Today I'm wearing Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pumpkin Spice, which is a very cool but kind of oddball glitter from the display that held Midnight Sky and friends. It's a black jelly base with fine orange glitter, which sounds like the old Halloween standard, but Pumpkin Spice is a little bit different.
The black base is very lightly pigmented even for a jelly, and I ended up needing four coats to make it opaque and even. It's not stark black at four coats, that's just enough for me to make it even without bare looking spots. It seems like that could be by design - the result was that the glitter really got loaded up nicely, more than the Halloween polishes, and the impression I get from it is very late Fall, not Halloween. I noticed applying it and again now that the glitter in Pumpkin Spice is very smooth, which is one of those factors that strongly affects the likelihood of me choosing a glitter polish over another when I go to change color. I applied it last night very shortly before bed, so I used China Glaze Fast Forward to dry it. Four coats of color right before bed is a bit ambitious and I was prepared to have it messed up this morning, but it dried quite nicely with only one flaw. Unfortunately, that one flaw was the one that puts me off to various quick dry top coats - Fast Forward shrank the polish at my tips a bit. I'd noticed some shrinkage with Fast Forward before, but I think it might be evaporating a little with use because it's more pronounced today. Thinner might fix that right up, but that presents the question of where the heck I have thinner.
This is the finished Pumpkin Spice manicure in sunlight after it dried completely.
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| Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pumpkin Spice Nail Polish, Four Coats |
I think it's a nice polish, but particularly nice for a Fall novelty polish. In the picture, the spots where the sunlight really hits the polish show just how smooth the glitter in Pumpkin Spice is with only one coat of top coat. There's no unevenness to the surface, and I hope Sally Hansen keeps using glitter from whoever made this stuff so nice and flat.
That's Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear Pumpkin Spice and just about all I have for you this morning, Dear Reader, so until next time, love and nail polish to you!
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