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: 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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