Party Hearty. What's not to love. Three different colours of glitter on a clear base - a big chunky red and smaller green and silver glitter.
These swatches are about 2-3 coats, I gave it a third where nails looked a bit patchy. party hearty would be great layered over another colour.
Mistletoe kisses, similarly named to the Orly Holiday polish Meet Me Under The Mistletoe which is also a green, is a subtle glitter polish that's not annoyingly chunky like Party Hearty :-P
In the flash shot above the first nail is 3 coats, the others are 2 coats. I quite like this one!
Despite being obsessed with getting Party Hearty, Mrs. Claus is probably my favourite out of the three. It's a gorgeous cherry with pink glitter.
I originally left on Mrs. Claus and got stuck into drawing candy canes but against a pink background it didn't look as good. So I started over and drew candy canes on Mistletoe Kisses:
Tee hee. I had a priceline voucher so I decided to get some Sally Hansen nail art pens. I didn't know what colours they had but I originally wanted to draw holly on there but they didn't have a green! So I picked up red and white pens:
I had a few practice runs and some tips on working with these pens:
- Let the base coat dry properly underneath! Especially when it's glitter else you'll tear it up
- Don't press the colour on, it will just 'fall' out and it works best if you lightly draw the colour on as if it was an airbrush
- If you're doing candy canes, draw a white base and let the first colour dry before applying the next colour else they'll mix
- Do a few even coats of colour, the white is prone to cracking
- Apply a topcoat later when everything has dried, such as Seche Vite
Well it's another wet weekend in Canberra. What a surprise :-| Hope everyone is enjoying better weather!
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