Mani update with Lush Lacquer Clowning Around

So, you know how I told you guys I was feeling a little unfinished, a little unsatisfied with my mani yesterday. On a pure whim I decided to put on a coat of Lush Lacquer Clowning Around just because it happened to be staring at me sitting on my table last night. Instant love!! 

There are so many many indie glitter mixes out there now and I've been very picky about which ones to actually get. Mostly because if I let myself get suckered into the indie polish madness, I'd go broke very very fast. When I first saw pictures of this crazy polish, however, it really stood out and I had to have it. I'm so glad I did. I don't think I've seen anything else quite like it out there!

This polish is made up of multi-sized, multi-colored matte neon hexes that really pop over lighter colors. I'm totally in love with the way it looks over my current mani. I had no idea it would pop over the gold as well! The bottle is packed with so much glitter that it does not take much of an effort to get enough glitter on the nail. The pictures you see show one coat applied with a little bit of dabbing to encourage the glitters to lay in the proper spots for even coverage. This is about as sparse as I like it for these glitters.

So, do you guys think this makes a good combo? I got my bottle of Clowning Around on Etsy at their website.

Seven Deadly Sins Challenge: Day 9 - Wrath (My first water spotted nails!!)

Hi guys! So, it's time for another challenge post. The details of this challenge are explained in this post.  Today's challenge prompt is Wrath. "Get mad trying, again, that technique you know it's going to be a fail."

So, for my wrath mani I decided to tackle a technique that has made me pretty angry in the past, the water spotted technique. To know what I'm talking about, here is the tutorial I first saw by cutepolish and then some brilliant examples of this by Spektor's Nails. My initial problem was that I kept trying to use hand sanitizer and could not find the right one. I would keep getting one giant spot in the middle which was not at all useful. Then, on instagram, where I vented about this, someone suggested I try using hairspray. Two dollar Suave hairspray and a few attempts later, I think I got the hang of it! So here are my water spotted nails.

For the base I used Forever 21 Love and Beauty Lavender and the gold is L'Oreal Because You're Worth It. To tell you the truth, I'm a little meh about the mani right now. Maybe it's because of my color choices or maybe I need to add a third color. I'm not writing the technique off at all. I just need to try it with other colors, I think.

Here is Love and Beauty Lavender all by itself. Isn't it pretty?