Manicure Monday: Lime & Hot Pink

My husband helped me pick out the color combination for this one.  I knew I wanted to use Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Green With Envy but Brian picked out the hot pink color to stamp with and I love it!  Very springy/summery.  One coat of Orly Bonder Base Coat followed by two coats of Green With Envy.  Then I stamped on this flower image from Shany plate SH16 using Sally Hansen Insta-Dri in Flashy Fuchsia.  If you haven't already checked out my page above on my stamping polishes, you might want to take a look.  Finally, I applied a floating top coat using N.Y.C. Longwearing Nail Polish in Extra Shiny Top Coat.  Then things went sour.

You can probably see it the best in this picture above, but when I added the NYC Top Coat, it made tons of bubbles appear.  The bubbling is the worst on my ring finger.  I'm not sure why this happened.  I didn't shake up the bottle or run the brush over and over the same spot.  I will now be doing some experimenting to see if this is a consistent problem with this top coat or just a one time thing.

The great thing about this manicure was that it wore like titanium!  I painted my nails Tuesday night and by Saturday morning, I had only minimal tip wear but NO chips!  Finally by Saturday evening, the polish was starting to chip in a few places but that kind of wear is unheard of for me.  It was almost worth all the bubbling because that was a particularly busy week for me and I didn't really have time to repaint.  Again, I'll see if this is the top coat or just coincidence.