Ingress Skittle Mani | Enlightened Nails

Hey hey hey! Any of you out there play Ingress? If so, you'll get today's nails... and either love or hate them ;)

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I Survived (Although A Few Nails Did Not)

G'day! I'm back from my trip, and although it was a crazy week of working hard and playing hard, I survived! I am sick yet again, and I managed to break THREE nails >.< but I'm back.

I did not get as many photos of my travelling mani as I'd hoped. Here is the one I got before things got all cray, and it really doesn't do it justice:

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dat holo doe. It's Color Club Over The Moon with chevron-tips of Layla #01 Mercury Twilight, and some little stone accents of course. The colour scheme is one I've always liked, but I was particularly inspired by the recent Cinderella movie for it :)

I broke my index nail really badly, and then I still have that patch on the middle one from last week and a break on the other hand too. What can I say--it was quite a week. For the first time in a LONG time, I have properly short nails. I am not digging it.

horrible phone pic, activate!

I'm pretty bummed about this, but.. I plan to draw inspiration from the queen of shorties, The Nailasaurus! She rocks all kinds of awesome art with her signature length and shape, so I'm going to do a few tribute manis to her while waiting for them to grow out. Fortunately they do grow pretty quickly.

The other piece of good news is that I now have a Surface 3 device! Full HD screen and this sweet pen for having more fun with my editing (and probably hand-written and -drawn notes as well). I'll be tweaking the graphics and layout of the blog to reflect this, and hopefully have a more quality site for you.

Sorry for the bad post today! I almost didn't bother since these are such meh pics, but I didn't want to totally disappear. Thanks for your patience, and I hope to see you soon with some pretty nail art :) xoxo

Black & Silver No-Water Marble

Hello! Today I've got a pretty swirly look that's a lot easier to do than it seems :)

#31DC2014 - Day 23 - Inspired by a MOVIE

Hiya! Day 23 of the challenge calls for nails inspired by a movie. I am not a big movie person, but I work with someone who really likes the minions from Despicable Me (hi Sam!), and while it's not the most original idea (I'm aware that everyone and their grandmother has done minion nails), I really wanted to paint them. So I did!

Indoors with flash

 I used Zoya Darcy (yellow) and Cover Girl Vio-last (purple) for the bodies. The denim coveralls are done with--what else?--Denim Dash by Maybelline. China Glaze Icicle is the silver for the goggles, and Layla Hologram Effect #16 Coffee Love is the brown for the eyes. (I thought this holo brown was perfect for capturing the multifaceted look of an eye, and I was right!) The rest is acrylic paint and a bit of patience ;) Topped with KBShimmer Clearly On Top, and then, for the above photo, I drew on the hair with Sharpies!

We haven't had a lot of sun lately, so these overcasty photos will have to do.

I hope you liked these! I really had fun with them, especially the derpy purple one and his wonky teeth :D See you soon for more! xoxo

2014 Birthday Nails! Silver Holo & Glitter

Hi errbody! Today's my birthday! So of course I had to do crazy awesome celebration nails.

Outdoors in sun

Enough rainbows for ya?

Coffee Love Swirls

Hello boys and girls :)

Before we get into the nail art, I have one quick announcement--I have finally gotten around to registering my own domain for the blog! You may have noticed the redirect. *points to your address bar* See? :D

I am still happy to be hosting with Blogger, but the URL is now http://www.glittericity.com  :)  feel free to update your bookmarks, although the blogspot address will redirect here as well. I'll be updating my watermark next time I edit photos to match the new site!

Today I have a quick design for you from the vault--I am enjoying my previous mani so much (and it's staying on so well!) that I haven't taken it off yet. But here is a design I wore a month or so ago, featuring Layla Coffee Love (which I've shown off before!) and some simple stamping.

yep, we are back to holos :D

I used Konad black stamping polish and Mash plate 40 for the swirls. Topcoat is Orly Sec N' Dry.

You can see how the image wasn't quite big enough for the nail, and I had to try and fill in the gap on my middle nail. Kind of failed. Oopsie :)

Coffee Love is such a pretty polish!

Just a quick post today, but I hope you liked this combination. Thanks for checking out my blog today! Stay tuned for more tomorrow :) xoxo

Layla Hologram Effects: Coffee Love!

So, like most people in the nail blogging community (and--let's be honest--on the planet), I have a major thing for holographic rainbowy shinyness. How can one not love the prismatic effect of holo polishes? I am lucky enough to own a few (and have the 2013 Halo Hues collection on the way--cannot WAIT!), and today I am going to show you my absolute favourite one so far: Layla Hologram Effects #16 Coffee Love. I adore it not only for the name (coffee is pretty much my life force), but for how rich and beautiful it is.

Ladies and gentlemen, grab your bibs and drool-rags, because this is just off-the-charts gorgeous!

Be still, my heart. (Click to enlarge. srsly. do it.)

The rich chocolatey coffee brown! The brilliant sparkling rainbow effects! OMG.

I know I usually display nail art here, but I couldn't bear to do anything over this. I have a stamping plate with a wee coffee cup on it, but... would you be able to cover any of this? And if the stamping had any flaw whatsoever it would just take away from the awesome. So I left it as is, and took about a hundred jillion photos. My four favourites are on this page today :D You'll want to click to enlarge them, because the full-size images are WAY nicer!

With my sweet leopard-print steering wheel cover, in the sunlight :D

Indoors with flash. Dancing rainbows <3

Look at that reddish-sunsetty-orange glow, and the greens and blues so prominent on the index finger! aahhhhhh :D

Yep, that's all I have for you now. No witty quips... there's nothing I can add to this. See you next time for some proper nail art! xoxo