Polish All the Nails

While travelling in New York over Christmas, I kept an eye for...something.  Something unique, something you don't see often, something that stood out.  While wandering around Brooklyn, I found the thing that I was looking for.  It may not be practical but oh man, is it sparkly.  Covered in a perfect gold-red-fuchsia-pale pink gradient of flat sequins, this bag had to be mine.  When I got it home, I of course had to honour it with a glitter gradient of my own. I wanted to bring in the silver reverse side to all the sequins so I started this mani with two coats of Sally Hansen Celeb City.  I'm not really sure why now as I've tried to put glitter on this before and it never quite looks right.  Anyway, on I went with my usual technique , using Sally Hansen Invisible in very thin layers to stick the glitter on.  Again, I've had luck lately in first laying a strip of glitter down the centre of my nail then building out either side.  Once done...

With New Year's nearly here, I had to come up with something special.  I'll be wearing this amazing dress I found that has a gradient of light blue to dark charcoal running through it, covered in silver lines.  It's so pretty and it just had to have matching nails!  This was my first attempt at a non-glitter gradient and I'm really happy with how it turned out. For the gradient I used OPI "I Want to be A-Lone Star", Sally Hansen "Gun Shot" and Sally Hansen Complete Manicure "Black Platinum".  On top, mimicking the lines is a silver glitter nail art polish I found at Dollarama.  I've experimented with a couple of different applicators for gradients and using an eye-shadow sponge seemed to work well here.  I have to practice as it isn't the smoothest transition but at least the colours are a close match.  As much as I love the colour of the OPI it shows the brush strokes and is difficult to apply.  The Black Platinum was also...