Polished by KPT Ophelia’s Love

Hello all! Today I have another Polished by KPT polish again for you. The last one was a while ago here. It was the sister polish to the one I am showing you today, Ophelia's Love.

This is also a deep purple based thermal that in the warm state is very pale. The shimmers in here are of a much larger size and pink in color. They have a slight shift to green at an angle that is hard to capture on the photos. The first three are in the cold state and I will show the transition down at the bottom. 

Here is the warmest I could get it with some transitions below. I'm surprised it still flips! It is a few years old.

That's it for now! Later guys!

Sweet City Color MS07: Pink to Purple thermal Skittlette

Hello all!

         Well, somehow I got through my first week back at work after my baby boy got here. If I didn't know that I cared about leaving him to go to work a lot more than he did, this week would have been a lot lot harder. As it is, there were several times when I was at work and I'd be hit by how much I missed him or wondering what he was up to and start crying. I guess I'll just get used to it after a while.

          I've got another exciting polish to show you today. I have to apologize in advance because when I purchased these polishes, they were relatively easy to find on the internet. Then time went by and I never got a chance to post about them. Now, I am no longer able to find the seller that I bought them from. It was from China. If you do a diligent internet search, you may be able to find them from another seller. The good news is, thermal polishes are becoming more and more accessible through indie nail polish sellers so even if you don't find this exact one, you'll find others!

This polish is by a brand called Sweet City Color. This one changes from a bright barbie pink when warm to a bright purple when cool. It has a great formula. This is two easy coats.

I stamped the middle finger using an image from a Bundle Monster plate BM 314. Then I placed random dots in white and hand placed glitters from an Icing polish. For the ring finger, I combined a drop of the thermal polish with a drop of two Icing glitter polishes, Pop a Bottle and Glitterati. Pop a Bottle is a mix of tiny gold, blue and pink glitters. Glitterati has large pink metallic hex glitters with smaller silver holographic glitter. I wore this one for a few days. 

Polished by KPT Nostalgia

Hellloooo everybody!!

Today, I am super excited to show you an amazing thermal polish created by Katherine, owner of the Polished by KPT line of indie polishes. I used to not have all that many indie polishes. I started with Cover Band Sticks and Stones (remember that one?) and a bunch of Hare polishes, most of which have yet to make it on the blog. Not for any lack of love on my part, I just haven't got around to it. Then, something happened over the last few months and now I'm mad for indie polishes. They offer so much more variety and uniqueness to a polish collector. One the brands I was most impressed with and had to have a bunch of polishes from was Polished by KPT. I especially loved all her thermal polishes and today I'm going to show you one of them. This is Nostalgia. 

It is from The Required Love collection and is a dark purple fading thermal with a fine pink/purple to green duochrome shimmer. The picture above and the two below are taken outside in sunlight. I love that my nails are just long enough for the thermal effect to do its thing in this cool fall weather we're having. The warm color is an almost clear/nude color and the cold color is a blackened purple with green duochrome shift. The sunlight really brings out the shimmer. Coverage is amazing with total coverage in just two coats.

The picture below was taken in the lightbox and you can see the blackened edges a bit better. I had this on when I sat on a panel for a work thing and my nails felt very professional. I love that it is very safe for work but has so much going on!

I made a feeble attempt at some freehand flower art because I wanted to see how the changing color would look under the nail art. I'm not happy with the actual design. I'm going to have to try again with something less...amateurish. Maybe I'll do some stamping on it. 

Bottom line, I loved loved loved the polish and I can't wait to try the other colors. Also, I didn't have time to change for a few days and it looked virtually flawless on the fifth day! My topcoat is a 50/50 combo of Seche Vite and NYC Grand Central Station. I only changed it because, well, I can't keep anything on for longer than a week. I get antsy.