Gimme Glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche - Confetti (Reswatched)

Hi guys, I'm swatching and reswatchng a lot, also I wanted to wear this polish again cause it's really boss. My last swatch was sub-standard and it was in my old layout of writing things so, time to update right? Don't worry about a million reswatches, I'm only reswatching for polishes that I feel like I didn't swatch well enough or they deserve some more love (and there's not that many polishes). I've written the word swatch a lot. Anyway into the post!!

This manicure just makes me happy, Confetti is just perfect on top of gradients. It has small and medium black and white hexes in a clear base with a subtle green/purple shimmer. Yep it's pretty great. I used to think the shimmer detracts, but now I think it adds, it's just a nice little extra thing. I also found every time I've used it in nail art, it's been a very positive addition. Black and white is the ultimate combo, and the glitter toppers just look so great and edgy!!

Now it seems like every brand has a black and white glitter, but this was the first mainstream one I heard about and I was pumped. For me I think when you have one, you have them all (for this kind of polish, I feel differently about others :P), but every variation is fabulous. Otherwise for the L'Oreal Color Riche line I don't own any more and there colours just don't grab me, but they seem good quality. The bottles are also quite different (they're like squoval, thin and tall).

There's was lots of glitter in each stroke, I used 2 and I was happy with the payoff. The glitter spread really well too. I put it over a gradient of Barry M - Dragon Fruit and Rimmel - It's a Scorcher! which I loved, it gives summer vibes 8)

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

Gimme Glitter: Barry M Confetti - Sour Apple

Hello there fine folks!! This is the sad day that school starts :( But also the brilliant day where I got a new indie polish!!!! :D Expect to see that soon, it's all mad exciting. Anyway I got this polish as a gift from a dear friend (the same friend who gave me the indie polish today :)), I love all the Barry M's, obviously not all the Barry M's are perfect (but the vast majority of them are) and the "Confetti Effects" could have been the ones to tear me. Bar glitter is a controversial thing but I am not a hater like most people seem to be.

Sour Apple is full of matte blue and yellow bar glitter, dupe to Nails Inc Brighton (well at least I think so), I honestly don't think bar glitter is all that bad, I think it's ok. What I really like is the colour combination, it's like bar glitter Floam!! I know I will never possess Floam (neither am I very bothered by that at all) but having the bar glitter version is pretty nice. Seriously once people start making matte neon bar glitter polishes I will be so done (though once people start making matte neon anything polishes I will be so done).

The Confetti effects came out last year with 5 polishes, what I really liked is all the sweet based names, how cute right? Maybe I'd get another from this collection, wouldn't make it a priority but I rather like this one.

Each coat was packed with glitter, I used 3 coats cause as usual I wanted the glitter packed look, not difficult to apply, everything spread fine so in general application was good. I put this over various green polishes, weirdly the glitter made them all look more similar. This glitter isn't necessarily rough but it's not completely smooth without topcoat. Ok removal isn't a breeze, but once you've "broken through" the mound of bar glitter it's actually not too hard to remove, better than a lot of other glitter polishes.

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

31DC2013: Day 10 - Gradient Nails

Hi there guys! We are a 3rd of the way in of the challenge and I'm proud that I'm still here frankly, today is gradients, and I love them. They are so gorgeous, shame that I'm not so hot that them even though I make them way harder than they need to be. I'm kind of in love with this look, it's the neon gradient. Yeah I love neon, pretty sure I don't hide this. I originally had a completely different gradient idea in mind but once I got my hands on Models Own Beach Party, things were changing...

AHHHHHHHH NEON I LOVE IT!! If that wasn't clear already. It's brighter in real life and all I can do is stare, I love all things bright (lots of love today). The pink/orange/green is so pretty, I just can't (sorry for lack of a better description).
Once decided the neon gradient was going to happen, I wanted the accent to be a more dulled version (though I probably would have loved this more if it was all neon, but the accents make the neon stand out more). Black and white glitter always looks fantastic over gradients, as most glitters do.

I also did a different gradient technique, now the last time I tried this technique it failed. But that was my fault, I was a bit too cack-handed. Normally I get the sponge and do one colour at a time, I knew the paint all the colours on the sponge and press on would make my gradients look better but I fail to use good advice.
My gradient is blended, when I look close up, the parts where the pink goes into orange and orange goes into green and the blend is beautiful and I am proud. Usually that blend is not there. That's the case for my thumb and ring finger cause I was lazy haha, but I still like those gradients.

