Too lazy to remove hex glitter polish?

Hex glitter. It's beautiful, flashy, different. When you wear it, your nails get noticed - and that's great! But all good things come to an end, and when it comes time to remove that chunky glitter... It isn't fun.

In fact, when I tried to remove my Christmas manicure, my acetone-based nail polish remover ate through two thick layers of Seche Vite, three layers of polish, and a basecoat... leaving nothing but the glitter behind. It removed everything around the glitter, but couldn't remove the glitter itself.

Awful, right? There are methods for getting rid of these glitters, but this time I decided to just roll with it. What's the harm, I figured, in wearing these glitters another day? So here's what I did.

I took my absolute favorite layering polish, Revlon Sweet Nothings in Satin Sheets, and put two layers over the glitter. The result was a milky white base filled with golden flakie-ish glitter, and chunks of gold hex glitter buried underneath. In passing you could mistake them for naked nails, but then the hex glitter catches your eye, and you look at it, and you see the delicate play of even more glitter...

For something I just slapped on because I was too lazy to scrub the glitter away, I think this was a very cool outcome. I'd do it again.

Nailgirl

Christmas mani #2

This is my actual, official, Christmas NOTD, which I wore while eating turkey and opening presents and all that good stuff. I like it, even though I had to nubbinize, and even though it was such a royal pain to remove.

It's two coats of Barry M Red Black with a layer of Saffron gold hex glitter. I did a pedi of it before, and knew I had to do it on my hands for Christmas. It's great.

I was a little more careful with the glitter this time, because I didn't want to put too much of it on. I'm quite happy with it. It reminds me of wrapped Christmas presents.

Nailgirl

Blush1 Haul

I got my second order from Blush1. They're a UK-based overstock cosmetics etailer. I ordered from them for the first time a couple weeks ago, and I loved the stuff so much I made another order! The shipping was INCREDIBLY fast, and after £25, it's free as well.

I got the rest of the Revlon Sweet Nothings collection, after enjoying the first one so much. They're really interesting layering polishes, made for putting over dark polishes. At first I thought they all had the same pink duochrome flash, but it looks like Satin Sheets (white) has a gold flash and Please me Pink flashes blue.

I wish I could capture the duochromes of these polishes on camera, but it's incredibly difficult. In real life, the bottles flash as you turn them and it's so lovely. Each shade is a different sheer, milky color.



These, I'll use for frankening - I got a few shades of Collection 2000 Dazzle Me powder eyeshadow (light green, bright blue, and black), some loose glitter, some glitter polishes, and clear polishes. Watch for my results soon.


This is a polish I wanted to use for 'underwear' under sheer polishes, but it's too dark for my skin tone. If I ever tanned at all, it would work. Unfortunately, I don't.


And a lippie - Too Faced Glamour Gloss in 'Girls on Film'. Nice color, feels quite sticky and has an odd smell though. It's supposedly a lipcolor that 'looks like a gloss and wears like a lipstick'. We'll see. The color suits me well enough.

Nailgirl