Officially My Best Gradient Manicure

So I am super excited to write this... I did this manicure about a week ago, but only got around to posting it now, but I was feeling up for a challenge so I decided to give myself a gradient manicure... only instead of a horizontal gradient I was going to do a vertical gradient instead!!

I am sooooooooooooo happy with the way it turned out :)

I used a matte top coat first but then I took some photos with a regular top coat on top of the matte one! Ready for the gorgeousness?!?!

BAM!!

Fall Nail Polish Favourites

I realized I haven't posted my top fall nail polish picks... oops!

I did swatches on a piece of paper to help make the colours and the microglitter (in some of them) stand out more and be more obvious, however the only thing is that Peridot is a much more multifaceted, dark green/pure green/gold mix, so I've included a better, higher quality photo underneath.

a close up of the gorgeousness that is Peridot by Chanel ♥

let me know what your other fall favourites are!

Julie xo

Swirly Fall Nails

The other day I was looking at all the nail polishes I have and I was trying to pick out my #1 shade for fall.... and I couldn't pick just one!

So I ended up picking up 10 or so fall-y nail polishes and doing a sort of swirly/merging/blendy design with them, and this is how it turned out! I apologize in advance however for the tip wear and the bubbles on some nails, that was just caused by the topcoat I used.

*also note that I took these photos before I cleaned up the edges!

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!

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 :(

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

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!