HAPPY ST.PATRICK'S DAY!

 Claire's Evergreen, Icing Manic Monday sponged at the base and 2 coats of Sinful Call You Later w/1 coat of Nailene Top Coat. I think that is this best green glitter out there..... It has 2 different sizes of green glitter, along with gold micro-glitter = it is a good combination and very pretty.

 A sponge glitter gradient never fails me! I tried a few different things before I decided to go with a fail safe glitter gradient mani. My base was multiple coats of Claire's Evergreen. I brushed and sponged on Icing Manic Monday (dark green) at the base of my nail - like a ruffian manicure, then applied Sinful Call You Later over the area where the two polish's met.

Thankfully I was able to get some outdoor sunshine photos today ~ but seem to be experiencing technical difficulties with blogger, hopefully everything works out♥

w/ Claire's Evergreen

w/ Sinful Colors Call You Later

brushed on in ruffian shape - then sponged over, 1 coat of glitter, 2 coats of glitter

SUN!!!!!!!!!!1

Shade

 Indoor Florescent

glitter particles are tough to get off my cuticles - even with an acetone clean up

this was my Irish Meadow mani from the other day.... I removed the design from my ring nail and then tried water marbling - FAIL!!!!! I have done some pretty marbling in the past, but this did not work, so then I tried a patchwork mani ( a la chloe nails) and that didn't work either. so I went  with the safe glitter gradient - looks good every time

.... and a 'syrup' mani fail. I know it is supposed to be a sheer polish that is used for a syrup/graduated manicure, but this is waaaaaaay too sheer. it is a pretty colour, but needs alot of coats to opacity. I will layer this over an opaque base polish.

.... and a much nicer picture of Claire's Evergreen - its very sheer

♥

New Blogs & St Patty's Day Sponge ( again )

Sponge Mani using Claire's Evergreen, Emerald City and Finger Paints Tough Art To Follow

Here is another quick sponge mani I have worn all weekend.... I desperately wanted to copy THIS rainbow nails mani that Polish Infatuated posted a few days ago, but my base was too dark and the colours I chose didn't show up...... Here is the Original post and tutorial=


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For this mani, I started with 2 coats of Claire's Evergreen, then sponged on Claire's Emerald City diagonally across the center of my nails, then sponged on Finger Paints Tough Art to Follow diagonally across the tips of my nails, I went over this area twice with the sponging, and even filled in some sparse areas with polish straight from the brush to smooth out any lumpy/bumpy spots.

The base polish I used is visible in some areas, I half-*ssed this mani when I could not get the 'rainbow-sponge' to work out like I planned - it still looked cool though and I wore it all weekend♥

w/Claire's Evergreen

w/ Claire's Emerald City

W/ Tough Art to Follow

@ 2coats of Claire's Evergreen, a snappy lite green foil

TAPE is your friend, otherwise ~ sponged polish all over your cuticles...

@ 1 coat of Tough Art To Follow sponged on then brushed on.... there are still some sparse areas.....

St. Patty's Day Manis

Sally Hansen - Green With Envy - 3 coats
Confetti - My Favorite Martian - sponged, then brushed onto the tips of my nails
Sinful Colors - Call You Later - 2 coat

Here is a super easy look, a base of Sally Hansen Green With Envy, a sponging of Confetti My Favorite Martian, and 2 coats of Sinful Colors Call You Later followed by a coat of TC. The 2 sinful Colors Glitter polish's I own are substantially glittery, but are not coarsely textured = so they do not need a million coats of top coat to smoothe them out. I wanted to use Sinful Colors All About You which is a gold/copper glitter but could not find it in my stash.

I have done pretty well for the first few days of march with the green themed mani's..... hopefully I don't get sick of it before St. Patty's Day.....

The artificial nails I am wearing are older dis-continued Fing'rs nails.... Trophy wife length.

w/ Confetti - My Favorite Martian

w/ Sinful Colors - Call You Later

w/ 2 coats of sponging Confetti My Favorite Martian

...... and another green St. Patty's theme mani

For this mani, I started with 3 thin coats of a pale pink polish from Wn'W, the added black on the diagonal with Nailene French Tip pen in black. When it was dry I added Sally Hansen Lime Lights, a sheer iridescent green polish and applied some loose glitter by tracing the line with clear polish and sprinkling the loose green glitter on my nail.  I sealed it all up with  Top Coat.

I kinda like lime lights over this light pink polish, I'll definitely try this layering combination again. It looks sorta what I imaging an Alien 's skin would be like..... clammy and iridescent green.

w/ 3 coats of WnW Mega Last Sugar Coat & Nailene French Tip Pen in Black

With 2 coats of Sally Hansen Lime Lights

....and with green loose glitter, its looks better IRL.....

 ♥