After wearing China Glaze Strawberry Fields for several days I tought I should spice it up with something and decided to do a glitter sandwich with Strawberry Fields as the base color.
I used two different glitters, China Glaze Snow Globe and Claire's 119 and then used one coat of OPI Too Hot Pink To Hold 'Em. I really liked the result, it looked very juicy and fun, though it was a bit too thick for my liking after using so many different polishes. But still it dried quite fast, so it wasn't a big problem. I have to say that I really like these glitter sandwiches, I just need some more jelly polish colors to do more these...
Nail Tek Foundation II
China Glaze Snow Globe 1 coat
Claire's 119 2 coats
Seche Vite
Just recently I managed to get some nice polishes from Carli's blogsale and one of them was a long time lemming of mine, Deborah Lippmann Glitter in the Air. I know that Revlon has a cheaper dupe of this, but it's almost impossible to get Revlon polishes here in Finland if one doesn't want to pay the prizes in e(vil)bay, so when Carli had the original one on sale I knew I had to go for it.
I did wear this already once by itself and liked it a lot like that too, but as I told you before, there was lots of things happening in my life so I didn't have time to take pictures of that mani until it was too late.. But I wanted to wear it again and this time I decided to use a light blue base color and also add another glitter in the mix too. Here's how it turned out:
I used Depend 251 as the base color (it's the only light blue that I have....) and then on top of that I added a bit of China Glaze Snow Globe and then finished it of with Glitter in the Air. I think this turned out quite nicely and the Snow Globe gave this a little twist, though it isn't so visible here in the pic. I don't usually wear anything light blue-ish (that's probably why I only had one light blue polish), but I really enjoyed this manicure.
So today's task of the challenge was to do nails inspired by a tutorial. I've seen many great tutorials lately and there's some that I still really want to try, but after I saw this snowflake tutorial by Jane at Nailside I was quite certain that I should try to use that as my inspiration. I wanted to use this Jane's tutorial mainly because well, it's the snowflake season right now as it has been snowing for two days straight here and also because her tutorial was very simple and looked easy to do. And sure enough it was very easy to follow, I'm just in need for proper tools like nail art brushes and such. Maybe I'll get those after the Christmas as a present for myself or something, because it is quite hard to do any nail art without the proper tools. Anywho, here's my tutorial inspired mani.
So I did a gradient base for this mani by using Color Club Cold Metal, Lumene Natural Code Flirty and China Glaze Frosty. I painted those snowflakes with white nail art liner and then added some China Glaze Snow Globe on top. I quite liked this look and sure enough it was very appropriate for the weather here now. I really enjoy snow but I also can't wait to get to Dubai and see the sun, because, well, there ain't much sun here for at least couple months.
Oh and if you're not familiar with Jane's blog, you should really check it out! She does amazing manis and also has many helpful tutorials!
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