Try it on Tuesday: Emerald Green Purple Magic

Last week I broke into my vintage polishes and tried out a really ugly brown polish by Nail Savvy. This week I decided to try out my remaining two Nail Savvy polishes: Emerald Green and Purple Magic. These two have been used previously but it's been so long since I really did anything with either of them, they might as well be new. I have used Purple Magic once recently in a water marble. I bought both of these during the 90s, so you're not likely to come across them anytime soon.

I also like to try new techniques on Try it out Tuesday, and I just so happened to get my nail tape from Copious yesterday, so I decided to try some line art!

Here's what I used: Sally Hansen Hardener, Nail Savvy Purple Magic, Nail Savvy Emerald Green, Sally Hansen Insta-Dry Top Coat and Kaho nail tape in yellow.

First of all, the nail tape was described as yellow but it's actually a metallic gold. I found it was pretty difficult to work with, but maybe I just need to practice more. Cutting it back, but also getting it to lay correctly were my biggest issues. Secondly, I don't know why Emerald Green has the name it does; emerald and green it most definitely is not!

On with the pictures!!

These first ones are all natural light.

The previous photo you can see this manicure looks better from far away than it does up close... my top coat not only bubbled for some reason, but it made the purple bleed! Not happy!

Here's a couple photos in darker light...

You can really see the bleeding on my thumb in that last one, even though it is a darker picture. I guess it kind of looks green in this dark photos... not in real life, though!

These last ones are with a flash.

Overall I'm really happy with how this turned out... at least at a distance :b

If you have any secrets or tips to working with nail tape, please let me know! I could use some help!


Oops, forgot to mention, this is 2 coats of each. Purple Magic looks much more purple in real life, and it looks much more purple at 1 coat, more blue at 2.