Christmas French Manicure

I am literally only posting this because I am so beyond frustrated that I'm surprised I got ANY results out of this.

I've been doing my nails straight for 2 hours and destroyed a sheet set, a quilt and the Mickey Mouse blanket my grandparents gave to me as a kid so far. I have screwed up 2 manicures beyond repair and this is the best I've managed to get so far. I'm only gonna show the hand that KIND of looks right because the other one is crap.

I got the idea from it off a tutorial on Instagram. The nail community on that is pretty solid.

Rainbow Honey Pinkie Promise

Okay guys so tonight I tried out Rainbow Honey's Pinkie Promise for the first time. It is super adorable in the bottle and I was really excited to try it out, but sadly I picked a not so flattering base for it. I'm not super pleased with the overall outcome but the polish itself is lovely.

Pinkie Promise is a fun and shimmery pink base filled with hex

 and tinsel glitter in magenta, light blue, and gold - this polish calls for a party!

Japanese Rose Garden, Pink Flamenco, Manicurist of Seville

Okay so again I wanted to try it over more then one colour. My biggest problem was choosing Manicurist of Seville as the dominant base. I love this colour, I've posted it before when I tried my french tips. It turned out a lot pinker in that lighting, here it was more purple. But it was far too dark to look good under Pinkie Promise in my opinion.

Pinkie Promise was another one that was a bit of a glitter explosion and I had some difficulty finding a happy medium between too many shapes and too little. I even dabbed so hard on my left hand middle finger that I smudged the polish underneath, although I don't think you can see it.

I completely think having the lighter pinks under Pinkie Promise was a much nicer choice. I think it is such a playful polish it was definitely best geared toward a brighter happier colour. Although I give it an A+ for awesomness I'm probably not keeping this manicure on even over night.

OPI Pamplona Purple

Okay guys. So this is one of the first 'fancy' nail polish I EVER bought myself. Probably at least 3 or 4 years ago now I bought it. It's called Pamplona Purple and it's by OPI of course.

The polish is a gorgeous cream purple, nothing fancy no glitter or shimmer or anything like that. I find it definitely applies a little bit darker then it appears in the bottle. That could be because I generally use 3 coats (even though it could be completely fine in 2 if applied well). The application is very very smooth and you can easily choose to do very thin layers or more gloopy ones. Any flaws in the pictures you see are my fault, my dog was pestering me to go outside half way through my polish application of course so it all got done in a rush.

 Evidently I need to improve my bottle shot skills.

Apologies for the gigantic chunk missing out of my thumb, qtip slipped during my clean up.

I was wondering why I was sooo drawn to Sally Hansen's 230 Plum Power polish. I mean I'm always a huge fan of Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear, their brush is my FAVOURITE, but I just couldn't let this colour go. It is almost identical to Pamplona Purple, but it has SHIMMER!!!! I did two accent nails in the below pic, can you tell the difference? It's damned hard.

Rainbow Honey Hoof Wrassle

Ooookay guys. So after posting my last blog about Mare of the Moon I realized the Rainbow Honey descriptions for their polishes are spot on. So I'm gonna include their words to describe Roof Hassle.

'A shimmery copper orange base studded with gold, copper 

and orange hex and square glitter, and a sprinkling of 

iridescent and holographic glitters - this polish loves to sparkle in the sun.'

I'm not going to lie, I used this polish tonight because out of the 8 polishes in the Equestria collection, this was my least favourite in the bottle and I wanted to get it out of the way. I'm not really an orange person.. Actually I don't think I own a single orange nail polish. Anyways, I'm actually pretty fond of how this turned out. I still don't think it'll be a go to glitter for me, but I'm not taking it off as we speak either. I was hoping to get a really nice fall theme going on to match the beautiful scenery before Vancouver turns cold and grey for the winter.

 

The colours I used for my base coats are Glitzerland (the gold) and I'm not really a waitress (the red - I swear it's mostly red but it does often look more pink, especially in my house lighting).

Sorry about the awful mess, I totally forgot to take a picture of my left hand (I'm right handed so it's usually not as messy) before I put on the glitters!

 Okay, so I didn't have anywhere near the problems applying Hoof Wrassle as I did with Mare of the Moon. The glitter chunks were super super accesible, there were almost too many of them! They all laid super flat though, which was awesome, and even though there is a lot of glitters it doesn't seem too overwhelming. It definitely did change the colour of my base colour again, but this time I expected it and planned for it. I guess it always helps to read the polish description before diving full speed into it.

 

I think it turned out really nicely. I'm definitely getting better at this glitter thing, who knows in 6 more polishes I may even be able to call myself a glitter pro haha. I definitely got the fall feel I was looking for. It also kind of reminds me of fire. 

I got a cow onesie today and I just had to share it, I am so in love <3

 

First French Attempt

Okay guys, so I wasn't really sure if I was even going to post this one cuz it's a pretty pathetic final product. But the colours themselves are gorgeous and I thought they at least deserved to be shared.

This is my first attempt at doing anything that remotely has a french tip. I didn't try to use any fancy techniques or anything, just free handed it with a smaller paint brush. That wasn't where my biggest problem came from. My biggest problem was actually my impatience. I didn't consider that because I'd be applying a DIFFERENT colour over my polish for the french tips that they may mix.. Oops!!!!

I used two colours for this mani. Both OPI. The yellow is called ' The It Colour' and the pink is called 'Manicurist of Seville'. I'll post seperate swatch posts to discuss the actual polish later.

See what I mean about the two colours getting mixed?

The left hand wasn't so bad.

To be completely honest, I probably will wear this manicure until it gets all chippy because I really really like the colours so that's part of why I'm posting this even though it isn't the greatest. Maybe I'll try french tips again sometime soon and use a better technique.. I've heard the circular bandaids work great!