When in doubt - sponge! 2 purple sponge manis

lol - that fluff!

Today, after my blog hiatus, I have two purple sponge mani's. First I frankened Wet n Wild Eggplant Frost with China Glaze Grape Juice. Even though I darkened the China Glaze polish, the glass flecks were still very prominent, so that's a good thing.

I started with a base of older discontinued artificial nails from Nail Fetish that I found at the dollar store. I mixed up WnW Eggplant Frost with China Glaze Grape Juice on a piece of tin foil and sponged it on the last 3/4 of my nail....when it was sorta dry I added a coat of Nailene TC.

ChG Grape Juice, a pretty pale purple glass fleck polish that I don't use enough.



stuff I used; WnW Eggplant Frost, China Glaze Grape Juice Nailene TC

While I do like China Glaze Grape Juice, I think it is a tad too light, so I frankened a small amount with Wet n Wild Eggplant Frost and did a graduated sponge on a lilac base.

this is the base of the above and below manicures,

These are old discontinued Nail Fetish artificial nails that I found at the dollar store, they are a light lilac and have subtle shimmer. I had to cut them down and re-shape them, they were a weird almond shape.... also I glued the wrong one on my index nail, it is waaaaay to big! Whoops.

..... and another purple sponge mani~

stuff I used, XW Purple Potion, Purple stars from Michelas Craft stores, Nailene TC

I did a graduated sponge, then brushed on the Sally Hansen Purple Potion on the last 1/4 of my nail then added the star & a coat of TC



this is an older Sally Hansen X-treme Wear polish I found at a Garage sale for .10 cents

Purple Potion is a medium purple with strong blue flash

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Nail Fetish Foxy and some Nail Fetish swatches ( Old Skool )

Nail fetish Foxy is a deep mahogany jelly with gold micro-glitter. This was 4 coats with Top Coat. This polish looks dark in most indoor lighting conditions, and an occasional glimmer of the gold glitter is visible. Next time I wear this I will definitely be layering it over a similar base colour. For some reason I thought this would only need 2 coats but I needed 4.

mysterious dim lighting

I am holding Confetti my Favorite Martian

Here is a quick skittles of the Green Nail fetish polish's I have rounded up in my town. These all required 4 or more coats, they are very pretty but thin = thats old skool polish. I guess it was acceptable in the early 90's to be sheer and need multiple coats. I do not own anything similar to Poison Ivy, or Lizard, so I have nothing to compare it to.

Nail Fetish Sci-Fi, Poison Ivy, Lizard

Nail Fetish Sci-Fi, Poison Ivy, Lizard, Sci-Fi

Nail fetish Sci-Fi, Poison Ivy, Lizard

all the Nail Fetish Polish's I have rounded up in my town

Left to Right ( with links to mani's )

Crush - Holographic Multi-sized Glitter

Gothic - Midnight Blue with micro-glitter - like Essie Starry Night or Nat Robins Midnight Hour

Grape Going - Frosty Glitter - my nemesis, but the base colour is fabulous!

Gravy Train - My Favorite! a frosty/shimmery dirty peach with prominent gold shimmer

Foxy - a beautiful sheer mahogany base with gold micro-glitter

Sci-Fi - a shimmery light apple green  = that that has some frosty tendencies -a 'Pearle' perhaps?

Poison Ivy - a medium green that is somewhat frosty

Lizard - a dark green with lots of shimmer

If anyone in the world has these and has better colour descriptions for these let me know! My favirote is Gravy Train, The gold micro glitter in Foxy something special.

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