In case you haven’t noticed, I’m really into nail art right now. Ever since my sister asked me to help her learn how to do a water marble manicure I’ve been watching way too many nail art YouTube videos and wow! You really can do a lot of stuff to your nails! I had no idea about all this nail art world beyond the French tips and the salon effects nail stickers.

One of the videos I really liked was this Plum Gradient tutorial by Klaire. I wanted to try it right away but I don’t have any working purple and pink polish, I tried the tutorial with turquoise and dark green. It looked nice but then my sister wanted me to water marble her nails and my manicure got ruined because the turquoise polish decided to fly around. It was really fun but water marbling is hard, I don’t think that I will ever attempt to do it anytime soon.

That night, I decided to try and fix my gradient and found my super cheap and pretty useless navy glitter. Surprisingly, it hasn’t fallen off and it look great. I think that the gazillion polish coats give my nails a kind of fake look that I love. I never let my nails grow because they are really thin and break super easily. This manicure gives them a little more strength and it hasn’t chipped away yet.

Here is the list of polishes that I used to make this, if you would like a mini tutorial or something I would advise you to look in YouTube, there are hundreds from very nail-savvy and talented girls.

• Make up sponge
• Fingerpaints Art Dealer Teal-er
• Fingerpaints Scenery Greenery
• Kleancolor Holo Blue
• Generic navy glitter polish
• China Glaze Fast Forward Top Coat

What are your favourite nail polish trends/styles?

Kisses!

ETA: A bokeh shot, I took this after I uploaded the post, the holographic/rainbow glitter is amazing, right? More pictures available at my Flickr account.

My friends and I have many traditions, traditions that we are happy to continue now that most of us are of school and moving into different stages of our lives. While we don’t see each other as much as we used to, we make the effort to get together at the very LEAST 3 times a year.

Last Saturday, we had our annual Winter Gathering. The Winter Gathering is like holiday party outside of the holiday time frame. We all bring a dish or something to drink and we have dinner and a Secret Santa. Our Secret Santa is only for gag gifts and we usually have a very nice time exchanging gifts and telling the story behind the gag.

This year, I got my friend Alex as my Secret Santa and he got me a M.A.C. Dazzleglass. The gift was wrapped in a box inside a box inside a box inside a bag inside a bag. I had a lot of fun trying to open it. I think that he thought that I wouldn’t wear it, but it seriously hasn’t left my bag since last Saturday.

In case you’re wondering, my friend Hazard got me as his Secret Santa and I got him an Iron Man puzzle. My other friends thought that my gift was way too awesome for a gag gift.

On to the Dazzleglass, this is my first M.A.C. lip gloss. I have like three M.A.C. lipsticks that I adore. The smell and the texture are just a dream, although the Viva Glam Gaga colour doesn’t suit my skin tone at all. This particular Dazzleglass is called Funtabulous.

Funtabulous is a pink gloss with loads of purple/magenta glitter. It really is packed with glitter, I’ve never had a lip gloss that was this glittery. I tried to capture the glitter as much as I could on the pictures but I don’t think that I could. Pink is my favourite lip colour to wear and this looks amazing on its own and over pink lipstick like Chanel’s Rouge Allure in Adorable.

The Dazzleglass comes with a brush applicator which I don’t love and it is quite sticky. I do like the product but I’d wish it wasn’t as sticky, my hair gets stuck on it all the time (I have quite long and curly hair and I wear it down most of the time).

No lip swatches because my lips are way too damaged because of the cold. I have very sensitive lips and hands and the winter does take a huge toll on them. I just started using Chapstick on a very regular basis and things are getting better. I hope to go back to soft lips before winter ends.

Have you ever tired a Dazzleglass, which is your favourite lip gloss?

Kisses!

1) Maximus laying on sunshine 2) Colossus figurine, part of my friend’s Marvel collection 3) My niece playing with her stuffed animals/flowers 4) PEPPERMINT PUFFS! 5) The beginning of my Thor collection 6) Maximus refusing to leave his house 7) Hipster shot while driving around the city 8) Maximus looking at my niece through the kitchen window.

Images 1 – 6 taken with the Retro Camera Android App and 7 – 8 taken with the Xiamen Meitu Android App

Kisses!