NOTD - Simple Glitter Tips

Bonjour!

Today's Nails of the Day features 2 new Essie polishes I recently received:

Lapiz of Luxury // Set in Stones (Luxeffects)

Lapiz of Luxury is the perfect Periwinkle blue! However the application was a wee bit challenging to work with. I'm not sure if my base coat had anything to do with it, but this applied like a jelly polish.. far from what I had expected it to be. Anyways, with that said I applied 2 even coats (allowed dry time in between) to achieve the opaqueness pictured above.

Set in Stone is apart of Essie's Luxeffects Multi Dimenison Top Coats and it is absolutely gorgeous! I applied  it directly to the top half of the nail. Initially I had plans to recreate an ombre glitter tip with the finer glitter gradually fading to the bottom half of the nail. Unfortuately, I forgot to place another polish in-between the two as a gradient to really meld the two polishes together. Phooey.

I suppose there is still a slight distinguishable ombre happening, so I guess I didn't fail too bad. Har har har, let me know what you guys think! :P

NOTD - Cath Kidston Inspired Floral Nails!

Hi everyone! I'm sorry for the lack of posts and updates. I've been extremely busy with school work because for some odd reason I thought it would be rational to have my presentations during the 2nd week of school and to just get them out of the way. Speaking of thinking rationally, my presentation was actually about "Rational Choice Theory". Har har, but I'll spare you the details. (But I encourage to read on it, it's actually extremely interesting and applicable to every day life. :D )

Anyways, aside from my ramblings I want to share one of my all time favourite nail art. I drew inspiration from Cath Kidston because I absolutely adore her bags! I'm not entirely sure if I can find authentic Cath Kidston bags here in Vancouver, but if anyone knows where I might be able to find some please link me!

I'm not going to lie, drawing the flowers were extremely difficult for me. My artistic ability is really limited and I struggled a lot. I had to redo them a couple of times because they looked like big blobs of nothing. For the flowers and leaves, I used a toothpick but you can most definitely use anything with a fine tip. 

I had a nail art party with the bestie! She did her floral prints on a Mint Green background instead! Super cute, I definitely want to try this out soon. I apologize for the weird lighting in this picture, our shadows blocked a lot of the light and I had to amp the brightness. :(

Oh I do have something else to share before I sign off. It's my birthday today! :D My crafty friend M hand made a birthday card for me!

How freaking adorable is this?! She knows I'm into nail art and she even got my ombred hair! Much love to everyone who celebrated my birthday today! <3 You all know who you are! 

Ps. I finally received my Floral Back Pack! Definitely expect the promised review on it soon!