Orly Gel FX Shade Shifter Color Changing Polish
Can’t… stop… staring… at… my… nails! Wait until you see this. Orly Gel FX Shade Shifter is a color changing gel polish that goes from clear to black based on the temperature of your hands. You apply two coats over top of any base color and it goes clear to show the color underneath when your hands are warm, and is black when your hands are cold. In my pics below, you can see that there are also some transitional stages. I am so in love with this, and hope they make some other colors available other than just clear-to-black. The base color seen in this demo is Tiki Tiki Laranga from Gelish. I found Shade Shifter available for sale on Amazon.com.
I made a quick video to show you how this works.
This is so awesome! I always want to bust out my UV lamp and go back to doing some gel manis when I look at your nails. Now this really makes me want to do that!
I <3 gel polish! Do it! LOL
do you need to have a orly nail polish as a base coat? or can you put any nail polish?
Hi June. Orly Shade Shifter is a gel polish that requires a UV or LED light to cure (dry). You apply a gel foundation coat, then a gel color polish, then 2 coats of Orly Shade Shifter, and finally a top coat. Each coat of polish has to be cured with the light.
The brand of gel polish does not have to be Orly.
Hi may I ask for all the nail polishes that you used in here and the steps :) I really wanna try this. Such a great video :) thanks
Hi Jacqui. I applied my Gelish Foundation and two coats of Tiki Tiki Laranga, and then applied two coats of Shade Shifter over top (curing each coat in the UV light). Then I applied the top coat.
Yep, I just bought this damn you! lol
Hehe. I know, I’m an enabler!! :)
where can I find this? I’m from Greece!
where did you buy this set from? do you need the UV light thing to do it?
I purchased Shade Shifter from Amazon.com. It does require a UV or LED light.
LOVE THIS! But not interested in the gel aspect. Is there anything like this (turns clear to reveal underneath color) that isn’t gel?
I only know of a few color changing polishes like the Ruby Wing brand, but none that work exactly like Shade Shifter.
There is another brand of gel polish that changes with temperatures that is awesome!! I was always starring at my nails. I can’t think of the name of it right now but my parents have it at their salon so I sneak and use it! ;) The bottle is similar to Gelish’s bottles.
Cool! Let me know if you find the name of it :)
Has anyone ever tried using Shade Shifter UNDER gel polish? I just bought the Shade Shifter (This is all your fault, Chickettes!! :) ), but now I’m hesitant to use it, because I don’t really want black nails! But it would be cool if the Shade Shifter could go underneath and just darken whatever color you have on top…Does that make sense to anyone else?
I think that would work, just use a polish that’s more jelly like and not totally opaque. Let me know how it goes if you try it.
So the base color HAS to be a gel polish? It can’t be normal nail polish?
I suppose you could use a normal polish base, but it won’t last like a gel polish manicure.
Ok, what I cant figure out is why the gel shifter comes only in black? I saw a picture of dark green going to light green but I cant seem to find any green shdae of gel shifter, only one color.. am i missing something here? Kinda new at this so would apprecite all the help I can get…
You apply shade shifter over a color, so it must have been applied over green. I have never seen it in any other colors, but there are other mood polishes with different colors out there. Check out the LeChat mood gels.
I bet you could do some amazing designs with this! like a lace design that would only show up at certain times … tricky part is that it would have to black while applying it.