Boxing Day Mani - KBShimmer Wrappers Delight, Glitzology Snow Day and Layla Cermamic Effect Killing Red

Happy Boxing Day!

Do you know what boxing day actually is? I thought it was the day we 'boxed' up our gifts, were lazy and ate leftovers from the day before and in the last few years started with the sales again. However I did a little research and found that boxing day was traditionally the day that tradesmen came to collect 'Christmas boxes' of money or goods as thanks for their services throughout the year and also the day that servants had off to spend with their own families, they would take boxes of gifts and/or leftover food with them.

Anyway, I did get some polishes for Christmas, our birthday group had a secret santa which I got to open yesterday and waiting inside was Glitzology Snow Day and Layla Ceramic Effects Killing Red (53). I love them both and had to use them immediately!

For this mani I used 2 coats of Essie Marshmallow on the middle and ring finger with a coat of Glitzology Snow Day on the top and 2 coats of Layla Killing Red. Just to Christmas it up a bit, and because I needed to use this polish before the season ends, I used KBShimmer Wrappers Delight as an accent on the ring finger.

All polishes had a great formula I did find Snow Day a bit think and I will add some thinner next time I use it. I have 3 Glitzology polishes on their way to me from the recent sale so I'm interested to see how they compare.

I really liked this mani and the green/blue shimmer in Snow Day is beautiful, I didn't manage to capture it all on camera but if you don't already have a similar polish to this I would certainly recommend it! To top it off I used one coat of HK Girl topcoat and it was pretty smooth.

Can you see those little bubbles? I really don't know how they got there. Maybe I layered my topcoat on a bit too think? But can you see that shimmer? So pretty!

Flakies!!!

Isn't this just the most Christmassy polish? I also love that Christy gave the proceeds from this polish to Toys for Tots so really this was a charity contribution!

x

Karine's Birthday Flakies

So I owe the untried month a few posts but as it has now past I'll just keep this as my  last official untried post, although I seem to have so many polishes that most of my posts are untrieds! Anyway, today I have some awesome flakies to show you.

I was lucky enough to be able to purchase some beautiful flakie polishes from a blogger called Karine. Many of you probably know her as she's very active on many of the facebook polish groups and she's an absolute sweetie!

These polishes were originally made for her birthday club but we are lucky that she has offered them for wider sale.

I picked up 4 of them and love them so much that I've ordered another 2 which are on their way to me now.

These are the ones I have so far:

Firstly I wore Oui, Je Le Veux. This is a kind of pink, coral, peach jelly with lots of flakies and a little subtle glitter. It would look great with a tan, unfortunately I don't have one but it was still extremely pretty! I wore 3 coats and there was a tiny bit of VNL which I didn't mind at all as it was so pretty, but if you did you could easily just layer it.

Here you go (in the shade):

In the sunshine:

Next is Noir Desir. This is a black jelly with flakies and glitter. It's really sparkly and gorgeous! I used one coat of black opaque polish (GOSH Nero) and two coats of Noir Desir:

I can't wait to get my next order in my hands (or should I say on my hands, lol), I've got Ooh La La and Romance a Paris on their way.

If you would like to look at other swatches or the rest of the collection look here or to place an order look here

Karine also has a great blog so check it out here

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Ashley at One Nail To Another

Lexi at Finger Painted

Alyssa B at Fancy Phalanges

Nicole at Epitome of Superficiality