I sort of waffled over what to do for my first post here, should I do some sort of introductory post, some sort of retrospective of what my nail art journey is like, something profound. I find myself in the very middle of my nail art journey, as I’ve been making press on nails for my friends for a little under a year now, so it’s not exactly at the beginning of the road, and I didn’t really make any sort of record of my journey thus far, so I wasn’t sure what to actually do to begin.

But the first step to beginning is beginning, so I figured just dive right in with a review of a collection of cateye polishes that I purchased a month ago from Sweetie Nail Supply, and am absolutely obsessed with (I’m wearing one shade on my toenails as I write this!)*

I was seduced by nail creator Rebecca Ramsdale into buying these. To be honest, I was a fairly easy sell all things considered.

I love magnetic gel polish. I didn’t really have any good quality magnetic gel polish (I did have a set of very cheap ones I got off Amazon, which I don’t shop at anymore, but they aren’t what I’d call great). Also, one of my friends, Katy, whom I make nails for quite regularly, is obsessed with Jewel tones for nails, so I knew these would be appreciated and easy to use in lots of sets. And having owned them for a month and a bit I was completely correct.

I will say, as with all magnetic polish, it doesn’t look like anything special until you magnetize it, and like most magnetic polishes these do require two coats to really look great.

With one coat they are pretty, and once magnetized do give a sort of jelly cute look. For the swatches I made for this post, I followed the directions that the company themselves gives which was to apply one layer, magnetize it, cure it (60 seconds under my UV/LED lamp), and then put on a second layer and demagnetize the second layer to become a sort of colour jelly layer with a bit of sparkle over the magnetized layer.

I will say It does look as stunning as they say in the ad post, though with all magnetic polishes it really does look better if you see it in person as vs. in a photo or video.

Magnetic Cateye polishes really catch the light and are mesmerizing in an almost instinctive way. Upon seeing them I become a bit of a magpie and can’t stop looking at them, moving my nails around to watch, enraptured, as the sunlight hits them in different places. I am a bit obsessed.

I did send Katy a set using the colours RM09 (blue) and RM08 (magenta) with some gold accents, and it turns out she too has magpie eyes. But the colours are absolutely gorgeous, so it’s hard not to want to keep looking at them.

I know that high end Korean gel products aren’t a super accessible thing for most people. Hell, I’m lucky that I can even buy them, and a pricetag of 180$ (even in Canadian dollars) would seem insane. (Which is why if anyone ever tells my mother how much I spend on nail supplies it’s on sight!) Nothing is more disappointing than when you set down a huge chunk of change on something and it turns out to not live up to your expectations.

For this however, I was totally enraptured. I love almost every colour. I do wish the green was a more vibrant emerald green, and I’d rather a gold more than the coppery colour that it comes with. However, the green is still beautiful and I could always put a thin vibrant green jelly polish over it to brighten it up. And while I don’t really use copper much in my usual nail sets, it would be perfect for a steampunk set, which I think would look absolutely gorgeous. (Future set idea?)

While I did send most of the sets off to the friends I made them for already, I did however just yesterday make a set of nails using the Blue (RM09) and the Red (RM03) based on a Rebecca Ramsdale set that sent me down a pinterest rabbithole for ideas and spat out this set in response.

I lack the ability to make as beautiful a set of nails as she does (for the moment) but I still think these turned out fairly cute! I did however forget to ask the person I made them for if they had a clown aversion before making them, but luckily she is totally cool with clowns (on her nails anyway!)

Anyway, thanks for reading this lil first blog post of mine. I’m hoping to make regular updates with new sets, products and such, just everything about my love of making press on nails. But, as my final verdict on the Rozyhip Gemstone collection- I love it. I use it at least once a week and if you’re someone who loves magnetic polish and deep colour vibes, it’s a great purchase.

Cheers! Until next time!

*I’m a nobody and thus definitely not sponsored so anything I say is off the cuff and is absolutely my own opinions.