First sponged gradient mani

I did my first sponge mani yesterday.

I used a base coat of Skin Food BL509.

I sponged on WnW I need a refresh-mint, LA Color Craze Atomic and Orly Le Chateau. My accent nail is a base coat of Skin Food BL509 with a Sinful Colors Nail Junkie on top.

I topped it with a coat of Seche Vite. The SV seems to have broken down the Atomic and made the color spread more. I am not a fan of this. Anyone ever had a similar experience with SV?

These were quick shots after a day of shopping and swimming and the sun was just starting to go down, but I wanted to make sure I got a few pictures at least. See the chipping on my middle finger? My pinkie was worse, which is why its not included. And yes, I'm holding a lighter, but in my defense I didn't have a bottle of polish with me and just grabbed something! 

My sons toes are green...

My sons toes are painted because he asked me to paint them green. Not just any green, John Deere green.  Anyone who knows him will know that something "John Deere green" is not anything new around our house. He absolutely loves John Deere. When I bought him a toddler bed, he wanted a John Deere green one. So I bought a frame at the thrift store for $10 that was white metal and painted it John Deere green:

 I also made him this John Deere rag quilt. The child absolutely loves John Deere.

So, the John Deere green request came as no surprise to me. I was surprised that he asked me to paint his toe nails. I didn't think twice about doing it, just surprised he asked. I brought him to the store with me to pick out his perfect idea of John Deere green. He chose Wet n' Wild Fast Dry "Sagreena the teenage witch"

So I guess this post is less about nail polish, and more about how I love my son and will paint his toes whenever he asks me to.

(my favorite is color is also green, can't wait to use this polish on myself!)

Sinful Colors Nail Junkie and Orly Le Chateau

I picked up Le Chateau this weekend at Sally's, it was on clearance which was an additional 50% off, so this bad boy was $1.99.  I tried it out alone, and thought it could use some glitter. I tried a different glitter on it first (Finger Paints Flecked) which didn't show as much blue as I thought it needed, so I went back to the stash and pulled out Nail Junkie, it had blues and greens and it looked much better. This was a late night mani, so it wasn't perfect. 

In the shade

Shade

So much glitter! The camera was really struggling with it.

 

Base Coat

2 coats of Orly Le Chateau

1 coat Sinful Colors Nail Junkie

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Sinful Colors Exotic Green and Call You Later

Sinful Colors Exotic Green is one of my current favorite polishes. The price is great, the color is great, the formula is great. I used Call You Later as an accent nail, it is an awesome glitter with green and gold small glitter and larger green glitter as well. I picked both of these up at Walgreens for 99 cents during a sale.

The camera didn't do the best at picking up the glitter on the nail, but look how awesome the bottle looks!  Green is a favorite color of mine. :)

2 coats of Exotic Green

1 coat of Exotic Green + 1 coat of Call You Later on accent nail

Seche Vite Dry Fast Top Coat

Picture is after about 36 hours of wear, and there is significant chipping on my accent nail on the other hand.