Magnetic Starburst

I recently rediscovered my magnetic polishes, and I've been kind of crazy about them lately. I never really used them before because there's not a whole lot you can do for nail art and I found them to be a bit underwhelming. My tests for these turned out great, however, because my nails are curved, the magnet doesn't hit my entire nail with the same strength and the design isn't as sharp. For these I used the star burst pattern from the original China Glaze magnet on magnetic polishes Color Club Hipnotic and Color Club Steel of the Night. Just to add a little something, I used star glitters from Wet N Wild Hollywood Walk of Fame.

It's All In the Cut

Today I have an awesome polish from Wet N Wild's ColorIcon collection, It's All In The Cut. It came out around fall, but for some reason I've put off wearing this polish until now. IAITC has pale purple microglitter and larger light pink glitter. At some angles it even appears to have a bit of holographic glitter. I used three coats for full opacity. The color can be a little bit boring, but I really like wearing pale purples.

Spoiled Shuffle The Deck

Here is another polish from the Wet N Wild Spoiled collection. This is Shuffle The Deck. It has equal sized red black and silver hexagonal glitters in a clear base. I sponged on this glitter because the brush in this polish is the worst. 

 I used a white, Xtreme Wear Cherry Red, a black, and Xtreme Wear Celeb City.

Spoiled Pet My Peacock

I recently got a couple of colors from Wet N Wilds Spoiled line. One of the awesome glitters I got was Pet My Peacock.

PMP has same sized gold green blue and purple hexagonal glitters. I had the same problem with the brush on this as I did the polish I posted about a couple days ago, so I had to sponge on the glitter again. 

PMP is layered on top of Xtreme Wear Marine Scene, Virtual Violet, and a black and white.

Spoiled Trust Fund Baby

I don't go to CVS often, but I did recently and was pleasantly surprised to find the Spoiled line by Wet N Wild. Spoiled has a ton of colors, but what I was really attracted to was their spectacular glitters. One I of the ones picked up reminded me of a color from the Wet N Wild Fast Dry Halloween collection that I loved but couldn't find anywhere. It's called Trust Fund Baby.

I wasn't sure what it would look good over, so I did a variety of colors, Xtreme Wear Marine Scene, Hot Magenta, and a white and black. TFB has square black and pink glitter and hexagonal blue and gold glitter all of the same size in a clear base. My problem with this Spoiled line is that the brushes are huge! They are extremely fat and stubby. While they pick up a lot of polish, it's too much, especially with glitters since they are so sparse in the clear polish. Instead of applying these traditionally and having a huge thick goopy mess on my nails I sponged on the glitter. I found this to much less annoying than having polish and inch thick.

Cost Is No Back Alley Deal

I had kind of come to terms with the fact that I would never own any part of the Wet N Wild ColorIcon collection. But when by some crazy twist of fate they actually showed up at my local Walgreens, it took quite a lot of restraint to not buy the entire display. Wet N Wild ColorIcon, a Walgreens exclusive, is another entirely glitter collection, which we've been seeing a ton of this year, not that I'm complaining. I'm showing two of the colors that I got, Back Alley Deals, and Cost Is No Issue.

Back Alley Deals is a purple micro glitter with larger round hot pink glitters in a clear base. Cost Is No Issue is a teal micro glitter with larger light blue glitters in a clear base. The brushes are short and stubby and I felt like they ran out of polish before I could even finish a nail. Both of these applied opaque enough that you really only need two coats, but it is still possible for the absolute slightest amount of patchiness. They are great on their own and their probably great for layering too, which I'll have to some time. The wear on these was kinda awful. I had multiple chips within hours, but I don't mind because wear isn't really a big deal to me since I usually switch out my polish about every other day.

Week Of Glitter: Wet N Wild Black Magic

Day 5! Wet N Wild Black Magic is part of the Fantasy Makers collection, which means that it comes in that adorable tombstone bottle. I found Black Magic at a Halloween store last month. It was the only one in sight, and I practically backflipped from joy. I later found out that it was actually from last years collection, so I guess I got lucky!

Black Magic is thin rainbow bar glitter in a clear base. Bar glitter! The bar glitter isn't terribly annoying, like usual, because it's so tiny, you just have to be careful that no glitters are hanging off the edge of your nail. This glitter is so fun, it's like confetti, I love it!

Midnight Sky

This post was originally going to be about a manicure I did, which will be pictured at the end of the post, but the base color I used is so amazing that it had to become the star of this post. Im a Sally Hansen Xreme Wear collector. The majority of my polish collection is occupied by Xtreme Wears, so when the new collection came out, I raced to get every color. One of those colors was Midnight Sky. Midnight Sky is a dark gunmetal charcoalish color. It has small, not nontheless noticeable, silver frosty glitters. I don't really gravitate towards darker colors, but this is just dazzling. I don't think that the color is particularly unique in the grand scheme of nail polish, but in my collection its a gem.

Now on to the actual look...
                                          I applied Wet N Wild Party Of Five Glitters on top.

Then I matted the look using Essie Matte About You. I'm not usually huge on matte looks, but glitter is an exception.