Midnight Oil Slick Disco Ball!

Oh everyone, do I have a roller-coaster ride of emotions, all in the one story, to share with you today. The story begins, like so many do, with a mysterious package arriving in the mail. Shaking it, it rattles, which is either very strange or very bad, depending on what you were expecting. The contents? SQUARE GLITTER, MOFOS! I had forgotten I'd ordered a set of 12 pots of square glitter a few weeks ago and I was rather giddy with excited over how sparkly it all was. At least half the pots were a holo glitter too, which literally made me drop everything and run to my table to experiment with the clear standout, the charcoal grey holo glitter.....

My process started well. I started with two coats of Rimmel Black satin and let them dry thoroughly. Using my stickiest base coat, I painted a third of my thumb and went to town with my toothpick. You can see my tutorial on glitter mosaics if you want a more picture-y explanation on how this is done. I finished all my nails and the result was so mind-blowingly sparkly....sigh. Something about the shape of the glitter meant that it caught the light as a whole nail, creating the most holographic (useless) mirror I've ever seen. Here's where the heartbreak comes in. I ruined it with the top coat. I got excited about my gel kit I got the other day and decided to see what would happen if I added that top coat, see if wouldn't last longer. On every single nail I flooded my cuticles without noticing while not having it thick enough and the result was...unsatisfactory :(

The Verdict: I love this glitter and loved it before the top coat made it...subpar. IT WILL BE AVENGED!

The Sidenote: In case you're wondering about the gel kit I tried out, it's still on my left hand. It's holding up really well, I'll post an update thread in the next few days.

The Supplies:

Rimmel Black Satin, various locations
12x Glitter Square Shape Nail Decals, $5.99, ebay

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:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

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