Thursday, January 17, 2013

NOTD: Powder Blue Mosaic

Today's manicure has got to my most favourite manicure of the past year. I picked up Revlon's Blue Mosaic just before Christmas, and have been trying to figure out a good way to wear it ever since. The multi-sized glitter has a moderate density to it, which would probably take 3 pretty thick coats to get full opacity on the nail.

I was himming and hawing about doing a full glitter manicure or an accent glitter nail manicure, when the idea of a glitter gradient popped into my mind. I started with two coats of Joe Fresh Powder Blue, which is what the name says, a light powder blue colour. I find that Joe isn't that creative with the naming of their polishes lol. Powder Blue has a real watery consistency so two coats took no time to dry and allowed me to add lots of glitter without it taking hours to dry.


To get the glitter gradient I started with a thin layer of glitter over the whole nail. After that was dry I repeated that but started halfway down the nail to the tip. Once that was dry I added a third thicker layer of glitter right to the tip of the nail (as if I was doing a French Manicure). I did a thicker layer for the last one because I wanted the glitter to be almost opaque at the tips. I then used a coat of Seche Vite to lock everything in, and voila! a beautiful blue glitter gradient manicure.

Even with 7 coats of nail polish on each nail it dried fairly quickly, and lasted about a week before it started chipping at the tips. This is definitely a manicure I will be doing again soon.


How do you feel about glitter gradients??
 
 

11 comments:

  1. I love the glitter! It just makes your nails look a bit more special than plain blue.

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  2. Love your color combination and I love glitter gradients - I think they are a "chic" way to do glitter :)

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  3. I must say, having seen it up close and personal, its my favourite too!

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  4. I love glitter and this gradient look is beautiful! I need to check out Revlon glitter polishes :)

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  5. I really want to try glitter gradients... I just havent found the right glitters. Yours looks beautifullly amazing.

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  6. super pretty!! like steph, i want to do glitter gradients too!

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  7. Wow-ie! Love this look - especially using the cream base.

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  8. Ooo I like this colour combo very much! I actually have a serious lack of blue polishes in my collection

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  9. I really love this combo!!! :D It definitely looks wintery! I may have the Revlon glitter..but I need that Joe colour! ACK!

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