Born Pretty Store Glequins

Morning folks!

Today I have a review of some fabulous blue glequins from Born Pretty Store. These are really just medium sized hex glitter, but were dubbed as glequins by Sammy of The Nailasaurus and the name has stuck in the nail art community. Before I get to the review let me just say I am in love with them. They instantly spice up any manicure and are so easy to use and put on.

I kept it relatively simple and started off with Sally Hansen Green With Envy, a pastel green creme and then added two accents of Sally Hansen Blue Me Away!.

Then I started adding the glequins in varying patterns on my nails. All you do to put them on is dip a dotting tool in a little water and then place the glequin into a slow drying top coat. Finish off with another coat of your favourite quick dry and you have glitterific nails.

I was planning on glequinifying (ya I'm on fire today with words I know ;)) all my nails, but it was late and I wanted to go to bed so I looked for a glitter to accent it and remembered that I still hadn't used Pretty and Polished Sand Art! I kind of can't believe it, but I'm really glad that I did use it finally. Sand Art is filled with an array of matte glitter in pink, blue, purple, green and yellow! This would be dense enough to wear on it's own, but I like these kinds of glitters best layered.

Trigger finger glitter accents with Born Pretty Store glequins? This kinds manicure is right up my alley lately. I'm going through an I'm obsessed with accent nails phase if you couldn't tell ;)

Born Pretty Store is my go to source for nail art supplies. And these glequins are a steal at only $2.38 a bottle. You will get a lifetime supply of glitter. Your nails will look fabulous and there is not much work involved. Seriously guys, go get these now! Also you can use my newly upgraded 10% off coupon SA7X31 to make your glequins even cheaper!

What are your thoughts on glequins? Do you love this loose glitter trend?

Hope you're having a terrific Tuesday!

Products in this post were provided for my honest review

Glitter, Skulls and Herringbones

Today I have some nail art inspired by a few different manicures that I've seen around. I was digging through my inspiration folder the other night and came across this utterly amazing manicure done by Very Emily and knew that I was going to do nails inspired by it. I have also seen an amazing herringbone print on a few blogs lately from the tutorial by Miss 80 Million on YouTube. I really wanted to do both of these, so I put them together to create a mash-up of inspired nails!

To emulate Emily's look on my index and pinky nails I used Orly Christmas and while the second coat was still wet I sprinkled on some loose red glitter from Dollar Tree. On my middle nail I used Wet n Wild Black Creme and then freehanded on the skulls and x's using a striping brush and Milani White On The Spot. For my herringbone nails I followed the tutorial and used White On The Spot as my base then stamped with Black Creme and BM-201. I added the lines with It's So Easy Stripe Rite Black.

I had NO idea how the loose glitter was going to play with top coat so please excuse the glitter all over my hands, I wanted to snap a few pictures before adding any in case it was a hot bleeding mess.

Thankfully with topcoat I loved these nails even more! The topcoat really brought out the sparkle and shine from the loose glitter and I was staring at these allll day long. I used a coat of Gelous and then 2 coats of NYC In a Minute Top Coat. Loose glitter is hunnnnnggrrry. It really likes to nom on top coat because I had to add another coat in the morning because my nails were crazy bumpy even with Gelous and 2 coats of NYC.

I quite like the combination I came up with here! My skulls aren't near as good as Emily's but I really do love the skull and glitter combination. It's so fun with just that touch of rock.

What do you think of these? Are you ever inspired to mash-up two manicures you love to create something new?

Hope you're having a lovely day!

31 Day Challenge Day 9: Rainbow

Morning dolls! The theme today is Rainbow! Rainbow nails are so fun and bright, I always love looking down at them when they are rainbowified. Today's mani is a little nuts, but I like the way it turned out!

See, slightly over the top glitter crazy and rainbowy right! I started with a coat of Pure Ice Silver Mercedes and then added a rainbow across my nails using,
Stripe Rite Red Striper
China Glaze Orange You Hot?
Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Lightning
Stripe Rite Blue Striper
Stripe Rite Green Striper
China Glaze Beach Cruise-r

Then I used the acetone water colour technique to get rid of some of the colour near the top of my nail. Then I used loose glitter from Born Pretty Store and Michaels to add a sexy glitter gradient! Topped it off with a coat of Gelous and NYC In a Minute Top Coat and I was good to go!

These were super fun and sparkly, but not at all what I had originally in mind when I sat down! Do you ever start with one thing and end up in a completely different direction?

Can't wait to see what my awesome challenge buddy Emily of The Lacquerologist has come up with for Rainbow nails!

Nine days down, twenty-two to go! See you back here tomorrow for gradient nails!

