Tuesday, February 7, 2012

NOTD- Purple Smoke




Another gradient YAAAY! *waves arms around like Kermit*

Here's what I did:
1. 1 coat Glitter Girl Frappe to all except ring finger
2. 1 thin coat Nubar Hologram Glitter to all except ring finger
3. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy to nail tip to all except ring finger
4. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy to the top 1/2 of nail to all except ring finger
5. 1 thin coat Revlon Grape Icy from tip to 3/4 of the way down the nail to all except ring finger
6. 1 thin coat Nubar Hologram Glitter to all except ring finger
7. To ring finger, 2 coats of Color Club Teal Twinkle
8. To ring finger, 2 thin coats of Glitter Girl Frappe from cuticle to middle of the nail

the gang's all here!
Color Club Teal Twinkle is a pain in the ass to work with, it's a nail art polish so it has one of those super long and thin brushes. I don't have a problem doing a whole nail with one of those usually but this polish is THICK and kinda goopy. It's so annoying to work with which is a shame because it's a gorgeous grey with multi color sparkle.

Revlon Grape Icy is a polish I hated before I did this manicure. It's a scented polish that smells really good but it's too thin to use on the whole nail. It's impossible to get a full even coat (even doing this I had trouble). When I first got this I tried to use it, wound up doing 6 coats and it still was patchy and took eleventy billion* years to dry so I tossed it banished it like an evil queen to my polish drawer and forgot about it.

* Actual time it took to dry

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