Review: Finally, finally, Finger Paints Special Effect Flecked!

OMG guys, I finally got a hold of one of the Finger Paints Special Effects! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Ahem, excuse the excitement but I don't cope especially well when I want something and it's magically sold out and you can't buy it anywhere, as is the case with Special Effects collection from Finger Paints. It's an embarrassingly long time to the one and only Sally Beauty store in Toronto and I made it three times to see if they had these, to be told the first two times that they'll totes be getting them in and then the last that one person bought two cases and they're sold out. You can't even buy these online, save for a ridiculous ebay auction. My wonderful friend Other Laura (as I'm Laura) managed to find me a bottle while in the States and omg is this pretty.

Flecked is a flake glitter top coat, with pieces shifting from blue to green. I have a couple of other other flakies like Shine of the Times but was always a little put off by the orange-green shift. This, on the other hand, so pretty. What you see in the pictures below is two coats of my favourite black, Rimmel Black Satin followed by two coats of Flecked. Dammit, I love this look. The colour shift is so strong from blue to green and just keeps catching the light.

See how even straight on you can see all the different colours? I'm a fan of how thin the glitter, sitting so flush with the nail. Mmmm, pretttty.

The Verdict: Seriously, buy this if you see it. It's so pretty, applies well and shifts strongly from green and blue, no orange to be seen! Oh, and if you do buy it, please only buy the one, save some for us! If any of you do happen to come across it, could you please shoot me an email at laura at polishallthenails dot com? I'll happily buy it off you + shipping and you'd make me so happy!

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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