Rainbow nail art

Rainbow nail art

- A lovely mix of colours

I was in the mood for a rainbow today – there should be more rainbows in everybody’s life!

I used H & M’s silver holo “Space Race” as my base colour. It’s a lovely polish, but it doesn’t like my ordinary base coat – so I guess it likes either no base coat or a water based base coat. I used two coats over my regular base coat and it dragged a bit. I probably would have needed a third coat if I would wear it solo.

I didn’t want to wear it solo though, I wanted rainbows!! So I made a rainbow with six different colours – topped it with a holo glitter topper and this is my final manicure:

Here’s a rare picture of my thumb nail! :D

And here’s all the polishes I used:

H&M: Space Race; El Corazón: Turguoise, Yellow Neon, Orange Neon, Red, Restless Night; Colour Alike: B. a Rainy Mood; QRS: Glittering Rainbow

Isn’t it just brilliant that the name of the holo topper glitter is Glittering Rainbow!

I love rainbows!

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel ~ S-Teal the Show

Sally Hansen Miracle Gel ~ S-Teal the Show

Light teal crème

I was in the mood for green. I picked up S-Teal the Show, which is definitely green leaning!

I applied two easy and fast drying coats. I am well impressed by the quality of Sally Hansen’s polishes after having tried a bunch of them recently.

I applied a layer of “Green Ocean” from Sinful Colors. It’s a clear polish with colour shifting flakies and glitter. It’s not new, and I remember when I saw it first: I just knew that I had to find a way to get my hands on it. I ended up getting it in a swap with an American girl, and I was thrilled when I unwrapped it! :D I had to add thinner to use it and it was still not un-gloopy. I applied a single coat over S-Teal the Show.

Then I stamped on it. The design is from Lina’s stamping plate “Feeling Shapely! 01”. I topped the whole thing with topcoat and this is the end result:

This is “S-Teal the Show” on its own; two coats and no topcoat.

And here’s the same thing, just with a layer of “Green Ocean” on top. It’s such a lovely topper!

These are the things I used to create my manicure today.

I like this Sally Hansen, it’s a really great polish!

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Really good

Finish: Creme

Overall impression: Great formula, really good drying time, pretty colour

Buy again: Yes

Sally Hansen ~ Deck the Halls

Sally Hansen ~ Deck the Halls

Dark purple with pink and purple shimmer

Here’s another one of the Sally Hansen polishes I bought in a sale. Deck the Halls is from the Holiday collection of 2015 – that’s probably why it was on sale. It is a beautiful purple packed with delicious shimmer.

The formula is really good and I used two coats for full opacity. Drying time was really good.

I painted two metallic stripes vertically on each nail. I used China Glaze’s “Chrome is where the Heart is” and El Corazón’s stamping polish “Melody Mermaids” for the stripes. I topped it all with El Corazón’s holo flakie topper 421h/25 for extra bling.

This is the final manicure:

Uh, look at how the shimmer and the holo flakies mingle!

Here’s two coats of Deck the Halls on its own, no topcoat. The photos are taken in the sunshine.

These are the pretty polishes I used today:

Wow, Deck the Halls is a really pretty polish! I think I would have paid full price for it if I had seen it back then!

Number of coats: 2

Drying time: Really good

Finish: Shimmer

Overall impression: I love the shimmer in this polish and the colour and formula is really nice

Buy again: Yes