Cloudy Glass - OPI, Born Pretty, Emily de Molly

halmakeup Haziran 18, 2021

More gel things that I apply without using gel polish!

[Top: Born Pretty's Chameleon Cloud Paillette Iridescent Flakies number 4
Base: OPI Alcatraz... Rocks]

So, this is Born Pretty's Chameleon Cloud Paillette Iridescent Flakies, option number 4 on a base polish OPI's Alcatraz... Rocks. Ev has a really nice swatch of Alcatraz... Rocks here. Born Pretty's Chameleon Cloud Paillette Iridescent Flakies, option number 4, is a blue-purple flakie with some green flashes. The word cloud in the name of the flakies is really accurate because it does look like shifting, shiny clouds on my nails. The second photo is blurry, but the colours are accurate in that one.

On top of Alcatraz... Rocks, I applied Emily de Molly's Special Effects Base Coat. Then when it was still tacky, I applied the flakies on top generously. I sealed it all in with Born Pretty's Mirror Top Coat, which I'm told works as a replacement if I don't want to use gel nail polish at any point to seal in flakies. And it does work! Everything sealed in fine.

[Top: Born Pretty's Chameleon Cloud Paillette Iridescent Flakies number 4
Base: OPI Alcatraz... Rocks]

I included the first photo above because you can see a better view of the green flash of the flakies.

Now the second photo shows something weird that happened. It's winter here now in Australia and I'm having very hot showers. So after one particularly hot shower, a couple of the flakies...went weird. They went cloudy white. I was baffled. And then oddly enough, a couple hours later, they went back to normal. I have no idea what happened, but you can see a few cloudy white flakies up above.

I looked it up but couldn't really figure out what search terms to use and didn't find anything, so... it's a mystery! I'm wondering if it's a result of not using proper gel polish for this and using substitute top coats.

Other than that, I loved the look of this one and might look to get the other flakies too!