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I hope you all have a wonderful and safe 4th of July! Here's my first ever tape mani.

I started with three coats of Illamasqua Scorch.

The red is L.A. Girl Glitter Addict Animate and the blue is L.A. Girl Glitter Addict Jostle.

I'm sure most of you know how to do tape manis as they are super popular (and awesome) and all over the nail blogosphere now.

Here is how I did it, in case you are curious. I started with three coats of Scorch and then topped it with Poshe. I let it dry pretty well, for several hours. Then, I used scotch tape to mark off on one nail everything except for the part I wanted to be red. I painted it red, careful not to get polish on my skin, and kind of encouraged the glitter pieces to spread out as evenly as I could with the brush. After that, I pulled the piece of tape off, rather swiftly.

I finished all the red parts, going one nail at a time and being careful not to smudge the red glittered areas after. I tried taking some of the stickiness off the tape by sticking it to my palm first, but I found that I actually preferred the tape to be quite sticky. I didn't have any problems because the base polish was completely dry and with it stickier I could keep it on the edge near my cuticle better (so none of the polish I was painting on would pool under the tape).

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For this mani I started with three coats of Claire's Mood Polish in Innocent/Daring.

As you can see, it looks quite gray in the bottle. On the nail, it goes from a somewhat bright peach to a deeper blue toned gray.

My hands were pretty warm in these pics, no thanks (or maybe thanks) to the Florida blazing hot sun. The tips usually look more blue most of the time - which is really neat.

I finished with a coat of L.A. Girl Glitter Addict Celebrate.

I really like how the colors all look together!

I only wish Claire's polishes lasted longer on me. I got a pretty big chip on my right thumbnail less than 24 hours after I had put it on. :(

I figured I should have the best of both worlds: nudes and glitters. I started this mani with three coats of Sephora by OPI Don't Feed the Hand Models.

Don't Feed the Hand Models is a creme nude that definitely gives me a nice, slightly cool, slightly pink mannequin hand effect.

I put one coat of L.A. Girl Glitter Addict Uninhibited on top.

Uninhibited is a clear base with small (looks to be) square and larger black hex glitters. The glitters have a neat glimmery, shiny finish to them that looks very interesting on the nail.

I did try to do a thin coat with Uninhibited, but it wasn't cooperating that way and wanted to come out rather thick. It wouldn't spread right thin. Other than it not doing what I wanted it to do, it applied just fine.

When I got the bottle and first looked at it, I noticed random red glitters in it. Sure enough, I have two pieces of red glitter on my nails. You can probably see the one on my middle finger and the other is on the middle finger of my right hand. Kind of funny, huh?