Emerald Green Purple Magic Part 2

In case you missed my first post, here it is.

When I painted my left hand the other night I ran out of time to paint my right hand. So here's some swatches of just Emerald Green and Purple Magic for you.

1 coat each.

I think I'm starting to see why this one is called Purple Magic. It definitely looks very different colors in very different conditions.. I think I'm going to have to try using it over black or white some day. As you can tell, these are both pretty sheer and don't coat very well with just one coat. So here's 2 coats of each.

Sorry for the blurriness. I believe this is with my overhead light on. The next photo is with a flash and I want you to take a look at the purple to see the difference with the flash.

Now you can definitely see the blue and purple in this photo! It really is a gorgeous polish. So anyway, I painted my nails solid and then once again ran out of time to finish them. I had a completely different manicure in mind from what I ended up doing. Tish at Pretty Face, Happy Bank was having a nail art contest for her birthday and I was feeling really bad about not doing anything... I actually didn't sleep very well that day because I kept thinking of things I could do with my nails. I wasn't going to do anything because as I said, I didn't sleep well and nail art is not my specialty!

So here's what I ended up doing... I only use nail polish remover on my nails once a week so I was pretty much stuck with having to work with what I had on but it worked OK. I made peppermint candies on my smallest two fingers, cupcakes on the next two and a sugar skull on my thumb. The sugar skull looks like a cat in my opinion (I forgot that anytime I draw skulls it ends up looking like a cat....) My boyfriend insists it looks like a snowman. My boyfriend was less than impressed with my design and as soon as he saw it ordered me to buy some actual dotting tools and brushes :b

I think I did OK considering I used my left hand! I'm ambidextrous but I was taught to use my right so I don't often draw with my left!

I didn't win Tish's contest, but I knew I wouldn't going in.. I just did it for her and to have some fun. I will definitely be entering more contests and practicing my nail art skills! I'm getting some nail art tools out of this, at least, but I also discovered Emerald Green seems to be a dupe of Zoya's Zuza! I'm going to have to swatch the two together some day to compare. It was my first time doing anything like this.. the cupcakes were fun and much easier than I expected.

The polish chipped after about 2 days.. that seems to be pretty much average for me. Once again, I had issues with my top coat bleeding the colors out. It also bubbled for some reason. I really hope it's just that the Nail Savvy polishes are really old, and it's not my top coat being goofy!

Any comments or questions are appreciated as always. Thanks for reading. :)