The one polish to rule them all: Rescue Beauty Lounge - Scrangie

In 2009 Rescue Beauty Lounge asked three of the biggest nailpolish bloggers to create their dream polish. One of those polishes created one of the biggest hypes and most lemmings ever amongst us polishaddicts: Scrangie ( I'm not going to explain who Scrangie is, that's like explaining who Madonna is. Like Madonna she also doesn't need a last name ). Ofcourse it was sold out soon and that's when it all started to get ugly, bottles of this already high priced polish were sold for insane amounts on Ebay. Fortunately for all us addicts, Ji Baek (owner RBL) decided to bring it back temporarily, but it's already sold out again. I just checked Ebay and someone sells a bottle of Scrangie for $ 74,99 !!!!!
So if you missed out (again), you can enjoy the following pictures.

In 2009 heeft Rescue Beauty Lounge 3 van de grootste nagellak bloggers gevraagd om hun ultieme nagellak te maken. Eén van die lakken heeft één van de grootste hypes ooit veroorzaakt onder de nagellakverslaafden: Scrangie ( Ik ga hier echt niet uitleggen wie Scrangie is, dat is hetzelfde als moeten uitleggen wie Madonna is. Net als Madonna heeft zij ook geen achternaam nodig. ). Natuurlijk was het al snel uitverkocht en toen werd het echt erg, want flesjes van deze toch al dure lak stonden voor een belachelijk bedrag op Ebay. Gelukkig besloot Ji Baek (eigenaresse van RBL) om deze lak weer tijdelijk terug te brengen, maar ondertussen is het ook alweer uitverkocht. Ik heb net even op Ebay gekeken en iemand verkoopt een flesje Scrangie voor $ 74,99 !!!!
Dus als je deze lak (weer) gemist hebt, dan kan je genieten van de volgende foto's.

Color
Purple with a strong blue/teal shimmer. The shimmer is sparkly in direct sunlight and gives a nice duochrome effect in other lighting. It's not too flashy though, it actually looks quite classy, like jewelry.

Kleur
Paars met een sterke blauwe/turkooise shmmer. De shimmer is glitterend in direct zonlicht en geeft in ander licht een mooi duochrome effect. Het is geen overdreven opvallende lak, eigenlijk staat het best chique, als een sieraad.

Application
I did three coats to get the best coverage, two would have looked nice too, but three was better. 
This isn't my favorite kind of brush, it doesn't fan out as much so you need to do more swipes to cover the entire nail and you could get some streeks if you are not careful. If you paint carefully, you get a nice result.

Applicatie
Hier zie je drie laagjes voor het mooiste resultaat, twee laagjes zou ook prima zijn, maar drie was wel echt mooier.
Het borsteltje is niet helemaal mijn smaak, het is vrij smal en waaiert niet mooi uit waardoor je vaker over je nagel moet vegen om je hele nagel te lakken. Daardoor moet je voorzichtiger werken, anders heb je wellicht een streperig resultaat. Als je voorzichtig lakt ziet het er mooi uit.

On the picture above you can see how this polish looks most of the time. Other pictures are made in direct sunlight to show the pretty shimmer better.

Op de foto hierboven zie je hoe deze lak er meestal uitziet. Andere foto's zijn gemaakt in direct zonlicht zodat je de mooie shimmer beter kan zien.

What you don't see on these pictures is that I'm wearing Cult nails Perfecting Basecoat and Cult Nails Wicked Fast Topcoat. I wanted to do a weartest with them and this mani lasted 6 days without any damage and only the slightest tipwear. I finally removed it because I wanted to do some swatching.

Since then I used Cult Nails base and topcoat for every mani and they are very good. If you can get them I suggest you gie them a try.

Wat je niet ziet op deze foto's is dat ik Cult nails Perfecting Basecoat en Cult Nails Wicked Fast Topcoat draag. Ik wilde een draagtest doen met die lakjes en deze mani bleef 6 dagen mooi zitten zonder een enkele beschadiging of slijtage. Uiteindelijk heb ik de lak eraf gehaald omdat ik wat wilde swatchen.

Sindsdien heb ik Cult Nails base en topcoat voor iedere mani gebruikt en ze zijn echt goed. Als je ze kan krijgen dan raad ik je aan om ze eens te proberen.

Ofcourse I really have to thank my friend ( and fellow polishaddict ) Roos for giving me this very special polish. I never asked her to get this for me on her trip to NY, so you can imagine the surprise when she gave it to me as a belated birthday present. After I recovered from the shock I couldn't stop smiling, it was the best present I got this year!

