Sunset Gradient Maze Nails!

So I may have mentioned that I'm not working right now. My company kinda collapsed a bit, but that's ok cos we were compensated. My life right now is me, sitting at my computer at strange hours of the day and night, talking to my cat and occasionally my boyfriend. It also means for some weird reason that my impulse control has gone out the window. I dyed my hair from a box which is a terrible idea if you're blonde and when one too many nails broke on my photo hand I got fake nails. Wooo! It's kinda hard to type but I'm digging them a bit. They're all long and not too thick. They're long enough now that I feel comfortable totally copying an amazing design Chalkboard Nails did the other day. I'm not kidding when I say copied. Go look at her stuff. Not afraid to say I both love her and hate her a bit, she's too good!

Anyway, for these nails I finally got the makeup sponge gradient to work properly. Turns out a white base is a really good idea. I started with two coats of L.A. Girl Delicate then painted stripes of American Apparel Neon Yellow and Neon Blue, with Urban Outfitters Hottub in the middle on a sponge. I then just dabbed it on my nails. The colour choice was incredibly inspired as you get a wonderful yellow-orange-pink-purple-blue sunset gradient. I added a coat of Seche Vite cos it never hurts then freehanded the maze design using LA Colors Art Deco nail art polish. I thought about using tape but that's just too much work. A final coat of Seche Vite and I'm done!

The Verdict: Man, this design is amazing, I wish I'd thought of it! I also don't mind my new fake nails even though they woke me up last night cos they're taking a bit of getting used to. Yay gradients!

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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