White and Gold Glitter Nails!

Do you know how hard it is to write another glitter intro? Like, sure, I haven't used this glitter before but you've seen this with different colours. You know, this might not be a bad time to just talk a little about my camera setup and how I'm happy I've finally found a way for the holographic rainbow in my glitter to show up. I have quite a complicated setup for my photos. I have a Canon T3i DSLR with a matching 60mm 1:1 macro lens. This means I can get realllllly close up photos, like the ones I take of my thumb. What this also means though is that I have to get really close to my nails with a big camera, something that's super difficult to light. So I have a lightbox. That's fine, but it gives out really even light which eats sparklies. To compensate for THAT, I have a ring flash on my lens. Until recently, when I put fresh batteries in it, I didn't realise it was cranked way down. So I put it on full brightness. FINALLY, SPARKLIES. It does make my skin look awful but if you focus on just the glitter, we'll be good. So that's why some of my pictures look weird. But sparkly. Anyway....

I tried a new white base for this mani, the white end of a Revlon Nail Art Neon duo polish. Turns out that two coats gives you a really nice, even white, which is a lot more difficult to achieve than you'd think. Using a slow drying top coat, I did the usual stripe down the middle and center colour of glitter. If you're careful with the spacing up front, it's a lot easier to just keep it going over the full nail. A couple coats of Seche Vite and you're done.

The Verdict: Turns out there's a reason lots of people have been doing white and gold nails lately, it's awesome. And sparkly. So there's that :)

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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