OPI Bring on the Bling Dupe - Funky Fingers Golden Coast

I was finally able to remember to get a decent comparison shot of these two polishes.

OPI Bring on the Bling is a little hard to find, and when you find it, you end up paying a little over retail for it, so of course when I saw that Funky Fingers was a dupe, I just had to share it with you all.

 

Sure, the funky fingers is a bit gritty and bumpy, but if you can deal with that, then you can save some money buying the funky fingers version.

Then you can buy another polish with the money you saved :)

What's that in the sky? It's.....SPACE NAILS!

OK. So I have a bit of an obsession about space things right now.  First it started with a gift exchange on a forum themed as "Secret Astronaut", then it was watching this movie called "Sunshine", playing with left over glow and dark star stickers (yep I regress to a child some days :p), and now it's SPACE NAILS!

Here's my first try on space nails. I found the tutorial on nails by asami and I loved the idea.  I did however deviate from her rules a bit to get different effects.

just testing out different options with different polishes

Here's a set I made for a friend:

Materials used:

Kitchen towel/paper towel

and 

Polishes:

Chanel Black Satin

George - Twister (matt finish)

Sally Hansen - DVD

Funky Fingers - Baby Baby Baby

OPI - Original DS

Revlon - Belle

Barry M - Hologram hexagram

Color Club - Worth the risque

Color Club - Revvvolution

Now Asami's rules were very clear and easy:

1. First apply matte black nail polish. Any dark colour works on the bottom, if you really want to make it matte, you can just get a matte finisher as well.  My recommendation is going to Asda and picking up their black nail polish and matte finisher for only £2 combined.

2. Take a holographic polish and place onto a patterened napkin/paper towel and in a sponging effect start dabbing the nails.

3.  Take a duochrome polish and do the same as above

Step 2 and 3 will give that misty floating space mass effect

4. Apply any glitter polish.  This will mimick the stars. I was lucky to have a hologram glitter, so I placed the Barry M hologram hexagram first and then topped it again with Revlon Belle.

What I love the best about Space nails is that, no 2 nails will look the same.  It's an easy and very cool looking nail art.  As much as I like nail art, I find a lot of it is too "kawaii" inspired, and some of the more extreme kawaii just isn't my style. So this type of nail art is just what I like.

I'll be doing a lot more of these space nails. I need to find a cheap black polish, since I don't want to use up my entire bottle of Chanel just for this haha.  I'll be going to Asda and picking up my £1 black polish from the George line soon.

Have you guys tried space nails? What techniques and/or polishes do you use?

More Funky Fingers Holo Glitter Mania - Baby Baby Baby, Golden Coast, Sand & Stilettos

Where's my sun at? Clearly the british weather has turned....sun come on out, we won't bite! UGH...so I made my own sunshine.

I swatched the three Funky Fingers that were given to me by a lovely friend from the states.

My camera really hates that extra shine and sort of blurs the glitter apart, but all three are scattered holographic glitters.

From Left to Right:

Sand & Stilettos, Golden Coast, and Baby Baby Baby

PROS

Totally fun

Cheap thrills

And I mean that, 3 for $5 - 

bargain if you are hunting and lemming after holographic polishes

4-Free

CONS

Hard to apply evening, can be clumpy

Gritty finish, even with top coat

NO complaints however, these are fun! fun! fun!

Can be purchased at 5 below for $2/each or 3 for $5

Funky Fingers - Sand and Stilettos

Holy Holographic Glitter Mania!

My dear friend sent this to me and I can see why!
I wanted to spruce up my NOTD from yesterday, so I added a layer of OPI DS Original on top and I thought that would do it, but the lack of sun here made me want MORE BLING!

Say after me... MORE BLING! MORE BLING!
So I did it, I gave myself a blinding mani.
Luckily I only did one finger, but that was enough to do the trick

Even with the lack of sun and tip wear,

(sorry had to do some massive cleaning this morning due to my severe allergies lately)

You can see the chock full of glitter this polish gives. That was one thin layer placed on top of my manicure.

It is scattered holographic goodness!

Warning: A bit gritty, but well worth it for the colour payoff.

You can find Funky Fingers at 5 below.

And to think, there is some pre-teen girl out there rocking this, 

move aside child, this holographic glitter is meant for adults, 

or should I say....Nail Polish Addict Adults :p