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A Few Manicures I've Done Recently

Over the past few weeks I've been experimenting with some different combination of colours, glitters and patterns.  All these were taken with my iPhone so please excuse the quality!   Christmas party nails!  I loved how this one turned out, so Christmas-y.  This was using Rimmel "Stiletto Red" with Love & Beauty green glitter. Found this one in the supermarket, no less.  Really hard to photograph but pretty green flakes.  Joe Fresh "Twilight" . Loved this one, so sparkly.  This was using Sally Hansen Complete Manicure "Glity Pleasure" and Sephora by OPI "Only Gold for Me".  Another great sparkly one that had terrible wear.  This was only after a day, you can see how much it was coming off at the tips.  Using Rimmel "615 Night Before" and Wet n Wild "Party of Five Glitters". I've spent a long time looking at holographic polishes and decided to bite the bullet and try Nfu-Oh 61, a supposedly

Lightning Bolt Nails!

A couple of days ago I was up late and thought I'd give lightning bolt nails a shot.  Turns out it's not too hard to do but reallllly easy to smudge, hence the wonky index finger.  I found that doing a light main coat, thin top coat, middle colour, top coat, top colour then top coat was a winner.  It gets really thick so you have to keep all your coats as thin as possible.  Despite some comments that these looked like Pokemon nails, I was happy with the first attempt. Colours used: Essie Vermillionaire (love that name), Sally Hansen Black Out and Sally Hansen Celeb City for the very sparkly silver.

First Attempt at Layering Stamps

As part of my quest to learn more about how to do my nails fabulously, I picked the Bundle Monster plates and tried them out.    This is the first time I attempted a layered look and I'm really happy with the result.  It may not be sparkly but I'm still pleased with the result. The colours used here are Sally Hansen Wet Cement and Konad White and Black.  As I mentioned in my previous post I'm just starting out and would love to hear any feedback over whether more or less photos are good, more descriptions, etc.  Thanks for reading!