Sally Hansen Greige Glitter Tips

I found 5 minutes from job hunting and interview preparation to actually blog one of the many manicures I've done =] woop woop

In Wilko's the other week and I spotted Sally Hansen Greige and I fell in love with the colour, but being good I didn't buy it. A few days later my sister wanted a grey black Ombre so since(in my head) I had nothing even close to greyish and knowing I'd never be able to mix a grey for all ten nails we went to the shop and my nail prayers where answered, my sister bought the polish :D

So here's the grey black ombre with glequins I did for her party nails and of COURSE I had to try it myself =]

I have to be honest with Sally Hansen WHAT WHERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU MADE THIS BOTTLE??

The bottle is square, the hole is round, the applicator brush is SQUARE....

Square Peg and a Round Hole anyone?

This was the most frustrating polish to use, the formula was lush went on smooth and creamy basically self levelled itself and was practically opaque in one coat but getting the excess polish off the wand was a NIGHTMARE. =[ 

So I wzas also going on a nightout so I added some lovely glitter =]

Who doesn't love glitter??

Glequin Gradient

I tried something new on my nails last week with some various Glequins, stripe tape blah blah blah.

My favourite nail of this experiment has become my favourite pattern of all time

Glequin Gradient dark to light

These are my sisters lovely fingertips =]

The camera doesn't do the dark pink justice at all or the light pink for that matter.

Simply Matte

So here are some Photos of yesterdays Matte Nails =]

Simplicity

Today's manicure came after having a few days off. Every time I tried something on my sisters or my nails it just went phooey so I decided if blogging isn't fun stop! (Hammertime!! - no I can't help myself).

WARNING: this one is words, I got very carried away explaining myself




My OPI Wizard of OZ I Theodora You was staring at me so I slapped it on with out really knowing where I was going with it. On my accent (ring finger) nail I've got Max Factor Nailfinity in Disco Pink. After it was all dry and pretty I was staring at it and realised I had almost the same manicure last time I went to the salon (the hot pink was a China Glaze not Max Factor but that salon trip pushed me to buy I Theodora You)
So while (I think - not that you can really tell in my rubbish pictures) I did a better job than the girl at the salon, I was both unwilling to sport such boring nails annnnnnnnnnd nails I had had before, I decided these where just no good for blogging and out came the gems.

On my left (usually pictured hand) I placed some little light pink hearts in the center of my moon. I liked the effect of the light on light pink. and on my accent nail I got some cute little flower stickers for christmas I hadnt had a chance to try out so the white and pink flower contrasted the hot pink nail but i also thought it tied in all the coulous. The little flower looked very lonely at the top of my nail so I added 2 little purple gems as a stalk.

Snap Snap Snap 50 photos later, I remember I am going to the pub later and my right hand looks baaaarrrrrrrrrrrreeeee =[. Can not be having that, but not reallllllly wanting to use up allll my little pink hearts in 1 sitting I remember I have got some little heart shaped glitter/glequin bits in a pot, a little dark for what I wanted but hey - better than having boring nails. 

On inspection of my sticker sheet there are plenty of flower stickers so I decide it is ok to waste* one. Some hexagonal glitter/glequins made the stalk on my accent nail and VOILA! I liked the new effect so much I had to contort my hand to get a photo.

*I use the word waste for two reasons: 1, I had no intention at the time of blogging my right hand and 2, I suspect by tomorrow I will want to take it off and do something new or worse - one of the gems will catch and pop off (pleasantly surprised it didn't happen shuffling cards tonight to be honest) or smear the rest of my polish and I would have to take at least one nail off to redo it and in the process of fixing one nail other nails get all acetoned up so I have to take them all off (as happened last week - which reminds me there is a blog sitting in my drafts that needs pictures adding)

Lost

So, Since I have lost my camera charger and broke my phone my blog is off to a giant HALT!

Today I bring you, bad photography of a rather (imo) nice manicure.

This is a very Picture Heavy post as non of the pictures quite captured the manicure on their own.
I will also update , when it is NOT 3am the products used







This is only the 4th time I have done a full set of Acrylic nails on myself and I have to say I am happy with how the tips turned out, but the plain white tips were boring so i had to spice them up a bit  (didn't I?)

Anyway I thought    some   colour would be nice so i added some pink and blue swipes along the smile line and a white stamped flower. Not happy with just this i added a coat of fine glitter to give it some GLITZ!      Which was fine for about half an hour and my Gleaquins were staring at me from their box,soi added a pink one in the center of each flower.

The result: