej tekoči in se dobro nanašajo. Pri svetlih odtenkih boste potrebovali dva nanosa ali enega debelega. Formula laka se hitro suši.
Steklenica laka je standardna z črnim pokrovom. Avon laki vedno pridejo v črnih papirnatih škatlah, ki so odlične za darila.
Standardna cena vsakega laka je 5.90€ - ampak trenutno jih lahko dobite za 3.90€ in v vsakem je 10 ml izdelka. Zagotovo ste nekateri pomislili na Avon Mineral Crush kolekcijo, ki je kar podobna tej. Glavna razlika je, da imajo Mineral Crush laki različne velikosti bleščic, ki so tudi večje in da je tekstura bolj podobna sand finišu (pesek) in ima več teksture.
Molten Metal linija ima 5 odtenkov. Večinoma so dokaj nevtralni z enim barvitim modrim odtenkom.
Gold je svetlo zlat odtenek z zlatimi in srebrnimi bleščicami.
Copper je bakreno oranžen odtenek z bakrenimi, zlatimi in srebrnimi bleščicami.
Titanium je rjavo siv odtenek s srebrnimi bleščicami.
Graphite je temno siv odtenek z zlatimi, bakrenimi/bronz in sivimi bleščicami.
Zelo rada imam dobre bleščeče lake. Ti bodo zagotovo prišli prav v prihajajoči praznični sezoni. So zelo bleščeči in vsaki manikuri dodajo glamur. Zelo všeč so mi vsi odtenki, ampak moji najljubši so Titanium, Copper in Graphite. Kateri so pa vaši najljubši odtenki?
