Review: Orly Galaxy Girl Swatches in a Glitter Gradient with a Twist

Over the past week or so I've been having a lot of fun trying out different techniques. Acrylic paints last night, manually placed glitter Saturday and Sunday nights, tape earlier, it's been a lot of fun. Probably my favourite technique has been the manually placed glitter, it just has such a special, sparkly effect and I always <3 sparklies. So what with getting Orly Galaxy Girl in the mail yesterday, I wanted to try out the last glitter in my set and do a glitter gradient...with a twist.

First up, let me say how much I love Orly Galaxy Girl. I was lucky enough to pick up this member of the Cosmic FX collection from nailpolishcanada as they had this and Space Cadet in stock recently, even at a normal price which is amazing. It's an absolutely gorgeous glass flecked duochrome, shifting from a grape purple to blue and pink in the light. Application was decent given the duochrome glass flecked - these can be sheer - and what you see here is three coats. Check out some of the close ups further down, the flecks are so pretty.

While the polish was still tacky, I took my trusty orange stick, shook some glitter out on a piece of card and went to town. The glitter blends in to the polish quite a lot here but if you look closely you can see the pieces grouped two rows at a time to form a gradient. The top two rows are touching, the next two are a little spaced out and the last two are only three or four pieces to a row, creating the appearance of a gradient.

See all the duochrome flecks in there? I also love how a pink opalescent glitter melds so well with the base colour.

This picture is the closest to how this mani looks in person. It's just so sparkly and all the glitter stands out and catches the light. It has to be one of my favourite to date :D

The Verdict: Galaxy Girl is amazing. I was a little disappointed by another in the collection, Lunar Eclipse, as I had applicant issues and it never made it to the photo stage. Galaxy Girl was easy to apply and is so pretty and sparkly on. As for the glitter gradient, I've already hit up ebay for a bunch of different glitter shapes and sizes so brace yourselves for more to come!

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

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:

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