Red, White and Glitter!!!!!

I came home from a wonderful girl's day to find I received my Julep Box today!!! I had to immediately try this especially since it's 4th of July!!! Shown here is the It Girl box which contains Mila: multi glitter; Kate: white color; Daphne: turquoise and of course America the Beautiful: red, blue and silver micro glitter with silver stars!!! It's a little hard to get the stars out but with a little time and you can get a lot out. I also used some clear nail polish to pull the micro glitter off the stars.

All that glitters...

What can I say I'm a girl and I love glitter!!! So I thought I would take some time and post some of the new glitter polishes I got while I was on vacation.

OPI Rainbow Connection Muppet Series

I absolutely adore this party polish. It was very easy to apply and this is only one coat on my nails. The formula was the right consistency so the glitter didn't go all over my nails. Sephora by OPI has a very similar polish out now called Spark-tacular! which is basically the same only it has micro-glitter added to it. If you can find it I would get Rainbow Connection over Spark-tacular! anyway.

With all the holographic colors around I was surprised to find this at one of my fav stores called Glitter. This polish is by Magicolor Cosmetics and number 41 is the color. The best part about this is it was only $1!!!! I only did one coat of this polish also. TIP: For shaped glitter I find it easier to shake the bottle upside down and this remove brush with the bottle on its side. This way there's sure to be some shaped glitter on the brush.

The next 3 nails are all by Orly Flash Glam collection which can be found at Sally Beauty Supply. The above photo is Can't Be Tamed. I found all 3 of the formulas to be very runny, it kept running to the side of my nail. All in all these are very pretty but I wouldn't wear it alone

Orly Sashay My Way

Orly Be Brave

Nail Polish Creation

So tonight I decided to try my hand at making my own nail polish and this is what I got. It is black with orange glitter not a top coat over black. I think it still needs some work but it looks better than what I thought it would.

Sephora Glitter

Sephora has a new ad campaign this summer entitled 1000 ways to get polished. The glitter section really intrigued me so I decided to try what was shown. The only difference was I thought that their base coat was a little light so I used Sinful Colors Love Nails instead. I did use Sephora by OPI Indi-Go With the Flow and G-listen To Your Heart.

I have to say this is a little hard to do with the glitter line. The formula seems to be really runny especially G-listen to your Heart (the pink). I especially had a hard time with it running to the side of my nail, but all in all I think it came out ok. Oh and in the above picture I haven't cleaned up the excess yet, I was afraid I would smear it if I did.

Sephora OPI It's Real 18K Gold Top Coat

I was very disappointed for such an expensive polish. This runs $30 and it is more of a matte than something that would catch someone's eye. The flecks also seemed to bunch together instead of go on smooth, I had to place some of them with the brush.

Ciaté Caviar Manicure

My sister bought me this awesome combo from Sephora. The box came with the Rainbow beads and the nail polish in Strawberry Milkshake. We decided to use a bright blue for a base coat instead of the light pink that came with it to show off the beads. Unless you are going to wear this for a special event do not spend the $25 because the "caviar"colors wear off in about 24 hours even with a top coat. It is very pretty though and easy to apply but you do have to do each nail individually.