Hello!!!
Today I have a stunning polish to show you. I recently managed to get my hands on Tropical Sun by Models Own, an amazing duochrome polish that goes through shades of gold, orange, and peach. But that's not all--oh no. To top it off, Tropical sun has a little sprinkle of micro-glitter throughout it to just add an extra touch of texture and special. See for yourself:
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| Tropical Sun in the shade |
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| Look at that duochrome and that glitter...sigh... |
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| Tropical Sun in the sun |
This is three coats (two does not cover well enough, and the duochrome doesn't come through enough), with topcoat. I wore this alone for almost two days, and when it came time to do my next challenge manicure, I decided to use it as a base. The challenge theme was 'Seashells', and I think this is a lovely seashell sort of color. So I did a little tweaking and a little stamping, and here's what I came up with:
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| Seashells manicure |
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| Seashells manicure up close |
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| Attempt to show you the glitter on the seashells |
The first thing I did was add a coat of Pure Ice's Oh Baby!, which is a nearly translucent polish with shimmering white-blue flakes in it, to give the base color just a little more of that opalescence that seashells have, and to lighten it a bit. Then, using Shany plate SH-04, I stamped some seashells in Sally Hansen White On. Using a dotting tool, I put some China Glaze Fairy Dust over the spirals of the seashell, so they would glimmer and gleam in the sunlight. I couldn't capture this too well in pictures, but you can see a bit of the effect on the ring finger in the last picture above if you look very, very closely, lol.
I love this as a beach look, or even just an everyday look. Hope you do too! :)
Thanks for reading, and please check out the other seashell manis linked below. :)
M.
Very pretty colour :)
ReplyDeleteI forgot to say, it's with three coats (will edit it). With just the first two coats you don't get full coverage and the duochrome doesn't come through yet. :)
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