Gelly sandwich!

                   

jelly in regular light

jelly in entirely too much sunlight

      Today I have for you a lovely jelly sandwich combo with some glitters that I have been obsessing over. I find it weird that for the past few years I have been almost exclusively into cremes and holos but now for some reason I am all about funky and indie glitters. Next week it will be something else. Anyway, I really like Matte glitter right now, especially in black and white. I have also heard a lot of great things about the Sephora X line of nail polish and decided to try out two pink shades (shocker I know) and Chaotic, which is a black and white matte mix of various shapes and sizes of glitter. 

jelly in medium sunlight

   

         So for starters, a few weeks back I had a fab mani with Sephora x's Mischievous  which is a jelly hot neon pink, that I topped with Chaotic, and I wanted to continue that look but see what it would look like if I sandwiched the glitter between coats of the Mischievous polish. I liked the way it looked, but I felt that it was missing a little color(even though it was hot pink). I decided to put my KBshimmer laquer to good use and voila! Pink and blue glitters just lit up my nails!  I added another coat of the Sephora X Mischevious and topped it with a whole lot of top coat- couldn't stop looking at my nails ALL DAY!.

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Plain Nail color + sparkle Effects= my late winter trend

SO I'm back at school and back to real life, but its still blizzarding every other day and I want to reflect this in my manicures... Okay I just like the idea of lighter colors with sparkles because it gives a wintery feel. And I'm finally back up to speed with my photos on my mac so I can automatically update them from my phone and put them on here in a jiffy.

The first manicure I did was a couple days ago that I didn't change for a while because It was the weekend, and we got these new shelves for our living room. They were an awesome gift from my moms friend and our books are all displayed, our home office is so much cleaner and nicer, and I have a place for my keyboard. And the cat hasn't jumped on it so thats good.

Anyway, I wanted to put white on my nails, kindof like the manicure Gaga sported in her Bad Romance video, but I didn't want to look like I put white out on my nails and I only had the nail hardener brand (2 bucks at any drugstore) of a white color, so I knew it would look like white out. I put this thick sparkle color I got from forever 21 (4$) and I think it looked very cool.

The second light color with sparkle effect I did was a creme blue color by Matisse (rickysnyc.com like 5$ unless its on sale) with a hologram glitter and hologram chucks, and it looks like theres a snow storm on my nails. Both hologram effect colors were by the color club, I bought them at my local beauty supply store called rays beauty supply on 45th and 8th. Like a dollar or two each and really good stuff. Enjoy

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Deborah Lippman disappoints

So, for how much it goes for a bottle ($18) I was expecting across the universe by deborah lippman to be exquisite, amazing, unbeatable. Because I firmly believe that 18 dollars is pricey for polish, especially because there are many brands that manage hundreds of 3-free colors for under ten dollars, even under five.

The application of Across the universe was really chunky, and uneven. Now I have worked with several chunky glitters before and I have found that some are chunky and go on uneven, but many manufacturers have been successful in creating smooth polish with plenty of multi-sized glitter.

That being said, it still looks kinds hot. I think that if you choose to get this color, be sure to take care in how its applied, especially by using a lighter, but good base coat. The blue glitters reminded my boyfriend of fishscales, but to me, it kind of looks like the ocean, or the glitter in the billion dollar engagement ring Kate Middleton got from prince rich English man. ugh

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