This is What 640 Pieces of Glitter Looks Like On One Hand

So I got some glitter in the mail last week from Glitties.com. In it, was a bunch of glitter colours small square glitter in a mixture of metallic and holo finishes. You surely know what's coming right? With a long weekend of not much happening because I'm Australian and have no family in Canada? That's right. ALL. THE. FREAKING. GLITTER.

I posted a picture of this on Instagram earlier this morning and the response was predictable: awesome, but who has the time?? I DO. I will sacrifice as much time as I need to to show you maximum sparklies!

Right, so I did the usual start, three coats of black polish. My top coat is running low so I tried an experiment with the glue that came with my nail foils which is pretty much just PVA glue. It worked ok, and was good for not creating build up but gets glue everywhere. If I had to rank adhesives, it would go new cheap top coat, glue, old cheap top coat that's gluggy, Seche Vite. You will cry trying to use Seche Vite to stick glitter on. Use it for when you're done. Anyway, so usual technique with the glitter which is to start with a column down the middle of your nail then build out each side. With so much glitter, do very thin stripes of top coat at a time. It gets very thick very quickly and your glitter can look uneven. For the ends of my nails, I stuck the pieces on then trimmed them when they dried. I cut the pieces beforehand for around my cuticles.

The Verdict: I wish my gold glitter was properly gold, I wish I'd added that extra bit of glitter on the ends of my index and middle fingers, I wish I'd cleaned up just a bit more but otherwise I guess it's ok :P. It's just when you spend this long - I'm not even sure how long really, at this point - you want it to be perfect. NEXT TIME I WILL HAVE PERFECTION.

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?

Polish All the Nails

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