Gimme Glitter: Etude House - #346

Hello!! Today I have another Etude House polish to show you. Man I love glitter so much, I don't care about the difficult removal at all. Glitter is that great. The mix here is so good too.

#346 is a clear base with tons of big matte glitter, theres blue, pink and white hexes, white and yellow circles, pink butterflies, blue moons, yellow and pink stars, blue snowflakes (not shown here) but most importantly huge pink holographic circles. They are fabulous. The mix is like the definition of fun , I love the colours together and big shaped glitter is as fun as it's gonna get.

Just as a side note, the bottles are different and more boring. I liked the cute fancy pink lid but I suppose the plain circle white lid is more practical for storing and easier to see the colours. But when have I been about that life? Not that it matters much haha. Again love what Etude House is doing generally.

I love this combination (Orly Frolic and Rimmel Disco Ball). The glitter definitely sticks out so ample topcoat is definitely needed. After the first application the glitter came out pretty easily, fishing for the bigger pieces wasn't hard either. This is a coat and then some extra glitter so make everything look nicer. An issue I've found with Etude House is that there's too much base and while there's probably a touch too much base otherwise it's very good.

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

Gimme Glitter: Hare Polish - The Teen Queen

Hello there you fine folks!! Happy Friday, I'm looking forward to sorting out my work and have my organisation not resemble a shambles :P This is my 2nd ever indie polish and I was totes excite. I'm very picky about my indies but this was sooooooooooooo pretty I had to. Also I really like Hare Polish as a brand, the combos are usually very unusual but simultaneously so beautiful. I got this exactly 10 working days after I ordered, and for an international order I think that's pretty great.

The Teen Queen is very small, small and medium blue matte hexes, medium and largeish baby pink hexes, baby pink squares and a blue shimmer that flashes green sometimes. From The Last Queen of France collection. The mix of glitter is just so pretty and feminine, I'm in love with the bright blue glitter. And the underlying shimmer is gorgeous. I just love matte glitter and this is abundant with it and it has such a sweet feeling to it.

I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THE BOTTLE!!!

I was trying to get this polish around September time but I was there at the restock 2 hours after and thought "I'll buy it tomorrow". As you can guess it was out of stock tomorrow. 

But October's restock I was there, a couple hours before I had the Hare Polish's etsy up on my screen and the minute the restock happened I was there and 3 minutes later my order was placed. Of course when I checked the next day this was still in stock, but it's better to be safe than having to wait another month. 

My excuse for buying this was doing well in exams and winning a prize at my school's prize day, but really. Did I need an excuse? :P I know some ladies have ninja polish buying skills and I want to become one of these ladies so I don't miss a beautiful polish. 

Formula was fabulous, it was very glitter packed and looky here. No bubbles!!! Who knew the day would ever come. I was debating about which polish to use it over, as I knew light blue would be a lovely base but I also wanted to a try a darker blue so the shimmer would come out. Then ping! I use a gradient (it's really not that complicated myself -_-). I also have this shown over green. 

I used 2 glitter packed coats (cause glitter packed is my style) over (lightest to darkest) The Face Shop - BL601, Revlon - Dreamer and Barry M - Indigo. Obviously my gradient wasn't so hot, but the focus was the glitter and yes I was very much focused on it. 

Finally a matte picture, doesn't look that different in photos but the shimmer looked even nicer and the glitter looked more prominent (sad that my matte topcoat cracked the mani if you know what I'm talking about -_-). I very much loved having this manicure on, The Teen Queen is one beautiful glitter. 

Thank you very much for reading this post about glitter (a special one at that though) and I hope you have a lovely day!! :)

31DC2013: Day 16 - Tribal

Hi there guys!! I love a good tribal, they look plain awesome. This tribal was inspired by The Nailasaurus, I've been wanting to do this design since I saw it last year (I seem to take a long time to do designs I like ;)). I thought I wouldn't be as effective due to my lack of matte glitter, but now I have matte glitter!! So I used the colour scheme of the glitter and busted out some "studs" that I've had sitting around for a while. I really love this look, so many elements of awesome (not to toot my own horn, gosh that's a weird phrase, but really so many of my favourite things).

Neon pink, matte glitter, studs, clashing colours, tribal!! This design is for me!! The red and pink matte glitter doesn't show up so well, I judged badly I thought they would show up. But I don't mind as the other types of glitter look great (and no bubbles!).
I did the matte glitter colour scheme inspired and the same ring finger and strip of studs like The Nailasaurus then went crazy with the tribal painting. I've mentioned before I'm terrible at coming up with tribal designs but I don't think this was half bad. I like the triangles on my index finger. I want to try from now on to come up with my own tribal designs even if I find it difficult and don't want to, how else am I going to learn? :P

Also my first time using stud type things and I love them, this is clearly calling for me to buy more (cheap) ones. My friend gave these jewel studs one day as she said she'd never use them and I'd appreciate them (and yes I very much appreciate them). She also gave me some gold loose glitter, I haven't really considered using it but you never know... (don't worry the glitter won't be used anytime soon. it'd end as a messy disaster).
I just love the way these studs look, I thought they were more metal but no, but I think they look great in the tribal.
To apply them, I got an older topcoat, painted on a bit, then dipped my toothpick in a little bit of topcoat and placed the jewel stud on. They were pretty solid, I put a layer of topcoat over and I thought they were really secure and I wasn't tempted to pull them off!!

Pink: Nails Inc - Notting Hill Gate with Barry M - Matt White as a base
Blue: Nails Inc - Baker Street
Green: Illamasqua - Nomad
Red: OPI - Dutch Tulips
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Matte Glitter: The Face Shop - CMX321

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

Gimme Glitter: The Face Shop - CMX321

Hey there guys!!! I have a glitter today and it's pretty great. I went into The Face Shop looking for Vanilla Sugar Yogurt 01 and I walked over to the nail polish area and from my first glance I saw this glitter and thought "GIMME!!" (they are Gimme Glitter posts for a reason haha) with grabby hands. I saw the matte glitter and I was down, from all the swatches of matte glitter I fell in love. Now I have some of my own, good times are ahead. Also I'm a big fan of The Face Shop, I got a couple polishes from there last year (which you may have seen in random posts on this blog) and I think I'm gonna make it a yearly thing to go :D

It's awesome, I really really like it. I want more matte glitter haha. Also over Max Factor - Cool Jade I get cherry blossom vibes which I love. Unfortunately I used my bad topcoat and I didn't wait long enough and I got bubbles :/ Thankfully they're not too obvious. 

The coverage was great, it was really glitter dense (which I'm always a supporter of). CMX321 consists of medium pink, spring green and white hexes with smaller red and blue hexes and small white hexes and squares. Super interesting. 

I used 2 coats and then some placing, not difficult to work with. The green hexes were the most sparse in the mix so it was fun getting some on each nail (yes I find these things fun). Oh another thing CMX321 is such a lame name, I would've been happy with anything other than some letters and numbers. 

I like glitter. A lot. Probably too much. I enjoy it. Haha thank you for reading and I hope you have a great day!! :)