The Week in Nails - 02 March 2013

By Makeupguineapig @MakeUpGuineaPig
It's Saturday again, so I'm adding another weekly installment of my polish picks! I tried something completely different this week by creating an accent nail with loose glitter and I tried one of the new nail varnishes from Illamasqua's I'mPerfection Collection. I'm looking forward to Spring and Summer, so I've been avoiding my darker polishes, and I'm starting to really love glitter! Strange because I used to hate glitter! :) So, if you're curious to see my nails for the week, keep reading!

I'm not including the last polish from last week, but I did wear it for a day or two before changing to this first polish of the week. It is Zoya's Tru (2 coats). I really love this color. It's a deep warm purple with subtle flecks of an almost iridescent copper. It's really beautiful and I doubt the photos pick up its beauty too well. I decided to do an accent nail, which became a theme this week. I had picked up the Nails Inc. Electric Lane Holographic Top Coat at Sephora a few weeks ago and I really wanted to try it out. I love holographic polishes, so I was hoping this would create a similar effect. It kind of did. It's more of a really densely packed holographic glitter than a way to transform any polish into a holographic polish. It has a very similar effect though, and I liked the way it looked (I used 1 coat). As with anything holographic, I found myself constantly staring at my nails. I probably wouldn't pair it with Zoya's Tru again though, because it detracted from the subtle beauty of Tru with it's beautiful flakes.

Close-up of Nails Inc Holographic Top Coat


Next, I had ordered Fragile from Illamasqua, which is one of the new speckle polishes from their I'mPerfection Collection. It's a Robin's egg blue with black speckles in it and I love it! It really looks like little bird eggs sitting on your nails. If you added a matte top coat, it would look exactly like a hand full of blue Cadbury Mini Eggs! I wasn't sure how I would like this polish, but it is a really cool and unusual polish. It was actually pretty easy to work with and not like most jelly-polishes (I wouldn't say this is a jelly polish, but it gives a similar layered glitter effect). It is not at all sheer, but it was a bit watery. It took 3 coats, but they were rather thin coats because of the thin consistency of the polish. In the end, it had a nice layered, multi-sized speckle effect that is really cool and I love it! As a side note, I really like the Illamasqua bottle and this formula was incredible! Highly chip resistant. I've never tried another Illamasqua polish before, but now I'm quite curious about them. But, yeah, I really love this polish! :)


Finally, I found another product I'd never tried, so this was the week of testing new stuff I guess! I found some LA Splash Nail Art Glitters and picked one up in Golden Egg. These are simply loose glitters that you dip a nail with wet polish into, and you end up with a super sparkly glittery nail! Another effect I really like lately! :) It was pretty easy to do and didn't create too much of a mess. I just dipped my wet nail into the pot of glitter and waited for it to dry. Once it had dried (not very long), I brushed the excess glitter off of my finger with a soft paint brush and the glitter only stuck to where the polish was. As with all glitter, there were some bits here and there scattered around where I paint my nails, but it was no where near as much as I expected. So far, it seems to be lasting quite well too! I topped it with 2 coats of Julep's new Freedom Polymer Top Coat, which I also love! In fact, all of these polishes have 1 coat of this top coat over them (with 2 coats over the loose glitter). The color on the rest of my nails is 2 coats of Zoya's Malia which is a warm mid-tone purple cream and, shocking, I love it too! :) 

Most accurate color of Malia



LA Splash Nail Art Glitter in Golden Egg



So there you have my nails this week. I actually hated to change it, but I also get bored with the same color all the time. And it was fun to try new things!!! :)
What was on your nails this week? I'd love to know!!! :)