Today's Purple Crumpet Fairy Challenge was subtle glitter or flakie bomb.  I have to admit...I have no subtle glitters!  I thought about doing a color/color glitter. Just gold glitter over a gold polish or the like.  I also debated using the one semi-subtle glitter I have, a Deborah Lippmann gold glitter.  But...I just didn't like the effect. So I went in a different direction. It's not really glitter...or flakies...and it's not terribly subtle. But it's darn cool and it screams Spring.  I've seen these in a lot of different places and I'm reading that they're going to be the next big thing (in fact, some companies will reportedly be selling kits to DIY this at home with!).  They look wicked cool but I was worried about the wear ability of it.  Actually, this was super easy and it didn't chip off or get caught on everything like I thought it would.  I would like to find a way to topcoat it more thoroughly though because those little buggers are SHARP and I scratched my skin up a bit with them!  Nothing serious, no broken skin mind you but enough for it to annoy me. Anyway the base on these is China Glaze Sweet Hook and Kinetic Candy.  I held my nails over a bowl and mixed up a bunch of Martha Stewart glass beads which I then sprinkled over the semi-wet polish.  I lightly top coated with Seche Vite but you really have to be careful top coating because it can leave holes or come out SUPER SUPER thick on your nail.  I hope you all enjoy and thanks for following!! 

How do you feel about my candy nails?

****UPDATE: Ciate has trademarked the term 'Caviar manicure/Caviar nails' and is now forbidding bloggers to use the term. I have removed all mention of "caviar mani" from my blog as per request.****

So it's day 11 of the 31 Days of Christmas Challenge and that means it's time for Christmas wrapping! I'm not going to even sugar coat it: this challenge was SUPER hard for me.  I wanted to make little presents out of my nails but no matter how many ways I tried it I hated the results.  I don't know why but the sight of little bows and ribbons on my nails just drove me to madness.  I went through my polish collection over and over and over and couldn't find any colors I wanted to use and it just seemed that everything I tried was a proper mess.  Then some wrapping caught my eye.  A few years back one of my local retailers discontinued Martha Stewart wrapping paper and, like the good little Martha lover I am, I snatched up a ton of it and have been storing it in my closet so that I can keep using it into infinity.  People in my family will probably still be getting Martha wrapped presents when I'm 80.  She had a winter wonderland-ish theme to some of her paper and it has a beautiful light blue and silver theme.  So I decided to take a more simple route and just do the paper rather than actual wrapped presents!

Enjoy and thanks for following! What's your favorite Christmas wrapping?

Base on all nails but accent is: Models Own Blue Moon with a single coat of OPI DS Sapphire over it.

Accent nail is; Make Up Store Greta

So awhile back I bought butterLONDON's No More Waity Katie, and it's not exactly a secret that I wasn't impressed with it.  It's kind of murky and greyish purple but the glitter is somehow not glittery and it takes a million coats for any kind of effect and the effect you get for your effort isn't great.  I REALLY wanted to love this color as much as I love Duchess Catherine...but alas, I did not.  So it's been sitting in my drawer forever just waiting to be used.  I got some Martha Stewart glass beads at Michael's for next to nothing the other day so I decided to test them out on my nail  And I gave No More Waity, Katie a second chance.  I still don't love it...but I'm coming around!  

(Side note: I HATED the glass beads on my middle finger but I got a ton of compliments...so maybe it's not as bad as I thought!)

Base: Ulta Smoke Screen

Topped with: butterLONDON No More Waity, Katie

Accent nail: Martha Stewart glass micro beads