Sally Hansen Hi-Definition Nail Colour

ADDITION - March 25, 2011

Everywhere I go now I am finding Byte!  I have 5 bottles now but I still had to really force myself to walk away when I found another 2 bottles the other day.  I also found again the blog post that started my obsession!  When I wrote this post I had forgotten where and searched forever and couldn't find it.  Just found it again now while looking through one of my top 3 fave blogs "ThatsSOfresh".  The same blog I mentioned in a recent post about scotch tape manicures.  Here is the specific post:  Where did you get that from!?  Thanks again for the inspiration ThatSOfresh!  Now that I have seen those photos again that is for sure my next mani!

About a month ago while spending hours looking through blogs dedicated to nail polish I came across the most amazing, electric purple I had ever seen!  I had to have it!  Turns out it was a layered polish.  Sally Hansen's Byte layered on black.  As soon as I had given up on finding it I found 3 bottles!  I bought them all.  Maybe, if I can bring myself to part with it, I will give one away when I reach 100 followers.  In the meantime it is time to start experimenting!

I love, love, love, love, LOVE how shiny and sparkly this polish is.  It is LOADED with glass flecks.  Pink and blue.  I also bought two other glass fleck loaded colours.  Spectrum and DVD.  The colours remind me of Spring and Easter Eggs.  When I first put them on I thought I would never wear them on their own again.  However they are growing on me!  These will only stay this way for a day.  Tomorrow I'm going to add something to them.  Man, they are gorgeous!    Of course my photos don't do them justice.  There are loads of other photos out there to drool over if you google them.

This is 3 coats with top coat.  Ring finger has 4 coats.  You'll see why....
Index = Byte
Middle = Spectrum
Ring = 3 coats of Byte + 1 coat of Spectrum on top.
Pinky = DVD
Thumb = Patchy stripes of Spectrum, DVD and Byte topped with OPI Shatter

As you can see it is a very sheer polish.  I imagine that is the price you pay for having so much awesome glass fleck!  These are going to look fantastic peeking out from under scotch tape manicures or stamping.  Also already experimenting with layering them on top of other colours.  Here is what Byte looks like on top of white, black, dark purple, silver and red!  They all got dinged and mucked up because I did stuff before they were dry.  Byte on white looks neon but my camera didn't quite catch that. On silver it becomes an old school pastel pink frost.  Where it really shines is on black and on red!  Wow!  On the nail byte is lighter than in the bottle.  On red it looks like the colour in the bottle but a little darker.

Before Byte:

Index = Queen of Everything by Sephora

Middle = Just a Little Dangerous by Sephora

Ring = Where's The Tire Jack by Sephora

Pinky = Alpine Snow by OPI

Thumb = Karina by Zoya

 Next I want to try Spectrum (the turquoise blue) on black, blue, purple and red.  So many possibilities and so little time!

What are some of your favourite layering polishes and colour combinations?  Please share!