GLITTER GRADIENT~

I'M BACK AGAIN

As much as I loved those Elvis nails, I have to admit that I love the color grey even more. This is definitely a grey that leans way into the blue spectrum, but I still think it still falls in the grey family.

 I'd describe it as slate...

The slate color I used is a lovely Zoya called Marina. I'm in love with every Zoya polish I have for multiple reasons. They have gorgeous colors, apply smoothly, and free of formaldehyde, toluene, dibutyl phthalate and camphor. 

Next, I applied China Glaze's Some Like it Haute, a gooooooooooorgeous glitter. Definitely one of my favorites. It's comprised mostly of grey/black and silver glitters, but also generously packed with slightly larger (but still small!) holographic hexagons. (Normally, I hate alliterations, but that one's just too good)

Then, Essie's Set in Stones; a polish made up of 3 different sized silver hexagonal glitters. And lastly, as always, a thick coat of Seche Vite. This top coat is by far my favorite, especially because manicures packed with this much glitter need smoothing out and Seche Vite is well suited for the job.

Anyway, I think I'll actually keep this manicure on my fingers for a few days. Glitter gradients are one of my favorite manicures and aren't very complicated at all. It's a quick way to do something radical to your nails.

tschüs!!

HELLO!

Here it is! My first post on my blog dedicated entirely (for now, anyway) to all things nail related. For the time being I realize that I'm likely just talking to myself in the depths of cyber space, but hopefully that'll change soon. Anyway, let's dive right in, shall we?

I used 3 different polishes here, Essie's Butler Please, Illamasqua's Rare and Sephora's Chaotic. These photos seriously do not do these colors justice. The yellow is so bright it is practically glowing, and that's the reason why I love it so much. It's like I have little glow sticks on my fingertips. & The blue is a truly unique color that, for lack of a better and more eloquent description, I would describe as neon, royal blue. That's right, neon royal blue. Be advised that it dries matte on its own, so definitely be prepared to layer on some top coat to really get it to POP!

 As you can see, one hand is yellow with one blue nail, and vice versa. This is usually my go-to look when I can't decide between two polish colors and it's guaranteed to be weird. And weird is good. Very good.

 Then, over the whole thing is a generous coat of Chaotic- a polish that's comprised of multi-sized black and white glitters ranging from teeny tiny dots to little sticks and jumbo hexagons! 

It seriously lives up to the name.

So! That's today's manicure. I tend to want to change my manicure every day, sometimes even more frequently than that- so stay tuned ;)

tschüs!

(that's German for bye!)