Glitter overload, anyone?

So, maybe I should just rename my blog. Something to do with glitter obviously. What can I say, sparkly catches my eye. In my defense, I came across some GORGEOUS glitters that reminded me of fancy, glittery Easter Eggs. Plus, this way I can swatch several glitters at the same time.

Milani "Pink Flare", Wet n Wild "Back Alley Deals", Wet n Wild "Believe Me, It's Real", Deborah Lippmann "Mermaid's Dream", and Sinful Colors "All About You".

On my thumb is "Pink Flare" from the Milani One Coat Glitter Collection. What you see is actually two coats, not one, but I still think it's great coverage. Some of the glitter pieces are pretty prismatic, too. Very nice.

On my index finger is "Back Alley Deals" from the Wet n Wild coloricon Ice Baby Collection. Small purple glitter base and larger fuchsia pieces. Two coats.

My middle finger has "Believe Me, It's Real", also from the Wet n Wild coloricon Ice Baby Collection. It has a small blue glitter base with larger purple glitter pieces. Also two coats. I think this is my favorite color out of the five from this week, but I'm disappointed in how it photographed. The purple glitter in it is very hard to see, and the color doesn't look good in general in the picture. It looks awesome in person, though!

The color on my ring finger is something that's really exciting, at least for me. It's Deborah Lippmann "Mermaid's Dream". It's pricy stuff, and the only bottle of Deborah Lippmann I'm likely to own for awhile. It has a seafoam green base. I'm not sure, but I think the seafoam green is a really small micro-glitter. It also has a touch of gold micro-glitter, and larger turquoise glitter pieces. Two coats.

My pinky is sporting the only color I've already used in my blog before: Sinful Colors "All About You", gold glitter with a smattering of orange glitter. This one took three coats for coverage, and it probably could have benefited with a fourth coat.

I have two coats of Seche Vite fast dry top coat on each, but the two Wet n Wild colors would need more layers of top coat if you want perfectly smooth nails.

Which one of these colors is your favorite?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Since tomorrow is Valentine's Day, I thought I would go with an appropriately girly manicure, and nothing says Valentine's Day like hearts, glitter, and the color pink.

I had originally planned to paint my nails alternating red and white polish, with some Jordana brand  heart glitter I bought at Kmart, but when I tried to use it, I could get very little of the hearts to get on the nail polish brush. It was a bit of a disappointment. Instead, I used three different polishes, all from the Sinful Colors line available from Walgreens. I have pink polish and pink glitter on most of my nails, with a white accent nail featuring red confetti hearts from Sally Beauty Supply. I really like how they turned out, but for some reason they took forever to dry. It must be the Sinful Colors brand.

I had a friend over Saturday night for manicure night, and she painted her nails purple with some freehand silver accent strokes. Right now I'm still too unsure of painting freehand designs on my right with my left hand and getting it to look right, but hers look great!

See you next week!