Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Color Club - Sexy Siren

My camera really doesn't seem to handle glitter well. Either that, or I just haven't figured out how to take really good pictures yet. That's entirely possible - it's a new camera (it was a birthday present from my very sweet boyfriend about a month ago) and I'm still not always sure if I'm using the right settings, etc...Anyway, these pictures didn't come out entirely accurate as to color. This polish is actually much less turquoise than it looks here. Weirdly enough, the bottle in the first photo is fairly color accurate. (Why will it show the right color in the bottle but not on my nails in the very same picture??)
Sexy Siren is part of the fall 2008 Color Club Glitter Vixen collection, all of which I coveted at the time, but never got around to actually buying. So when I spotted a lone bottle of Sexy Siren on a dusty shelf at the back of one of the local beauty supply stores, I pounced.
It's a very pretty medium blue glitter in a clear base. It went on very smoothly, and would have been opaque in three coats, but I used four, since I never quite know when to quit when there's glitter involved. My mind goes blank, except for the single thought: "MOAR GLITTER!" as I gleefully glop on coat after coat...Yes, I have issues. ;) It dried pretty rough to the touch, as so many glitter polishes do, but a top coat helped smooth it out.
I layered the polish over black for added opacity and to make the color of the glitter "pop" a little more. All pics are four coats plus base and top coat.

Here it is with flash: (There was no sun when I was taking these pics, more's the pity; it was another cloudy afternoon.)
I may just have to try to hunt up the rest of the Color Club glitter polishes at some point.

2 comments:

  1. This looks really gorgeous! I have the same problem with color accuracy - the bottle color often looks more accurate than the color on my nails for some reason, especially when the polish is something besides a creme.

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  2. It's interesting to know that someone else has the exact same problem with color accuracy. I wish I knew how to fix it! :)

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