Birthday Nails

Hey guys,

My moms Birthday is today so I decided to do a fun mani for it.  I wanted glitter obviously and I have been really wanting to try a darker base with a lighter glitter.  I also wanted to mattify it because I love the way glitter looks with matte top coat!

I used China Glaze Stone Cold, Lush Lacquer Slumber Party, and Hard Candy Matte-ly In Love top coat

 

 

 

 

 

Graphic Lines

I tried out another tape mani, I got this idea from Pshiiit she has done a tutorial on her blog for them. Her blog is all in french but she does picture tutorials for some of her mani's and she is awesome I love all of her mani's!  I started with 2 coats of China Glaze White Cap then I did two coats of Orly Winter Wonderland.  I was going to leave it but I really wasn't feeling this mani so I experimented.  I used small triangular strips of tape and applied them to both sides of my nails to get a random pattern.  I used Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Jumpin' Jade.  I also wanted to mattify this one to see how it would look.  I got a different matte top coat the other day by NYC and I am not liking it very much, it doesn't look matte enough for me, I like my Hard Candy one way better.  Now for the pics....

 

China Glaze White Cap w/ Orly Winter Wonderland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So much better with the added stripes

 

 

 

this matte top coat gives a more rubbery looking finish that I don't really care for

 

Hope you enjoyed, sorry this was a long rambling post!

 

 

Poison Ivy

Oh goodness this mani is frickin awesome!  I can't even stand it, it looks so glowy and gorgeous.  I wanted to try Wet N Wild's Poison Ivy again because the first time I wore it I did a horrible job of applying it and I couldn't get any good pics of it.  So this time around I super nubbinized my nails and slapped it on being extra careful to not flood my cuticles, this one is really hard to clean up if you get it on your skin.  I felt like it needed a little something else so I applied a couple of coats of Pure Ice Heart Breaker over it.  Heart Breaker made this polish look insane.  After looking at it I wanted to try it with a matte top coat so I did that as well haha.  Hope you enjoy!



I used Wet N Wild Poison Ivy, Pure Ice Heart Breaker and in the last two pics Hard Candy Matte-Ly In Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blurry so you can see how glowy it is