Sally Hansen Triple Shine Make Waves Swatch

~purchased by me~

Hello!

Today I have a swatch of Make Waves from the Sally Hansen Triple Shine line. This is the only shade I have purchased from the line so far and I really like it!

Sally Hansen Triple Shine Make Waves

Make Waves is a green to blue duochrome. Doesn't it look lovely in the bottle? According to the sally hansen website, it will give you "the shiniest nails ever!" Now, I don't know if this was the shiniest I've ever seen but it was fairly shiny, though, I don't know if I would say it was triply shiny ;) I topcoated it anyway because I had to go somewhere and I needed it to dry quickly. This is what I used!

Orly Bonder, Sally Hansen Triple Shine Make Waves, Seche Vite Topcoat

Formula was good, if a bit sheer. Though with duochromes, that usually comes with the territory. The brush was good and I hardly had to do any cleanup. I used three thin coats for the below swatch.

Natural Lighting

You can kind of see some VNL in some lighting but I have fairly long nails. The shimmer pretty much disguises it. I wore this over the weekend and my left hand still looks exactly the same but my right hand had some chipping. My right hand always chips though because I'm heavy-handed when I do things. Also, the nails that chipped (my thumb and middle finger) had a case of the peelies. If you have healthy nails and are careful with your hands, I'm sure you can go longer.

You see that green shade near the tips of my nails? That's what it looks like most of the time, with the blue hinting around the edges. I don't have another polish like this though by looking at pictures, I think Sinful Color's Gorgeous might be a dupe if a little more blue. Unfortunately, I think that color is either very popular or discontinued because every time I go to look for it in the store I can't find it. 

Florescent lighting

I think this is a really pretty shade and worth getting! Also, I believe it is a core for this line so you shouldn't have any trouble finding it. It retails for $4.79-$4.99 though you can often catch it on sale.

Blackheart Beauty Blue Ombre Foil Nail Polish swatches...kind of

~purchased by me~

So here is the Blackheart polish that I messed with. It's called Blue Ombre Foil which is a pretty bad name, considering it is neither ombre or a foil. Matter of fact, it was barely blue; it was so sheer. This is a duochrome flakie (a la Sally Hansen Hidden Treasure, Essie's Shine of the Times, Nubar's 2010, GOSH's Rainbow and Color Club's Snow-flake just to name a few) in an sheer wash of blue base.

Blackheart Blue Ombre Foil

Doesn't look very sheer does it? Well, that's because of this:

That's blue nail polish base that I got from TKB Trading made specifically for use in nail polish. Before I added it in, the polish actually looked pretty similar to what you are seeing now, just a little bit lighter. But on the nail, on the nail...! It was so, so sheer. So much so, that you wouldn't be able to reach opacity without layering it over something and I already duochrome flakie topcoats that I could use for that. Not only that, but because it was in a tinted blue base, it limited what colors I could layer it on top of. So I fixed it :)
A few blobs (not drops, because this stuff is hella thick) of the basic blue jellie and I transformed this once sheer flakie into a beautiful blue jelly polish with duochrome flakies.

Blackheart Blue Ombre Foil, 3 coats with topcoat

I know you can see VNL here but IRL it's not as noticeable. Another picture to better show off the flakies.

Oooh, aaah

I have other polishes that are clear coats with these same flakies in it and I have a polish that has these flakies in a purple base (Layla's The Butterfly Effect). Also, I think Color Club's Uptown Girl might be similar to what I created here but I don't have it. Yet.

So what do you think of my mini franken? I really like it. If I ever get my hands on another bottle, I will do the same thing but green! Have you ever frankened a polish to make it more to your liking? I do it all the time! Especially for glitter top-coat polishes that I want to be full-coverage. The possibilities are endless!