For friday night 2:30 a.m.

3 coats of Sally Hansen Salon Hyacinth, a sponging of Confetti My Favorite Martian, and a coat of Sinful Colors Call You Later.

Here is a mani I wore a few days ago - I contemplated even posting this because of all the thousands of polish's colours I have seen this is the ugliest I have ever come across. I picked this up at the dollar store in my town, just for lulz, as  I am not a fan of this line of Sally Hansen polish's. A real Hyacinth is not this colour so I don't know why they would name it this.

I didnt want it too glittery, so only used 1 coat of the Sinful Colors polish. This was literally a last minute addition ~ I couldn't go out in public wearing just the Sally Hansen Hyacinth polish alone..... what would people think of me? and I didn't want to take it off and do my nails again!

Also the brush on this is 'wimpy', it was smaller and thinner than other polish's. I have tried these SH Salon polish's a few years ago and thought the formula and brush was 'meh'. This line is being dis-continued and these polish's can be found on clearance now; many are plain ordinary colours, pinks reds and Nudes but some shades are very pretty. This polish, Hyacinth was from the spring 2009 Tracey Reese LE collection.

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I had to sponge on another colour, because Hyacinth alone with Sinful Colors Call You Later would not be enough to disguise the fuglyness of this shade of polish. Confetti My Favorite Martian is a lovely green glass flecked polish.

.....and here it is alone

Above and below, 3 coats of Sally Hansen Salon Hyacinth.

This is a mani I hoped would work out. The Sally Hansen polish does not look that bad with these two fabulous colours, Billie Pink Pansy and a franken I made earlier this month. I cut out a mailing label in the shape of a 'V' and stuck it on my nail, added the two polish's and a thick coat of TC.

L-R = Nailene Top Coat, Sally Hansen hyacinth, Billie Pink Pansy, franken polish Integrity

This Billie Cosmetic's polish really is that bright. I saw a look like this a few days ago and it was very pretty & tried to copy it. I will have to try again with better colours and possible skip using any type of nail guide or scotch tape.

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♥ Icy Christmas Trees ♥

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2 coats of Icing By Claire's Manic Monday a dark green
2 coats of Confetti My Favorite Martian diagonally graduating away from the tips.
1 layer of sponging with Confetti My Favorite Martian
1 coat of ELF Twinkle, a sparse iridescent glitter covering the sponged area
1 coat of  Wet n' Wild Rock Solid Sparkling Diamonds, applied over sponged area.

before TC, This ELF polish "Twinkle" dries matte.

 

A Quickie on Sponging; there are several great videos on you-tube on sponging, my new technique is to apply polish to the area I wish to sponge, getting alot of coverage by applying polish normally then when it's dry to go over the whole area with a sponge blending the sponged area with the base colour. This cuts down on the actual sponging, so I really only have to sponge a small area and go over the area I painted to get a slightly textured look.

These two polish shades are not the best colours to do a short tutorial with, but after the mammoth amount of snow my town received, I need to remind myself of the beautiful greenery that is all covered up. I will be doing a few more sponged looks this week, but today I needed GREEN!

so here is my first 'coat' of confetti my favirote martian,  I didn't want to have a straight line, so I haphazardly applied the polish (from base to tip) in a curve, This is a dense glass fleck polish, so I wasn't worried about coverage.

I went over the area again, trying to create a jagged not-so-perfect look

I then got out my sponge an applied a drop of the confetti my favirote martian and followed the outline I created in my first two steps. There is some texture visible. I like this and think it adds to the appeal of a sponge mani look.

In this photo, I have added the ELF iridescent glitter polish, a coat of WnW Rock Solid Sparkling Diamonds and a coat of Nailene Top Coat.

HERE is a few interesting tid bits in addition to my post yesterday;


apply any lotion around cuticles using a small brush.

and 25 min after applying polish. I forgot to take a before photo but I really blobbed this polish on my finger♥

 Here is a before of my full mani, It was actually hard for me to do a messy job! I paint my nails so much that I really don't make a lot of mistakes, or, mistakes that need major correcting.

 and after picking away at the polish mistakes and washing my hands..... I still had a few bits of polish to remove with acetone, but this method definitely cuts down on the use of acetone.

 Here is another experiment I did with lotion to show the effect that using a moisturizer around your cuticle can have.

L - R;     no lotion  -  Lotion applied before polish  -  lotion applied after polish

no lotion    -    Lotion applied before polish    -    lotion applied after polish

no lotion    -    Lotion applied before polish    -    lotion applied after polish

this is the back of my hand; Plain polish stuck to my skin through 2 hand washings, whereas the polish blob in the middle that I applied over moisturizer I was able to pick off and was gone completely after 1 wand washing. The polish on the far right that I applied moisturizer on top of  stayed put.

This means that there was enough moisture in the sample in the middle for polish to NOT ADHERE to my skin. applying a moisturizer, or Vaseline or diaper creme( lol ~ but it works awesome ) to your cuticles will prevent you from using excessive means to remove any polish mistakes.


And after that science lesson, here is a few more photos of my current mani.....

 Icing by Claire's Manic Monday my base colour = shouldn't this be blue, and not green?

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♥ Confetti vs. Sinful purple jelly flecked & My Fav Martian ♥

Ohhhhhhh this is a pretty one...... above is Sinful Colors I Love You. = I cant believe I havent done a full manicure with this yet its beautiful! Before I did my nails for the day I wanted to do a quick comparison of Sinful Colors Daddy's Girl, Sinful Colors I love You and Confetti Happy Birthday.

Also in case anyone cares.... I woke up on Friday filled with sunshine, rainbows and smiles.... but by Friday afternoon I had a full blown cold..... It was only October first for friggs sakes. I have been laid up in bed and am just getting back to normal now. Well, not really because anytime I stop physically moving, I have a savage hacking whopping cough = yippee winter!!!!!

Anyhoo -here is a quickie comparison and some photos of an awesome SOON TO BE DISCONTINUED  polish, Confetti My Favorite Martian♥

Sinful Colors Daddy's Girl, Happy Birthday, Sinful Colors I love You

L-R  = 3 coats each with No top coat.....

Daddys Girl - very jelly - very blurple, - sparse pinkish glass flecks - quite sheer
Confetti Happy Birthday - dark purple, silver-ish dense glass flecks, jelly-ish but build-able
I Love You - purple bordering on blurple (?), very, very dense pinkish glass flecks, jelly-ish but build-able

Indoor fluorescent.... blurples rarely photograph properly.

and here they are alone.....

Daddy's Girl 3 thin coats w/1 coat TC

Happy Birthday 3 thin coats w/1 coat TC

I Love You 3 thin coats w/1 coat TC

Finally, here is Confetti My Favorite Martian - Wow this is awesome! This had great coverage, I thought it would need 1 million coats but here is 3 thiiiiiiiin coats with a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong TC. I tried layering this over a brownish shade to copy the new ChG zombie zest... but it completely covered it up. I have recently seen someone layer this over black - It looks great over black, it changes the depth of the color but keeps the awesome green shade and really show-cases the eye-catching flecks. The next time I wear My Favorite Martian I will wear it over black.

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