Yep, I Think This is Neon Enough

For a long time I had so much trouble trying to get water marbling to work. Desperate for answers, I spent a lot of time watching youtube videos hoping to see what I was doing wrong. I never really had an "aha!" moment from the videos but I did find the most awesome rainbow gradient with black and clear marbling over the top that I vowed to try. When I found my makeup sponges the other day and had the black and clear water marble down, I knew I had to try it.

To start, I added two coats of Orly Dayglow as I really wanted my neons to pop. I hate that phrase, but it's true, I needed my colours to be super bright. I've not had a lot of luck painting a gradient on a sponge so I added each colour individually using the edge of a sponge. Once dry, I did my water marble over the top using China Glaze Liquid Leather and Essie Kisses and Bises. I finally figured out how to control how thick each band of colour is with the marbling. If you'll notice on my index finger, the black bands are super thin compared to the rest of my fingers. Turns out size of drop of polish = size of band. I found that if I did a full droplet of polish I got a thick band vs just touching the brush to the water. So that's useful.

The Verdict: I love how this came out. I know I've done a good job making neon when it blows out my skin colour. Despite this taking a ridiculous amount of time to do, I think it's worth it. If you were wondering about the colours used in the gradient, I don't have them all on hand but most of them are from the Summer Neons collection from China Glaze, with some American Apparel and Urban Outfitters mixed in there. If you want the name of a specific colour, leave it in the comments and I'll find it.

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

Review: JENsations Stars in Space and S'mores

Guess what everyone? I'm going to review some indie polishes that you can actually buy without having to wait for email messages! Yay! And sparkly too! Imagine all the holo glory as while my lightbox produces lovely even white light, it saps any and all rainbows from manis, leaving me to try to take pictures in my kitchen like a barbarian. It may not sound that hard but when you use a manual focus 60mm macro lens that has a wafer-thin depth of field, it's not the easiest. Anyway, let's take a look at two, that's right, two, beautiful polishes from JENsations , Stars in Space and S'mores. First up, Stars in Space. I started with two coats of Zoya Caprice, a very bright purple creme that you'll be seeing a lot of as it makes for a great base. Next, two coats of Stars in Space, the most fabulous mix of silver holo glitter. There's stars, squares (man, I love square glitter), hexes and micro glitter. I liked this one as there was enough glitter on

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?

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