I looked far & wide for these damn things! Seriously, years ago, maybe when I was still in college (yikes), Sally Hansen came out with what they called Chrome Nail Makeup. I still have a few bottles as I love the high-metallic finish. I wish they were even MORE metallic and reflective, like those pins you see floating around of mirror-finish nails, but alas, I don’t think that’s possible short of electroplating my nails. When I saw that Sally Hansen had resurrected this trend this summer, I was so excited! However, apparently I was not yet excited enough to run to the store for them.
This became a problem.
When I was finally ready to get my ColorFoil on, I couldn’t find them anywhere! I checked my usual dealers stores: Walgreens, Walmart, CVS. No avail. I was so desperate that I took to Facebook and Twitter trying to find where I could get these stupid things I coveted so much. A tip lead me to a lonely shelf at Target: the clearance shelf. A dark, cluttered end cap across from the brilliantly lit display of full-price polishes against the wall.
Jackpot.
There were a TON of the ColorFoil bottles sitting there amid the clutter of various opened, incomplete, and passé beauty products. Since I was going to Target with the express purpose of finding these polishes, I’d already taken stock of what kind of colors I already had from the ancient Chrome Nail Makeup collection and some NYC Foil polishes I had found around the same time. So I knew I could avoid blues, pinks, and golds.
I ended up grabbing 4 bottles of Sally Hansen ColorFoil Nail Makeup for under $5 each: Purple Alloy, Leaden Lilac, Minted Metal, and Rose Copper. When I came home and swatched them on my color wheels, I was a bit disappointed that Rose Copper looked familiar. It’s almost a dead-on dupe to the old Sally Hansen Chrome Nail Makeup Gilded Pearl with a whisper of pink. I was hoping it would be more the color of Black Hills rose gold, but I was disappointed. The rest were definitely different than the others I have. I decided to have some mixed metals fun and do some green Minted Metal polka dots on a Purple Alloy base as a stop-gap manicure for my anniversary dinner.
Getting a picture was a slight problem due to the high shine and metallic nature of the chrome finish polish. So I messed with a couple of angles and got what you see here. I hope it’s enough for you to get the idea of what I was going for. In the end, I liked it. And I’m excited to use my new chrome ColorFoils more often!