Nail Foils Collection and Descriptions - Rainbow Foils

Now we get to the interesting foils. These are the rainbow ones which I absolutely LOVE! Some of them have a silver base to them but I decided that they fit more into the rainbow category. These foils were all purchased by me from Dollar Nail Art. In this post I will be showing you product photos, close up images and a brief description of what these foils look like to me.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.

Marbles:

Marbles is also a silver based foil with highly reflective qualities to it. This foil has random round shapes of overlapping colour blocks all over the silver base. The different colours created by the overlapping blocks of colour creates an almost stained glass window effect to the foil.

Primary Colours:

Primary Colours is litterally a rainbow along the entire length of the foil. It is not extremely reflective like the silver based foils previously mentioned in this post. There is nothing else I can really say about this one lol.

Rainbow Drops:

Rainbow Drops is a pretty light silver based foil with splotches of random shaped rainbow reflection. The effect that this foil has on the nail is similar to splotches of oil on concrete almost.

Rainbow Swirl:

Like Rainbow Drops, Rainbow Swirl also has a light silver base to it but the has a swirling pattern to it of rainbow awesomeness. This foil is highly reflective and when applied to the nail it looks exactly like spilled oil, its so AWESOME!!!! To see this foil in use, please follow the link here to tartofraises1‬‎'s blog post.

 Tie-Dye Surprise:

Tie-Dye Surprise looks like something straight from the 60's! This light silver based foil is highly reflective and has different splotches of tie-dye colour all over the length of the nail. The pattern of colours can almost be described as someone throwing water bombs filled with different coloured paints at a chrome surface. Awesome!

 Wrapping Paper:

Wrapping Paper is a highly reflective foil with a rainbow running going along the width of the foil. It is similar to Primary Colours except the colour gradient isn't as nice.


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Nail Foils Collection and Descriptions - Silver Foils

The next installment in my nail foil series is the silvers. These foils were all bought by me from Dollar Nail Art with my own money. In this post I will be providing product photos, close up photos and also a breif description of what they look like to me.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.

 Disco Ball:

Disco ball is very similar in colour and pattern to Silver Dots only the dots in this foil are more oval shaped. They still give off the same rainbow holographic effect and the glitter-like appearence on the nail that Silver Dots does. There is no point in purchasing both of these foils as they are so similar and I would personally go for the Silver Dots because it gives off more of that gorgeous holographic rainbow reflect.

 Fiber Optics:

Fiber Optics is very similar to the nail foil Green Lightbeams. This foil has a light silver base to it with lightbeams of rainbow holographic awesomeness running along the length of the foil. When the light hits this foil, it gives off more of a rainbow reflect than Green Lightbeams because it reflects the WHOLE rainbow not just the cooler tones of it.

 Fifth Avenue:

Fifth Avenue is a gunmetal grey based foil with light silver cross-hatching along the entire length of the foil. This is a matte foil and doesn't have the same sort of reflective qualities that the other silver foils have. It is a very conservative foil and kind of reminds me of a pattern you would see in a business suit or something similar.

 Florentine Marble:

Florentine Marble is very similar to its gold equivalent Roman Marble. This highly reflective light silver based foil has shiney black marbling throughout it creating a smokey effect. This is one of my favorite foils.

 Silver Crush:

Like Gold Crush or Diamond Red, this foil has a crushed tile pattern along the entire length of the nail with a light silver base. The tiles in this foil reflect a multicoloured holographic rainbow of awesomeness on the nail that is really eye catching in the sunlight.

 Silver Dots:

Silver Dots is a light silver based foil with a dotted pattern along the entire length of the foil. These dots reflect a rainbow holographic effect depending on how the light hits it. This foil takes on a glitter like appearence when applied to the nail. To see this foil in use, please follow the link here to tartofraises1‬‎'s blog post.

 Silver Spectrum:

Silver Spectrum is exactly like the foil Gold Spectrum only it has a silver base instead of a gold one. This foil likes to create a rainbow holographic effect on the nail. When applied to the nail it give s a flashing lightbeam effect along the length of the nail.

