Have you read
One Gent's Ten? It's quite interesting having a mans input into the world of nail polish. His swatches are well done and tidy and his nails neat and masculine (polished or not, I prefer shorter nails on a man.)
One of the things that I really like is how his view point is making me take a new look at polish and finishes as well as looks that are attainable to individuals with shorter nails. He recently did a post on candy paint jobs for vehicles Chances are you've seen them, these are the paint jobs that always make you look twice and wonder if you have a polish that color. Come on, I know we've all done it. He accomplished his look via a jelly sandwich, a layering technique involving a jelly polish and glitter polish.
I wanted to achieve something more true to the actual finish I've seen on vehicles, so here you see the original color that I started out with on my ring finger. This is China Glaze *** a beautiful silver shimmer that applied beautifully. This is two coats, and they dried fairly fast. Over the top of that I used a single coat of Revlon Royal, a blue jelly that in this instance I wanted to be a bit more sheer. You have to enlarge the photos to see, but there is a definite depth that is very striking, a certain something that adds an additional element of elegance. To finish I used a single holo hex from a glitter mix and added it to the center of the nail. A tiny flake of other glitter snuck in on my middle finger, but I am calling it a design element now. :)
While this is very much the right direction that I want to go, this isn't quite the look I was hoping to end up with, honestly I wanted a bit more...something. The tip wear wasn't impressive either, the Royal wore down in about half a day. So I'll be trying this look again. Meanwhile, I hope you enjoyed this look. Many thanks to Scott for his inspiration.
Thanks so much for stopping by and reading and commenting. Until next time, you all take care!
