NOTD: Hexy Glitter Accent Manicure!

I know, I've been gone for a while... bad Julie is bad! However I was doing a kid's camp all last week and most of my other time was spent with my boyfriend - that's not to say that I didn't do my nails!

There was this cute little girl in my 'crew' named Lily who developed an obsession over my nails and she would look at them every day and tell me what I should do the next! She had these gorgeous golden blonde curls too - it reminded me almost of what I was like when I was a little kid!

Now to the important part: today's manicure!

My Backyard ♥

My backyard is one of my favourite places to go when I need to relax or take a breath of fresh air, or get some inspiration, or to sit and eat a popsicle on a hot day!

Even though we've been having a really dry summer so far, the potted flower plants are still in bloom even though the grass is as dry as ever. Tomorrow is the day of the week where the city allows us to water our lawn... I keep on telling mum that she needs to buy a sprinkler but she hasn't gotten one yet! It would save me having to stand outside in the prickly grass for an hour or so☺

Things with me have been busy the past week so that would explain my absence for not posting, but I get home around 3:30 and then I usually have chores and other misc things to do (like watching more episodes of NCIS LA with my boyfriend - I'll admit it, he's got me hooked!) But I was able to get outside yesterday while photographing my pastel macaroon/houndstooth manicure to show you some of the flowers in the potted plants and the favourite part of my backyard, my waterfall!

First Bundlemonster Manicure!

So with my Bundlemonster plates that came in the mail today, I was really eager to try them out so originally I decided to do one nail a different colour with a darker/lighter shade used to stamp with a different design on every nail... but after several attempts at a finicky small design I decided to go with something bigger ☺ for some reason with just having the base colours my nails reminded me of pastel macaroons... yum!

Konad + Bundlemonster Stamping Plates

Yes, my Bundlemonster plates finally arrived!!!!!

packaging it came in!

China Glaze "Prism" Swatches

You know the purple unicorn that everybody imagined when they were kids that I was talking about? Well, the polish is called "Prism" by China Glaze... 

Now unfortunately, my camera spazzed at how glitter packed this nail polish is so it didn't capture the sheer glittery awesomeness of it :(

Waterdrop Manicure

I can honestly say that this is probably the manicure that I'm most proud of... and it took me a long time to do it as well!

I thought of the idea the day I was doing my Euro 2012 nails, and on my pinky finger I was doing "2012" in acrylic paint... to my surprise when I watered it down to make it a little bit easier to work with, it created this transparent colour, so I took that and ran - I've done watercolour manicures before with nail polish and acetone/nail polish remover but I decided I would make a different kind of effect, kind of like translucent water drops!

the final effect...

EURO 2012 nails (old)

So I know that Euro ended a while ago, but I was looking through photos of nails that I've done and wanted to post these! 

I apologize for the tipwear and the hang nail on my pointer as well, but as you know the show must go on... ☺

KONAD Stamping!

So yesterday, not one good thing happened but two!

First of all, my sister's package came in the mail... it took long enough! And second of all, I went to my local KONAD kiosk in the middle of the mall here, and I got a stamping kit :) because the BundleMonster kit doesn't contain a scraper or a stamper you have to get your own, which is a downside but it does make it cheaper.

I got the starting kit that contains plates M2 and M3, as well as red, blue, and white of the mini polish! Having never stamped before, it took me quite a few tries in order to get the hang of it, but I finally got it :)

I have a funny story about the sales lady at the KONAD kiosk: she had a quite a bit of an accent, I'm not sure if she was from Poland or the Netherlands but instead of pronouncing "scraper" with a hard "eh" sound, she said "scrapper"... but I heard it as "crapper"! I had to try hard to keep myself from laughing when she was talking about using the 'crapper' and now that's what mother calls it now!

I also got another nail polish, and I'll also be posting photos of that later tonight as well as photos of the plates :)

The nail polish however if you want to get a reading on it is is Prism from the China Glaze Prismatic Chroma Glitters Collection, it's a gorgeous colour with purple holographic microglitter  and chunkier multicoloured glitter. You know that gorgeous glittery purple unicorn that everybody imagined when they were younger? This polish is exactly that shade, it's a gorgeous shade of glittery lilac!

Knowing my camera, it'll spaz out when I try to take photos of the glitter and it won't show up half as amazing as it looks in the bottle... but I'll try to photograph it accurately!

Julie xo

This Week I've Been Listening To...

I thought it would be cool to make a little blog post every week on Friday about what I've been listening to the past week!

I usually listen to more than one artist per week, but this week is an exception... 

To The Vet's and the Mall!

Good morning world!

I have gotten neither of my packages in the mail so far, however I have a feeling that one will come today, fingers crossed!

However today is the special day... my guinea pig Maddie has an appointment this morning at the vet's (she doesn't know about it yet) to get her toe nails trimmed!

my cute little piggy ♥

Ridiculous Summer Weather + Rambly Bits

So, this morning I woke up at 5:00am to my surprise... and it wasn't like a slow wakening kind of thing, it was a BAM I'm wide awake! I ended up staying up for two hours after that and watching the sunrise from my window... and also pulling on one of my boyfriend's sweaters because I had my window wide open so the cool morning air could come in - it was a little too cold for me under my sheets however!

How To Have a Lovely Day - Pic

I think this has to be one of my most favourite images I've seen in a long time! These 13 things are very simple tasks and sometimes it's just the small little things that can make such a big difference to your attitude☺

Mail Anticipation!

This week I am waiting for two very important items to come in the mail... a package from my sister and the 2012 Collection of nail plates from BundleMonster, which I ordered on the 30th of June and I got the email that they were shipped on Monday, so they should be here soon - but I'm not sure how long it takes a package from Hawaii to ship to Canada!

Today's Manicure - Drippy Pink Glitter!

So this morning I was wondering what I should do with my nails, and I decided to do something pink, because I honestly don't wear pink that much on my nails... 

I remembered seeing this picture on Beautylish a while ago and I remember at the time I wondered how she had done it... so today I remembered and decided to create a drippy glittery manicure of my own!

Welcome to Starring Sparkle!

Hello world and welcome to my blog!

I will be posting a miscellaneous of manicures and nail polish posts, as well as general interest things posts (for example posts from the antique car show I went to recently!) and makeup, and books I've read and when school starts up again I'll be posting about school and assignments and friends and all the interesting things I'll be doing. I'll aim to post every day, but no guarantee... however I'll try my best to post once a day!

If you want to keep in touch with me and what I'm doing otherwise... check out the "Find Me Elsewhere" page and you can find a bunch of sites that I'm on ;)

Take care, Julie xo