So a month or so back I came across a nailart contest on Facebook from StyledOn. I figured I had nothing to lose by entering, but didn't have high expectations for winning. As a rule, I'm simply not a lucky person as far as contests and things like that go. I can't remember evert winning anything...ever. This is why I hardly ever enter giveaways. But by some strange shift in the universe, I actually won this contest!

Well okay, I didn't win first prize or anything. That went to a girl who did a really cute manicure with penguins. But I was one of the 9 runners up who get a nail polish set from either China Glaze or Hard Candy, and i love both brands. So no complaints here. Just the fact that my nail art was one of 10 out of 200 submissions that won is pretty cool!

If you voted for me, thank you. I definitely appreciate it and this made my whole week. Now, onto some layering I did for todays NOTD...

This is 2 coats of Petites' Daze, which is a pea soup colored micro glitter. To be honest, I love the color in the bottle but it just doesn't look right with my skin tone. But I wanted to wear it because it's pretty, so I added a coat of OPI's last Friday Night over it. This was the outcome. Last Friday Night did a decent job at muting the green a little and obviously adding the holo glitter effect. Again, it's pretty....but not on me :( 

In other news, I've been experimenting with the "jelly sandwich" and I just cannot. get. it. right. What's the trick, girls? 

Oh, and I did a guest post for Painting Rainbows. It's a half-moon mani tutorial. So go check it out!

I ordered Chunky Holo Clover and Chunky Holo Black by Kleancolor a few days ago and they finally arrived this afternoon. I was psyched to try these out because from the swatches I'd seen online, they appeared to have a unique quality to them that reminds me a little of flakie polish. 

Here is 4 coats of Chunky Holo Clover:

Clover has a very sheer kelly green jelly base. It's pretty but because it's so sheer it is lacking in wearability. However.....

it's quite charming when layered over a dark green :) This was 2 coats of Last Chance by Sinful Colors with 2 coats of Chunky Holo Clover layered over it. Not bad at all.

Chunky Holo Black was not even worth applying by itself. I tried, and it looked too gross to even take photos of it. So here you have 2 coats of it layered over Black on Black by Sinful Colors. 

Beautiful. The base of this is every bit as sheer as Clovers and it's grey. Not black, but grey. I'm not even sure why they call this Chunky Holo Black, because even in the bottle you can see that the base is anything but. I suppose it doesn't matter that much since it's so gorgeous over a real black base. 

My one question is why they made the glitter in Chunky Holo Black truly chunky with multi sized pieces of glitter, but left Clover (and presumably the rest of the Chunky Holo set) with just a standard medium sized glitter. I think Clover could have definitely benefitted from some of the super chunky pieces that are in Black.

 

I will definitely be using this over Funky Dunkey in the future!

Sometimes when I'm bored of the same old nail art designs but still keen on doing something different with my manicure, I'll conjure up a layering experiment. This one is 2 coats of Yoga-Ta Get This Blue from OPI with 1 coat of Fire Fly by Jesse's Girl over it. It kind of reminds me of outer space.