Neon Rainbow Zig-Zags Using American Apparel Neons

Ever since I found proper pinking shears the other day in a craft store, they've been sitting on my desk, begging to contribute their zig-zaggy goodness. I was in the mood for something bright so I five American Apparel Neon polishes and one China Glaze and went to work.

To start, I added two coats of L.A. Girl Delicate. I wanted a white base so I wouldn't have to do a million coats of the neon. Once that and the coat of the Seche Vite were dry I cut a thin zig-zag strips of blue painters tape. I added three strips at a time, making sure each strip was the same height and spaced the same across my nails. I then added three of the colours. If you look at my thumb close up, I placed tape where the orange, green and purple are first and applied the red, yellow and blue. I added another coat of Seche Vite and did the same for the rest of my fingers. Once they were all super dry, I covered the stripes already in place and added the other colours. A final coat of Seche Vite and I'm done!

The Verdict: I'm really happy with how this came out. It's eyeball-bleedlingly bright and I even don't mind the white showing through, it reminds me of some erasers I had as a kid. Personality, you know? It's also crying out for a Pinterest-friendly infographic as it's not hard to do.... yay Rainbows!

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

Giveaway for Reaching 100 Posts!

So I've been blogging here for coming up on two months now but I've already managed to get to 100 posts! To celebrate, I'm giving away the FULL COLLECTION OF CHINA GLAZE PRISMATICS! These are incredibly hard to find but I love you guys and want one of you to experience the awesomeness too. Enter below, someone is gunna win allllll these:

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