Dark Panther or Stormy Night? Manicure Time!

Hey Y'all! New post here and my first manicure!

I wanted to do this manicure with some new colors I recently discovered: Orly - Sinister Sea Witch and e.l.f. - Sea Escape. My original intention was something along the lines of a Carolina Panther's theme with a darker twist. It didn't quite turn out like I wanted but it is pretty in its own way. I will definitely use these colors again, just not together.

The almost final product, I hadn't cleaned the cuticle yet.

The mani originally looked like it was what I wanted, but in better lighting I realized the colors more closely resembled a dark and stormy night. Hmmmm, just how I like it. You will never sleep as good as I do when its showering with thunder rumbling in the background. I adore it SO much; the dogs... not so much. It makes them snuggle closer though so I'll take it!

All I did to create this was my secret base coat combination (Essie's protein base coat with ORLY's rubberized over top of it) and two coats of the Sinister Sea Witch. I let that dry almost completely before I used my damp make-up sponge to dab on the Sea Escape. I topped it all off with my OPI top coat! The mani is pretty, and these pictures more accurately show the blue sparkle in the French-ish tip.

Just the thumb, a macro to show the sparkle.

There we go! You can really see it in this one.

I really do love the Sea Escape, I think that with another top coat it would have been more sparkly. Without a top coat it was very textured and almost like a matte sand finish but the blue still glittered. I almost snapped a pic of that but I decided that wasn't the point here and to move forward. I'll do something with this polish again soon and post about it.

Sinister Sea Witch is so neat, it's this gray-ish/purple with the neatest metallic finish, I love it so much! I can't wait to play with it again, maybe work it into some sort of dark gradient or something. I'm planning a thunderstorm manicure in my head because of this shade. I hope y'all like it as much as I do!

Thanks for stopping by!