Matte Tinted Glitter Gradient

I hope you're enjoying your Monday! Today I have another manicure for Monkey See Monkey Do Monday. Basically you take inspiration from or recreate a mani done by someone else. 

I was inspired by this mani done by Ommorphia Beauty Bar. I used completely different polishes, but achieved a very similar effect. I used one coat of OPI Lincoln Park After Dark as my base. Next I sponged OPI Rainbow Connection on about two-thirds of my nails starting at the cuticle. To give the tint, I did one coat of OPI Houston We Have a Purple, a sheer jelly. Finally to give make my design a matte finish, I used Hard Candy Matte-ly in Love. 

I posted pictures of both matte and shiny. I love the way adding the matte top coat makes the glitter pop.

OPI retails for $8.50 at Ulta and Target, also various places online. 

Please check out the other lovely bloggers participating in this challenge. :)

Amber Did It

Angelina's Nails & More

Beauty Bumbles

Dressed Up Digits

Fancy Phalanges

Fanning the Fumes

Geeky Owl

Gnarly Gnails

Jen's Painted Tips

Kawaiinize Your World

LeSamowen

Macabre Manicures

Maquiclub Girl

Nail Polish is my Crack

PishPosh and Polish

Polish Crazed

Polish Lover

Tales of Knit and Nails

The Clockwise Nail Polish

The Crumpet

The Manicured Monkey

The (mis)Adventures of a Wanna Be Martha

Toxic Vanity

Springtime Jelly Sandwich

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday! This week's Monday Nail Art Challenge on PAA is Jelly Sandwich. I've never done one before. As far as I can tell, a traditional one is sandwiching glitter between two layers of jelly polish. I do not think any of my polishes qualify as jellies, but the effect is still there.

For this sandwich, I layered one coat of Wet n Wild Tickled Pink, one coat of OPI Rainbow Connection, and two coats of Sephora by OPI A True Romantic. The last picture shows just Tickled Pink and Rainbow Connection, so you can get an idea of what the layering effect is.

I cannot quite put my finger on what this reminds me of. Something sweet, I know that.

Color Club Worth the Risque & OPI Rainbow Connection

I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend! A new year is on its way, so I am hoping to do New Year's inspired manis until January arrives.

Today I have a sparkly polish combination to show you. Holo and glitter. :)

I promise Color Club Worth the Risque is much more holo in person. It is a linear holo. The application was great and opaque in two coats. And the shine! There is no top coat in the pictures above. The polish itself is that shiny.

OPI Rainbow Connection is a pretty glitter polish packed with a rainbow of colors. It took a little patience to get some of the glitter to evenly distribute on my nail, but a lot of glitter polishes are like that. I used two coats, both thin to get the amount of glitter I wanted.