I recently
sorted through my stash and separated out all of the polishes that I haven't
gotten around to using/swatching yet, and I was a little surprised at the
amount that I had. I was able to fill a whole drawer of my Helmer with them!
In the few
weeks since I've done this, sadly, I still haven't touched the drawer, and I'm
still buying more polishes, so I've decided that I’m going to try to stave off
my polish buying and use up some of my untrieds. So, I'm going to try and
randomly pick two polishes from the drawer every week, and create a mani using
those, to get my stash used. This consists of me holding my hands over the
drawer with my eyes closed and picking two random bottles. I’m sure I look
great doing it. Heh.
This week, my
hands randomly picked Mosaic from W7 and Sally Hansen's Jaded. Both of these
polishes are quite sheer, and I was initially stumped as to what to do with
them. Eventually, I decided I would try jelly sandwiching them, since their formulas were perfect for the technique.
Mosaic is a
sheer blue base with a scattering of blue and gold glitter. Jaded is a lovely,
jade-green jelly. I painted 2 alternating coats of each, starting with Mosaic
and finishing with Jaded. Because I can’t leave well enough alone, I also
applied a diamond tile-styled stamp from Bundle Monster plate BM-203, and Barry
M gold foil. Initially, I wanted to do some type of fishy, underwater style
stamp, as the combination reminded me of the green you'd see under the ocean,
but I didn't have any, so my eye was drawn to this stamp. I actually think it
works really well, it makes it look quite mosaicy to me (if that makes sense…).
Again, I
forgot to take a picture before I stamped (d'oh!), so I hope the stamp doesn't
cover the paint job up to much, that you can still see the two polishes
together. I think they look quite good, and it turned out better than I thought
it would.
Happy days!
