31DC2014 Day 17: Glitter

Hi lovelies,

Are you having a good week?  Summer has hit Durban in full force this week and I believe tomorrow is going to be a scorcher.  I am not looking forward to it.  Anyway, on to the glitter 🙂

I knew I wanted to do glitter placement for this prompt.  I’ve never done it before but I love how beautiful it looks.  It didn’t really go as well as I had planned and after doing 3 versions I finally settled on the ‘cheat’ version.  I will show you all 3 but the main one…..

Yup, that’s it.  Little glitter flowers 😛  I started with 2 coats of Essence – Black is back.  Once that was completely dry I went to work with some regular top coat and loose glitter.  I used a goldish glitter for the centre of the flower and then used red for the petals.  I then added a few green glitters for the leaves.  On my middle finger I did 3 rows of green glitter.  Topcoated and done.  I wasn’t really feeling it but man is glitter placement harder than it looks.  Am I just being silly?  What is the trick?  I am not sure if I was just me being in too much of a rush or needed to use something different to place them.  I don’t think I am too fussy.  I will keep practicing though.  Shout if you have any tips.  Let me show you the other 2 versions

Here I started with 2 coats of Essence – Icy princess (original version) and once that was dry I tried to make stripes with blue and pink glitter.

Here I started with 2 coats of Essence – Black is back.  Once that was dry I placed the coppery coloured glitter.  See the gaps on the tip of my index and some spots at the cuticle?  I swear there was glitter there.  I took the photos (many of them) and looked at my nails, I could see the glitter but it was just not coming out on the photo.  How bizarre!

Glitter placement takes forever and my stiff neck was evidence of it.  I love the effect though and will definitely keep at it.  I actually have a really cool idea that I will work on and show you after the challenge 🙂

The polishes I used here:

Essence – Black is back

This is 2 coats with no topcoat.  I actually really like this glitter.  It has a good formula and good opacity.

Essence – Icy princess (original version)

This is 2 coats with no topcoat.  This is a silver foil and I do know they have ‘upgraded’ this polish. The new version is more metallic / chrome.  This is a little sheer on the first coat but looks great on the second.  Good formula too.  This is the silver version of Go Bold.

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