Here's the original blue-green nail wheel, which had two empty spaces. However, I have already filled both of those up and you'll see them further down.
- Racy Green (3 coats)
- Zuza (alone on tip, over Racy Green on lower nail)
- Henley Regatta
- Mermaid's Tale (3 coats)
- Viridian (1 coat)
- Deeper Dive (2 coats)
- Thames (3 coats)
- Glee over Teal of Fortune
- Glee (1 coat)
- Feifei (2 coats)
- Feifei over Teal of Fortune
- Sweet Peacock
- Teal of Fortune
- Party by the Pool (4 coats)
- Evening Emerald (3 coats)
- Black & Blue (2 coats)
- East Village (3 coats)
- Zuza (alone on tip, over East Village on lower nail)
- Maisie (alone on tip, over East Village on lower nail)
- Nail Junkie (alone on tip, over East Village on lower nail)
I did a version of 19-20 yesterday - it started out to be 19, actually, with East Village and then Maisie, but I ended up putting a light coat of Nail Junkie on top of that, and it came out really pretty. The problem with using East Village as a base is that it's really sheer, and it takes 3 coats of it to get to anything approaching opaque - really 4 would be more like it, but I stopped at 3.
Here's the filled-up nail wheel, with the two adds (Mermaid's Tale and Viridian, which for some reason are #4 and 5):
They call Viridian an emerald, but it went very comfortably into the blue-green wheel, which to my mind means it's not a true emerald. Mermaid's Tale should and does go here, although its base color is darker than I expected - it looks teal to me. I'll probably put something like Teal of Fortune under it when I wear it, but I think you could make it opaque on its own if you were patient enough.
By the way, I apologize for how hard it is to read the numbers on the wheel. I'm working on that. I think the next one is much better. I decided to try to see how a Pigma Micron pen worked, and the answer was "not as well as a Sharpie." The Pigma pen smeared really badly.
There were a lot of things here that needed undercoats, and I leaned heavily toward picking things that were cheap and easily replaced (in case I run through it all) for that duty - which is why you'll see Hard as Nails Jet Black a lot on these wheels, and here it tended to be Teal of Fortune and East Village and in one case Racy Green. (I liked Racy Green under Zuza, I need to remember that one.)
Here's 1-3:
(Remember that 4 and 5 were already covered above)
6-9 (8 is Teal of Fortune under Glee; TofF appears alone further along the wheel)
10-14, except they are somewhat out of order - L-R & top to bottom, this is 13, 14, 12, & 10:
(Note that Party by the Pool, #14, is a jelly, which is why it took so many coats to get opaque. It's really pretty, though - it has shimmer in it which may be hard to see here. Also, if I had this to do over, I would put Feifei in with the blues. I don't know what made me think I was seeing green in there.)
I usually don't use the pictures with flash, but this one is actually in order and everything, so 15-20:
I was going by how the polish looked in the bottle when I sorted things, but I was a bit surprised that I got this accurate with Black and Blue - with that name you would think it was a blackened straight-out blue rather than a blackened blue-green. But apparently it's more the latter. (Although I guess if you think of a bruise, as the name does imply, then it's maybe pretty accurate, if somewhat distasteful!)
ADDED: one additional comment: I talked up towards the top about Viridian not being a true emerald, but there are two other colors here that are allegedly emerald and aren't: Evening Emerald, the Pixi, just above - although the "evening" part does at least imply that it's a darkened emerald - and also Thames. Thames is maybe a bit closer but still no cigar, as far as I'm concerned.
Here's the filled-up nail wheel, with the two adds (Mermaid's Tale and Viridian, which for some reason are #4 and 5):
By the way, I apologize for how hard it is to read the numbers on the wheel. I'm working on that. I think the next one is much better. I decided to try to see how a Pigma Micron pen worked, and the answer was "not as well as a Sharpie." The Pigma pen smeared really badly.
There were a lot of things here that needed undercoats, and I leaned heavily toward picking things that were cheap and easily replaced (in case I run through it all) for that duty - which is why you'll see Hard as Nails Jet Black a lot on these wheels, and here it tended to be Teal of Fortune and East Village and in one case Racy Green. (I liked Racy Green under Zuza, I need to remember that one.)
Here's 1-3:
(Remember that 4 and 5 were already covered above)
6-9 (8 is Teal of Fortune under Glee; TofF appears alone further along the wheel)
10-14, except they are somewhat out of order - L-R & top to bottom, this is 13, 14, 12, & 10:
I usually don't use the pictures with flash, but this one is actually in order and everything, so 15-20:
I was going by how the polish looked in the bottle when I sorted things, but I was a bit surprised that I got this accurate with Black and Blue - with that name you would think it was a blackened straight-out blue rather than a blackened blue-green. But apparently it's more the latter. (Although I guess if you think of a bruise, as the name does imply, then it's maybe pretty accurate, if somewhat distasteful!)
ADDED: one additional comment: I talked up towards the top about Viridian not being a true emerald, but there are two other colors here that are allegedly emerald and aren't: Evening Emerald, the Pixi, just above - although the "evening" part does at least imply that it's a darkened emerald - and also Thames. Thames is maybe a bit closer but still no cigar, as far as I'm concerned.
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