OPI Black Spotted - FAIL!

Hello there again!

I was dying to show you another take on OPI Black Spotted, but instead I have a kind of fail to show you. :-(

I don't know exactly what went wrong here:

This time the polish didn't form those well-defined spots like you see in other blogs and in my previous Black Spotted mani. I'm not sure whether this was due to the very thin coats of Black Spotted I applied or the surface of the base color DL Mermaid's Dream was too rough. It's not that bad, but it isn't the spotted effect I was hoping for.

It sort of reminds me of this lil fella here: 

(soure: http://www.reptarium.cz/en/taxonomy/Lacerta-trilineata/5748)

Sorry for the lack of cleanup around my nails. I just didn't want to spend any more time on this mani. I'll try my best next time! :-)

OPI Black Spotted (and gradient again!)

Hello again everybody!

Look at what I have to show you today: it's OPI Black Spotted!!! It's part of the Amazing Spiderman collection and a Sephora France exclusive. It's a very nice polish to work with. It works similarly to the good old crackle polish: you apply over a dry polish and you wait for the effect to form. Only difference is that Spotted doesn't crackle, it forms spots, as the name suggests and as you can see in the pictures. It somehow reminds me of the effect of mixing oil to water, if you know what I mean. :-) I'll let the pictures do the talk here!

The thinner the coat of Black Spotted, the more spots you'll get. And the thicker the coat, the larger and less dense the spots will be. I've read in other blogs that if you apply top coat over Black Spotted it'll peel off. Well, that didn't happen to me. I finished it off with top coat and it stayed on my nails for 4 or 5 days, with no chips and no peeling. I only removed it because I wanted something else on my nails. 

So now, let me show you the "underwear" for Black Spotted: it's gradient once again! ;-)

Polishes used:

Kiko #356 Melon

Kiko #389 Mint Milk

Kiko #333 Brilliant Violet