Yep, I Think This is Neon Enough

For a long time I had so much trouble trying to get water marbling to work. Desperate for answers, I spent a lot of time watching youtube videos hoping to see what I was doing wrong. I never really had an "aha!" moment from the videos but I did find the most awesome rainbow gradient with black and clear marbling over the top that I vowed to try. When I found my makeup sponges the other day and had the black and clear water marble down, I knew I had to try it.

To start, I added two coats of Orly Dayglow as I really wanted my neons to pop. I hate that phrase, but it's true, I needed my colours to be super bright. I've not had a lot of luck painting a gradient on a sponge so I added each colour individually using the edge of a sponge. Once dry, I did my water marble over the top using China Glaze Liquid Leather and Essie Kisses and Bises. I finally figured out how to control how thick each band of colour is with the marbling. If you'll notice on my index finger, the black bands are super thin compared to the rest of my fingers. Turns out size of drop of polish = size of band. I found that if I did a full droplet of polish I got a thick band vs just touching the brush to the water. So that's useful.

The Verdict: I love how this came out. I know I've done a good job making neon when it blows out my skin colour. Despite this taking a ridiculous amount of time to do, I think it's worth it. If you were wondering about the colours used in the gradient, I don't have them all on hand but most of them are from the Summer Neons collection from China Glaze, with some American Apparel and Urban Outfitters mixed in there. If you want the name of a specific colour, leave it in the comments and I'll find it.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the big...

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

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