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Showing posts with label leadlight technique. Show all posts
Showing posts with label leadlight technique. Show all posts

Friday, April 24, 2015

El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches

Finally the week has come to an end and before we head off into a lazy weekend I decided to post about a set of nail polishes from El Corazon. These polishes are called Aquarelle Tints from their Kaleidoscope collection. Tints are basically translucent polishes that allow you to build up the intensity with several coats. These polishes are perfect for doing stamping using a technique called Leadlight Technique.

El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches


I have got 5 shades from the collection and these shades are numbered 02, 04, 06, 10 and11. All shades do have some name that is written in Russian. But you can easily make out the shade of the polish from the bottle itself.


El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches

The applicator brush in the polish is nice and thick. This makes the application streak free. I have layered almost 6 coats without any glooping. The polish with minimum 4 coats stays one for a week. I did not try it beyond. There is no chipping at all.

El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints Review, Price, Swatches

Coming to the shades:
02 is a lime green color
04 is a lovely yellow color
06 is a pink color
10 is a blue color
11 is purple

In the swatches below I have applied a single coat, you can reapply and build it up to the intensity you see in the bottle. The final finish is like a jelly (check the nail art pic below)

Saturday, April 4, 2015

El Corazon Aquarelle Tints + Stamping Polish Review, Nail Art

El Corazon Aquarelle Tints + Stamping Polish Review, Nail Art, how to lead light technique, orange fruit nail art
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints + Stamping Polish Review, Nail Art

Last year around this time I had done a nail art inspired by mangoes - my favorite summer fruit. This summers I wanted to try out oranges - inspired not really by the fruit but the El Corazon Aquarelle Tints!

Aquarelle Tints are pale polishes which have an almost jelly like effect on your nails. You can build the color with multiple coats without making it look gloopy. The polishes are great for doing nail art called Leadlight Technique (which I have used on my thumb and middle finger.
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints 04, 06 and St-02 White Stamping Polish, lead light technique, nail art, review, how to
El Corazon Aquarelle Tints 04, 06 and St-02 White Stamping Polish

For lead light technique you stamp an image on your nail and then fill it in with colors. To do this nail art I first did 2 coats of the Aquarelle Tints shade 04 and 06 alternately on my nail. 04 is yellow while 06 is a pink color. Together they gave me the perfect juicy orange color that I wanted. 

Then I used El Corazon white stamping polish to stamp the image of oranges from a stamping plate BM 308. Then I took a few drops of Aquerelle Tint 04 and mixed it with a few drops of Aquerelle Tint 06 on a piece of paper and quickly applied the polish mix to fill in the orange. I kept applying multiple coats of the polish mix to get the 3D effect in the orange slices.

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