I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw

I'm still using a double coat of OPI Matte Nail Envy as a base coat but, even so, I had to trim my nails down again this morning to get rid of some ragged, peeling tips.  I will never get Shellac again, I swear.

Anyway, this is two coats of OPI I Saw... U Saw... We Saw... Warsaw, a lovely vampy inky teal which ticks all my boxes.  The polish goes on smooth, coverage is excellent, it's opaque in two coats, and the colour is gorgeous.  Pity about the name but then you can't have everything.  These photos, unfortunately, obliterate the teal and make it seem as though the polish is more of a clear blue than it is in the flesh.

This was glossy enough on its own but I cannot abide waiting around for nail polish to dry so I topped it off with a quick dry top coat, Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Anti-Chip Topcoat.  This used to be my go to top coat back in the day and I still like the finish but it tends to get gluggy quickly in the bottle.

Wool Knot

I'm such a sucker for textured polish.  Glitter, liquid sand, matte, beads, flocking, whatever it is you can count me in!  Right up until I try it, that is. That's when I immediately start to hate it.

So this is two coats of Sally Hanson Fuzzy Coat in Wool Knot over two coats of OPI Matte Nail Envy and finished with a top coat of Seche Vite.

In the bottle this looks like wild caught Muppet pelt in polish form. Unfortunately, it's gluggy and hard to work with, doesn't cover evenly and leaves bald spots. And who wants a Muppet with bald spots?

Candy Sprinkles

Two coats of LA Colors Color Craze Candy Sprinkles, the girliest pink creme that ever there was, with multi- sized, multicoloured glitter. The green, blue, hot pink, yellow and silver glitter comes in three sizes, all of which are quite small and easy to apply.  I threw on a top coat of Seche Vite to keep everything smooth.

This mani makes me think of cupcakes with pink icing and hundreds &  thousands. It's a lot of fun but a little too girly for me.

I Don't Give a Rotterdam

This is three coats of OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam, a beautiful mid-grey with a slight bluish undertone and a gorgeously subtle shimmer. Seche Vite top coat.

I'm using two coats of OPI Nail Envy Matte as a base coat while I try to rehabilitate my poor nails after a Shellac manicure 6 months ago turned them into peeling, breaking stubs.  Lesson learned!

Seche Vite Disaster

Two coats of OPI Matte Nail Envy, two coats of OPI I Don't Give a Rotterdam, one coat of Seche Vite, and then... disaster! I've had shrinkage before with SV but never quite so catastrophic as this.

The thing is, the rest of the manicure is fine. Nine perfect nails and one embarrassing fiasco. The only difference between them is the other nine got three coats of colour and the failure only got two coats. This means that this poor double-coated loser here had been drying nicely while I added an extra coat to all his neighbours.

Could the dry polish be the culprit? SV is specifically designed to be painted on wet nails after all.