Planky1
Well-Known Member
Last week, I had a client in who wanted a really fabulous looking Shellac Mani for a very posh wedding and knew she wanted it neutral with a glitter fade of some sort, so after much deliberation and dismissing my fabulous suggestions, decided she'd like the colour that is number 41 on the Shellac colour Sample thingymebob (sorry, brain won't function this morning to know it's proper name!).
In my Shellac training, I was taught that whenever you do a layering combination, you always do 2 coats of the first colour, then one thin coat of the layering colour.
So the 2 colours were purple purple and moonlight and Roses. The colour on the chart is a really husky pinky looking colour, quite neutral, would go with everything and she was going to be wearing a red dress so felt this would be a perfect colour.
She looked very concerned as I put the purple purple on (I too wondered how it would finish looking so pink with that as the base) but I re-assured her that it says those are the colours on the chart to use and all would change once I put M&R over the top.
Well it didn't. It came out so purple still and would have looked awful and clashy with a bright red dress. So I put another coat of M&R on, to see if it would make it pinker. Nope, still more purple. So we then tried to salvage it (I had wiped off the 2nd layer of M&R as it hadn't been cured) and played around putting others colours over the top to see if we could get it more neutral or could get it a nice red to match her dress. It was a nightmare, took ages and resulted in me having to remove the whole lot and starting over again because nothing was looking good.
She went with my original suggestion and adored them, so thank lordy for that but it was stressful and took so much time and I could have done without it. Just thankful she was my only client that evening.
Have any of you done number 41 and if so, did you do just 1 of purple purple and then 2 of M&R? I haven't got any colour pops at the moment to play and experiment but like I say, I was always taught that it's 2 coats of first colour and 1 of the layering, so felt a bit peeved that I had wasted time and products having to remove it all and re-do.
I haven't done every layering combo there is, so sometimes, just like my clients, we are basing decisions on the colours the chart shows. How am I supposed to know if I do one or 2 coats of a colour as the base when the usual rule of thumb is 2 coats? It clearly wasn't in this case!
I know the colours aren't EXACT on the chart but this wasn't even anywhere near the colour on the chart! :grr:
In my Shellac training, I was taught that whenever you do a layering combination, you always do 2 coats of the first colour, then one thin coat of the layering colour.
So the 2 colours were purple purple and moonlight and Roses. The colour on the chart is a really husky pinky looking colour, quite neutral, would go with everything and she was going to be wearing a red dress so felt this would be a perfect colour.
She looked very concerned as I put the purple purple on (I too wondered how it would finish looking so pink with that as the base) but I re-assured her that it says those are the colours on the chart to use and all would change once I put M&R over the top.
Well it didn't. It came out so purple still and would have looked awful and clashy with a bright red dress. So I put another coat of M&R on, to see if it would make it pinker. Nope, still more purple. So we then tried to salvage it (I had wiped off the 2nd layer of M&R as it hadn't been cured) and played around putting others colours over the top to see if we could get it more neutral or could get it a nice red to match her dress. It was a nightmare, took ages and resulted in me having to remove the whole lot and starting over again because nothing was looking good.
She went with my original suggestion and adored them, so thank lordy for that but it was stressful and took so much time and I could have done without it. Just thankful she was my only client that evening.
Have any of you done number 41 and if so, did you do just 1 of purple purple and then 2 of M&R? I haven't got any colour pops at the moment to play and experiment but like I say, I was always taught that it's 2 coats of first colour and 1 of the layering, so felt a bit peeved that I had wasted time and products having to remove it all and re-do.
I haven't done every layering combo there is, so sometimes, just like my clients, we are basing decisions on the colours the chart shows. How am I supposed to know if I do one or 2 coats of a colour as the base when the usual rule of thumb is 2 coats? It clearly wasn't in this case!
I know the colours aren't EXACT on the chart but this wasn't even anywhere near the colour on the chart! :grr: