Sally Hansen Lavender Envy layrered over Nina Emerald City

This is one of my very favorite polish's = Sally Hansen Lavender Envy. It is not as streaky in real life as it looks in these indoor photos. Lavender Envy is no longer in the core line of Sally Hansen X-treme Wear polish's, but there is still a few sheer SH X-treme Wear polish's that look AMAZING layered, [Green w/ Envy comes to mind.}

 I picked this up at a small drug store in my town a few years ago, I totally hated the long stem and the stumpy brush at the time - now I am cool with it. I don't understand why SH changed their bottle shape for each line of polish they come out with......

This is 2 coats of Nina Ultra Pro in Emerald City, I recently wore this and wanted to wear it again {it's that pretty  that I wore it twice in 2 weeks!} After spending the evening whipping up some fabulous earrings my nails were trashed, so i added 1 coat of SH X-treme Wear Lavender Envy and a coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.

I applied paper re-binders to the base of my nail, so the original polish would be visible. I have had the worst luck with re-binders, they always leave a sticky residue - but this time i peeled them off immediately after adding the polish. It's not perfect, but I cannot find a smaller circular sticker to create this "moon-mani"...........

{ this doesn't look this streaky in real life }

 ..... even though the colours in this photo are all wrong, I thought it was a cool pic; I love how glowey the SH Lavender Envy layered area looks!

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NYC Chinatown franken 'Deco-Rate' w/ Icing glitter

I don't forget about my frankens! I was in need of a girly pastel purple, so I hunted down a franken I made with NYC Chinatown, and a plain white creme. I applied 2 coats of my franken and added some dark purple glitter, starting at the base of my nails and fading half-way towards the tip of my nail.

I have worn this franken polish 'Deco-Rate'  back in May 2010, and I really loved it, I am pretty sure  I did at least 2 pedi's with this as well  HERE is a previous post i have done with another NYC franken polish...., the difference between these two polish's is I added a few drops of a vampy shimmery burgundy to THAT bottle. 

I added 2 thin coats of TC, but this still looks too grainy, normally most glitters I wear regularly can be smoothed over with 1 to 2 coats of TC, I'll have to do some experimenting with these glitters - I imagined fine glitter would feel less rough on the surface of the nails....hmmmmmm.

On my ring nail is NYC China-Town, with the glitter on this nail as well - the glitter totally dis-appeared on this nail.

I went over the glittery area almost 5 times.... so its noticeably lumpy.

!!!!bonus fluff !!!!

w/ NYC China-Town

w/ no-name Icing dark purple glitter

w/franken ' Deco-Rate' that I made with Billie White & NYC China-Town

shade

sun

indoor flo

 cloudy skies

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Nina Emerald City & 2 other manis's.....

ARE THE NEW WET N WILD POLISH'S COMING TO CANADA ----- I WROTE THE COMPANY  A DAY OR SO AGO BUT NO REPLY YET.... DOES ANYONE KNOW? I LOVE WET N WILD PRODUCTS AND HOPE THEY SHOW UP HERE, because, dang, those are some pretty polish's!!!

ALSO if 5 different companies can make the same polish (   read about here in Nailed   ) then I am certain that these same companies can whip up some easily accessible flakies and extreme holographic's and  prismatic's, Duo-Chromes too!!

-I'm talking to you Sally Hansen - 

your sitting on a pile of money!!!!!

Moving along, Nina Ultra Pro Emerald City; 3 thin coats followed by some franken glitter, applied at the base of my nail and fading towards the tips. I added a coat of clear polish, then a thick coat of Nailene Acrylic Strong Top Coat.

I WISH I could get more photos of this Nina polish in the sunshine - because dang; it's pretty!  There is a lot of photos of Nina Ultra Pro Emerald City floating around on the interwebs, it is a gorgeous shimmery emerald green.

This is an easy look to achieve. I applied a small blob of the glitter polish and dragged it across my nail, from the base to the tips of my nail.... approximately 3 times, filling in any sparse areas and tying to keep the bulk of the glitter at the base of my nail. I love this look and like that there is still a substantial amount of my shimmery base polish showing, and enough glitter to keep me happy. The best of both worlds ♥

Franken I made with Wet n Wild Bijou Blue and a Claire's multi-sized glitter

my only sunshine pic= with bonus fluff!

Above; 3 coats of Wet n' Wild Casting Call, When I first applied this I thought it was such a weird colour..... I am still not really sure how to describe this. I do like it and wore it for an extra day, adding a sparkly older Sally Hansen polish over it.

This is 2 coats of Sally Hansen Pina Colada Pop layered over Wet n' Wild Casting call, and a coat of Nailene TC. This polish is similar to another older sparkly polish I have Wet n Wild Rock Solid in Sparkling Diamonds. Sally Hansen Diamond Strength also makes a polish somewhat similar to this and  is currently available called 'A Girl's Best Friend', but that is a little more on the gold/bronze side, while this much more sparser in shimmer. I think a polish similar to this finish is handy to have around. It is super sparkly and hides flaws very well.

under cloudy gloomy skies

.... and finally, here is a lovely icy lite blue shimmer form Icing. This is 3 coats, from an LE set I picked up a month ago. Like all icing sets there is no name on this one. It is a sheer shimmery lite blue with a touch of copper flash. I initially layered this over a similar coloured opaque blue, but it was too streaky so I removed that and started over.  I think at 4 coats I would be satisfied with this polish, but for this mani I only used 3 coats.

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