Happy New Year Nails!

Happy New Year's eve and an early Happy New Year to everyone! We had a little crisis for about two days where the blog got somehow deleted (I almost had a heart attack), but it's back now and his is my New Year's eve mani!

Crazy glitter explosion!

Two coats of China Glaze Tinsel Town, one coat of Forever 21 Silver (large and small holo glitter) over that and then one coat of Sally Hansen In the Spotlight (holo bar glitter) over that. Then of course trusty Seche Vite to smooth everything out.  Sorry this is a little blurry, but you can enlarge it to get the details of the various glitters I used. 

I really like the all the different shapes of holo glitter over the dark glitter and base of Tinsel Town. Definitely gives it more dimension and tons of added sparkle.

We, here at We are The Wicked, want to wish you guys a super awesome, fun and safe New Year! Hope you continue to follow us in 2012!!!

Until next time,

The Wicked

Forever 21 Silver Swatches and Review

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and a productive Black Friday/ Cyber Monday! I slept on Black Friday so yeah...unproductive. But I do have some pretty cool glitter to show you today.

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One coat of Forever 21 Silver over two coats of Revlon Carbonite. Yes. So, yeah Forever 21 polish names are super terrible and not at all creative. Actually I thought it was called Disco Ball because that's what I recalled seeing on the website, but I guess not. But anyway, this is obviously a holo. It has bigger hexagonal glitter and smaller round pieces in a clear base. The pictures came out kind of strange, its definitely more holo in person and has that rainbow range(you kind of get it in the bottom picture). It's kind of reminiscent of China Glaze Snow Globe from the Let it Snow collection. 

It definitely adds some dimension to silver glitters which I really like. 

The formula was normal, nothing extraordinary since it is a regular clear base. Sometimes the glitter clumps together and doesn't spread over the nail evenly. When doing multiple coats you'll probably have to move and spread the glitter around with the brush. But yeah, sparkly and holo and $2.80.. what's not to like?

Until next time,

The Wicked

Forever 21 Love & Beauty Nail Polish: Light Green

Here is the bottle. The shape is exactly the same shape as LA Girls polishes and some of the colors are exactly the same. I'm not sure if it because LA Girls makes polishes for them or if Forever 21 copies them. Anyway, you can see that this polish is a sheer light green base that is jam packed with FLECKS! I love fleck polishes, but unfortunately I don't have many. The flecks here really remind me of the Nubar 2010 that I love.

Oh and I just wanted to comment that this polish is called Light Green, which is just lame and uncreative. Sad.

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Along with the multichrome flecks, there is also lots of light green micro glitter that makes is super shiny.

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This is one coat over Zoya Cynthia (same thing above). You can see how the flecks look this red color.

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And here you can see the blue/green of the flecks. You'll have to enlarge this one though. It also flashes yellow and orange, which was hard to capture on camera. 

You may have to enlarge all of the pictures to see that this polish turns Cynthia into a hunter green color that is just awesome and perfect for fall. I really like this polish, but the light green base is kind of iffy just because you may not be able to layer it over a wide range of colors. 

Until next time,

The Wicked

Glitter Gradient!

I've been meaning to do a gradient look for a while now, and I figured I'd start out with one using a glitter.

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This is Forever 21 nail polish in Silver over two coats of Essie Dive Bar. About the glitter in general, Its really fine silver and holo glitter in a clear base. The glitter is pretty packed in there, but doesn't quite get opaque if you layer it since it is so fine. The holo in this is freaking amazing and beautiful and I love it. Saw it, had to buy it.

Now in term of the gradient, first I did the two coats of Dive Bar and let them dry and then I did an all over coat of glitter, then another coat starting about half way down my nail, then a last coat at the very tip. So the father down the nail, the more coats of glitter I had. I finished it off with Seche Vite. It looks really cool in the sunlight as you can see from the picture, but my camera failed to capture in it the shade, it definitely doesn't look that sandy, but it definitely shines (figuratively and literally) in the sunlight. 

So, that's my first gradient, I think it came out rather well. It might have been a little better if the glitter wasn't so dense. I'll have to try with some cremes and other things.

Until next time,

The Wicked