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!! :) 

Summer Lovin' Tribal Nails

Hello you guys!! I know summer is over now but I miss it cause school is back haha. Where did summer go?? Well I did this design over the summer and it was simple but I thought it was pretty nice. I know summer was meant to be free but I didn't do much nail art. I guess I was doing other things (*ahem* Pokémon) and I suppose my nail stuff wasn't as readily available. This actually might be the only design I did over summer :O actually there was the dragonfly design too haha.

It's a simple tribal with hearts incorporated. Simple but cute and I came up with the design myself, it's not that hard, just have to put some effort in :/ I put this over some glitter and I like it peaking through. Zig zags are fun. I put tinted glitter over the black and it was so fun, looked great and sparkly in the sun.

I drew this with my black pen and some toothpicks, my black pen sometimes explodes and gets extremely thick so I have to use a toothpick. I'm happy with how straight the lines are, though not gonna lie I'm pretty good at drawing straight lines freehand (I refused to use a ruler as a child and now I can draw pretty straight lines freehand).

Yellow: Rimmel - Bee A Honey
Glitter: Etude House - #346
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
Purply pink glitter over the black: Barry M - Socialite

Thanks for reading and I hope you have a fab day!! :)

Gimme Glitter: Etude House - #117

Hey there guys!! I have more glitter, it's been quite glittery for a while here and will be for a bit more. Going to Asia means Etude House. I love the Korean brands cause they're doing very interesting things, I got a lot of lip products from there and they're so fabulous. There's this liquid lipstick in the shape of an actual lipstick and it's so cool and amazingly bright. Anyway to the glitter!!

#117 is a clear base with matte pink, white and shiny red heart glitter, small matte white and pink glitter, some slightly bigger pink hexes and some white bar glitter to boot. I think some pink leaked into the base but I don't mind. This polish is actually really really nice, I totally paired it wrong though (Rimmel Bee a Honey was the wrong choice). But will be using it again with better combos cause it's lovely :)

Every year I like the glitter polishes more and more in Etude House, I have another one that I'll be showing son and I like it better than this one. It's what you'd see from an indie and I don't see mainstream brands doing polishes like this. I feel like they're do more interesting stuff than The Face Shop (but I think The Face Shop is better quality).

The glitter spread was really good, there were bubbles but not entirely the polish's fault. It was hot and I'm never patient enough. The glitter density was very good, just have to fish for the hearts a bit but that's what happens with big glitter. This could've been a coat and then a few additional hearts.

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

Purple Nails: Orly - Frolic

Hey guys!! School's started back up which is always a sad time but its' actually not been too bad so far. But again, early days yet. While on holiday I got a few polishes, this being one of them and I totes love this colour.

Frolic is a pinky toned medium purple and the colour is so gorgeous!! I just love it, I don't have a purple like this at all. It's the pink tone I've been looking for cause if you didn't know I hate red toned purples, they are not pretty. And what a cute name too!!

I love Orly and I've always found it was a shame that I can't get it in the UK. They used to have minis in Boots but they were rubbish colours. I know Frolic was from a collection ages ago. Orly does such pretty colours, one of my favourite unattainable mainstream brands. We were in a boutique type place and they had a bunch of Orly (and OPI and China Glaze) but I was only interested in the Orly. No regrets cause this is so nice.

All the pictures show how the colour can change in different lighting. The polish was very opaque, I used 2 coats and the coverage was great. It was more of a watery formula but not too much. Formula was really great, makes me want more Orly haha.

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

Dragonfly Nail Art

Hey there nail fans, it's a nail art day and while this look is really simple I loved it. Sometimes simple is best, the colours are real pretty too. So I think this was pretty fun and dragonflies are cool. Why they are called dragonflies I'll never know.

It's a super simple look with like black lines and little wings but I really like the uniformity of the whole look. Also teal, white and light blue goes so well together. While it's not crazy I liked the variety of the colour of the wings and the glitter goes well on top!!

I don't even need to write how I painted this but got my black pen/toothpick and tried to space them out, truth be told I should've spaced the dragonflies out better on every finger except my thumb. Then toothpicked the wings on, keeping it even wasn't as easy as it looked. But yeah easy look to paint, but that's a good thing!!

Teal: Barry M - Guava
Glitter: Rimmel - Disco Ball
Black: Lovely Me:Ex - Black
White: Barry M - Cotton
Light blue: Barry M - Sugar Apple

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

Gimme Glitter: Maybelline Color Show - Bouquet

Hello!! We have more glitter today, I don't think pictures do this justice cause this glitter is really really pretty. The mix is fabulous, I just love the delicacy of the matte glitter in this.

Bouquet is a glitter topper with small and medium copper hexes and light pink and white matte glitter. It's really pretty. For some reason it kind of tinted my pink base but let's hope that was a one off. Not that I mind anyway cause it's a pretty glitter, I forgive all pretty glitter.

This is my first time trying a Maybelline polish and I like it. I like the glitters in that range, I was going to get one ages ago but managed to convince myself not to buy it #selfcontrolled. But I think their cremes are real nice, maybe worth looking into.

The formula was great, barely needed 2 coats. There was so much glitter so good job Maybelline. It was so easy to apply as well so a girl is impressed.

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

Gimme Glitter: Topshop - Adrenalin

Hey there guys!! It's been another while, this has been a recurring theme this year. I say this all the time which I understand is annoying but I feel kind of bad disappearing for large chunks of time all the time haha. So a lot's gone down in terms of relaxing and loving life cause times have been good. I got my AS level results and I'm really happy with what I got. Now I have to sort university stuff -_- I'm just trying to relax as much as possible before everything gets real again. I do like blogging but I suppose I've stuff been doing other things, like movies and meeting up with people.
Anyway I have a glitter polish which I got cause limited edition packaging cause I'm a total sucker. It's very similar to Razzmatazz but that's one of my favourites. But Adrenalin is pink so totally worth it, and the packaging is rose gold cause of Topshop Makeup's 5th birthday, so even more worth.

Adrenalin is a clear pink base with tons of holographic glitter with some bigger holographic hexes. It's real nice but I did the wrong combo. I love me some holographic glitter, not as much as I used to, I have to say I prefer some matte glitter, it's just so colourful o.O

I've always loved Topshop nail polish, they're cremes are the most solid. As part of the 5th anniversary they released some other pretty cremes but nothing really special. I was even debating buying this one cause it's pretty similar to Razzmatazz but the packaging. As I previously mentioned I am a sucker.

I think I used 2 coats (since I've been away for a while, naturally these swatches were done a while ago), there were no formula issues at all. Very easy to apply and tons of glitter. I put this over Barry M Dragon Fruit.

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