Gimme Glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection

Hey there guys, I hope you're having a nice day presently. I've shown this polish a lot, but not in a proper Gimme Glitter post. Also over time my thoughts of this polish has changed gradually. Fun fact, this was my first OPI polish ever and I got it on Christmas Eve, it's a really cute first OPI story ;)

Rainbow Connection is a mix of shiny rainbow small and medium hexes in a clear base. Well not exactly rainbow, more pink, orange, gold, blue, green and silver. Man early polish days me just loved the sound of rainbow glitter and the name of this polish. But now it really falls flat, it just doesn't look very nice and I'm not as into metallic glitter as I used to be (with definite exceptions). The purple base was a bad call too, I thought that it would add the purple that's in a rainbow but it really didn't work. I'm just not sold on this polish.

This was from the Holiday Muppets Collection in 2011 (wow it's been a while), I remember a lot of people were disappointed with that collection. But the glitter polishes were meant to be layered, but present day me wouldn't be so keen on those polishes. An abundance of shiny glitter, though I think the mixes were better than Rainbow Connection, more straightforward and less messy.

My bottle is quite old so that must be partially to blame for the tricky formula, there was a lot of moving to be done for a somewhat even spread. It was also pretty like gooey (never described a polish like that before), but once again I blame that on old, halfway used bottle. I used 2ish coats, I used a loaded up brush and then touched up places without glitter.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)

Poinsettia Nail Art

Hi there guys!! Happy weekend once again!! I thought once my exams were over I'd be a free woman but it seems the opposite has happened and I'm busier than before :/ Thankfully I have the weekend to catch up on things but really I should be watching movies everyday and not having to revise for tests and preparing powerpoints :/ I know that sounds very silly but surely the lead up to Christmas should be more relaxed, which is a reason I haven't got as many posts up as I've wanted to. I did get to decorate our tree today which was very nice.
I have poinsettia nail art today and it's one of my favourite floral nail art that I've ever done :)

I think the difference this time was the fact I outlined with the corresponding colours instead of black. Now I love a black outline (you probably could tell) but this change was lovely, personally I'm very proud of this and I think it's quite pretty. Also all the petals were proportioned which is very important to me. It just worked and for my floral nail art can be a bit of a unknown factor for me.

I wasn't sure at all how this was going to turn out and yays for it working but it was random and not controlled. I did a "gradient" but the colours were too close together for it to show up. And not like it was a good gradient anyway, it was going to be covered up. Then I did the red petals and I was just hoping they were the same size and did the same for the leaves.
I tried the Deborah Lippmann topcoat again and it leaves a manicure very smooth but there's the chance of smudging (thankfully there's only a little bit here), I've decided when there's no exposed white or black in the design I'll use this topcoat (cause my Color Club one is slowly running out :().

Base (from moon to tip): M&S - Champagne, The Face Shop - GL112, M&S - Golden Sands sealed with China Glaze - Luxe and Lush
Red petals: Essie - E-Nuff Is E-Nuff and OPI - Jinx (I love Jinx :))
Red outline: Barry M - Raspberry
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad (my favourite green polish, just saying)
Dark Green: Rimmel - Block Your Green!
Mustard Yellow: Topshop - Naked

Thank you very much for reading and I hope you have a fantastic weekend!!! :)