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My best DT haul ever! Can't believe I found these! I see a green skittle in my future

It works! Applied this mani Saturday night with the blue shimmer Aquapop as the base. One nail popped off on its own today and I removed the other without any problem. Since this is my first time trying a peel off base and I'm hard on my nails, I'm pretty happy with a day and a half of wear.

I have a lot of less traditional colors in my collection, but I still like red!

Ioni Aquapop water based base coat X2, Butter London Horsepower base coat, Pop Arazzi My Lip Gloss is Poppin X2, Sally Hansen QDTC

I'm giving my poor peeling nails a break so I decided to see if I could get this chrome powder to work with regular polish on some nail tips, and SURPRISE - it's holographic! I used a base of Color Vibe Cosmic Black. On two of the tips I topped it with Ioni Aquapop top coat (water based) and one with L.A. Colors 2-in-1 top coat/base coat. I let all of them dry, and then tried the chrome straight on the Aquapop coat, and on the other two I swiped them with an alcohol wipe to make the top coat a bit sticky before applying chrome. They all worked decently but using the alcohol wipe did help the chrome adhere better. I then topped with the Aquapop top coat, and finally with Sally Hansen quick dry top coat. I can't wait to wear this on my natural nails!

I used Maniology No Smudge Top Coat on the left and Ioni water based top coat from the Pink Cowgirl collection on the right. I didn't float the top coat for either. If you look closely you can see that both of them smudged a little in a spot or two (ignore the bottom right area, that just stamped that way, probably due to user error) but they both did pretty well over all. I actually expected worse performance from Maniology since I almost always get one or two noticeable smudges from it when I float it, and this time I just dragged the brush....figures that when I'm just stamping crapola it decides to behave!

The Ioni top coat did take forever to dry. I waited for about 5 minutes and it didn't seem like it wanted to dry anytime soon, so I left and checked on it again in another 30 minutes. Somewhere in that timeframe it dried. If I use it again I'll use a hairdryer to speed things along.

Also, I was worried that the Ioni top coat would dull the color or shine since it looks cloudy in the bottle, but I don't think it did at all!