Sponging with Barielle

Hi girls,

Do you know the feeling of having this fantastic idea for a great manicure in your head and also knowing exactly how to make it; but when you actually do it, the mani just doesn’t turn out the way you wanted and imagined it to be?

That’s how it was with this mani. I wanted to sponge silvery grey onto an electric blue and create a line of silver diagonally in the blue. This time I taped my fingers, because I do remember the horrible work of clean up last time I sponged.

I chose two Barielle polishes: Granite Glitter (which has got nothing to do with glitter) and Sky’s the Limit, which is a shimmery blue.

The line didn’t get as prominent as I wanted it to. Here’s how it looked:

Cleanup was easier, but still pretty difficult. The blue didn’t seem to want to let go of the corners of my nails and cuticles. Grrr!

Next step up was to add some stars and some extra shine. I used B. O. number 68 for that. I love that glitter because there’s so many stars in it and so much glitter. It’s *so* me!

Here’s how the final mani ended up looking. There’s one coat of Seche Vite on:

And here’s a pic of the bottles I used:

This was so not what I expected it to be! And I dented two nails pretty badly shortly after, so this didn’t stay on for very long.  

What do you think of this? Do you think it works?