Hello sweeties! While I’m away on vacation, I wanted to share with you a slightly older manicure of mine. It’s one of those “throw a bunch of random things together and maybe it’ll look ok?” type of manis, which I always love! And this mani involves glitter… also LOVE! The only issue with glitter for me – it gets everywhere and you’ll find pieces of glitter in random places 23 days after you’ve worn it on your nails. I swear I’ll pick off microglitters from my face way after it’s been removed!
Demetri Martin had it right… damn glitter herpes! It’s the gift that keeps giving, whether you want it or not!
Anyways, here’s my herpes mani? Nope… that sounds awful. Note to self – do NOT ever call a manicure your “herpes mani.” So, here’s my glitter chevron skittlette! That’s nicer, although it’s easier to call it a herpes mani LOL.
Much prettier than herpes right? Geez, I need to stop talking about the herp!
I really liked how this came out! I wanted to break out my chevron vinyls because it’s such an easy way to get a beautiful accent.
And don’t all the polishes go well together?! When I’m choosing polishes to throw together, I tend to use one with multiple colored glitters or shimmer. Then it’s easy to choose the other polishes – I just take some of the accented glitter colors and try to match them! So for this mani, I first chose the KBShimmer crelly glitter Meow or Never. That polish has some purple and blue matte glitters, so I picked out a brighter purple and a blue glitter!
Here’s a closeup of Meow or Never:
Please excuse the yellowed cuticle area! I was playing around with a yellow chartreuse holo (which looked TERRIBLE on me FYI), and it stained like a mother.
And here’s a closeup of the gorgeous blue glitter:
Love this SO much! Despite this being the offending glitter polish, I adore it!
Polishes/ products used:
- Index finger: China Glaze Plur-ple… This gorgeous purple is another from the new Electric Nights collection! The formula on this one was perfection (I had pooling/ uneven issues with the other purple in the collection), and the color is stunning! I LOVE this bright almost neon purple!
- Middle finger:
- Base color: CG Plur-ple
- I used chevron vinyls from Nail Vinyls
- Topper: Blue-Eyed Girl Lacquer 2000 Years (see below for details and my thoughts)
- Ring finger: BEGL 2000 Years… This stunning ocean blue microglitter has bits of silvery holo glitter interspersed with the rest, and I love it so hard! I used 3 coats for full opacity (I could have gotten away with 2, but I wanted the tips to be more opaque). It’s also part of Julie’s amazing Doctor Who collection (The It Got Away From Me, Yeah… collection), and it’s based on Rory and Amy, some of the Doctor’s companions. This name gets me in the feels – the love Rory has for Amy is something everyone should strive for!
- Pinky: KBShimmer Meow or Never… This gorgeous crelly glitter has a beautiful pale grey base that almost leans a bit purple. Matte glitters in dark blue, grey, purple, and light blue are packed in the base and easy to get on the nail. This was from the newest Spring 2015 collection, and it’s perfection! I used 2 coats.
So that’s that! I think I mentioned herpes more than a Valtrex ad. Hopefully that didn’t turn you off and you stuck around for the mani! If you stuck around, what do you think? Do you like this kind of “kitchen sick” manicure where you throw a bunch of random things together?
And here’s your daily David Tennant:
It looks better than okay, it looks amazing!
Thank you so much! I love the simplicity of it 🙂
Oh, my gosh, you are cracking me up with the herp references! It’s like you started and just can’t stop! herpesherpesherpesherpesherpesherpesherpesherpes…the herp. Anyway, great combo of polishes and I always appreciate an awesome macro shot, it’s the best way to commune with a beautiful mani when you can’t see it IRL.
Hehe thank you so much Susanna!! I totally had verbal/ written diarrhea! Still better than having herpes 😉
I agree – macros are always so helpful to see polishes up close!
Just love how this skittle looks. I’m loving that crelly polish you used.
Thank you! That crelly was a surprise favorite from the KBShimmer Spring collection! It’s more subtle than I usually prefer, but it’s so pretty!
If all herpes would look like glitter, there would be much more herpes. Or is that a weird thing to say?! Anyway, I love your herpes :D!
Hahaha!!! Totally a weird thing to say – but then again, so is “I love your herpes” 😉 But I love it! Thank you 🙂
Really pretty skittlet and the herpes reference is cracking me up.
Thank you!! I may have been mildly delirious as I wrote this lol. Glad I could make you laugh 🙂
These nails are beautiful! I love your herpes manicure 😛
Hehe thank you!!
Beautiful combo of colors!
Thanks!
:Probably the only time I’ll be saying this but I love the herpes haha.
Haha – that’s kind of how I felt as I wrote it! Thank you 🙂
Hi, saw you on reddit decided to check you out. Love this nail design. Also I second the love of the herpes meme. Nice Job
Thanks for checking my blog out! I love Demetri Martin, and this is one of those quotes that always stuck with me! 🙂
I love the manicures where you pull out a bunch of polish and just work it. 🙂 Nice job!
Thank you! It’s my go-to type of manicure 🙂
That glitter might have been a pain but it looks amazing!
Thanks! I still love glitter no matter how much of a pain it is 🙂
This reminds me of the time I was teaching a arts and crafts summer camp and I spilled glitter all over my phone. I cleaned glitter out of the crevices for months!
Haha oh geez – loose glitter is a million times worse than polish glitter! But it’s soo sparkly and pretty 🙂
LOL! Great post. 😉 I super looooove Meow or Never!
Thank you! That KBShimmer is gorgeous, isn’t it?!