Matte Glitter Gradient

Blue + Glitter = my weakness. I ordered China Glaze Dorothy Who? somewhat on a whim, and I am so glad that I did! It’s a blue jelly filled with blue and silver glitter, and it’s just so pretty! There is one coat on my thumb and ring finger over two coats of Zoya Petra, so I can’t say how many coats it would take before there was no visible nail line, but my guess would be not too many. On my other fingers is a matte glitter gradient with Dorothy Who? and Petra. 

Glitter and Patterns

I've already raved about Pretty and Polished Valentino before, but for whatever reason I haven't used it since I got it! Well.. the reason could be because I only bought a mini and I never want to run out! So I've decided if I'm gonna use my indies I have to at least do some sort of nail art with them!
On my right hand I made stripes using striping tape and on my left I did polka dots! For the polka dots I just used a bobby pin an acrylic paint.
Overall I think that using black and white glitter over a black and white design just gives a really cool look and I really love these. :)

Human Nails

So someone that I've recently become (slightly) obsessed with is Tyler Oakley. He has an amazing YouTube channel and I also love his tumblr. He has a line of t-shirts and posters on District Lines which I think are really awesome and so I used them as an inspiration for nail art!

The Inspiration

I'm really happy with how these turned out! I like that everything else is faint except for 'human', which is nice and bold. :) For these I used the newspaper technique. What you do is take something with print on it (usually newspaper, hence the name), cut it into smallish pieces, then dip it in alcohol (I use rubbing, but some will just use vodka) then place it on your nail and apply pressure. When you peel it off the ink should have transferred to your nail. Some may say to just dip your nail into the alcohol. I actually find that doing both gets the best results.

A lot of people have asked me how I got the words to not be backwards, and all you have to do is reverse the text before your print it out. :) So if you want to do something like this for yourself make sure you either have an image or you have your text done as word art!

Water Marbling Success!

I successfully water marbled! Generally when I go to water marble it goes something like “I’m going to water marble and it’s gonna work and it will turn out beautiful like all of the pictures I see and my colors will all look nice and everything will be amazing!” and then two minutes later it’s “Aw screw it water marbling sucks I hate it why did I think this would be a good idea I’m done.” 

This time I was determined though! Unfortunately my original color combo didn’t work out even though it was perfect, but after playing around with it for a bit I came up with these three and after that it was super easy (because I just did the same design over and over!). 

No idea why my ring finger is green instead of yellow. I get that the blue and yellow mixed but I don't know why on this finger and none of the others. It's not as obvious in the photos but in person it's clearly very green. 

So I kinda suck at blogger and I usually just copy whatever I wrote from tumblr on here (sorry, lazy) but for the first time in a long while I'm writing more here! Mainly because I want to talk about things I learned with water marbling (which isn't much) and tumblr isn't the place for a lot of words.

So.

Okay so my original color combo was China Glaze High Hopes, China Glaze Electric Pineapple, and SInful Colors Dream On. In the bottles they all looked really amazing together. It didn't work out, and I'm actually kind of glad because in the bottle Electric Pineapple looks green but came out yellow in water marbling. They all spread at first but as I kept adding drops of polish they just did not want to spread. I figured if I just kept adding it would be fine. Nope. All the colors just mixed together. I figured out that it was Dream On that just blended with the other polishes instead of staying defined from the others. Then I swapped it for Sally Hansen Blue Me Away and that is what you see in the final result! So moral of the story, even if you find a polish that will spread nicely for water marbling, it may just want to mix with other polishes instead. I think it mainly mixed with High Hopes because you can see on my middle finger on the top picture that the line between High Hopes and Blue Me Away isn't as defined - the two started to mix. Thankfully it all turned out well in the end. :)

Flowers and Polka Dots

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it before, but florals absolutely terrify me. There are many things that I just can’t draw well no matter how hard I try, flowers are one of them. I just.. can’t. So as much as I love how they look, I’ve never attempted them until now. The design is based off of a shirt that I have:

I recently bought Zoya Breezi and have been waiting to try it out so I figured this was the perfect opportunity. All I have to say is that I really really really love this color. I love blue nail polish, especially cremes. Despite this, I am severely lacking in the blue nail polish department so Breezi is a much welcome addition. Great formula and application, as is with the other Zoyas that I own. :) 

I was able to purchase Breezi for a penny on a website called Copious because I earned a $10 credit when I signed up through someone's invite link. If you'd like to receive a $10 dollar credit here's my link. Copious sells all types of things such as shoes, clothes, accessories, and beauty supplies. There are a variety of nail polishes to pick from also.

Other colors are China Glaze Electric Pineapple, Sally Hansen Blue Me Away!, Love and Beauty Navy, Essie Navigate Her, and Wet n Wild French White Creme

Gradient Mashup

With all the gradients going around I figured I’d add my own to the mix. They were inspired by this fun drip dye t shirt tutorial. First I did a sponge gradient using China Glaze Go Go Pink and OPI Big Hair…Big Nails over Wet n Wild French White Creme. Then I stippled over that with China Glaze High Hopes. Unfortunately the gradient underneath doesn’t come out too much in the picture, but I still really like they way turned out!

Rainbow Honey Pinkie Promise

This is my second Rainbow Honey polish and it is just as amazing as Siren Song. Pinkie Promise is a part of the Equestria Collection, which was inspired by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The collection includes 6 polishes which represent the 6 main ponies (Pinkie Promise of course corresponding to Pinkie Pie) and two other yet to be revealed polishes. I’m a fan of the show so I was really excited when I learned it was the inspiration for the collection. :)

On to the polish itself… can I just say amazing? Pictured is two coats of Pinkie Promise over three coats of China Glaze Go Go Pink. Application was great, and I didn’t have to “place” the glitter where I wanted it very much, unlike with some glitters. Also there was no “fishing” for any of the larger glitter, every time I dipped the brush into the bottle it came out covered with a nice assortment of glitter. Now, what glitter is in this polish exactly? The polish is described as a “Fun and shimmery pink base filled with hexes and bars in magenta, light blue, and gold” and I would just like to add to that that there are four different sizes of hexes! 

Pinkie Pie is unfortunately no longer available for but it will be for sale later in June. Full sized (15ml) bottles are $10 and minis (7ml) are $5.

This polish was sent to me for consideration. All opinions expressed in this post are my own.