Nail Polish Addicts Anonymous

starrystarry

I_wanna_live_for_free wrote: »

While I'm about it, how should I do her nails for her prom?
She's wearing a deep red/wine *gorgeous* dress with black accessories. And leaving her nails to me *no pressure*

Her nails are short but not bitten, if that makes sense.

You could go for a deep red but if her nails are very short I'd probably just go for a neutral shade. Or is that not the done thing at proms? Do they need to be spectacular?

iamashoppingaddict

This evenings polish. God the technic stinks!!! Given me a head ache!

starrystarry

^^ *Drool*

butler_helen

iamashoppingaddict wrote: »

This evenings polish. God the technic stinks!!! Given me a head ache!

I must copy this - what did you use?

starrystarry

I ran out of time to do anything fancy tonight so I just copied some of the ombre nails I've seen on the blogs recently...super easy...

http://flic.kr/p/cfZ7bu

Uniscots97

I finally got to try my SH Hidden Treasure on my nails (the clear top on the striping tape was lifting from my last mani). I put this on over 2 coats of Nails Inc in Tower Bridge (very dark purple, almost black in certain lights). Now I'm not too sure of this, what light colours would SH Hidden Treasure look good over?

I've not tidied up around my cuticles yet, sorry.

starrystarry

I've not got Hidden Treasure but I do have Nubar 2010 which is almost identical. That works over every colour I've tried it with so far. I've got Tower Bridge but I've not tried it with that yet. How many coats did you put on? I find less is more with these flakies, I prefer a single thin coat so there's just a flash of colour when it hits the light, rather than it swamping the base colour.

Uniscots97

I_wanna_live_for_free wrote: »

As my daughter would say... WOW!

While I'm about it, how should I do her nails for her prom?
She's wearing a deep red/wine *gorgeous* dress with black accessories. And leaving her nails to me *no pressure*

Her nails are short but not bitten, if that makes sense.

what about a deep red with either one sparkly black stripe done along the length of the nail or diagonally or deep red with 2 diagonal black lines done with striping tape?

Uniscots97

starrystarry wrote: »

I've not got Hidden Treasure but I do have Nubar 2010 which is almost identical. That works over every colour I've tried it with so far. I've got Tower Bridge but I've not tried it with that yet. How many coats did you put on? I find less is more with these flakies, I prefer a single thin coat so there's just a flash of colour when it hits the light, rather than it swamping the base colour.

I used a base coat then 2 thin coats of tower bridge. One coat wasn't enough as the colour was quite patchy and not even then one coat of hidden treasure. Wondering if HT would look good over white or pale pink?

Hermia

I_wanna_live_for_free wrote: »

As my daughter would say... WOW!

While I'm about it, how should I do her nails for her prom?
She's wearing a deep red/wine *gorgeous* dress with black accessories. And leaving her nails to me *no pressure*

Her nails are short but not bitten, if that makes sense.

What about a dark red/black colour? Something similar to Chanel's Rouge Noir. I like almost black colours with red clothes and I think they can look really nice on short nails.