Coral Colours Magnetic Nail: Brass Pole
This is Coral Colours Magnetic Nail in Brass Pole - bought from a Unichem Pharmacy in Feilding for $8.99. Pretty goldish green colour with large gold shimmer. The magnet is set into a removable band, which is a giant PITA. The best way it worked for me is to leave it done up with the little butterfly flaps and use that to hold the magnet over the polish. Really close to the polish.
I found this very hard to get to work properly the first time around, the instructions say use one thick coat, but that often didn’t work, and one coat wasn’t enough to cover. I tried the one coat, then one THICK coat, and it seemed every second nail needed a third coat before the magnet would grab. I even tried to put a bigger magnet behind that one to increase the pull, but that didn’t work. This time around it worked better, little finger nail and ring fingernails had one thick coat; middle and pointer have two.
Shade…
However, it was all worth it in the end, the magnet gave a really pretty effect and had quite a few nice comments on this manicure. I didnt put on top coat and this was ROUGH. Glitter rough.
sun…
Timing – I held the magnet over my little fingernail for 15 seconds, and its not defined enough yet. The others I tried 20 seconds, and that seemed to work well. On my first attempt the magnet pulled the polish right off my nail after 30 seconds, but I couldn’t get it to happen again this time. 
Then in town I bought a Australis multi-coloured flakie top coat (yay!) called Speck-tacular and I put that on. Gave a subtle flakie flash when the light hits it, and smoothed out most of the gritty feeling. However, the gloss also made the nail polish look quite flat, so now I feel like I have tiny grilled paninis on my fingers I’ll try it with a clear top coat, and see if it retains the corrogated effect.
Brass pole with flakie top coat
Brass Pole dried quickly -as did the Australis top coat, which I bought from Farmers for $14.
Australis Speck-tacular
These polishes also lasted really well, with no tip wear at all the next day. I love the colour of Brass Pole, and how close the diagonal stripes are together are from the magnet: they do help elongate my stumpy nails. I wish the magnet was stronger, so it could do more than just the center of my nails, but overall I am very happy with this polish.
Posted on June 19, 2012, in Sight and tagged Australis, Beauty, Coral Colours, Flakies, Magnetic Polish, Nail Polish. Bookmark the permalink. 4 Comments.
that is too cool! I really need to try out the magnetic colors.
I’d recommend them! I thought they’d be really gimmicky, and they are I guess, but I love the effect. Science and art, in easily applied to fingernail formula. Win!
It looks pretty on you but it would bug me that it dries rough like glitter.
Yep, bothered me too. I do need to try it again with just a clear top coat, see how that smooths out, and hopefully will retain the corrogated look (rather than grilled bread look)