Sally Hansen Laser topped with Sally Hansen In the Spotlight

Christmas doesn't always have to be about red and green. Blues are nice around the holidays and all year, for that matter. Blue reminds me of winter, cold, snow, and all things chilly. I think it is completely appropriate to represent this time of year on my nails, so I decided to try and create an icicle look by topping Sally Hansen Laser with Sally Hansen In the Spotlight. Laser is a bright royal blue flecked with really tiny blue, lavender, and fuchsia glitter. It has a color-changing quality with the overall base being the blue covered in a purpley-pink sheen over top of it. In the Spotlight is a chunky, loose, rectangle, silver holo glitter. It really catches and bends the light, and the unusual shape of the glitter reflects the light in big pops as light passes over it. I got SO MANY compliments on this combination, and several of my students said it reminded them of icicles - effect achieved!

The goods:

L-R: OPI Chip Skip, OPI Original Nail Envy, Sally Hansen HD Laser, Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear In the Spotlight, Poshe Fast Drying Top Coat, and OPI Drip Drops.

Side note: I've been using Chip Skip on and off. I think it is actually helping my manis to last a little longer.

It's hard to catch the complexity of either of these colors. You can't even see the glitter shimmering in Laser, and the holo effect in this picture isn't even close to what it looks like in real life. It's much more rainbowy and pops the light.

This looks pretty, doesn't it? Indoor, flash. I feel like a broken record, though, when I say that these pictures just don't capture how glittery, shimmery, and reflective this mani was.

This mani was so much fun to wear and was really hard to take off, both figuratively and literally! I went through quite a bit of felt, and after this mani I decided that it would be a good idea to invest in some decent polish remover (instead of using up all this old remover of unknown origin). Using felt helps (I just used some regular white felt I got at Jo-ann's), but I think a better remover would have made taking this off infinitely easier. Since then, I've put in an order and added some expensive remover to the mix. I'll let you know about it when it arrives.

Additional side note: I'd suggest only using white felt. I don't know how color dye would react with remover (if it would do anything), so I'd stick with white to be safe.

All in all, this was a hit. Hubby liked it, Mom and Dad liked it, students liked it (one of my students thought I did a Hanukkah mani in his honor...), and I LOVED it! It was eye-catching and full of sparkling rainbowy goodness!