Matte blue candy mani

Hi!

I hope you all had a nice Monday. 

Mine was very busy as I am still preparing classes for my students. School starts on the 29th and I'm not quite ready yet, and since I'm going to Paris on Thursday (only for 1 night) I need to finish before I leave. Today I prepared 10 science experiments to do in the lab and am very exited to do them with my students! Still have a couple more to prepare so it will be work work work until Wednesday evening. 

I'll surely do one more post before my trip. Not sure what polish I'll wear. I don't want something too crazy as I am travelling with my father. I'm thinking a nude. But I have several untried polishes that are waiting to be swatched... We'll see!

For today's mani, I just added Essie's Matte About You to the blue candy mani I did yesterday. I really like this matte version and matte polishes in general (always have!)! 

All the pictures were taken in artificial lighting, without flash.

What about you? Do you like matte polish and matting down glitzy manis?

Blue Candy mani

Hi!

As I was working and cleaning pretty much all day, I messed up my nice blurple skittle mani. I wasn't wearing any gloves (I know,  I know....!) and the chemicals in the cleaning products attacked the matte topcoat, leaving white streaks.

For my new mani I felt like doing something festive and sparkly. No special reason to celebrate, just felt like having sparkly candy nails. I need glitter these days!

I chose OPI's No Room For The Blues for my base color, then I added Essence's nail art special effect topper in Circus Confetti (#02). As you can see in the pictures, the base color is a light to medium true blue creme. It applied evenly and dried quickly to a smooth and shiny finish. Two coats were needed for it to be completely opaque.

As to the glitter topper, it consists in multicolored (red, green, blue, green, gold, silver) and various shaped glitter in a clear jelly type polish. It dried to a semi-matte finish, so you really need to apply a topcoat for either a shiny or matte effect. I used Sèche Vite but will surely be putting a matte topcoat on tomorrow. 

All the pictures were taken in artificial lighting, without flash.

Have a nice evening!