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Thursday 6 February 2014

GOT Polish Challenge: Green

Hello, hello. I'm a bit short on words at the moment so I'm just going to show you the mani I created over the course of about 72 hours for the green prompt of the Golden Oldie Thursday Challenge. 

I started with two coats of base coat and then layered two coats of Seed Heritage in Emerald, a beauuuuuutiful emerald green with the tiniest turquoise shimmer that I bought in September 2012. Once this base was dry, I added one thin coat of OPI's Just Spotted The Lizard, also bought late 2012, and saran wrapped it while it was still wet. I finished it off by adding one coat of Seche Vite.  
I've loved Emerald ever since first got it. The colour is a wonderfully creamy, lit-from-within, hard-wearing polish with a buttery formula that dries to a semi-satin finish, however, it stains as bad as terrible quality teal polish and it takes forever to dry. I have only just found a good base coat that won't allow this type of colours to stain my nails so I was quite happy to bring it out for this challenge. I enjoyed putting this colour on this time and even though I knew that it would take some hours to dry, I didn't add any quick drying top coat. I went to bed with almost dry nails and woke up with hair marks on my then dry polish. :( I left the colour on for a day thinking that I would have to repaint my nails and went on with my day.
Well I didn't have to because after running around I remembered I had another older green, just Spotted The Lizard. We all know the hype around this polish... I got caught in that hype with no regrets. 


After creating the saran wrap mani, I added some black and green lines but I wasn't that keen on the final result so I left it simple this time. Sometimes, less is truly more.

Till next time, 

Laura


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8 comments:

  1. Rebecca Lane7 February 2014 at 02:06

    Oooh I love this! Gorgeous colour combo :) x

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    1. Laura9 February 2014 at 23:27

      Thank you! It's one of those combinations that never fails1

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  2. Simona @lightyournails7 February 2014 at 07:22

    I love this look! At first I thought you did with the water spotted technique! Great job!

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    1. Laura9 February 2014 at 23:29

      Thanks! I wish I could make the water spotted technique work for me but the spots are always to big for me! I feel saran wrap gives me a lot more control over the empty space.

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  3. Julia ~Creativenails4fun~ 8 February 2014 at 04:36

    I love this mani!

    Thanks for sharing it with us ;)

    Xx Julia

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