This is three coats, with topcoat. I used Seche Vite, which did make the tips shrink a bit. When cold, this is an opaque black. When hot, it's a sheer, pale grey.
Here it is cold, straight out from under the cold tap.
Slowly warming up...
getting warmer...
warmer...
Here it is at its hottest:
And the tips immediately cooling down...
and cooling down more...
I do find these polishes fascinating, and I can't stop playing with them. However with this one, I felt as thought it made the tips of my nails look dirty, and the sheer grey wasn't the most flattering of colours, especially when my nails were mostly hot, with cold at the very tips.
It looks great at the point where it looks like a french & a gradient, but I know what you mean, it's slightly odd otherwise.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of the time it looked like the top photo. What I found looked particularly odd was when I had a three-tone look, of nail bed, a stripe of whiter colour where my free nail was, then a stripe of black where the very tip was cold. Maybe my nails are too long? They are really long now!
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