Hand-Placed Glitter Stripes

I'm afraid I've been at the glitter again people! I really do have a thing for placing glitter by hand at the moment, mostly because I find the repetition relaxing. Probably shouldn't have started this one as late as I did last night but whatcha gunna do. As for the design, I wanted to try doing stripes with glitter, especially since my rainbow glitter stripes were good but let down by the curved glitter. So last night I decided to try a different style using Milani Silver from the Jewel FX collection.

First up, I just want to say how awesome Rimmel Black Satin is for a black. It's so super easy to apply, opaque in two coats and for some reason I can always paint really neatly with the brush. It's my far my favourite black. Using the same technique I've been using recently, once the black was tacky I tipped a little puddle of the silver glitter and picked out each piece. Go with little blobs as you don't want to waste any by it drying out. I kinda wish I left it at that but then, using my loose small hex glitter, I added another stripe of glitter next to each silver, using alternating red and blue. It's pretty but it came out looking so Amerciany and I really didn't mean to. One day I'll learn.

The Verdict: Love the silver, hate the red, white and blue. On it's own, the silver glitter looked like pretty pin stripes. If I'd just stuck to red or blue, not both...sigh. At least with so much top coat I practically have a sun flare off my nails in my last picture which makes me happy. I love doing these manis :)

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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