ColorFoil Chrome Polka Dots

Posted on Aug 22, 2014 in Manicures |

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.

Sally Hansen ColorFoil in Purple Alloy with Minted Metal Polka DotsWhen 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.

Sally Hansen ColorFoil in Purple Alloy with Minted Metal Polka DotsI 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!