My last two Sally Hansen Beauties and some layering fun - Sally Hansen Ultra HD Spectrum and Laser

Welcome back my dear readers!

Today I am going to wrap up my posts about the Sally Hansen Ultra HD Collection with the last two shades I got, Laser and Spectrum. All in all, I absolutely love this Collection! For a drugstore collection the Ultra HD's are pure loveliness! By now, I can say the wear'n tear of the polishes is quite okay too, I had a little tipwear on day three and needed to change the polish on day 4. Fine in my book, since I am a bad girl and don't treat my nails very nice *argh*
I read a lot of Blogs saying it was a bit of a bummer that the Ultra HD's are quite sheer, but I actually see this as an advantage. Don't get me wrong, a do love ooomph colors that give me really nice coverage with two coats, but with these babies you can create some serious layering goodness, as you can bring out different effects with the glass flecks depending on the color of the base you use. I only used a simple black/white combo to show some basic effects, but the sky is the limit and you can use any base color you like. How cool is that?
Back to Laser and Spectrum, Laser is a beautiful dark blue with magenta glass flecks and silver reflects. It also is more pigmented than the other polishes, so three coats make it really opaque. I was not able to capture its real beauty in one of my pics. Darn it is sooooooo difficult to get these polishes right since they have so many different color reflects. Only chance for you to truly experience them is to go out and get them, hehehehe :-)
Spectrum is one hot summer polish let me tell you. It is a perfect turquoise, carribean sea shade. It is not really glass flecked like the other polishes, it is more silver/shimmery with a foil finish. It took me three good coats for it to be opaque, but now on my nails it just spells out "summer, vacation, beach, goodness..."
But let's move on to the evidence!



Sally Hansen Ultra HD in Laser
sunlight








indoors, natural light





bottle pic


indoors, artificial light






Sally Hansen Ultra HD in Spectrum
sunlight








indoors, natural light


bottle pic


indoors, artificial light






Layering over OPI's Alpine Snow
Order top to bottom:
- Laser
- DVD
- Spectrum
- Byte

sunlight





indoors, natural light





indoors, artificial light






Layering over a black stamping polish, again in the same order
top to bottom:
- Laser
- DVD
- Spectrum
- Byte

The black takes out almost all the color from the polishes, but makes the glass flecks really stand out!

sunlight


indoors natural light





indoors artificial light










Now, those were a lot of pics :-)
Hope you guys liked my swatches from the Sally Hansen Ultra HD Series!

China Glaze Emerald Sparkle

Hello my dear addicts!
As you know, I just did some layering experiments with China Glaze Ruby Pumps. Well, guess what, since Emerald Sparkle has the same fantastic jelly base as Ruby Pumps, you can layer it just as well! Again, I think dark bases are best, but go out, have some fun and try what you like!


Here I have some pics for you of Emerlad Sparkle in combination with OPI Midnight in Moscow, Enjoy!













So, which combinations would you like to try out? Which ideas do you guys have? I am curious, let me know!