Full Set of Nail Battle Armour!

I hope you aren't sick of my hand-placed glitter yet because I have quite the doozy to show you tonight. I got a set of 12 glitters in the mail the other day and I've been experimenting with covering my entire nail in glitter, especially since hexes tessellate so nicely. I tried something with the largest glitter yesterday over lunch but the pieces were too big and didn't sit flat enough for me. Armed with slightly smaller glitter and more time, I tried for FULL COVERAGE NAIL ARMOUR.

The glitter pots I ordered came in four different sizes, which is a little annoying if you want to work with multiple colours. The most complementary in the same size were a fuchsia and silver so starting with three coats (for maximum stickiness) of my trusty Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Celeb City, I used an orange stick to stick the glitter on. I found that the best adhesion came when the polish was wet and the glitter was pressed flat to the nail. I had much less glitter sticking up, which bugs me endlessly. One day it will be perfect! Oh and I couldn't decide on a pattern, hence the different lines.

The Verdict: This glitter size was a lot better than the giant stuff I used last time but it's still...not...perfect. I'm going to have to try this one more time, I WILL GET ALL THE GLITTER FLAT. That being said, as much as I hate the word, these were so incredibly "blingy" that it made me happy. Being such a large surface the light just pings off the glitter, it's awesome.

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:

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:

Polish All the Nails

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