Uiteraard moet ik echt vriendin Roos (mede nagellak verslaafde) bedanken voor deze zeer bijzondere nagellak. Ik heb haar nooit gevraagd deze lak voor me te kopen toen ze naar New York ging, dus je kan je voorstellen hoe ontzettend verrast ik was toen ik dit als een verlaat verjaardagscadeautje kreeg. Nadat ik een beetje bekomen was van de shock kon ik gewoon noet meer stoppen met lachen, dit was het beste cadeau dat ik dit jaar heb gekregen!

Thank you all sooo much for watching this extraordinary polish

I wish you all love and your own bottle of Scrangie

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My arabic inspired mani with Cult Nails Get It On basecoat & Wicked Fast topcoat / Herôme - Marrakech / SdP XL plate 4

Most friends, family and co-workers are used to me wearing colorful mani's, so I don't get comments on them very often. This mani somehow did got alot of positive attention, everybody liked the color and the stamping. I did too even though I'm not into orange, but the color is just very flattering.
I tried alot of new nailstuff for this mani and I'm going to review them all for you today, there will be alot of text, so no Dutch translations this time. I guess most of you don't need them anyway :-)

Cult Nails - Get It On perfecting basecoat
Ofcourse my mani started with a basecoat. I used Get It On from Cult Nails that Maria, the owner of Cult Nails, so graceously sent to me for review. Maria was a blogger an nail-a-holic before she started her own line of nailpolish, that makes me trust her nailpolishes more because she's 'one of us' and knows what 'we' need: a great looking mani in zero time that lasts a long time. So I had high hopes for these basics!
I always use the same basecoat so it felt weird to use a different one, but it applied nicely. I don't know how to review a basecoat because it's like underwear: you are not supposed to see of feel it, but if it's good it makes everything you put over it look even better. This is a good piece of nail-lingerie

This is not the final bottle design, the 'real' ones look better ;-)

Cult Nail - Wicked Fast  speed dry topcoat
I was very excited to try Wicked Fast, the Cult nails topcoat. Month's back Maria mentioned her new topcoat on her blog R3 Daily and spoke about how even she was surprised how fast it dried her mani. That already made me want to try it and see if it's as good as my go-to topcoat. And I can tell you: Wicked Fast really dries..ehhh..wicked fast!!!! Within 2 minutes my mani ( 3 thick coats of polish ) was dry to the touch, but not completely hardened. After that I didn't keep track of the time, but within half an hour I was washing & drying my hands and getting myself a drink without getting any dents. This topcoat is not thick and very easy to apply. It also doesn't smell as strong as my other topcoats. I think I've used it about 4 times now in the past 2 weeks and I can highly recommend it to everyone.
Read more about Cult Nails base and topcoat HERE on R3 Daily ( nice read, do check it out )

Herôme - Marrakech
It's a warm orange/coral color with a subtle reddish shimmer. Herôme always gets their inspiration for colors from cities all over the world. This polish was part of the summer collection inspired by Marocco. The polish is a bit thick, next time I'll add a few drops of thinner. It looks good with 2 coats, I did three because there was a little nailline showing through, not much, but I wanted it perfect for the pictures. Got alot of compliments on this color!

An extreme close up picture above to show the shimmer in the polish ánd to show how glossy and smooth Cult Nails Wicked Fast topcoat is.

Dashica XL SdP image plate
When I wore this mani ( a week ago ) I just received the SdP stampingplates I ordered from Dashica Beauty Shop so ofcourse I wanted to use them right away.
I'm not good at stamping, I often have to remove the stamped image carefully without damaging the basecolor and try it again. This time I didn't, I don't say I did a perfect job, but the plate works great!
What I like most about these plates ( besides they have very nice images on them ) is that the full nail designs actually fit my nail. I don't have long nails and I have a wide nailbed, the Konad designs often don't cover the entire length and width, only if I just cropped my nails and am very precise where I place the stamp. The SdP full nail images are a little bit longer and wider and make application easy for me.

I used the top left image from plate XL SdP 4
Picture used from Dashica Beauty Shop

If you are not familiar with Dashica Beauty Shop and you do like stamping, please check it out, Shirley (the owner) creates her own plates and the images are very different and pretty. Shirley was already a nailpolishblogger before she started her own line of nailart so she knows what we need and want. She spends alot of effort in providing high quality products for a very reasonable price.

And just to make this post complete I show you my right hand. That's something you don't see here often. This picture was taken in a different light and you can see how much less orange and more coral the polish looks here.

So this was a long post with alot of different products in them to review.

If you made it all the way through I wish you an amazing weekend!

Thank you so much for watching and don't forget to check out

Cult Nails and Dashica Beauty Shop!

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