Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Flakies!

Today I have a mani refresh with Sally Hanson's Hidden Treasure, and boy was it hard to capture on camera!

I layerd 1 thick coat over China's Glazes Blue Iguana from yesterday post.



I tried so many different ways to capture this combo accurately. First I have my desk lamp below.




Next I tried daylight, which happened to be overcast that day.





And lastly I tried in a bowl of water!



I think to truly appreciate these photos, you have to click to enlarge them and see the flakie goodness! I really loved the effect HT added to Blue Iguana, it helped to distract from the sheerness lol

One last thing I forgot to include in the last post was the removal process of this polish. Obviously HT make removal a little difficult, BUT Blue Iguana stained my nails pretty bad :( I used pure acetone to take this polish off of my nails and colouring from the skin around. I knew I should have used 2 coats of my base coat :(

One tip I'd like to share with you for stained nails that I just discovered is to use cuticle remover on your nail. Just put enough on to cover you nail, let it sit for a couple of seconds then gently scrub or scrape the nail with an orange wood stick and it should to remove the dye.

5 comments:

  1. This looks great!! Please tell me if you get stains when you remove this polish. I have several girls who told me this happened to them

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  2. Yipie! I love Hidden Treausre! such a nice polish for the summer season

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  3. Une Ruxi à Paris - unfortunately I did :( I should have used 2 coats of my base coat

    Janella - me too, I love the dimension it adds to all different kinds of polish :)

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  4. Wow! Hidden Treasure looks really good over that color!

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  5. Asian Girl - Thanks, it looks so much cooler in person, I wish I could have captured the effect better

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