Love & Beauty Pink Speckled Glitter Over Black

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday! I recently saw a gorgeous manicure on Pinterest and I had to know what glitter was used. To my surprise, it was something I already owned. They had simply layered it over black.

This is one coat of Love & Beauty Pink Speckled Glitter over a black creme. Pink Speckled Glitter is a sheer pink jelly with iridescent flakies, micro, and small round glitter. All of the glitter is iridescent, not quite holo, but close. I loved it over a pink base, which you can see here, but I am just head over heels seeing it with black.

Ulta Glitter Gradient

I hope you are enjoying your Tuesday! I have a colorful gradient to share with you using Ulta polishes. 

Ulta Eye Popping Poppy is a red poppy jelly like creme. This is three coats to reach opacity. Pinata-Yada-Yada is a clear base filled with multicolored and multi-size hex glitter. Can you tell I love my multicolored glitters?

Blue Dusted Marshmallow

I hope you are enjoying your Monday! Today I have a little experimentation with pigment to show you. I finally bought Essie Marshmallow about a month ago and wanted to do something fun with it. Initially I thought about a glitter sandwich, but wanted something different. By now most of you have probably seen this tutorial floating around Pinterest where you place pigment at the cuticle, blow, and have gradient nails. Epic fail for my attempt. Perhaps a different pigment. But I loved the color combination, so I sprinkled the pigment on top then blew off the excess. To me, it's delicate and wintery. 

I started off with one coat of Essie Marshmallow. I added the second coat one nail at a time then sprinkled the blue pigment (after the gradient failed). The pigment is an ancient long discontinued shimmer powder from ICING by Claire's. It was part of their Attitudes line. I've literally had the powder for a decade. I have seen many pigments that look very close, a light slightly turquoise blue.

China Glaze It's a Trap-eze

I hope you are enjoying your Sunday! I'm finally beginning to feel better. So, I decided to push through and post. If you're unsure what I'm talking about, see this post. 

Its a new year. I want to post more often and interact more often on Facebook and Twitter. I also decided that it would fun to have you all vote on what polish you would like to see me post about. So each week, I will choose a few from my stash and make a poll. The first one is already up on the top right of my blog.

China Glaze It's a Trap-eze is a milky white jelly filled with multicolored and multi-size hex glitter. I see white, fuchsia  green, blue, yellow, and orange glitter. The application is great and semi opaque in two coats. You could start over white for a more opaque finish. However, I prefer the jelly finish. It gives depth and has a lighter feel to it.

Zoya Tallulah - In Memorial

December was not the best month. The holidays are stressful, plus working in retail during the holidays. Then it got worse. Very early Saturday morning at midnight my grandma passed away. The visitation was last night and the funeral was this afternoon. I managed to post Sunday, but am literally pushing myself to type at the moment. 

It felt appropriate to paint my nails a color she would have liked. Blue was her favorite color. She preferred sapphire and navy blue. I do not own too many of those shades, so I compromised and chose something we both liked.

Zoya Tallulah is a medium electric blue shimmer. The shimmer in this is beautiful. Mostly blue, but occasionally green and purple. The application is perfection and opaque in two coats.