Hammered Steel

First, I want to apoligize for the pictures today because I had to replace my camera so I'm not used to this new one yet...

Yesterday, I felt like playing around with one of the Milani Jewel FX : the silver hex glitter; I wanted to see how many coats it would take to reach full opacity. However, it got late somehow so I decided to just apply one coat of it over one coat of China Glaze Cheers to you and then finish today. Well that was before I knew I'd have to run errands all day... so I ended up feeling horribly self concious because I didn't intend to wear gleaming silver as a full many in broad day light.

China Glaze cheers to you

Milani Jewel Fx Silver

1 coat of Jewel Fx

2 coats of Jewel Fx

3 coats of Jewel Fx

All the pics are taken with top coat.

I know the pictures with the Jewel Fx bottle look blurry but that's actually because the hex glitters were reflecting too much light!!!

Althought the 3 coats hammered silver mani would be cool for NYE or for a party, I think I actually prefer the (subtle?) look with just one coat  glitter, but maybe over a different base color too.

What do you think? Did you get any of these new Milanis?

Have you ever felt self concious over a manicure?

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Write by: Unknown - Thursday, January 13, 2011