My Birthday Mani

So today is a very special day for me! It's my 21st birthday! I really wanted a special mani for my big day but with work and the holidays approaching I haven't had as much time to do anything special with my nails so I decided to dig into my untried polishes. I probably have about 40-50 untried polishes! I need to get to work on those soon, but it's so easy to forget about them and lean towards others that are tried and true. So today I just decided I would find something in that stash to rock for this special day!

 

If you follow me on instagram then you know I have a serious weakness for my purples! I don't know what it is about purple but I just love the color in general and I love it on my nails! I've had these polishes for a few weeks now and I was just waiting for the right time to use them and it just happened to be today!

The solid purple is BONGO brand which is a fairly new brand to me and can be found at kmart. This color is called "#1 Stunner" and its amazing. I hate when I neglect a polish for so long and then just fall in love with it and I'm just like "Why?!?!? Why did I wait so long!!?!" this polish has a perfect formula. It covered the nail almost completely in one coat but was perfect at 2 coats.

 

 

The black cap makes the bottle so pretty and it does have gripes on it to make it easier to hold, but you can also take the black shell cap off for a regular sized brush handle.

 

 

Now, for that glitter!!! It happens to be China Glaze "Prism". I am a huge China Glaze fan, and this did not disappoint. At my local Sally's Beauty Supply they have a few similar to this which is a blue and a pink shade. I probably would have gotten the other two but they were so similar that it really seemed unnecessary for me, but of course I had to get the purple tinted one!!

 

 

There is a variety of glitter in this one, from what I can see are small hex glitters ranging from silver, blue, red, pink, green, yellow and orange and also super small silver and purple shimmers. Application was perfect and this is a full coverage glitter. after 2 coats I was good to go. I wouldn't at all recommend using this as a glitter topper because I feel like it would probably cover up most of the underlying color because of how well it covers.

 

I topped everything off with my usual Out The Door topcoat and I did use two coats over the glitter to give it a more smooth look. I hope you all have a great day and thanks for taking time out to read this post!

 

Happy Polishing!

-Brittney