As promised, here are the nails I ended up wearing for Christmas! I was still recovering from surgery and feeling a bit under the weather, so I decided to brighten things up and get in the spirit by applying some sparkly, Christmas themed polish!
A couple of months ago, I discovered the wonderful world of indie polishes available on Etsy, and fell in love with the many gorgeous, home-made glitter polishes available! One of the stores I just had to buy from was called Pretty & Polished, and I fell in love with some of the polishes from her 2012 Christmas collection. I ended up purchasing a few mini bottles (which are perfect for when you are short of storage space)! I didn't have time to try them as I fell sick just after receiving them, but managed to pack a couple of the mini polishes in my suitcase to try for Christmas!
I did this look by overlaying Love Always, Candy Cain from Pretty & Polished over my favourite scarlet polish, Karina from Zoya. Love Always, Candy Cain is a gorgeous polish containing lots of chunky red and white glitter (in the shape of hearts and hexes), mixed in with red and white microglitter particles, all suspended in a colourless base. As a result, it works best when layered over contrasting colours. I can just imagine how gorgeous it would be when applied over black (to let the white and red really pop).
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| Love Always, Candy Cain by Pretty & Polished. |
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| Close up of the bottle. |
I did have to fish around a little to get a few of the larger chunky glitter bits placed on the nail, but overall, it applied very easily and laid quite flat on the nail bed, although there are a few places where part of the chunky glitter does stick up a little (as you might be able to observe from the photographs).
This manicure consisted of two layers of Love Always, Candy Cain, applied over two layers of Karina, and I used my standard Poshe topcoat. To allow for easier removal, I applied this over my Essence peel off base coat (PVA basecoat).
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| In natural daylight. |
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| In natural daylight. |
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| In natural daylight. |
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| In natural daylight. |
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| In direct sunlight. |
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| In natural daylight. |
Isn't this just the most gorgeous glitter polish, perfect for Christmas? It really brightened my spirits and I received lots of compliments while wearing this!
In case you're wondering about removal, it was super easy with the peel off basecoat! All I had to do was grab an orange stick and gently prise it away from my nail, and I ended up with this!
Do check out Chels Pretty & Polished Etsy store page by clicking here, and her online store by clicking here, but I warn you, her polishes are so gorgeous that you just might find yourself 'accidentally' purchasing eight bottles, as I did! Her mini bottles retail for about $5, while her large bottles retail for about $9. I'm eyeing some of her colour changing polishes for my next order!
What do you think of this polish, lovelies? Do you love a good glitter topcoat as much as I do?
Much love,
MM.
x
