A Few Manicures I've Done Recently

Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with some different combination of colours, glitters and patterns. All these were taken with my iPhone so please excuse the quality!

Christmas party nails! I loved how this one turned out, so Christmas-y. This was using Rimmel "Stiletto Red" with Love & Beauty green glitter.

Found this one in the supermarket, no less. Really hard to photograph but pretty green flakes. Joe Fresh "Twilight" .

Loved this one, so sparkly. This was using Sally Hansen Complete Manicure "Glity Pleasure" and Sephora by OPI "Only Gold for Me".

Another great sparkly one that had terrible wear. This was only after a day, you can see how much it was coming off at the tips. Using Rimmel "615 Night Before" and Wet n Wild "Party of Five Glitters".

I've spent a long time looking at holographic polishes and decided to bite the bullet and try Nfu-Oh 61, a supposedly legendary holo. I was really disappointed by it though, this was the only time I could see even a bit of a rainbow. Also my first attempt at stamping. Bit meh.

This was so sparkly! As much as I nothing the Kardashians I couldn't help picking up the Nicole by OPI "Follow Me on Glitter". As that wasn't colourful enough, I added Sephora by OPI "Spark-tacular!".

My first full nail attempt at stamping! I tired to achieve this look but it didn't quite look as good!

This polish was absolutely amazing. Easy to apply, opaque and looks like coloured glass in the sun. Using Zoya "Valerie"

OPI "Rally Pretty Pink" with silver foil strips. The duochrome in this is amazing, completely gold in some lights, completely pink in others.

So that's it! I'll be using better quality photos from now on but had to share some of my beginner attempts.

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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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