Christmas Challenge - Tinsel

Happy Christmas Eve! Can you believe it's Christmas tomorrow? The time has gone by so quickly I can't believe it's already here!










So for my staff christmas party I wore this homemade glitter polish and I thought it reminded me of the red and green tinsel I used to have and would decorate EVERYTHING with it. With my move from England I have yet to locate the tinsel but decided to use it for todays challenge! The polish is SO sparkly it was hard to photograph.

At first I was going to just keep it as it was but decided to try adding some tree green around the tinsel to give it more of a tinsel shape and feel. Normally I would have painted the green on first I just really didn't want to go through the hassle of taking off the glitter polish (which incidently came off pretty easily) to just put it back on again.

Pretty & Polished - Jawbreaker

 

So after many months dreaming of this polish I finally have it! I was so excited when I opened the envelope that it was in that I took off my snowflake mani that impressively had no chips even after two days at work.. but I needed to try it!

And I am so happy with it. I had a moment of doubt when I saw the bottle as it didn't look quite as I was expecting but on the nail  - it is MARVELLOUS! I can't stop looking at it. Now I am even more tempted to buy more of the Pretty & Polished range!

More polish making

So I've had a bit more time to get busy crafting polishes - I am up to twelve creations now!! Some of them still need improvements but I think they are coming along. I took my sample wheel into work and persuaded my colleagues to pick some to try so that will be exciting!

For my current manicure I decided to try a coral pink with the black glitter over the top. I don't like it as much as I liked the dusky pink but I'm still enjoying wearing it.

On a side note I finally wanderedthrough the other aisles at sally beauty and found their clearance section. I can't believe I have been missing sale nail polish all this time!

Homemade polish!

So I have finally had the time to go down into my nail polish 'studio' (aka to a table in the basement) and play around with some of the powders and glitters I have. It is even more fun that I was expecting! I'm also realising pretty fast some of the colours I am missing out on (like black! I have black glitter but no black powder how is it possible I missed it!) and am saving up for my next order of supplies!

I currently have five polishes made up that I am exploring to see if I'm happy with them, I think one of them is definitely a reject but the others I'm liking the look of so far! Today I am wearing a dusky pink colour with a black glitter top coat. I love the combination of them and it is so exciting to be wearing my own nail polish! <3

My first homemade polish!

My first attempt at making my own nail polish! I used some clear polish mixed with various eye shadow dusts I had knocking around. I am so excited about how it looks!





I couldn't resist adding a stamp and used this cute wavy line/dot pattern from Bundle Monster plate 20.