Joe Fresh Papaya

Hey dolls, today I have for you a polish that a wore a few weeks ago that I forgot to post. Joe Fresh Papaya is a gorgeous, bright orange that has a hybrid jelly-creme formula. I received this polish in a swap with a polish friend from Canada. The formula was very easy to apply and I used two coats.

Does this not make you feel like it should be summertime? I'm already thinking about pulling Papaya out again. If only there weren't so many untrieds. Wouldn't Papaya be the perfect color for a purse? I love the one in the inspiration board, but it's way out of my price range. I'll try to find something similar for the spring and summer purse rotation though.

Looking at these photos make me want to go back to this nail length. They are getting a little long right now. Maybe I'll file them down at some point over the weekend because I'd like to practice some stamping, and it's more difficult when they are longer since the images don't fit.

Fail ~ Green Ombre Mani

I'm sure you all have had times like these. You have a vision for a mani, you polish your nails, and then you sit back to view the job you've done. If you're a blogger, you take some pictures and then upload them to the computer. In my mind, I knew I wanted to do a green ombre mani. I decided to take the easy route by choosing 5 different greens from my untrieds pile. Typically when doing ombre manis, I choose one base color and then progressively add white to lighten the color several shades as seen here and here. Well, I was feeling lazy and it was late, so 5 different greens it was. Here's what I chose:

FingerPaints Tough Art to Follow; Joe Fresh Mallard; Ulta Limelight; SH Xtreme Wear Green With Envy; OPI Gargantuan Green Grape

So far so good; I've got my greens. Fortunately after applying 2 coats of each, except Gargantuan Green Grape (3 coats), this ombre mani looked a tad bit better in person than it does below.

The colors just do not look good together at all. It looks like I decided to do a skittles mani. Mallard looks way more blue above than it did in real life and Green With Envy wasn't that bright. Everything about this was just off. Then I decided to try to tie it all together by adding a pink sparkly topcoat, Essence Feels So Good. 

It didn't help. While I love the way it looks over the last 3 colors individually, collectively, this is just a mess. Feels So Good reminds me of FingerPaints Sparkle Topcoat. I did this mani late Sunday night and it was promptly removed after taking the last picture in the sunlight on Monday. I wasn't inspired by this mani at all, hence no inspiration board. The highlight of this post, I have five less untrieds!

Don't you hate when a thought is just a total fail!