Hello lovelies,

Remember the cool Bundle Monster Festival Box I've showed you few weeks back? Well, I promised you a review of the Cali Dreamin' gel polish collection so here it is! But first, here's the description of the collection that brings summer to your heart just by reading it!

"High desert backdrops, Springtime music festivals, and the lifestyles of these concert goers were the inspiration for our Cali Dreamin' Collection of cream colored gel nail lacquers. These 6 colors will personify your inner music loving-road warrior that's rollin' with the top down on your '69 VW bug and just feeling new and fresh: Acoustic Asana (G097) is a salmon pink fitting of beautiful Cali sunsets, Mojave Mixer (G098) is a lime green inspired by lush green grass of the Mojave Performance Stage, Indigo Indio (G099) is a gorgeous dusty, navy lavender blue inspired by some of the art of the desert in Indio, California, Papaya Whip (G100) is a soft orange befitting of the pueblo colored high desert mountains. Lightweaver (G101) is a stunning lilac purple at will warm your inner flower child, and Escape Velocity (G102) was inspired by the brilliant turquoise blue skies of a warm Spring day cruising down the I-10 leaving LA to fresh, desert air."

This was my first experience with Bundle Monster gel polish and I didn't have many expectations. I thought it will probably be poorly pigmented and maybe with some curing issues. But luckily, I was pleasantly surprised so I'm happy to share it with you.

The gel polishes come in black bottle and cap with white writing and a colour label at the top of the cap. Each bottle holds 13ml. I've also swatched these on swatch sticks to see the formula and opacity and I was happy with both. The polishes are creamy and smooth, they applied lovely and were opaque in two coats. They look a bit brighter over white base.

I've decided to do a marble drag design with all of the colours because they look amazing together! I've used the following BM gel polishes: Mojave Mixer, Acoustic Asana, Lightweaver, Indigo Indio, Escape Velocity, Papaya Whip.

The marble came out perfect and I love how some of the shades seep into each other in some areas. It is such a fun and summery design!

I've prepared a step by step tutorial for you, you can recreate this design with any other gel polish brand.

How to get this look

Step 1 - apply a coat of base coat, cure.

Step 2 - apply a coat or two of white gel polish, cure. This is so that we can apply just one layer of colours and they will be fully opaque and bright. Cure.

Step 3 - Use a small nail art brush or striping brush and apply a stripe of each gel colour on the nail. Paint the strips next to each other with different widths and cover the white underneath completely, do not cure yet.

Step 4 - use a pin/very thin brush to drag through the colours. Drag in one direction (from cuticle to the tip) and leave a bit of space in between the lines, do not cure yet.

Step 5 - drag through the colours again in the opposite direction. Drag in one direction again (from tip to the cuticle) in between the existing lines, cure.

Step 6 - Apply gel polish top coat, cure. Remove the inhibition (sticky) layer.

Not that difficult to do this, right? What do you think?

Cali Dreamin' gel polish collection is available at Bundle Monster website for $31.99 or here at $6.50 each.

Have a lovely day! Lucie x

*PR samples

Hello lovelies, I'm sending you my wishes from Czech Republic! I'm on holiday visiting my family and friends and I'm having a really nice time (except for the weather :-/ ). That's also the reason why I haven't posted anyhing lately...sorry...  I'm spending my holiday with Glitter Gal Fuchsia on my nails so I'll write a post about it :)

Fuchsia is a holografic pink colour with a hint of red, not really a typical bright and vivid fuchsia colour. But if you won't see it in person, you won't believe how beautiful it is! Oh my! The holographic effect is so intense and beautiful, better than China Glaze OMG collection.

I was little bit afraid that the application with quite a small brush will be difficult but no. It applied very nicely, smoothly and I managed to have clean nails without need of any touch ups. The small brush in here comes very handy, especially on holiday when you don't have all your gadgets with you ;)

The formula is good, it is not too thin so I needed two coats for a nice  and full coverage. I apply OPI base coat and Seche Vite top coat and polish lasts about 4 days without chipping. With minor touch ups you can wear it for about 6 days. Pretty good, huh? When I wore holographic polishes in the past, they didn't last very long so this was quite a surprise for me. I also haven't experienced any problems applying holographic polish over a base coat as with China Glaze.

The bottle of polish has 9 ml and it is an Australian product.

Glitter Gal is seeking International on-line or store stockists
If you know anyone that may have on-line store or store, this would be a great help, as we are continually asked stockists in your country and it would be great opportunity, as we can then direct our customers directly to stores in appropriate countries.

Both Anna and Kerry have been friends for many years and partnered together to create Glitter Gal.
With Kerry's experience as a makeup artist and Anna’s background in creating/suppling “private label” products to other Australian companies they have designed “Glitter Gal” a great makeup and nail polish range. The products are great quality, eyecatching packaging and very affordable. 
 
Glitter Gal Holographic nail polish
We use “true” holographic particles in our formulation. This one ingredient is 30 times more expensive than any other nail polish ingredient. Thus making our holographic nail polish the highest quality possible. You will notice the smoothness to the finish of polish, and reflective effects are amazing. They are also the “Big 3 Free”.
Many other companies have tried create holographics, but use the more affordable ingredients, which don’t give the polishes the same effect, we didnt want to compromise on quality and wanted to deliver to our customers a true holographic formulation. I hope this helps.
 
 
So what do you think about this holographic beauty?