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Matching a Mani to the Sparkliest Bag I've Ever Owned

While travelling in New York over Christmas, I kept an eye for...something.  Something unique, something you don't see often, something that stood out.  While wandering around Brooklyn, I found the thing that I was looking for.  It may not be practical but oh man, is it sparkly.  Covered in a perfect gold-red-fuchsia-pale pink gradient of flat sequins, this bag had to be mine.  When I got it home, I of course had to honour it with a glitter gradient of my own.

I wanted to bring in the silver reverse side to all the sequins so I started this mani with two coats of Sally Hansen Celeb City.  I'm not really sure why now as I've tried to put glitter on this before and it never quite looks right.  Anyway, on I went with my usual technique, using Sally Hansen Invisible in very thin layers to stick the glitter on.  Again, I've had luck lately in first laying a strip of glitter down the centre of my nail then building out either side.  Once done, I added two coats of Seche Vite.  I was then silly enough to take a shower before taking photos so that's why the tip of my ring finger's a little mangled.  Once I fixed it, using my glitter fixing process, it didn't look too bad.  So much fun taking photos with this bag though.






The Verdict: Love the bag, would love the mani more if the pink didn't bleed quite so much.  Yay for sparkles for everyone!
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  1. NeruJanuary 5, 2013 at 2:24 PM

    Your nail art is amazing how much time did you spend in it? And this bag is so cute I want it too :).

    xoxo Neru

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  2. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 2:50 PM

    SO FANTASTIC!!

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  3. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 11:17 PM

    Amazing, my mind is completely blown away :)))

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  4. WendyJanuary 6, 2013 at 10:37 AM

    This is beautiful! And your photos are amazizing, as always x x x

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  5. UnknownJanuary 7, 2013 at 8:56 PM

    omg this is super cute and reminds me of beehives! only much more colourful!
    would you like to follow each other?
    A
    xx
    http://epiquemoi.blogspot.com

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