Review: Orly Passion Fruit with Gold Glitter Strips

As you might have noticed, I'm running a giveaway at the moment to win Revlon Whimsical, Nerd Lacquer and a couple others. IF YOU HADN'T, CONSIDER THIS ME RAMMING IT IN YOUR FAACCEEE. Anyway, I need new ideas and one of the ways to enter is to give me yours, mwhahahahaha. Common themes thus far have been more mermaid/mosaic/sequin nails and neon. DONE AND DONE. On my trip to Buffalo yesterday I picked up the ear-burningly bright Orly Passion Fruit which just happens to help me fill these two criteria.

Orly Passion Fruit, like a lot of the Orly neons, isn't the easiest to work with as it's very sheer. I do have visions of using it for a glitter sandwich though, really gotta try that soon. Anyway, to start this off I added two coats of my new favourite neutral, Orly Pure Porcelain. It's a really pretty nude that covers great and it'll be featured in a post either tomorrow or the day after, if you're interested. Over the top of that, I added one coat of Passion Fruit then went to work following these steps for the gold glitter stripes.

The Verdict: I've loved this gold glitter since I used it in my gold and coral mani from last week. It's just so spangly, I had to use it more and I'm really glad I did. Orly Passion Fruit is a great colour although I wish application was easier. Can't have everything I guess. SPAARRRKKKLYYYYYYYYYY.

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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