OPI Stay the Night

When I heard OPI and Mariah Carey had teamed up to do a collection I was waaaay too excited. The queen of pink and glitter and too-much-muchness was getting a nail collection? Yes, please!

Unfortunately, the regular colours did not catch my eye, but this new 'Liquid Sand' thing that OPI is releasing did. It is essentially a matte glitter, but matte to the MAX. I like these a lot. 

For your consideration: Stay the Night. Black jelly-like base with black and pink glitter. This is three coats, but you can get away with two.



The pink really pokes through. And it mixes really well with the black. I approve, OPI. I approve.

A England Bridal Veil + Deborah Lippmann Happy Birthday

Sorry for the wait! Family stuff, ya know :)

Anyhoodle, I did prepare something sparkly and eye-catching to make up for it: A England Bridal Veil from their Legends collection. It's a black holo! SO SPARKLY.

Oh, A England. You have had my heart since that first order of Avalon many moons ago... Perfect formula, lovely application, wondrous colours!

Now, I was technically wearing this manicure to a children's birthday party. Sparkly as it may be, it was also black. It needed a little more PIZAZZ (capitalization mandatory). Do you know what has PIZAZZ? Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday! Do you know what's really easy but really impressive? Glitter gradients! Two guesses what I did!

Ahhhhh! Rainbow glitter gradient!! Now it's appropriate for a six-year old's birthday party, right? Right???