Neon polishes:
Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate
Orange: Models Own - Beach Party
Green: China Glaze - I'm With The Lifeguard
I really like the colour of this but it's SO sheer, so many coats were done that day.
White base: Barry M - Matt White
Black and white glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche - Confetti
Regular polishes:
Pink: No7 - Me! Me! Me!
Orange: Essie - Tart Deco
Green: OPI - Jade Is The New Black
Rainbow glitter: OPI - Rainbow Connection
In most lighting Rainbow Connection always looks silver, also Rainbow Connection doesn't really have rainbow glitter, there's mostly pink, orange, green (see my colour scheme ;)) and silver (there's also yellow and blue). The silver bothers me, is there silver in a rainbow?? (No) But I'll always like this polish cause of the name, still searching for my perfect matte rainbow glitter polish :)

There's me and my sponge to give you an idea of what I did, I definitely had to clean up after but it's the best gradient I've done so I can't complain. Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have an amazing day!! :)

Ikat Heart Nail Art

Hello there lovely people. I can no longer look outside as light reflects off the snow and it's extremely bright :P I'm so happy with today's manicure, it's really cute. I've attempted these before though and they ended in utter failure. I mentioned this in a previous post that I had a nail fail that I was really annoyed about. Well that was it, but this time it did not fail. I took inspiration from Bad Luck Barbie cause it's a lovely manicure she did.

Though I much prefer long nails, designs look cute on shorter nails. I like the ikat print in general, it's more "rough", so I'm a fan of this. I just think it's really cute, and I love all things cute. The lil' hearts, ok I think it's cute, we get it :P I also love that black and white glitter. Oh and I love pink too.
Pink: Orly - Basket Case
Light Pink: Barry M - Strawberry Ice Cream
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Models Own - Snow White
Black and white glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche  - Confetti
Strawberry Ice Cream is extremely difficult to use, it's been that way for a while but it hasn't improved. It's very very gloopy (I have had it for a while though), getting a coat on the nail is really hard. But it's my only pale pink so I work with it. I used 3 coats and had bubbles, could have been due to thick coats but there was no other way to get the polish to work. Another thing to mention is that even though Confetti is awesome, it's really difficult to remove, of course there's the tin foil method, but if you're not using that it's hard.

In other news I have watched 3 films in 2 days. And I can't cope, I am such a hopeless romantic (works with the hearts in the manicure). I love chick flicks, even though it's pretty much the same every time, I LOVE it every time. There was Sky High yesterday, which is SO CUTE that I couldn't handle it. It was also quite a quirky film which is my thing. There were superheroes and they incorporated the pop art style and I love that. I watched Toy Story 3 today and that is one great film, Pixar can do no wrong. Finally this evening I watched Miss Congeniality, and yeah I love chick flicks and it was wonderful. I was in a chick flick mood tonight, it's when the girl and the guy get together I feel like crying cause it's all so cute :') Sorry that was on my mind and I love movies, I need more.

Thank you very much for reading (and if you read my movie rave, good on you) and have a wonderful day!!! :)

Gimme Glitter: L'Oreal Color Riche - Confetti

Hi there guys!!! Happy March, this isn't scientifically proven but I'm pretty sure I'm in the best moods in spring, as I have already mentioned the weather has been so good and I really can't get over it. My horrible english essay is over and I can be happy again :D

Ok this post is special, I have already deemed it as that. Ok well anyone who hasn't fallen in love with black and white glitter clearly hasn't seen Chalkboard Nails's black and white glitter comparison post. I cry tears of joy when I read that post, it's so beautiful. So for a long time I had been planning which one to get (I wasn't going to get it anytime soon as I am yet to dip my toes into indie waters) and then SHABOOM I find out about Confetti and everything changes (oh my goodness I am so dramatic). I thought my eyes were deceiving me "What a mainstream brand doing a black and white glitter?" (I know other brands have done it but I mean one that I could easily get). So I ran and got it (not literally).

I knew when I first used a black and white I would put it over pink, I am a pink girl and from other swatches I knew it would look nice. Oh man I can't describe my feelings about this it looks so awesome, like spattered but even better. The black and white glitter hole in my nail polish heart has been filled :P

I put this over Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate (it's a really bright neon pink, I can never get it to photograph to properly but seriously my editing skillz were actually a thing today), I had to use a white base (Models Own - Snow White and Gorgeous - French Manicure White) and one thick coat of pink over. The L'Oreal bottle is really small, just saying, it's 5ml. It consists of small and medium hex black and white matte glitter, it also has a faint shimmer which I'm glad you can't really see as it would take away from the glitter. LOVE, I need to use this forever.

Thank you for reading and have a wonderful day!!! :D