Orly Preamp, pink glitter gradation & nail art stickers

 

Orly - Preamp, pink glitter gradation & nail art stickers

Hi all... I'm trying to make a comeback after several weeks' hiatus. Here we have Orly Preamp, a super pretty pink with tiny duochrome glass particles. Lately I've been obsessed with gradations, and this is Pretty Woman PW9 sponged over Sinful Colors Forget Now plus nail art stickers, which is another staple of mine.

Gold glitter gradation

Gold glitter gradation

This mani looks so much better IRL than in my pictures... *sigh* Hopefully the sun will come out tomorrow so I can show you the glitz! Here are the polishes I used:

L'Oreal Shine & Resist - 735 (the base)

Gallery Colours - Gold Sparkle

Color Club - Gingerbread

Milani Jewel FX - Gold

OPI - Heart Of Gold

Leopard spots on pink glitter + leopard pedicure

Leopard spots on pink glitter

This is bunch of different pink glitter layered on top of each other (Gallery Colours Purple Sparkle, 2 coats; Saffron #03, 1 coat; Top Beauty unnamed iridescent glitter explosion in pink base, 2 coats, Maybelline Violet Water, 2 coats) with leopard spot nail art stickers.

Pedi warning, feet ahead!! :p

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 Matching pink leopard mani & pedi

Gold gradation on wine & nail art stickers

Gold gradation on wine & nail art stickers

Hey, my mani matches the layout! :D This is Sally Hansen Save the Date with a Nails Inc. Wardour Mews and Essence Make It Golden gradation, topped with nail art stickers.

H&M Notoriously Beautiful & glitter funky French

H&M - Notoriously Beautiful, 1 coat

H&M - Notoriously Beautiful & glitter funky French

Hello Berlin!

Hello Berlin! aka rhinestone explosion

I'm off to Berlin in the morning, but before that I want to show you my special mani I did for the occasion. The base on all the fingers (apart from the ring fingers) consists of Sally Hansen Platinum Chrome, Gallery Colours Silver Sparkle and Nubar Hologram Glitter, one coat of each. The symbols I did are a heart, M, a rainbow, the German flag, D, N, the Finnish flag, another rainbow, A and a cocktail glass. Why MDNA? Because it's the title of Madonna's latest album and the name of her current world tour which I'll be attending with a friend! ♥ ♥ ♥

Maybelline Magenta Shock & Pot of Gold

Maybelline - Magenta Shock, 5 coats

Maybelline - Magenta Shock, 5 + 2 coats

Hard Candy Cosmic

Hard Candy - Cosmic, 3 coats

Claire's Mood Peaceful/Confident & Finger Paints Art You Wondering?

Claire's Mood - Peaceful/Confident, 2 coats

I only got a VERY subtle colour changing effect with Peaceful/Confident - perhaps my bottle has gone bad already? In any case, I really didn't care that much for this colour, so hello all the layering possibilities...

Claire's Mood - Peaceful/Confident & Finger Paints - Art You Wondering? 2 + 2 coats

...Um, nope, Art You Wondering? didn't really manage to save this mani. In IRL the polish has way more blue glitter particles in it than you'd think based on these pictures, but my camera wasn't going to co-operate with me or the polish.

Blue & white floral nail art

Blue & white floral nail art

The base is Gina Tricot Marina (such a beautiful colour but man what a crappy formula it has), the tips were first sponged with white and then painted over with Kleancolor Shining Sea. Finally, I added some nail art stickers, rhinestones and white dots. The bottom picture is the most color accurate.

Onni the poodle's disco nails

Nubar Hologram Glitter, 1 coat

Even the poodles in my household get subjected to glittery nail polish... Okay, so Onni does not mind a bit if I polish his nails once per year - he just sits there, facing me and is totally still while I paint his nails. I always start with a coat of Orly Bonder, then a coat of the densest, fastest drying glitter that I can find, and finish it off with a coat of Nubar Diamont. All of this takes just 10 minutes, and Onni barely bats an eye at me. Afterwards he is showered with nom-noms for having been such a good boy. He does not try to lick off the polish, nor does he gnaw at his nails - if he did, I would stop painting them.

Summer fruits nail art

Summer fruits nail art

Yellow & green gradation

...No, it isn't really a gradation at all

The polishes used are:
- Rimmel Sunshine (yellow creme)
- Revlon Pineapple Fizz (yellow glass fleck)
- Etude House YL803 (yellow jelly w/ opalescent glitter)
- Misa Mega Margarita (green glass fleck)