Old bottles of polish: Helena Rubinstein 262 Lemon Heat

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Helena Rubinstein #262 Lemon Heat, 2 coats

Today I decided to show you one of my old nail polish bottles. It was bought before I found out that Helena Rubinstein test on animals. It is difficult for me to post about products that are tested on animals because I don't want to make people buy it, and I don't want to support brands that are harming animals. But the reason why I made this exception, is that this is a nail polish that I don't think is for sale any more. Please tell me in the comments what you think. Is it OK to show you nail polish that is tested on animals when it's vintage?

Helena Rubinstein #262 Lemon Heat, 2 coats

Helena Rubinstein #262 "Lemon Heat" is a deep yellow frost. I love the color, but it doesn't look good with my skin tone. I'm not sure when this bottle was bought, but it's a long time ago. I tried to check if this polish is still available, but could only find some of the round ones, none of these square bottles.

Helena Rubinstein #262 Lemon Heat, 3 coats

I  tried it on again today (after many many years), because I have very few yellow nail polishes, and need a yellow to make my "Festival Of Lights" mani for the Winter Holiday Challenge. And now I appreciate the color much more. It is such a unique color. Nearly orange. But I still think it would look better on someone with a darker or black skin tone.

The formula was flawless. No need for thinner, and nearly no clean up, although I often got too much polish on the nail. I just removed the excess around the nail right away. And I had to concentrate to make the brushstrokes straight, as with all frosts. The only change was that the cap separated from the brush.

Helena Rubinstein #262 Lemon Heat

I had some problems with lighting, so I had to use the photos that were taken before top coat. I have written under each photo how many coats that were used; 2 or 3 coats. In real life I can still see a little visual nail line, but it doesn't show in all angles.

Helena Rubinstein #262 Lemon Heat, 3 coats

I have more vintage bottles, but many of the brands are on the animal organisations' lists of brands that do test their products on animals. And sadly I have not found the rest of the bottles on any lists, so I don't know if they are tested or not. Do you still want me to show them? I know a few of my readers are very interested in vintage nail polish, and that many of you are concerned about animal testing.

Lani

Sat- ART- Day Club: Magnetic color blocking

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Magnetic color blocking, Sat- ART- Day Club

I like that I get to try new techniques in the Sat- ART- Day Club. I do have a "to do list", but this challenge helps me to get started. For Saturday we were making a colour blocking mani. I'm going to use magnetic nail polishes to add a little pattern, and because i want to use an untried magnet and two untried magnetic nail polishes.
This mani is inspired by this post by Esmaltes da Kelly who was the first I saw to use several magnetic nail polishes on the same nail with one pattern. My mani started out as a color blocking mani, but evolved into something that I'm not sure if can be classified as color blocking any more. Anyway, here's what I made on Saturday:

Snowflakes and snowfall- Winter Holiday Challenge #1

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Snowflakes and snowfall

The Winter Holiday Challenge was created by Dimpal and her friend Lorna for the facebook group Crumpet's Nail Tarts. As you see below, there will be two challenges each week in December, but if I've understood it correctly the main goal is that we are having a good time doing nail art. So it's possible to post later than the deadline, and we can choose to not participate on all the themes. And that suites me, because I have ideas for some of the days, but not for all of them, and also I'm not sure if I'll get time to do all the nail art and make all the blog posts.

BLING nails- Polish Days December

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BLING nails- Polish Days December

It's Polish Day again, the last one this year. Today (yesterday) we are making Bling nails. I've chosen to make dark and sparkly holographic glitter nails. And I'm very curious about the others' bling nails. As usual, there will be thumbnails with links to all participants at the end of the post. For information about Polish Days, and how you can join in next month, just click on the badge below. More photos and a list of what I used after the jump.

Linda Johansen Nail Candy: Mystic Blue

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Linda Johansen Nail Candy: Mystic Blue

This is Linda Johansen Nail Candy Mystic Blue. First photos of Mystic Blue on its own, and after that you can see what it looked like when I tried to layer three glitters over it; Gina Tricot#73 Disco, Orly Sunglasses at Night, and Ozotic #528. My swatches are piling up, so I'm now showing you over a month old pictures.

Sat- ART- Day Club: Winter scarves or outfits

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Sat- ART- Day Club: Winter scarves or outfits

Today's theme in the Sat- ART- Day Club is "Winter scarves or outfits". My inspiration was the polar bear candle that you see in many of the photos. And as you hopefully can see, I made a head with a tuque/ beanie and a scarf.

Sat- ART- Day Club: One stroke mani

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One stroke mani

This is my first one stroke mani. I have seen tons of tutorials on YouTube, and have wanted to try this technique for a long time. But I needed the Sat- ART- Day Club to get me started. So this is what I made for last weeks Sat- ART- Day Club, when the challenge was to make a the one stroke mani. I'm sorry that I haven't written this blog post earlier. Actually, I had hoped to make many more posts in November, but things don't always go as planned.

I especially have to thank Cutenails/ Tartofraises and Marjorie Harris for teaching me the one stroke technique. I'll include two of their videos for you at the end of the post. This mani is especially inspired by Cutenails, although it's my own design.