Saturday 26 July 2014

Shimmer Polish - Tammy (and OMD2 Day 25)

*Disclaimer: this product was provided for review. All opinions in this blogpost are my own and are not influenced by anything of anyone.


Hi everyone!

Today I have another gorgeous Shimmer Polish to show you, and another design for OMD2!

 I was so pleasantly surprised by Kim, my previous Shimmer Polish swatch, that I couldn't wait to try out another one. I also wanted to do another design for OMD2 Day 25: Roses. At first, I planned on doing the normal pink roses with mint background - which are nice of course, but I've done those a few times before so I wanted to change it up.

I was inspired by the colours of Shimmer Polish Tammy: she's a glitter polish in a clear base, and has yellow/golden hexes, black hexes, two shades of purple glitters - all in varying sizes. Finally, Tammy has some very small silver bar glitter - I know, you probably are going "uugh bar glitter juck" right now, but no! Tammy's bar glitter is so small and tiny that you don't realize it's bar glitter at first. I guess you could call it "refined bar glitter" - believe me, it's pretty!

I adore Tammy a lot - when I saw her in the bottle, I thought she looked nice but the colours didn't really attract me - I totally changed my mind from the minute I put her on! Tammy is just perfect :)


For this design, I used:
Tammy - Shimmer Polish
Unnamed polish by Guylond Paris
Urban Jungle - Essie
Acrylic paints.


I painted two coats of the Guylond polish on three fingers, and then added one coat of Tammy. The glitters all spread nicely and application was easy - just like Kim! I added one coat of top coat. What I love about these glitter polishes is that they don't seem to be top coat hungry - just one normal coat and everything's super! If you want, you could even skip the top coat to be honest, but I apply it to be safe.

I then painted two coats of Urban Jungle on my thumb and ring finger, and added the roses with acrilyc paint. I was inspired by this design by Robin Moses, and after seeing her tutorial I tried to make my roses the way she did them. Hers are infinitely prettier, but it was good practice and I do like my result :)


And a little close-up shot so you can see all the glitter properly. Pretty!


To finish this blog post, a few cute pictures! I went to the zoo while I was wearing this design, so I had to have some pictures of my nails and some animals right ;) There were these incredibly colourful birds called lories, and they were flying around "freely" inside a little house where people could enter and feed the birds.

I tried posing with a bird, and then suddenly another bird joined in and they apparently were both fascinated by my nail art ;)



One even sat on my arm. And apparently Tammy looks very delicious because he started biting my nail! I quickly told him to stop - how ridiculous would it be if I lost one of my nails because a bird bit on it lol!


That were my nail adventures at the zoo! I hope you enjoyed seeing Tammy - she is super gorgeous, and I'm glad with the pictures I got from her: I feel like I've captured her beauty better than Kim's. If you want to see more pictures of the lovely Tammy, you can click here!

Thanks for reading!


20 comments:

  1. I love the roses that you did! Great nail art and the bird pictures are adorable (:

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    1. Thanks a lot! The birds were indeed so cute!

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  2. I love the roses, they are really beautiful! And they fit together perfect with the Shimmer polish!

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    1. Thanks Franziska! I was so inspired to try roses after seeing Robin Moses' design, I'm glad you like them!

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  3. I love the roses and they are so great paired with Tammy!!

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    1. Thank you! I think so too, Tammy adds a simple but sophisticated elegance to it :)

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  4. I loooove that accent nail! Your roses are gorgeous!

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  5. Ooh, I love this design, and Tammy look stunning!! And the bird photos are soooo cute!!

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    1. Thanks! Tammy is indeed so gorgeous! :)

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  6. Beautiful manicure ! And those birds are too cute especially the one who bit your nail haha
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    1. Thank you! Haha yeah they were really cute but when he started biting my nail I was like "okay yeah you're cute but you're not getting away with that!" :D

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  7. Heel prachtig gemaakt! En wat een top foto's!

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    1. Dankjewel Miriam, ik ben heel blij dat je de foto's leuk vindt!

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  8. Tammy is so pretty and I love the Roses! The birds are so cute too! :)

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    1. Thanks Jayna, Tammy is indeed gorgeous! I loved the birds a lot :)

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  9. Tammy is gorgeous! great job on the roses too! :)

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    1. She really is! Thanks a lot, I really like how my roses turned out! :)

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  10. Wow those are epic pictures with the birds! How gorgeous are they! And as for your nails they are unbelievably pretty, such good art work. The glitter nail polish is really really gorgeous too xx

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    1. Thanks Emily, that's so nice of you to say! The birds are indeed amazingly pretty - I loved all their bright colours :)

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