Studiosparkle
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This is a good thread Claire. I too tried the navy colour and it looked nothing like the swatch colour chart.
I reckon CND Additives are the way to go!
x mona
I reckon CND Additives are the way to go!
x mona
The shellac on the colour charts is painted onto clear plastic, surely this is why the colours don't match 100%?
Just saying xx
Claire, another point to add from me. The CND colour chart fits my lamp but obviously now the whole length but I can always turn it around. I added the Shellac Fall 2012 Collection and Holiday duo to it.
I wish I had read this thread before this moment.
My first client wanted to try number 45 (I think) Blackpool and Negligee.
I did 2 layers of Blackpool as 1 is too streaky and would look horrid with Negligee over it.
Absolutely nothing like the colour chart.
Thie final colour was black and if you turned the nail in certain lights it looked blue.
Very lovely. But not as stated.
Irritating to say the least.
Just had a thought. Yesterday when adding my new colours on the chart, I did them from underneath rather than painting on top, as has been done with all the others and this worked really well and looks neat and matches the look of the rest.
So I wonder on this basis, how the layering has been done. Because if painting the underneath, the layered colour wouldn't show on the top, it would only show underneath. (Hope you're all following me)
So with the navy for example, I wonder if when it was done (dipped or however they do it) whether the Negligee was painted on first, THEN the Blackpool? This would make sense to me as to how the colour is so different to how we get it because we do it differently.
Hope I'm making some sort of sense? I was just thinking to myself, how would I layer from the underneath if I wanted to add my own combos on the chart and it made me think about the above.
Not very helpful as obviously we paint the other way round but it might explain how the layered colours are SO different on the chart.
Sorry to waffle, was thinking out loud :o
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I'm glad you just explained that one about the layering planky as I was going to give it a try and was confusing myself.
Probably a daft question but did you put a top coat (not necessarily shellac) on after you'd painted the colours to protect them or did you just do two colour coats? So I mean putting the top coat on but last of all so it's underneath? Does that make sense?
Hi Planky,Yes I get you and yes I did a topcoat
The colours will 'pool' slightly in the centre because of the dip but I spread it out as best I could and flipped the chart over each time to see what it looked like from the other side, so I could spread bits out more if needed. By the time I did the 5, they seemed to level out anyway. HTH :hug:
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Just had a thought. Yesterday when adding my new colours on the chart, I did them from underneath rather than painting on top, as has been done with all the others and this worked really well and looks neat and matches the look of the rest.
So I wonder on this basis, how the layering has been done. Because if painting the underneath, the layered colour wouldn't show on the top, it would only show underneath. (Hope you're all following me)
So with the navy for example, I wonder if when it was done (dipped or however they do it) whether the Negligee was painted on first, THEN the Blackpool? This would make sense to me as to how the colour is so different to how we get it because we do it differently.
Hope I'm making some sort of sense? I was just thinking to myself, how would I layer from the underneath if I wanted to add my own combos on the chart and it made me think about the above.
Not very helpful as obviously we paint the other way round but it might explain how the layered colours are SO different on the chart.
Sorry to waffle, was thinking out loud :o
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Hi Planky,
I did mine this way yesterday:0) do you think I could use a lumos topcoat to save my shellac one? Doesn't matter about shine as it is underneath so should work, right?!...x
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