I never know when to quit.....

....yeah, I just can't seem to leave a color alone anymore. I have to add glitter to everything I wear lately. I'm a glitteraholic! I added one coat of Milani's Twinkle to my Avon Vivid Violet manicure..and the colors actually look pretty ok together. I think I only wore my VV mani for about 10 minutes before I added Twinkle to it.





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And the winner is.....

Thank you to everyone who entered my 500 follower giveaway, I appreciate every one of you. I found a few more vintage polishes at the Dollar Tree, so I'll be working on another giveaway real soon...

Now for the good stuff, the winner is:



Congratulations Sara, I hope you enjoy the polishes. I'll be shipping out your package by the end of the week.


Here's a quick nail pic, I used Milani's striper polish in Purple Outline as an accent to my Rad Nomad mani from the weekend.

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Milani One Coat Glitter: Twinkle

So, this is called a One Coat Glitter, and I used one coat here.....it was hardly enough coverage to be opaque in one coat. I've found that to be true with some of the other OCG's in the new collection. The base color is Red Carpet Manicure Midnight Affair. MA is a nice cobalt blue jelly LED gel polish, and Twinkle is a mixture of blue and purple glitter in a clear base. MA is just a dark enough blue that the lighter shade in Twinkle is still visible.



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Milani One Coat Glitter: Pink Flair

I'm not a pink lover...like at all and I think this polish make a total of 4 pinks in my entire collection....I could never be a part of Pink Wednesdays!! ha ha. But this is just so cute and girly that I adore it for some reason. Probably because it's not a color I would usually wear and it sparkles like crazy. I thought it would make a good Easter mani, nice and pastelly light, but with character ☺







Everyone have a great day today!!
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Milani Jewel FX: Lavender

Lavender is the last of the Jewel FX polishes I picked up. It's a mixture of purple micro glitter and chunky purple hex glitter in a clear base. This is one coat over OPI Vampsterdam. I wonder what's up with all the chunky hex glitters lately, you know, the kind that don't quite lay flat on the nail? I don't mind it, but I really miss "normal" hexes....



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Milani Jewel FX: Hot Pink

Hot Pink is another one of the new Jewel FX polishes that Milani just released. It's a mixture of dark pink and holo silver hex glitter in a clear base. I decided to layer it over my Pure Ice Heartbreaker mani from the other day.





I just got this email from Milani:


I've picked up Red, Hot Pink, Teal, and Lavender. I've seen Fuchsia, but have not seen any of the others yet.

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Milani Jewel FX: Teal

Here's another new Milani Jewel FX color, this is called Teal. Teal is a mixture of teal micro glitter and larger blue, green and silver holo hexes in a clear base. This is two coats over LA Girls grey cream.



Make sure to click to enlarge the photo ☺


Here's a closeup:


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LA Girl Glitter Addict: Celebrate

I so ♥♥♥ this color! I found this puppy at Rite Aid and I just had it get it. It's a mixture of silver, red, pink, teal and blue hex and micro glitters in a clear base. Awesome! and I'll be using this for 4th of July mani for sure. I used Milani Black Cherry as the base. I love the vampy red base with this glitter.



Here's a closeup:


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Milani One Coat Glitter: Red Sparkle

Here is the 2nd new Milani I picked up. It looks like there is a new version of Red Sparkle. The new one is red micro glitter with slightly larger gold hexes. Even though this is a "One Coat Glitter" it definitely needs two for full coverage. This is two coats with one coat of Gelous overtop.






Here is a comparison shot of the two Red Sparkles:


They even have the same number, so I'm assuming Milani has discontinued the old one.


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Milani Jewel FX: Red

I found this new Milani at Meijer the other day. The display was pretty picked over, so I'm pretty happy they had this one left. Red is my absolute favorite color, so I knew I had to have this the second I saw it. The color is called simply Red and it's a clear base with red hex glitter. This is a new Jewel FX color. I layered it over Loreal Femme Noir:





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Milani: Black Cherry + Color Morphing topcoat

I can't believe how hard it was for me to capture a decent photo of Black Cherry. I wore this mani all last week and don't want to admit how many photos I took of it until I finally got a decent one. I love this polish, it's an amazing blackened burgundy shimmer, which is like the perfect vampy red. So dark, but you can still tell it's burgundy.



