Perle de Jade
I think I’m almost (almost!) caught up with older manis I still haven’t shown off now. I mean, there are still a bunch I have photos of, but no way am I going to blog them, as they are from the time before I learned the virtue of a good, clean cuticle and how not to get nail polish all over myself. ;) I mean, yes, I don’t always have perfect cuticles now either, but dear god, are they not nearly as bad as they once were. (I promise I’ll try to get better at cleaning up my cuticles! Just, time. Is something I don’t always have a lot of. Also, I’m kind of lazy, so I try to get them decent enough from the start, and skip correcting smaller mistakes.)
Anyway, this mani. It’s from right after I started knowing what I was doing a bit more, but in retrospect, it did really need a bit of a clean up even so.
I used two or three coats of L’oréal Color Riche in Perle de Jade as the base and then, after that had dried a bit, I applied one coat of Kleancolor’s Silver Star (and dug around a bit in the bottle to get a decent amount of stars). I finished off with a coat of Seche Vite and then waited for aeons for it all to dry, because holy cow, Kleancolor polishes just really don’t want to dry. Ever. They’re really pretty, but they take forever to dry and they smell weird, so I don’t know that I’m a very big fan of them in the end.
Silver Star has micro glitters, big star glitters and medium-sized hex glitters, all with a very pretty holo effect, that is, unfortunately, very hard to photograph well.
I was going to say that this many reminded me of the beach, and how I couldn’t figure out why, since last time I checked, sand isn’t usually green! Then I realised that yeah, the reason I thought of beaches is because often-times the ocean is kind of a jade sort of green and the glitters could easily be starfish and various sorts of shells. So the ocean. This reminds me of the ocean! And you don’t have to question my sanity with my green sand theory… ;)