Week 9: Rainbows! Glitter Over Water Marble

Weekly challenges and I have a fickle relationship. I pretty much just do them when I feel like it. How, though, could I not do a mani when the theme is rainbows? I can't not do it, that's the answer. The hardest part was trying to decide what kind of rainbow to do. I'm not especially down with taping or neat stripes so it was either rainbow water marbling or hand-placed glitter. Then it hit me: WHY NOT BOTH. Yesssssss.

To start, I applied two coats of Orly Dayglow then got to work with my black and white water marbling. I did the same thing as this post but kept the marble really simple. I then got to work filling in the white parts with rainbow glitter, using my usual technique. A coat of Seche Vite or two and I'm done. I'm not happy with how the glitter bled on my thumb but you only really notice it when you fill an entire camera frame with said nail.

The Verdict: I really like how this came out. I always like the whole thumb and ring finger accent thing, makes it different and interesting to look at. Side note: I'm experimenting with some new lighting - namely a $5 lamp from Ikea - to try and get some sparkly in my glitter. Bear with me while I work my white balance out!

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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