A Few Manicures I've Done Recently

Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with some different combination of colours, glitters and patterns. All these were taken with my iPhone so please excuse the quality!

Christmas party nails! I loved how this one turned out, so Christmas-y. This was using Rimmel "Stiletto Red" with Love & Beauty green glitter.

Found this one in the supermarket, no less. Really hard to photograph but pretty green flakes. Joe Fresh "Twilight" .

Loved this one, so sparkly. This was using Sally Hansen Complete Manicure "Glity Pleasure" and Sephora by OPI "Only Gold for Me".

Another great sparkly one that had terrible wear. This was only after a day, you can see how much it was coming off at the tips. Using Rimmel "615 Night Before" and Wet n Wild "Party of Five Glitters".

I've spent a long time looking at holographic polishes and decided to bite the bullet and try Nfu-Oh 61, a supposedly legendary holo. I was really disappointed by it though, this was the only time I could see even a bit of a rainbow. Also my first attempt at stamping. Bit meh.

This was so sparkly! As much as I nothing the Kardashians I couldn't help picking up the Nicole by OPI "Follow Me on Glitter". As that wasn't colourful enough, I added Sephora by OPI "Spark-tacular!".

My first full nail attempt at stamping! I tired to achieve this look but it didn't quite look as good!

This polish was absolutely amazing. Easy to apply, opaque and looks like coloured glass in the sun. Using Zoya "Valerie"

OPI "Rally Pretty Pink" with silver foil strips. The duochrome in this is amazing, completely gold in some lights, completely pink in others.

So that's it! I'll be using better quality photos from now on but had to share some of my beginner attempts.

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Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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