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Here is my experience with SEPHORA’s matte top coat nail polish:

The black I used was SEPHORA’s “What’s a Tire Jack?” and the top coat I used was SEPHORA’s “Matte Top Coat”. I also ended up using “Glass Shine” by Kiss. I will say early in this review that I was disappointed with the results. It wasn’t necessarily the nail polish didn’t do what it was suppose to, but I didn’t get the results I wanted. This style has been floating around here and there and I loved it! I really wanted to get the look, so I tried it. Here are my results and suggestions:

First I applied the SEPHORA’s “What’s a Tire Jack?”:

I wanted to try something different so I tried to do random slants on my nails. Then I blocked off slanted parts with scotch tape and applied two coats of SEPHORA’s “Matte Top Coat”:

As you can see it doesn’t look very nice! You can’t even tell that I did a design for the index and pinky finger. I tried to take a bettter shot with light so it is more noticable:

Even with the light the black nail polish doesn’t seem to contrast enough to make it noticeable or even nice. I tried the steps over again with the standard style I’ve been seeing. This time I used “Glass Shine” by Kiss so that it contrasted the matte nail polish more :

With the “Glass Shine” coat by Kiss I got more of what I wanted. To be honest it is only noticeable because of the light. In person this design is hardly noticeable and no one notices it unless I point it out to them. Overall I was disappointed with my results. It could be because I have short nails so this style doesn’t look good on me. I do not recommend using The black SEPHORA’s “What’s a Tire Jack?” with SEPHORA’s “Matte Top Coat”. You need more contrast in the two. Ether get a shinier black or a more noticeable matte nail polish. You could also try to find a shinier top coat for the tips. If I were to do this again, I would try a different matte nail polish brand.

I could have also done something wrong in process. What are your experiences with matte nail polish? Did you find it unnoticeable and disappointing too? What products did you use?

While I got this nail polish I also got new stretchers:

There is this new store in Square One called New Steel, a jewellery shop. I checked their site but it looks like its still under construction. I don’t find many stretch earrings in Mississauga, so it was nice to have a store with earrings I haven’t seen before. It was $12 for each earring, but I got it for $16 since the sizes were inconsistent! They have a decent selection of earrings for a decent price compared to other places.

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