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: 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?

FULL RAINBOW GLITTER INSANITYYYYYYYY

I don't know what it is, but there's something about hex glitter that is very pleasing to me. The tessellation, the way the colours can interlace, it's just great. The problem is, the tiny glitter - my favourite - is actually quite difficult to find. The red, especially, difficult to track down. I FINALLY FOUND SIXTEEN COLOURS BIATCHES. THUS, RAINBOW-Y-EST RAINBOWS EVER AND I'm sharing too at the The Sparkly Shop ... But we're here for this rainbow today. LOOK AT THIS WOULD YOU.

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