NOTD: Mosaic Snowflales

This is the manicure I did as part of the Let it Snow collaboration on YouTube back on the 5th.  If you'd like to see some of the other amazing entries, check out my Let it Snow Playlist HERE.

I kind of knew everyone would expect a marble from me, so I wanted to do something completely different.  I stumped myself until I decided to play around with some small sequins.  I couldn't remember exactly where I got them but I went back to look & finally figured out I'm pretty sure they're part of the 10 wheel Bundle Monster rhinestones from Amazon.  The black base color is L'Oreal Raven's Strength.  I was really, really happy with this manicure, the sequins give such a different look in different lights:

The only thing I would change, in retrospect, is that I would have put 4 points on my index finger, and I think it would have been a bit more balanced than it was with only 3.  Relatively minor in the grand scheme of things LOL.

Here's the tutorial:

And here are a few shots of my experimenting, trying to figure out what exactly I was going to do with the sequins & if I wanted to include any rhinestones or glitter polish over the black base:

Thanks for reading =)

~Colette

NOTD: Pure Ice Funky French - Celestial + Heart Breaker

This is from last Thursday.  Turned out just as I imagined, although I was a little frustrated with the little sequins (some came off, some just lost their color).  

 

I started out with one coat of Pure Ice Heart Breaker, then I did a chevron or v-shaped  french with  Pure Ice Celestial.  I didn't got all the way to the tip, since the next step was a chevron tip with Color Club French Tip, leaving just a stripe of the Celestial.  One more layer of Heart Breaker, apply sequins, topcoat & done.  I'm quite pleased with how my freehand skills are coming along, these came out really straight & even =)

Thanks for reading.

~Colette