Milani Hot Pink Glitter Placement

 Hello, I have glitter placement manicure for today! Surprisingly, this was one of the quicker glitter placements that I've done. The base is Zoya Anais and I pulled the glitter from Milani Hot Pink.

Milani Gems

Gems consists of orange, pink, green, silver, yellow, light blue hexagonal shaped glitters, and smaller red, blue, and silver glitters in a clear base. I supposed you could wear it by itself if you used another coat, but the polish would probably super thick. I also think they re-formulated Gems, while at Walgreens I found a different version of this polish in the exact same display. I was tempted to buy it as well, but I did really like it that much.

Milani Hot Pink

Hot Pink has equal sized hot pink and holographic glitters in a clear base. The glitters are really sparse, so this polish can not be worn alone. The swatch I have below is a thick coat of the polish because the glitters had to placed on the nail.  I love the way the glitter looks in the bottle, but since the glitters are all equal in size, they don't provide a great coverage.

Hot Pink over Xtreme Wear Hot Magenta and Black Out

Hot Pink by itself

Milani Pink Flare

I was at CVS recently and I wanted to buy nearly every Milani polish there. One that I actually did get is Milani Pink Flare. It consists of micro dusty pink and small holographic glitter in a lightly tinted pink base. It's said to be a "one coat glitter" but it actually takes 3 coats for full opacity. Other than that the formula was pretty good for a glitter polish, and it actually lasted pretty long considering how many thick coats I used.

I put Pink Flare over Xtreme Wear Bubblegum Pink, a black, Zoya Flora, and Color Club Vintage Couture.

Pink Flare by itself

Milani Twinkle

Today I'm showing Milani Twinkle. This is a wonderful glitter! It has equal sized bright blue and purple glitter in a clear base. It's supposedly a "one coat glitter" but it's not. I needed at least three coats to get a decent coverage, which I expected anyway. Needless to say, I love this polish! I'm just putting all the pictures I have of this up so you can continually stare at the beauty.

Milani Teal

Milani recently released a new colors in their collection called Jewel FX. Unfortunately, they all have boring names, for instance, I got Teal. Teal has small blue glitters with larger green blue and silver hexagonal glitters in a clear base. It's really pretty but the glitters are too sparse to wear by itself. I put it on top of Zoya Noel, which might not have been the best choice...

Teal by itself.

No qualms about application, except that I can't wear it on it's own.

31 Day Challenge: Day 5

Todays challenge is Blue Nails!

Today was a difficult decision because I knew that I wanted to use my new Milani Blue Lightning. and yes Blue is in the name, but the bottle was a bit deceiving.

                        For fun I added stars and hexagonal glitters using KleanColor Silver Star

Blue Lightning has midnight blue glitters in a deep blue base. The reason why I was unsure about using this polish for Day 5 is because it also has scattered purple glitters in it. In the bottle the purple is very noticeable, almost overwhelmingly so, but on the nail it doesn't really show.

The bottle claims that it is one coat formula. It was close but not quite. The first coat was pretty opaque, but it was obvious that the polish wasn't at full potential. Two coats bring extreme opacity though. I'm sure that you could get away with one coat if it is applied very thick.