 Silver Starburst:

Silver Starburst, as the nail suggests, is ver similar to Blue Starburst except it has a light silver base to it. The starburst pattern on this foil reflects a rainbow holographic effect to the nail depending on how the light hits it. This foil would be really nice for a Christmas or Winter based nail art design.

 Silver:

Silver foil is the most reflective and high shine foil out of all my foils. The surface resembles a mirror and you can actually see your reflection in the surface of the foil. This was a really difficult one to get a photo of because it wanted to reflect my camera and its flash so the close up image is slightly blurred, but you can still see the colour fairly true to form. There is no pattern to this foil it is just a solid

 Smokey Silver:

Like Silver, Smokey Silver is a mirror-like, high shine foil that likes to reflect everything. It is a slightly darker silver than that of Silver foil, hence the name Smokey Silver. There is no pattern to this foil, it is just a solid colour.


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Nail Foils Collection and Descriptions - Green Foils

I was a little upset when I looked at the foils avaliable on Dollar Nail Art and there were not that many foils in green. I have found this with many nail polishes too that they don't produce a wide variety of green polishes within any company. Oh well.

In this post I will be showing you product photos, close ups of each foil and also giving you a short description on what I think they foils look like.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.

 Elven Gold:

Elven Gold is a mix of moss green, a deep forest green and gold. The look of this foil is similar to using the sponge technique to apply nail polish. This is a matte foil also and isn't reflective like Emerald or Seafoam Green.

 Emerald Frost:

Emerald Frost is an emerald green based foil with a water ripple pattern to it similar to Scarlet Frost or Tanzanite Fire. The ripples of this pattern throw out holographic flashes of green, teal, blue and gold as the light hits it.

 Emerald Green:

As its name suggests, Emerald is a metallic emerald green foil with mirror like reflect to it. This foil has no patter and is only a solid colour foil.

 Green Lightbeam:

Green Lightbeam as the name suggests is an emerald green based foil with lines of holographic lightbeams along the width of the nail. The lightbeams reflect green, teal, blue and gold depending on how the light hits it. To see a photo of this foil and a short video of light hitting the foil please check out Tartofraises1‬‎'s video and blog post here.

 Lime AB:

Lime AB is another foil that is similar to Gold Spectrum but with a lime green base. As the light hits this foil it reflects teal, dark green and blue. The effect created when applied to the nail is lines of holographic awesomeness. To see this foil in action, please check out Miss80Million's tutorial on Youtube by clicking here

 Seafoam Green:

Seafoam Green foil is a light grey green foil with a mirror-like reflecting metallic finish. Like Emerald, this foil has no pattern and is a solid colour foil


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Nail Foil Collection and Descriptions - Pink Foils

The following is the next installment of the nail art foil collection series. This one will contain all of my pink foils which will include photos of the product, close up images of the foils and also a brief personal description of them. These foils were purchased by me from Dollar Nail Art.

If you do not know what nail art foil is or how to use it please follow this link here to my Introduction to Nail Foils post for more information.

 Azalea:

Azalea is a colour similar to Passion Pink except it has more of a purple tinge to it and is also slightly darker. Like the other metallic foils mentioned before this one, it has no pattern to it, only solid colour.

 

 

English Rose:

Now this is where we get to the interesting foils! English Rose is a semi-transparent foil with a pink rose pattern along the entire length of the nail. With this foil you can change the appearance of it depending on what background colour you use. Where the foil is white in the photo, your background colour will show through, making this foil very versatile and one of my favorites.

Fuchsia Fantasy:

Like Diamond Red and Gold Crush, Fuchsia Fantasy has a diamond tile like pattern along the entire length of the foil with a hot pink base. The diamond pattern reflect pink, purple, blue and red depending on where the light hits it creating a holographic appearance.

 Light Rose:

Light Rose is exactly what its name suggests, a light rose coloured foil with a highly reflective metallic finish. It has sort of a lilac hint to it but when compared to some of the other purples it just didn't fit. There is no pattern to this foil, it is just a solid colour

 

 

Magenta AB:

Magenta AB is a holographic foil with a hot pink base. Depending on where the light hits this foil it reflects orange, red, blue, and purple. When applied to the nail it creates a rainbow down the length of the nail. This is very similar to Peach Burst or Gold Spectrum except with a different base colour. To see this foil in use please check out tartofraises1's blog post here  

Passion Pink:

Passion Pink is a really pretty solid hot pink colour with a nice metallic reflect to it. There is no pattern to this foil at all. If you want to see this foil in action, please click the link here to see Miss80Million's tutorial on Youtube.

