Francine's Gallery on Nailpolis - Nailpolis: Museum of Nail Art

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Francine

30-something years old, an husband, two cats, two Helmers (and TONS of bottles around my home). This is me. This is Chez Francine, a nail themed blog run by me, Francesca (aka Francine).

Rome, Italy

http://www.chezmoifrancine.blogspot.it

Essence The Gel BLUE BUBBLE DI BLUE Swatch

I've waited until the base coat was dry (honestly, I've waited too long), then I used two coats of #39 blue bubble di blue, a light sky blue crème (I showed it last monday, do you remember?). The brush is wide, and easy to manage. I layered two coats to achieve a perfect homogeneity, but if you use a thick layer you must resolve this step in just one coat. The picture above show you how shiny and glossy is without the top coat.
Essence The Gel BLUE BUBBLE DI BLUE

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Jade Psicodélica Swatch

JADE Psicodélica is a silver based linear holo. It reminds me the silver shade of strobo lights. You'll need three coats to achieve a good opaqueness, but it dries in a blink of the eye. I suggest you to lay down this baby around an open window, because it stinks (I'm afraid it is not a 3 big free nail polish).
Jade Psicodélica

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«Kneel, humans!»

Spring green and gold remind me of Loki's shades, don't you agree? essence METAL glam gold topper #01 Steel-ing the scene is a top coat with golden flakes. The flakes have different sizes, so you could easily use them like mosaic's tiles. I prefer follow a gradually pace, to avoid a monstrous and sticky blob over my nails. A never-ending work in progress. To show properly this topper, I put it over a vertical gradient I made with Sinful Colors Innocent (fresh green crème) and Revlon Colorstay #230 Bonsai (green base with golden shimmer). I've add a couople of layers of essence METAL blah blah.
Sinful Colors Innocent
Revlon Colorstay Bonsai
Essence Metal Glam 01 Steel-ing The Scene

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Daydreaming

Hi everyone! Today I would like to show you a water marble I've made some month ago (around last November). I've used China Glaze's holos. I was in the right mood to make an experiment and I'm pretty pleased by the result.
China Glaze 2nite
China Glaze Dv8
China Glaze Lol
China Glaze Innocent

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China Glaze Magnetix II Bond-Tastic Swatch

China Glaze Magnetix Bond-Taste. The epic fail ever. I purchased it two years ago, at the China Glaze italian retailler. They didn't have the magnet on sale, but they assured me that I do not need its own magnet BECAUSE (quote) "it works with ANY magnet!"(/quote). Any. What does exactly means "any"? Everyone, right? Right. So, let me say that is not true. I tried to use CC Hipnotic's magnet (you could see my poor results on my medium) and this is what I get. I like the shade - in the bottle is more warm and clear, anyway - and I'm trying to make deal with brown shades. They are cutey, afterall. (Yup, things change, my friends!)
China Glaze Magnetix II Bond-Tastic

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Debby Magnetic 07 Moon Swatch

I've found debby Magnetic 07 Moon with a lady magazine a couple of week ago. I took it because the name and the shade. I don't know if I can call it indigo or not, but I like it. And I'm a Cancer Born, so I must have it. By the way, did you have a Debby Cancer bottle to swap? Let me know! This effect is strong, but my nails are curved, so it's not easy to use a flat magnet.
Debby Magnetic 07 Moon

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Magnetic Force by Color Club Hipnotic Swatch

Magnetic Force by Color Club Hipnotic (there is not a typo!) is a cherry red magnetic. You could easily use the magnet on the top of the bottle, and it's very useful, because you also have something like a step where you could place your finger. Very brilliant! I have to be honest and say that I don't like this magnetic effect. I wear this polish without using the magnet, 'cause it seems like a cherry shimmer. Very classy!
Magnetic Force by Color Club Hipnotic

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Taurus - He loves me, he loves me not

This nail art reminds me when I was a schoolgirl and during the launch break I played"He loves me - He loves me not" with my friends in the school backyard (I'm sorry for the gazillion of flowers we have destroyed... We was just romantic girls!), laughing when the daisy foresee to us that he loves us, and crying out loud when he doesn't, even though we do not have any boyfriend! Did you have played "He loves Me - He loves me not"? How was it?
Kiko 338 Light Lavender
Nyc In A New York Color Minute Quick Dry 034 Giallo
NYC Expert Last Nail Polish 134 Pinestripe White

