New Year's Nails Feat: Milani "Purple Gleam"

Happy New Year's every one! I'm so excited for 2012. I have big plans for this year and i can't wait to get it started. Also, my birthday is this month! Only nine teen, but still, another year older; another year wiser. I started off  2012 with this glitter bomb mani. Purple glitter with holo glitter and gold glitter and freeking rhinestone accents! Let's get to it. As alway, messy cuticles. For 2012 i'm going to do my best to step up my blog quality. Which means you should be seeing better pictures, cleaner cuticles, and more creativity. 

 

For this mani i pulled out some of my oldies. If you want to try this look you will need the following, or similar products.

Polish

Milani One Coat Glitter "Purple Gleam"

Kleancolor "Chunky Holo Teal"

Milani Jewel FX "Gold"

Quick Dry top coat

Tools

Tweezers

Assorted colors of rhinestones

 I began with two coats of Milani's "Purple Gleam." Though this is a "one coat glitter" i still had a few bald spots after the first coat. The second coat was more of a touch up then a solid layer. I am going to be using some thick polish so I did not want to many layers just to avoid long drying time.

To add a new dimension of glitter that wasn't going to steal the show, i used Kleancolor's "Chunky Holo Teal." This coat not only added a holo shine, but also evened out my previous layer of glitter.

I used Milani Jewel FX "Gold," one coat on each of my nails, hold the ring finger. The Jewel FX polishes though rarely used, are some of my favorites. They have a quality of thickness, sheen, shine, and glamour. It's like having jewels on your finger. Now the ring finger, that's havinf jewels on your nails.

On both my ring fingers i used a total of fifteen rhinestones. No particular colors in no particular order besides keeping the same colors in the same lines. To adhere these i used small amounts of top coat as glue to apply the stones one row at a time. I was careful not to overload my nail with too much top coats to avoid floating stones. I also added a small amount of "Gold" on the tips to fill on the spot where another row of stones would not fit. I finished with a layer of thick top coat over all nails.