I got a basic manicure at a nail salon a few years ago. I never do that but my mom wanted me to go with her and she paid for mine. I picked a polish off the wall that really just looked white in the bottle. But when it was applied it was this beautiful pearlescent white and all it took was 2 coats and it wasn’t sheer at all. It was so pretty even the nail tech stopped and checked the name of the polish in the middle of applying it because it did not look like it would turn out that way when just looking at it in the bottle. And someone else walking by even stopped to look at and ask about it.
I wish I would have taken a picture of it but I just didn’t think about it at the time. I don’t remember the brand but it was the same brand as a bunch of the other shades up on the wall in the salon. I think the name of the color had the word “Angel” in it.
The color in the picture is the closest to what it looked like that I can find. But every shade that looks like this online ends up being very sheer & the one I’m looking for was not sheer at all.
My best approximation I’ve been able to do on my own has been to get a plain solid white and add a top coat like the sally hansen miracle gel unicorn top coat, to create the pearlescent shimmer effect. But it’s just not the same and I’m so desperate to find that perfect shade.
Any ideas what it could have been??
by meowdrian
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The image of the polish I shared is not the product I’m looking for, but is one I found on Amazon with a picture that is close to what I’m looking for. The brand is Azure Beauty in the shade A Pearl Sparkle.
I don’t know what your polish was, but Daveen Lacquer has had a few impressively opaque white shimmers in the past year I’ve been buying from them. You might reach out to her and see if she’s got any overstock of them! She does a great job with shimmers of any color honestly.
https://www.daveenlacquer.com/
If you use fbook she’s very responsive on there!
Check out LA girl color pop glazed edition in Flirt Alert. $3 at target and it has longevity on my nails.