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ILNP Masquerade Swatch

Another Masquerade's pic. I think I have a problem. I'm a hair-trigger swatcher! I'm aware that's insane adding a gazilion of photos into a single post, but I can assure you that it's very very very hard chosing among them.
ILNP Masquerade

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ILNP Masquerade Swatch

Actually, I do not have too much to say about ILNP Masquerade, because, like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. BUT, because Barbra has done a very good work making this little boy, I must spend a couple of words. Masquerade is a Multi-Chrome. Yup, Multi-Chrome, because you could see at least five shades. Five, my ladies: red, brown, gold, purple and green. BUT, if you take a look at this baby underwater you should see teal and blue too!
ILNP Masquerade

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Steel Flowers

Hello there! I love winter and the pointed petals of poinsettia's flowers. When I discovered I could replicate this shape using water marble design my mind screamed «Yatta!!» and I become to make some practice into. Practice makes perfect, and I know to be far far away from perfection but I'm pretty pleased by this design.
Essie Mind Your Mittens
Essie Parka Perfect
Kiko 203 French White Tips
Kiko 272 Metallic Grey

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Age of Aquarius (a kind of)

I don't know if the Age of Aquarius have already started on Dec. 21, 2012 or not yet. What do you think about it? Are we entered into a brand new age or not? I'll keep looking at stars next month too. I hope we shall meet again, and I hope also you liked my nail art. Thank you for stopping by my blog and have a nice day!
China Glaze White on white
China Glaze Snow
Sinful Colors boom boom
Sinful Colors Innocent
Sinful Colors Hazard
Sinful Colors Let's Meet
Sinful Colors Sweet nothing
ILNP My private Rainbow
Revlon Colorstay 180 Indigo Night
Deborah 7Days Long 852

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wjcon Make Up Artist 05 Acquario Swatch

WjCon is a cheap italian brand in the same page of KIKO, but not at the same level. I'll be honest and I'll say I don't like it so much, because I think it hasn't a good price/quality ratio and the palette is poor. I prefer buying KIKO's nail polishes because if I want a crème, I have a crème, and not a crelly, as freqeuntly happens with WjCon. Nevertheless, sometimes I found some products I like (yes, it sounds like a real surprise to me too). Makeup Artist collection is the 2014/15 fall/winter limited edition inspired by Modern Artists, like Pollocks and so on (they say that, not me!!). I purchased this little baby because its name and its colour. Acquario means Aquarius in italian, and I love teals. This is a crème very pigmenteted and a little bit dusty in the real life. As usual, my camera hates teals. The formula is a little bit sticky, but it's self-levelling. I layered two coats, and no top coat at all.
wjcon Make Up Artist 05 Acquario

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The sea in the fishnet

I must wipe out of my mind the fourth episode of Broadchurch. I think there's no need at all for a second season, and there's no need at all to make something if you don't have any idea about it. Sigh, I really loved the first season. Crap!! This morning I have made this little nail art. There's the sea green, there's the teal, there's the blue and a not-so perfect fishnet pattern to wipe my blues away. Let's cast a net!
Bella Oggi gel effect 12 Plastic Blue
wjcon Make Up Artist 05 Acquario
flormar 424 Bluish Green

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GOSH Metallic Blue Swatch

Gosh Metallic Blue is a light blue chrome I purchased in London some years ago (it was on 2010). As you can see, the shade is very close to steel blue. You'll need only one coat of nail polish to admire this beautiful mirror shining. You'll need a proper base, like Nfu Oh Aqua Base to achieve a right performance. Sadly, chromes aren't easy to apply. Most of chrome are perfect for stamping. I didn't used this lovely baby to stamping, because I don't have any nice plate yet. I'll use it for stamping purpose very, very soon, I swear! GOSH is a danish brand. If you don't find it at your local beauty supply, I suggest you two ways to grab into your lovely hands. First of all: check at your favorite e-commerce store. I suggest you an european e-commerce one. Or, if you have a close friend (or a sister, or a sister in law, or your auntie, or your mama, or whatever you have) heading for UK, Belgium o Danemark, you can ask to her to purchase it for you. I purchased this bottle in a special offer at Superdrugs on London (3 polishes at 5£) but rumors say that you could find GOSH even in Germany, despite I don't have found it in Berlin.
GOSH Metallic Blue

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