Guest Post by ChitChat Nails: Neon Glitter Tips

Hi everyone, I have unfortunately sustained a small injury on my swatching hand :( I will be fine of course, but can't swatch for the time being. A few of my talented blog friends have agreed to help me out for a while with guest posts, yay! Today's post is from Marta of ChitChat Nails. She is a beautiful and super sweet chick who has awesome nails and a great blog. She does amazing nail art too, which is something I've never been able to get the hang of. Thanks to Marta for agreeing to help and I hope if you aren't already that you will follow her fabulous blog!

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Hello Lovely Ladies,

My name is Marta and I run a Canadian nail-art blog called ChitChat Nails. Let me start by asking you this: "don't you ever wish that you could remember some of the earliest events from when you were a baby? The first moments, your first influences?"... well, I sure remember my first influences when I was a "blogging baby" 2.5 years ago- and Kellie was a MAJOR one of them! Still wet behind the ears, new to manicure cleanup, proper lighting etc, Kellie's blog was like a magical world of perfection to me! I would literally sit in awe and amazement at her swatches. When Kellie started following me on Twitter I nearly passed out with excitement, and her request for me to put together a guest post (I will unabashedly admit) made me squeal with delight!
Long story short, I am beyond words honored to be here. Two and a half years into blogging I still have many things to learn, but I hope you will like today's post :D

I created a fun and bright funky-french look. I started out by sponging KBShimmer Pink Twice on the tips of my nails. I then added Cirque Electric Circus and Lush Lacquer Clowning Around to the tips. Finally I added the OPI Matte topcoat :D I hope you like my take on a neon-bright funky-french manicure.

Do you reach for neons in the summer time?
THANK YOU FOR READING!

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Collide with Mr. Bubble

Today I have a beautiful combo of lacquers to show you! First is the base, the gorgeous neon hot pink Collide from Illamasqua. I received this as an AMAZING gift from my fantabulous friend Landa (along with so many of my htf lemmings I almost pooped my pants when I opened the package!) Collide has an unbelievable formula that applies so easily you'd forget it was a neon. And it was opaque in two coats. Awesome and THANK YOU La-La-Landa!

I had been wondering what to layer the last polish I got from Lush Lacquer (you can see the others I got from them by clicking here) over and I decided that Collide was perfect. Mr. Bubble is a glitter polish with a clear base, micro pink matte round glitter, small white and blue matte hex glitters, medium matte pink hex glitters, and large white and blue matte hex glitters. This is such a fun mani!

I don't much care for some of the glitters that look like paper printed on a machine with the ink running low, like the color is almost pixelated? Makes it look kinda cheap, but it isn't on all of them and I can live with it. (Even though I have decided against purchasing glitters that I saw look like this in photos...) Regardless, I really like how this turned out! You can get Illamasqua at their website or on Sephora for $14. Lush Lacquer is sold on their Etsy store, minis are two for $9.50 and full size are $8.75. How do you like this combo?

Lush Lacquer - Slime Time

Hiiiii there and hello :) I have another beautiful nail polish to show you today, an indie polish from Lush Lacquer called Slime Time. I really love unexpected glitters and this polish really takes chances. This has "a very bright neonish green base with a great mixture of glitter... iridescent small glitters and white and gold squares are used throughout. It also has blue and green glitter that make it vibrant." I freaking love the square glitter.

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These indie polishes tend to be on the thick side normally. I would say this is a good two coats overall, using the dab method. This is my favorite of the three Lush Lacquer polishes I have and if I used polish more than once, I would consider buying a full size bottle. You can buy this from their etsy store, minis are $4.75 (though it looks like you can only buy two or more at a time of those) and full size bottles are $8.75. Shipping does take longer than I would like, but I can be understanding when it's from indie sellers as they're usually one/two person operations. What do you think of this slimer?

Lush Lacquer - Party Rockin

Today I have an indie brand, Lush Lacquer, polish to show you. I honestly have been kind of swept up in the whole indie polish scene lately and have been stalking multiple sellers on etsy and elsewhere like crazy to be able to snap up some homemade glitters. However, a good chunk of the ones I've purchased on whims have been disappointments. This one is not one of them, luckily.

Lush Lacquer is a mother daughter team that produces lots of fun glitter polishes. This one is called Party Rockin. It's a "a whimsical mix of vibrant colors with a bluish jelly base and a whole lot of glitter... fuchsia, gold, blue, purple and iridescent small glitters are used throughout... blue bar glitter for some twinkle... and bright blue larger hex glitter" I have to say, I think I would like this a little more without the giant blue hex glitters. And the description doesn't say anything about orange glitter but there is plenty in there and part of why I like this mix so much. This is two coats over a reddish purple from Sally Hansen called Cherry, Cherry, Bang, Bang!

Macro, courtesy of my new iphone lens (thanks Evonne!)

You can get this on their website, http://www.etsy.com/shop/lushlacquer. The minis are $4.75 and the full sizes are $8.75. Have you tried Lush Lacquer? I bought three minis from them they're all awesome. Will show you the others soon. The only gripe I have about LL is the shipping time was kind of ridiculous. Had I known it would've taken almost a month to get these I might've waited/not ordered. *shrug* Have a great rest of the weekend!