Urban Outfitters Cherry Tomato with Blue Glitter Dots!

It may sound a bit excessive but I don't feel totally set for a day if my nails aren't a bit crazy. It's mostly because I like the attention. If I don't have a ton of time, and I don't have a specific polish in mind to try, I'm going to do glitter dots because it's surprisingly fast to do. What I'm about to show you I got done from base coat to top coat in about 45 minutes.

This looks complicated but let's break it down a bit. Start off with a coat of base coat - I'm currently using OPI Nail Envy because I heard good things about it and so far, so good, my nails are holding on with no breaks, which is nice. Next, three coats of Urban Outfitters Cherry Tomato, my current favourite red. Look how cool it is. Such a good red creme. Now, the glitter. I got this blue holographic glitter off ebay a while ago and it's still my favourite. If you search for "holographic glitter" or "glitter hex slice" on ebay, set it to lowest price including shipping and "Buy It Now", you'll find some good stuff for cheap. I applied a full coat of a slow drying top coat, tipped some glitter into the lid of the container, and went to work with my orange stick. I found that I could get a full nail done before the topcoat was too dry to be adhesive. Start with a row down the middle of your nail - make sure these are the ones that are spaced evenly - then build out either side. Do for all your nails and you're done! After a top coat.

The Confession: I suppose you're wondering what my other hand looks like. I kinda cheat a bit here, mostly because I'm left handed and my lightbox is set up only for my right hand. My nails are short on the left hand, and I don't usually do a full glitter thing on them. In this case, I used the same three coats of Cherry Tomato, then just sprinkled the blue glitter on. You can't tell from a distance, I swear. If anyone exclaims over your nails, just show them the good one! DONE.

The Verdict: I've done this colour and glitter combination before and I did it now because it look really good. From a distance it could almost be purple but close up it's contrasty and sparkly. Works for me!

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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