Glitter Gradient Nail Art

Hello lovelies- first and foremost I hope you all had an amazing Christmas and New Year! Sorry I’ve (again) been absent… I *hope* I have a good enough reason… Andy and I are moving into our first home together, in a different city *eek* so I’m super excited/busy/stressed/exhausted/thinking a million things a minute. This also means I’m being productive, which also means my blog takes a little bit of a sideline to priorities like sorting out insurance, packing, cancelling incorrectly taken direct debits (side story: Tesco screwed me over!). Anywho, since it has been a good 5 days since I posted, I thought I’d update you all! 🙂

Last year, I bought the Ciaté Mini Mani Month (nail polish advent calender) in a fit of indulgence, loved opening all the doors and looking at all the cute polishes but never used any of them. Not for the whole year. How bad is that! So I promised myself this year, if I bought it, I HAD to use them. And so far I’m doing pretty good – this mani alone consists of 6 Mini Mani Month offerings! Anyway, I bought the Mini Mani Month half price in their Christmas Day sale… for just £21! £24.95 delivered… that works out at just over £1 per bottle! It is still on sale on the Ciaté website so grab it while you can! <3

I was very much inspired by an image Jess from Fat Puss Polish posted on Facebook… Well okay, I lie, I stole her idea for my accent nail. It was just amazingly pretty and haunted my mind until I finally had the Mini Mani Month in my hands!

The polishes I used were all from the Ciaté Mini Mani Month –

– Underwear (basecoat)
– Pillow Fight x 2 coats (grey)
– Members Only x 3 coats (nude golden shimmer accent)
– Party Shoes x 2 gradient coats (gold & iridescent glitter)
– Locket x 2 gradient coats (silver shimmer with glitter)
– Speed Coat (topcoat)

All polishes performed perfectly, even despite the multiple coats – the Speed Coat is really quite impressive with how quickly it dries! Revlon Quick-Dry eat your heart out! (I’m kidding Revlon… I love you really!).

To be honest I could have done with a sponge for the gradient (cringing slightly at the tide line on my ring finger… I swear it’s not that obvious in person!!) but gradient nails are just about the easiest way to jazz up a flat colour. These are probably my four favourite polishes from the calender, hopefully I’ll be showing more in the future though! I must hold myself to using them all!!

Andy and I are going to collect the keys/make final payments today and moving in tomorrow… eek! It doesn’t feel real yet! I must admit I’m a little scared to be away from my mummy 🙁 but I’m lucky to have the most caring partner I could ask for, he’s my bestest friend ever 🙂 wish me luck!

Did you buy the Mini Mani Month? If so what are your favourite polishes from the set? If you’ve done any blogposts or Instagram photos, link me up! You can follow me on Instagram, I’m @squigglyee 🙂