Barry M Nude and Barry M Rose Quartz Glitter

Hi all! I'm back with another couple of Barry M polishes today. I used them together in this manicure. This is Barry M Nude with Barry M Rose Quartz Glitter. The first three pictures are taken in my lightbox. I did this manicure as a glitter sandwich. First, two coats of Barry M Nude, then a coat of Rose Quartz Glitter in a gentle gradient with more of the glitter concentrated at the tips. Then another coat of Nude and another coat of the glitter, again in a gentle gradient. 

The Rose Quartz Glitter is made up of rose gold hex glitters mixed with tiny holographic glitters. It's really very pretty in real life.

I did like this manicure quite a bit. I received a lot of compliments with this one for the few days I wore it. I think I hadn't been in the mood for a nude mani at the time so I didn't love it like I have certain others.

I took these last two pictures in my bathroom. The lighting there always seems to give such a different look to some of my polishes. Real, but different. I quite liked the way it looked so I thought I'd include them here too.

And that's it. Again, thanks for looking!!

Independence day with Zoya and OPI

Hi everybody! I'm taking a break from my swatch posts to show you what I did for the Fourth of July this year. It's a simple mani but one I'd been thinking about for a while. Ever since I bought my Zoya Pixie Dust polishes, I had always thought that Chyna and Liberty would be great colors for the Fourth of July, and they are!

The red texture is Zoya Chyna and the blue texture is Zoya Liberty. I also created an accent with OPI Don't Touch my Tutu sandwiched with Icing Blue Ice. Blue ice has small silver glitter, larger shiny blue hex glitter and holo stars. The holo stars in that polish definitely needed to be fished out. 

Isn't that sparkle lovely? I just love the Pixie Dusts. Every time I put one on, I feel the need to buy immediate backups! I'm so sad they are discontinued. They could have come out with textures in every shade on earth as far as I'm concerned! What are your guys' thoughts on textures? Are they here to stay. Do you still have a love for them?

Here is a bonus pic of me modeling this mani in front of my older little man, who is playing at his newly assembled water table this weekend.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

OPI Too Hot Pink to Hold'Em and China Glaze Techno sandwich

Hey all! A simple post with a simple mani for you guys today. This is one from the sorbet collection that OPI put out a summer or two ago. This one is called Too Hot Pink to Hold'Em. Which is funny because in most lights, it's looks kinda red. I was sort of disappointed with the non-pinkishness of it all.

To create this sandwich, I layered China Glaze Techno in between a couple of layers of the OPI. Techno is a mix of small and large holographic hexagons. As you can see, when sandwiched inside the jelly polish, it gave off all sorts of different colored hues depending on the way the light hit it. People loved the subtlety of this glitter mani. So many compliments on this simple mani!

I tried to color correct this above picture because it did have a little tinge of pink to it in real life, after all. 

Love and Beauty Jade with Orly Watch it Glitter

For today's post, I just went with simple layering again. I get enamored with all the different techniques for nail art that sometimes I forget that just simple layering can look so awesome.

The base of this mani is a color I have shown before in the Glitter Gradient Sandwich I showed before, Love & Beauty Jade. This is two coats. I tried to color correct it to show just how warm of a green it is in real life. This is close. Some of my other pictures are not so color corrected so don't be fooled!

To this added Orly Watch it Glitter, it's a copper toned mix of glitters with large and small hexagonal glitters. I thought it went so well with Jade! 

After adding the glitter I coated it with a layer of the jelly I made with Jade.  This is what it looked like before that layer. I think it looks a bit more harsh, right? I like the way it looks in the first picture better. 

Gradient Glitter Sandwich

I don't know who invented the glitter sandwich, but I applaud them. What a great way to take those "useless" sheer nail polishes and showcase their strength. This by no means is my first glitter sandwich but I wanted to see what would happen if I created a gradient sandwich.