Pink Fire Mermaid Nails!

MOAR GLITTER YES SPARKLIES GOOD VERY MUCH YES. I'm such the wordsmith. What I lack in wordies, I make up for in sparklies! Cos I have another mermaidy thing to show you! This one is purple, pink and gold! I have even made the glitter available if you wanna try. You know, if you aren't chicken. Bock. I HAVE HAD A LOT OF COFFEE THIS MORN, DEAL WITH IT.

Usual deal in how these are actually done. I went for a co-ordinating base, this time Glitter Gal Crushed Ego cos it's holo and it was the first one I came across. Anyone want to help me organise a lot of polish? I can't find anything. Anyway, after two coats of that it was on to the glitter application. Usual process: a stripe of top coat down the middle of my nail, then a center column of glitter and then building out both sides. If you pay attention to the spacing from the get-go, it's easy to maintain it across the whole nail. My nails have been a bit breaky lately and I've taken to doing my own acrylics. The Nailene Brush-on Gel set not only is good for tips, it makes for an excellent glitter top coat. Nice and shiny and doesn't go all weird after a day or two like Seche Vite.

The Verdict: I CAN'T DECIDE IF I LIKE THIS ONE OR MY OCEAN MERMAID MANI BETTER OH NO WHAT A SHAME GLITTER OVERLOAD.

If you're interested, this exact glitter is available on The Sparkly Shop. Cos sparklies are surprisingly hard to pin down. And there's a full rainbow too... and ocean colours.... :D:D:D:D:D

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?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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