China Glaze - Water You Waiting For + Art

Today's post features Water You Waiting For from China Glaze. This is a gorgeous blue glitter. I'm always hesitant with finer glitters... I tend to assume they will all just look the same. Then I get one, use it, and I'm usually wrong! Such was the case with Water You Waiting For. The pictures show four coats for complete opacity, plus a top coat.

The glitter reminded me so much of actual water that I decided to throw some under-the-sea-inspired nail art on top!

The colors I used for the art were Make Some Noise (China Glaze), Arizona (Zoya), Exotic Green (Sinful Colors), and Alpine Snow (O.P.I.)

I am pretty happy with how cute these turned out! And I am definitely also happy that I was actually inspired to do some artwork. 

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Day 17 - Glitter

Yay glitter! I was really looking forward to this day as I had planned to do a crazy cool layering with Whimsical, but it didn't turn out so hot so I grabbed a glitter I had never tried before: O.P.I - Fresh Frog of Bel-Air. Two coats over China Glaze - Holly Day proved to be quite awesome!

Flash

I included this because how cool would it be if those hex glitters were actually gold?!

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Glitter Badge!

Who doesn't love glitter?! Sad people, that's who. I was one of those sad people, then I tried some good quality glitters full of hexagonal goodness and fell in love. Milani - Gems (a dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Happy Birthday and O.P.I.'s Rainbow Connection) is one of those glitter polishes that makes you instantly drool.  This manicure was actually the closest thing I did to a Christmas manicure and it just so happened to be right around the time I got this badge (yes, it was forever ago). The lovely Ashesela of ArtEvolve tagged me in this award, and now I must tag four people as well. But first, the pictures!

Flash!

I probably could have done another coat just for more even coverage, but I wanted the green to show through a bit since it was supposed to be a Christmas style after all! The rules of this badge say I have to tag 4 people to show off their favorite glitter polish as well, I choose...

Polished Mess

The Thing I Like Now

Dannidoo Nails

Starlight Radiance

Every awesome person I follow (and more that I don't) deserve this award though. Glitters can be a pain to work with and remove, anyone who can do it deserves at the very least a little internet high five!

It's gradient time!

I was looking through animal print tutorials and pictures, and I kept seeing artists using really awesome gradients underneath their animal print designs. Pink, orange, and red do NOT sound like they'd go well together (to me, anyway), but apparently they combine for a really awesome and smooth gradient! First, I did a solid coat of Sinful Colors - Courtney Orange. This is a seriously beautiful orange shimmer. Check it out:

3 coats to a beautiful (quite Halloween-y) orange!

It actually matched my lotion bottle ^.^

Now on to the gradient! I don't have a very good camera, but for some reason it captured this manicure exactly how it looks in person. Maybe it's the beautiful desert sun bringing out these truly beautiful colors!

For the red I used Sinful Colors - Ruby Ruby and for the pink Sinful Colors - Timbleberry.

I am super pleased with how this turned out! That little bottle of polish I'm holding is a glitter from a 5 piece Hello Kitty set. It really isn't good quality AT ALL, but the bottle is super cute! The glitter actually washed off the next time I washed my hands. Still, what glitter remained made this an awesome manicure that I was proud to show off. Thanks for reading!