Gimme Glitter: OPI - Lights Of Emerald City

Hello there wonderful folk!! I mentioned in my post about Barry M Raspberry I wore something on top of it for the production of Grease my school was doing. Yes I know glitter isn't v appropriate but once I finished painting I knew I needed glitter and my best friend gave me this polish and it's so nice that I had to. It's also linked to the fact that I love the musical Wicked and we study some songs from Wicked like "One Short Day" in our music class and we lol.

Perhaps red isn't the best base for this but I still really like it. I do want to find the right base for Lights Of Emerald City though. Those squares are awesome.
Lights Of Emerald City is a glitter topper with medium white squares and smaller opalescent squares. I've mentioned that I hate the opalescent effect but that isn't the case here. It looks awesome, the shift of orange to green is sweet and over different bases you get a more blue hue. The opalescent squares look particularly impressive over a darker colour.
Though the white square glitter has the same issue as the square glitter in Minnie Style as there's an extra hinge on one side and I don't like it. But it can be dealt with.

This came out with the Oz The Great and Powerful Soft Shades collection that came out last year. I remember I wanted this polish the moment I saw the promo pictures. But then I saw the swatches, and while I was still convinced the accessibility to this polish wasn't there and I gave up. But then Christmas and best friend who is incredible gets me this and it's great!! The sheer polishes in the Soft Shades collections are not my thing at all, but awesome glitter polishes I can do.

The base was a little thick and sometimes you wouldn't get that much glitter on the nail. So I came up with a method to get a crap ton of glitter on the nails. Basically I'd load up the brush and put it on a nail (and I mean load it up), but the base would be thick so then I spread the glitter on the other nails too so I'd get max glitter on the brush to the nails without it getting majorly thick. Like I'm proud of how many white squares I got :P
I used 2 glitter packed coats therefore making it a bit thick, but it seemed to not be as thick as it dried. There was a bit of glitter moving but nothing major, the formula isn't perfect but it definitely isn't bad.

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

Penguin Aurora

Hi there guys!! Ok this was the other half of my Christmas manicure but like I'm all out of order here on the blog but whatever, this wasn't as Christmas related so I thought it would be appropriate to post now. I was meant to match but then I didn't want to paint Kermit twice (and I'm glad I made that decision). So I did something simpler, but I LOVED it!!

Penguin and glitter gradients, LOVE. Seriously the index and middle gradients might be the best glitter gradients I've ever done, the combo is GORGEOUS!! Now my gradients were pretty sub-standard but this is why I love glitter, it enhances every gradient a million times better. I might do a full manicure of that gradient, I love it!! The penguin is pretty cute and was so easy to paint, I made a little bow out of placed glitter which I think is mega cute. I wrote aurora cause I like the word, but the gradients kind of give that aurora feel (well I think anyway).

I get lazy during gradients, I'm meant to sponge them but then it's such a slow process that I just get the brush and paint it on, which works so all is ok. The glitter gradients look amazing matte, all glitter should be mattified cause in general it looks incredible.

Sorry for the state of my hands, this time I really don't know what happened :/

Blue of the penguin: OPI - Get Your Number
White: Barry M - Matt White
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Orange: Essie - Tart Deco
Light blue to purple to pink gradient: M&S - Ultraviolet to Barry M - Prickly Pear to Barry M - Dragon Fruit
Pink/purple/blue glitter: OPI - Polka.com (I LOVE THAT PURPLE GLITTER!! Ok this glitter is just so pretty)
Teal to purple to dark blue gradient: M&S - Peacock to OPI - Plum & Get It to Kiko - 265
Square glitter: OPI - Lights Of Emerald City (Ok I love those squares, clearly I need more square glitter, clearly I need more of all the glitter cause I clearly don't have enough glitter haha :P)

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