China Glaze Fast Track && butter LONDON Tart With A Hart

Hi!

Today I have a manicure using two different colors, Fast Track by China Glaze and Tart With A Hart by butter London.

Fast Track is a part of the Hunger Games collection. It's a beige filled with tons of gold microglitter! It was surprisingly opaque in two coats and application was amazing. It was much better than others in the collection, but then again... it wasn't one of the metallic ones. None the less, it was still a great neutral color!

Tart With A Hart was part of the 2011 holiday collection. It's a semi-clear base filled with tons and tons of gold microglitter. Also, it has bigger glitters that shine a bunch of different colors when they hit the light. ALSO, if you look super close, there's even black microglitter in it! This one is a stunner for sure. When we saw it at Nordstroms, we weren't sure if it would be opaque or not, so my sister sacrificed her manicure and we tested it out. By three coats, Tart With A Hart worked great alone! It's a very nice glitter! Application was good for a glitter and it was a little gritty, but it was nothing a top coat can't fix.

Take a look!

Fast Track with Tart With A Hart on the ring finger.

Artificial Lighting

Next, I used some scotch tape to put little triangles of Tart With A Hart on the nails with Fast Track.

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Sunlight

Next time I do something with Tart With A Hart, I'll probably pair it with a different color. Maybe pink? But nonetheless the overall look was good enough for me and I got a lot of compliments on it!

What do you guys think?

Comments? Questions? Concerns? Let me know!

MAC Matte Military Swatch

Hello (boys?) and girls!
I know I know I know, I didn't post all week. It was really busy (again) but here I am! Also, I come bearing good news! Has anyone ever heard of the website Head2ToeBeauty? Well it's a pretty nifty website that sells quite a bit of beauty supplies. HOWEVER, the coolest part (to me at least) is that they sale nail polish for discounted prices. Recently I bought 11 polishes from that site (quite a big haul for me) and they should be in on Monday! So on Monday I plan on writing a post solely on my experience with Head2ToeBeauty so y'all can be informed and try it out! Also, I have posts planned for everyday until then, so be ready!

Anyyywaaaysss, today I have for you MAC's Matte Military from the Alice + Olivia Collection. It's currently my only matte polish and it is quite a polish! It's a charcoal gray filled with silver micro glitter. From far away it looks like your nails are shimmering! It went on super smooth but for me, it was a bit tricky to get used to at first. It dries pretty darn fast and by the time I finished painting a coat, it was turning dry. I did two coats because there were some streaks after round one. Other than that, I loved it! I definitely plan on getting a few more matte polishes!

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Next, I used scotch tape to do a weird french tip. No, I did not come up with this idea. I was inspired by Chloe's Nails and her awesome tape manicures! For the tips I used China Glaze Liquid Leather. It worked out really well and the matte dried so fast that I could do the tape part shortly after. I highly recommend waiting for the polish to completely dry if you use a polish that isn't matte. I have done a checker manicure with tape, and me being the impatient being I am, plopped that tape on and boom. Mani ruined. It was a sad day. Anyways, check it out!

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I feel like my camera did not do a good job at catching Liquid Leather's shine. I really wish the contrast between the matte and shine would have shown better. Oh well.

Comments? Questions? Concerns?

See y'all tomorrow!