 Tearose:

Yet again another foil whos name is a good description. Tearose is a pretty rosy pink colour with a reflective metallic finish. There is no pattern to this foil at all it is just solid colour.

 Wine:

Like its name suggests, Wine is a deep wine colour with a metallic reflect to it. it is a lot darker than Azalea and when compared to it it takes on more of a red colour than the purple hint that Azalea has. This would look nice matched with a true gold colour to create a royal look. This has no pattern to it only a solid colour


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Nail Foils Collection and Descriptions - Gold Foils

As I said with my previous post, the following is a list of the nail art foils that I purchased from Dollar Nail Art. I decided that I would seperate the foils by their colour and make postings for each grouping making it easier for you to look through them and decide which ones you would like to purchase if you choose to do so.

If you do not know what nail foils are or how to use them please follow this link to see my Introduction to Nail Foils post.

This post will contain all the foils in the gold spectrum. I've also included a short description of the foil along with the photos giving my description of them. I've decided to list these foils alphabetically in order to make them easier to find. I found that the solid metallic foils such as White Gold were quite hard to photograph because my camera wasn't able to focus on them as they were so reflective, therefore their photos are just a good representation of what colour they are.

 

African Jade:

African Jade is a true gold shade with spatter marks of a soft moss green throughout. This is a matte finish foil like Kashmir Gold but this one is slightly more reflective. If you want to see this foil in action check out this video by LOVE4NAILS on Youtube.

 

Aztec Gold:

Aztec Gold is a true gold holographic foil that reflects a diamond shaped rainbow across the nail. This foil tends to reflect more of the cooler colours in the rainbow when compared to the warmer colours that Gold Spectrum reflects.

 

Bronze:

Bronze is a solid coppery bronze colour although it is a little softer than the typical bronze colour. It takes on more of a brown colour than a true bronze. here is no pattern to this foil, it is just solid colour.

 

Gold Crush:

Gold Crush is a true gold foil with a sort of cobblestone like design running over the entire length of the foil and reflects a pretty rainbow holographic. 

 

Gold Dots:

Gold Dots is a true gold foil with a dotted pattern that reflects a rainbow of holographic awesomeness. It kind of takes on the effect of glitter over the surface of the nail but on a more solid scale.

 

Gold Spectrum:

Gold Spectrum is a true gold holographic foil which reflects a rainbow effect where the light hits it. When applied to the nail it creates a ray of rainbow reflection along the length of the nail.

 

Gold Starburst:

Gold Starburst is a true gold foil with a star pattern covering the entire length. The stars reflect a rainbow holographic effect. This foil would be really good for a Christmas theme nail design.

 

Gold:

Gold is a solid true yellow gold foils and is highly reflective like the surface of a mirror (you can see how reflective it is because in the top left corner of my swatch you can see the reflection of my finger lol). There is no pattern to this foil, its just solid colour.

 

Kashmir Gold:

Kashmir Gold is a cream foil with gold veining running through it. It makes me think of a diagram of the circulatory system. This foil has a matte finish to it and isn't reflective on its own like some of the other foils I have. If you want to see this foil in action check out this video by LOVE4NAILS on Youtube

 

 

Mayan Sunset:

Mayan Sunset is a pale gold with veining of pale green and a muddy grey-brown similar to that of Copperplate eye shadow. The patterning of this reminds me of the look of MAC's mineralize skin finishes or eye shadows. This is a matte finish foil.

 

 

Roman Marble:

Roman Marble is a highly reflective true gold foil with reflective black marbling through it giving it a slightly smokey look. There is no holographic effect to this foil but the surface of the foil looks as though it has a nice shiny topcoat over it. This is one of my favorite foils.

 

White Gold:

White Gold is a solid pale gold colour which is highly reflective like the surface of a mirror. There is no pattern to this foil, it is just solid colour.

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