Three Holiday Season Mani's

Happy New Year, everyone! Hope you all had a great time over Christmas & on New Year's Eve.

To kick off 2012, here's three mani's I did over the holidays. The reoccurring theme being holo polishes!

The first one is the most messy, sadly. I have quite small finger nails & this required a bit of fiddling around with the polish & remover on cotton buds. I think I may need to invest in a fine brush specifically for this purpose.

For this one, I used the following:

• China Glaze IDK- base shade
• Konad plate M69
• Special Polish in black
• Glitter Gal Black
• Metallic silver nail art pen

Happy Xmas!

Just a little post to wish everyone a wonderful time over the holidays.

Thank you to everyone who's subscribed to my blog. I'm truly grateful that you've done so & hope my posts have been useful to some degree.

I hope the make-up fairy brings you all lots of beautiful things. :)

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Deborah Lippmann - Glitter Polish Haul

Three gorgeous glitters from Deborah Lippmann. These are more of a finishing effect than a full, glittery nail but they're still stunning.

Stairway To Heaven

Stairway To Heaven has a slightly milky white base that's full of iridescent glitter. You'll get flashes of pink, green, blue & yellow from this one. As it's not a completely clear base, Stairway To Heaven could probably be worn alone although it would take 3 or more coats to achieve a good effect.

Stairway To Heaven

Rock 'n' Roll Challenge - Blackout In The Red Room

I had a bit of a debate with myself as to whether I should post this, I didn't feel it turned it out as well as I'd hoped. That's what I get for rushing to get myself ready.

Anyway, this is the first part of a little challenge I've set myself. I'm trying to come up with make-up looks themed to a song or album title. This is the first one, named after Love/Hate's Blackout In The Red Room.

It looked better in person, but it was still a bit off somehow.

China Glaze - Eye Candy Collection

Yes, even more glitter polishes!
When I first heard about this collection, I got ridiculously excited. Six new glitters that are solid polishes, not topcoats with a bit of glitter to them.

First up is Blonde Bombshell.

Blonde Bombshell

A yellow-gold glitter with small flecks & larger ones scattered throughout. Took two coats to cover the nail completely. I'm not a huge fan of gold polishes, so this one doesn't really shine through for me, especially not when compared to my favourite gold, China Glaze's Medallion.

Blonde Bombshell

MAC for Gareth Pugh Pigments

Two new pigment shades released with the MAC for Gareth Pugh collection. The first thing to note with these - they don't come in standard MAC pigment packaging.

Looks pretty swanky, but it hasn't overly thrilled me for a couple of reasons. The first being that it's impossible to see the shade without opening it, which is done by twisting the square lid, rather than pulling (something it took me a while to figure out). The second reason is you're paying more money for this fancy packaging but getting less pigment.

Nails - Starry Night

A little experimentation with the Glitter Gal holo polishes. These were really simple to do, two colours & star-shaped stickers are all that's needed.