Pink Fire Mermaid Nails!

MOAR GLITTER YES SPARKLIES GOOD VERY MUCH YES. I'm such the wordsmith. What I lack in wordies, I make up for in sparklies! Cos I have another mermaidy thing to show you! This one is purple, pink and gold! I have even made the glitter available if you wanna try. You know, if you aren't chicken. Bock. I HAVE HAD A LOT OF COFFEE THIS MORN, DEAL WITH IT.

Usual deal in how these are actually done. I went for a co-ordinating base, this time Glitter Gal Crushed Ego cos it's holo and it was the first one I came across. Anyone want to help me organise a lot of polish? I can't find anything. Anyway, after two coats of that it was on to the glitter application. Usual process: a stripe of top coat down the middle of my nail, then a center column of glitter and then building out both sides. If you pay attention to the spacing from the get-go, it's easy to maintain it across the whole nail. My nails have been a bit breaky lately and I've taken to doing my own acrylics. The Nailene Brush-on Gel set not only is good for tips, it makes for an excellent glitter top coat. Nice and shiny and doesn't go all weird after a day or two like Seche Vite.

The Verdict: I CAN'T DECIDE IF I LIKE THIS ONE OR MY OCEAN MERMAID MANI BETTER OH NO WHAT A SHAME GLITTER OVERLOAD.

If you're interested, this exact glitter is available on The Sparkly Shop. Cos sparklies are surprisingly hard to pin down. And there's a full rainbow too... and ocean colours.... :D:D:D:D:D

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 big...

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:

MOAR FLOWERS, NOW SPARKLY

Ok! So you may be feeling a sense of deja vu but WHO CARES SPARKLIES. I actually did this flower mani before the neon one - I held the the neon glitter under my blacklight and there was no way I could not immediately apply it to my nails. Running The Sparkly Shop just continues to have perks... And yes, I do have a blacklight bulb that handy. Anyway, this glitter is just as amazing as the neon, it's RIDICULOUSLY sparkly. Same thinness, nice and easy to work with. Let's take a look, shall we?

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