Day 21 - Inspired by Color

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This post for the 21st day of the 30 Days of Untried Challenge was suppose to be published last night. But I had a very long day yesterday and by the time I finished preparing everything... I fell asleep. But you know how they say - better late then never? So here's my color inspired mani. I was inspired by this post by my friend Gosia from Life In Color!

I started with two oats of Above It by Dermelect, a perfect light blue that I have been wanting to try for awhile now, but just didn't get the chance. Application was easy and flawless at the two coats, despite the fact that first coat felt a little bit too thick. Seemed like everything evened up on the second coat. Drying time was pretty good too. I will have to use this polish again soon!

Above It - Dermelect. Indoors with artificial lighting

Then I applied one coat of DVD from Sally Hansen's Hi-Definition collection. DVD is a rather sheer light blue base with violet duochrome and tons of shimmer. I could use DVD alone because what I was looking for was the violet duochrome, but using 4 or 5 coats of DVD is a harsh punishment. This polish dries relatively slow by itself. But layered over Dermelect it dried quickly and did not need more then one coat. The violet in this polish is visible on the nail almost as good as it is visible in this bottle shot but for some reason I was having difficulties capturing it.

DVD by Sally Hansen in direct sunlight.

Then I used Nails Inc. in Westminster to dot my grapes. At first I thought I might do a whole cluster of grapes but I was too tired to really mess with that so I went real easy. This whole mani, including all drying times too me less then 10 minutes to complete. The highlights in the grapes were made with Essie - Van D'go and the stems with Bourjois - Vert Chlorophylle and a tiny touch of Zoya Veruschka. For a ten minutes mani I am real happy with this one, although it makes me feel a little bit like a 6 year old... LOL Well, at least it's violet!