So, after a couple of days I decided to add a bit of a kick to my Black Cherry mani. I added the red/green color morphing topcoat I frankened using the pigment I got from More Nail Polish. Check out the colors, red, gold, and green (I should name this franken Karma Chameleon! LOL). Amazing!!







Here's a little closeup:



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Epic Win! HD under 239 Teal Crackle

Warning, this combo is going to make you want to go out and buy Teal Crackle, like today. I started with Milani's HD as a base. HD is a silver, what I like to call a flek holo finish. It's kind of got that China Glaze Kaleidoscope look to it.


and now...love....#239 Teal Crackle. I adore the crackle pattern!


and under the Ikea lamp, you can see the bits of holo from under the Teal. Awesome, awesome, awesome!!


So, this color cracked best out of the 4 Kleancolors I tried. I believe the others kind of buckled instead of cracked because of the humidity. I still need to try Green, Purple and Red, but I'm going to have to wait for milder weather first.

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Milani: Silver Dazzle

This is one of those Milani one coat glitters, called Silver Dazzle. I adore this color! I used one coat here. I put it on Tuesday and today (Friday night) there is only minor tip wear. This one is a top coat eater. I haven't worn the other glitters in the set yet, but I assume they're the same.



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Some Milani's

I'm testing out my new nail wheels, so here are some Milani's. These were all taken with my Jansjö lamp from Ikea. I have to say I like these wheels so much better, the other ones are so fragile....these are more durable.

One Coat Glitters:


Holographics:


and random colors:


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Orly: Rockin' Rocket + Milani Jewel FX: Gold

Now this color is more my style. I just picked up this one from Sally's after Christmas clearance sale. It's a nice deep red with some awesome gold shimmer, which I love.




and because I never know when to stop, I added Milani's Jewel FX in Gold to my ring finger (or should I say bling finger? I know, groan...but I had to say it! LOL) Wow, this is kinda cool and definitely different.




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Gold Glitter Comparison

So, I was organizing my stash tonight and thought these colors deserved a comparison. They are all gold glitters with reds mixed in.

If you click on the pick, you'll get a super-sized closeup.


They're all quite similar. Magical is pretty sparse, so I don't think you'd be able to wear it by itself. The other two are similar, but Gold Glitz is a much warmer shade than Gift of Gold. I just love all these warm golds. I'm going to hit Ulta tomorrow in the hopes that I can find a full sized Gift of Gold on clearance, wish me luck!

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Update: I was able to grab the last bottle of Gift of Gold at Ulta today for $4.99 clearance (full sized). I found it on accident, it was mixed in with some drugstore polishes. I also got the green glitter from the Burlesque collection, I don't remember the name. Other than that, Ulta was already wiped out of clearance polishes, but at least I got the one I was looking for. Yay!

Rimmel: Purple Rain + Milani: Purple Outline

Rimmel's Purple Rain is a dark purple jelly. After two coats it looked black. Now, I love me a good vampy, but what's with all these new ones looking black? I mean whats the point of wearing them if you can't tell it's supposed to purple or red?

Ok, I feel better now, sorry for the rant there! But anyways, I wanted to add something to it to bright it up a bit. So, I added a layer of the Milani striper Purple Outline overtop. PO is a bright purple glitter with sparse amounts of blue mixed in. Now, in my opinion, Purple Outline should have been named Purple Rain because it's definitely a Prince purple!

Check out the bottle pick:



and here it is on the nail:






Mega closeup:



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Jordana Swatches

I picked up these Jordana polishes from Cherry Couture after seeing swatches on Pretty Random. She did a great post about these, they are supposed to be dupes to the Milani polishes from last year, and since I missed them, I was happy to get these in their place :)

First up is Night Fall. NF is a black creme with silver glitter, supposed to be a dupe of Miani's Charmed. Here's sunlight:

and shade:



Next up is Purple Glam. It's a purple jelly with silver holo glitter and bar glitter. This is supposed to dupe Milani's Shimmering Purple. Here it is in sunlight:

and shade:


And last today is Green Glitz. This is supposed to dupe Milani's Gleaming Green. It's a green jelly with silver holo glitter and bar glitter.


All three polishes applied beautifully, in fact all three swatches are without cleanup, and for me that's rare. I think I will defiantly be getting more Jordanas in the future.


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