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What’s buzzin, cuzzin? I’ve got a groovy new mystery box from Shades of Phoenix to share with you today.
The Mystery Mani-Fest pack is a themed “manicure in a box”, available monthly from Shades of Phoenix. The box contains two midi sized bottles of never before seen polish, together with plenty of nail art goodies to match the theme; more than enough to create a nail art loaded mani with something different on each nail.
May’s Mystery Mani-Fest pack was themed Rockabilly Pin-up, and came with a gorgeous glittery holo blue, Back Seat Bingo and a shimmery glittered red jelly, Classy Chassis. There was also a half size orange cuticle stick (which can also double as a dotting tool!), striping tape, and two ziplock baggies filled with a variety of acrylic bows (with bling and no bling), silver and gold studs in a variety of shapes, fimo slices of roses and winged hearts, and a generous amount of heart, bow/butterfly and skull and crossbones glitters.
Time for a closer look at the polishes, Back Seat Bingo and Classy Chassis.
In the bottle, I thought that Classy Chassis was going to be my favourite from this pack as what was not to love? It’s a shimmery glittery red jelly and with a little bit of spice with a peppering of black glitters. I was done for however, when I put on Back Seat Bingo. It’s a gorgeous bright blue full of holo, plus some sneaky micro glitter additions which give this polish a gorgeous sparkle indoors as well as in the sun. You could get away with using two coats of both of these polishes, which is what I did on my right hand (see full sun plain swatches below). For my swatch hand that received nail art however, I did three coats. Below are swatches of three coats of the two shades, without topcoat.
On to the Nail Art!
I pulled out a trusty white polish from my collection, but everything else came from the pack. On my index finger I used the striping tape to create crisp lines, and popped some heart glitters on the blue lines. My middle finger I painted an anchor, and my ring finger was sporting a diamonte bow and studs. My little pinky received a couple of skull and crossbone glitters, and a pink fimo rose slice. I think it’s a fun and quirky rockabilly style mani and the difficulty level isn’t too high. I have done some quickie tutorials which I will share at a later date.
And last but not least, we have a couple of photos in full sun!
The theme for June’s Mystery Mani-Fest is Things of Who, and is available now for pre-order until 13 June. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on the next box.
Happy polishing!!
xo Relle
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