31 Day Challenge: Day 4 Green

It's Day 4 in the 31 Day Nail Art Challenge and today is green day. When I first started blogging, green was my least favourite colour to wear on my nails. For some reason I thought it looked weird and I just was not a fan. Through blogging I have come to LOVE green on my nails. Seriously. I think the love started with all the neons and has just grown from there. I find myself reaching for green waaaay more often than I used to. Since neons are where my green love started I figured I would show some love to an almost neon green today.

I started with 2 coats of the lovely Wet n Wild Glowstick from the Fergie Collection on all but my middle and pinky nail. This is an almost neon because it has a beautiful golden shimmer, that makes it not quite as bright as other neons we've seen this summer such as, China Glaze I'm With the Lifeguard. I used Milani White on the Spot on my middle and pinky nails. Then I added an extra line of Glowstick in the middle of my pinky. I added all the tribal like patterns by freehanding with Stripe Rite Striper in Black. On my index nail I placed the black and gold loose glitter from Born Pretty Store in a chevron pattern. On my thumb and ring finger I added what I think is one of my new favourite polishes Wet n Wild Tonight's Gonna Be A Good Night from the Fergie collection which I got in a August Santa gift exchange from the fabulous Amanda of The Nail Polish Enthusiast!

Triabl-esque patterns are one of my absolute favourite forms of nail art to do. There are essentially endless possibilities just using lines or curves. It's awesome.

Needless to say, I now looove wearing green on my nails. This was actually one of my favourite looks I've done recently because of the simplicity of it, and it's super eye catching!

Today is also my first day of my last co-op term! So wish me luck! :D

Make sure you head over to The Lacquerologist and see what Emily came up with for green day!

See you all back here tomorrow for blue!

Since this also fits today's #PolishDays theme Geometry, I'm doubling up and using it twice! That's ok right ;) Make sure you check out all the awesome #PolishGeometry manis!

Feelin' Pink?

Today is my LAST EXAM! Guys I'm so excited to get this thing over with. This post is going to be short and sweet, because I should be studying (aka last minute cramming), but instead I'm taking a little break to show you a manicure I did a few weeks ago!

I kind of felt like this mani was a tad of a fail, but I thought I'd share it with you anyway to see what you thought! I started out with 3 coats Essie Knockout Pout which is such an awesome bubblegum pink. It looks like it might be a little more pastel in the bottle, but once you get it on the nail it's soooo bright. It dries to a bit of a satin finish, so I think there is a little neon pigment in there. Then on my ring nail I added an accent of Pretty and Polished Hello Dolly. My original swatch of this polish can be found here. Then I stamped using Konad m83 and Konad Special Polish in White, Zoya Keiko and Essence A Lovely Secret. I just stamped the image a few times on each nail in each colour. I was going for some dimension to it, but not sure if it really panned out. I added a little iridescent glitter from Born Pretty Store in some of the petals of the stamp to give it a little extra dimension.

What do you think? Stamping fail or do you like it? Let me know! :)

Well that's it for me! Back to hit the books! 6 1/2 hours until the exam! Thanks SO MUCH for stopping by! <3

Grey, Pink, Black and Blue

Morning dolls! I am sooooooo close to being done my exams! I handed in my final paper for one of my classes yesterday and I just have one exam on Saturday left! I'm not going to lie this exam period has been extremely mentally exhausting. Most often my exam period spans over 3 weeks so I have lots of time to relax in-between studying. This time though it all happened in 2 weeks along with having to write that pesky paper and mark exams and papers. I can't wait to get home and sit by my pool with a drink!

Anyway I did these nails about a week or so ago, I wanted to play around some more with loose glitter and this is what I came up with!

I started off with 2 coats of Barielle U-Concrete Me on my thumb, index and ring nails. I used 2 coats of Nailtini Grenadine on my middle and pinky nails. From there I just went with the flow. I wanted to do a variation on the fishtail nail on my thumb using Grenadine and black loose glitter. On my index I did a V-Gap with Grenadine and black glitter. My middle nail is two coats of Model's Own Disco Mix which is micro pink and blue square glitter. I adore this polish. It's really a stunner! My ring nail is purple loose glitter up the middle and pink loose glitter along the sides. I'm really dissapoointed that the purple glitter smeared when I added topcoat, but from afar you couldn't notice ;) Finally I did a frame on my pinky alternating purple and black loose glitter.

Playing with loose glitter is fun! These are from Michael's I had a coupon for 50% off one item then 40% off your whole purchase, and magically they could be used together! So I got 12 cylinders of loose glitter for a steal. I will for sure be trying to incorporate these into more nail art in the future. :)

I was wearing these when I went to see my esthetician and she died over the loose glitter. She asked if I placed them all by hand and she looked at me with the straightest face and was like, "You're crazy." I might be because these did take awhile, but it was super fun to do!

What do you think of these loose glitter nails? Is this something you would spend some time on or do you like to stick to easier forms of nail art?

Hope you're all having a fab Friday! I'll be tucked away in a library somewhere studying away for my last one!

Thanks SO MUCH for stopping by! <3