Review: Clipart Nails with Big Ruby Tattoos

I like to keep up with what other bloggers are doing, and if one of them does something cool, I kiiinda need to do it too. When I saw this nail tattoo mani over at Chalkboard Nails, I knew I had to get the tattoos too. That's a lot of O's in a sentence. I'm ok with it. Anyway, an order to Big Ruby Tattoos and brainstorming session consisting of having them sit on my desk for a week, let's take a look at my manly nails!

Since the internet has already seen the "Hers" set of tattoos, I had to go for the "His" collection. I've tried temporary tattoo manis before and have had issues with them breaking apart with the top coat so I approached with caution and low expectations. Turns out, Big Ruby tattoos are totally fine. I wanted a bold, non-girly colour to go with my manly tattoos so I started out with three coats of Urban Outfitters Sunshine, a really bold yellow. It was a little streaky at first but after three coats, it was fine. Next, I cut out all my tattoos and applied them one at a time. I didn't have any real trick here, just choose one, line it up, press on the wet cotton pad for 20 seconds and done. I could even apply a full nail's worth at once without layers of top coat. Once I was done, I applied two coats of Seche Vite, because I wanted them to stay. So in your face, it's awesome.

The Verdict: I love how these came out. The yellow and black turns out to be the perfect combination for bold, manly nails. The tattoos applied super easily too.

The Other Hand: I'm going to start doing this as a section because I feel I probably should. I didn't use the tattoos on my other hand as I wanted to save them. I used the same base colour in Urban Outfitters Sunshine with Cover Band Sticks 'n' Stones, as it seems to fit colour wise. Yay honesty!

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

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