NEON NEON NEON NEON Nails from the Planet NEON. COS NEON

Greetings from Planet Neon, where the nails are the neon and the skin colour is weird! I've been experimenting with some new stuff to stick to myself lately and it's really hard to choose! I asked Instagram to pick something for me from this picture and I'm happy they choose the neon bar studs. As I'm wont to do, I of course had to cover my nails completely with these things. Success! Even if my camera couldn't handle NEON NEON NEON and skin colour. Onwards!

Not that it matters in this case but I started with three coats of Loreal Don't Shy Away, a really pretty dark plurple jelly. It's really shiny and nice when, you know, you can see more than half a mm of the polish. I wanted a nice deep base for my studs to stick. This is a case where I could have used nail glue but then I worry I would never have seen my nails again. So lots of top coat and patience won. I did the usual process, starting in the middle and working my way out. I was lucky the studs mostly fit vertically on my nails. You can certainly trim them, but it's hard to cut them straight and avoid them bending. I did trim some for the edges though. Line it up on your nail then use small, sharp scissors like these to trim them. Just don't tell my mum I used good scissors to cut nails studs. Shhhh. But yeah. No extra top coat! Just gingerly touching things for a while. We aren't going for practicality here :)

The Vedict: I LOVE how these came out. No base colour bleeding issues, just nice, crisp colours. And, like, eye-ball-bustingly neon rainbows. Now I just have to figure out how to stick glitter on these as well.....

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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