What's In-die Box? Disney princesses!

I've been on a bit of a hiatus. Sorry about that! Since I started my job, which admittedly is only three days a week, I feel like I've been going through a cycle of busy days and then being sick. That combined with my laptop only working on wired internet meaning that I can't move it from my desk, means that blogging has not been on my top priorities list!

I'm finally getting my act together to write up a blog post because I got the What's In-die Box? this month! (and I finally have time to write up the post!) I have been wanting to get one, but my rule was no buying nail polish until I got a job. Preorders went up in February and I got a job at the end of February. Clearly it was meant to be because I LOVE Disney!

I decided to go with the polish for Cinderella, Minutes Before Midnight from Gloss 'n Sparkle. I don't like visible nail line (VNL) so I decided to do a gradient with Ariel from Glam Polish. I wasn't sure how well they would gradient because of the different sparkles, but I absolutely love it!

The first day that I wore them out was also when my husband, who is also a huge Disney fan, and I went out around to two different shopping centres to find which stores were participating in a Disney promotion of Buy One Get One Free. We wanted to make sure we were getting the Blu-rays that were available and the cheapest prices. It was quite a busy day of making spreadsheets and tracking down the DVDs. Our collection still isn't complete because of the Disney vault, but we definitely made a lot of progress!

I also had this fail during my hiatus. For St. Patrick's Day, I tried to do a snake skin design, but that was an epic fail. I just could not get the design right and the colours looked weird. I'm thinking that black instead of white would have been better, but I wasn't sure if the green would show up over the black.

Gold 2.0

The prompt for week 2 of NAIL is Gold, so I did another gold mani. I'm not a huge fan of gold, as I prefer silver, but I like this one. I decided that red was a good colour to match with gold. My initial thought was Gryffindor but Iron Man is also red and gold. As I'm a Slytherin, I like to think of it as Iron Man. The colours and design also remind me a bit of the decorations seen at a lot of Chinese restaurants.

I used Red My Fortune Cookie by OPI and used a dry brush technique with Gold Fusion by China Glaze Magnetix.

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Cinderelly, Cinderelly

I love Disney and Disney princesses. In fact, I'm getting What's In-die Box this month because the theme is Disney princesses. But sadly that's coming later in the month and the theme for the NAIL linkup is Cinderella this week.

I wanted to make my nails look like her dress, the new revamped one since I added glitter. My middle finger is her face and the thumb is a "glass slipper." It was my first time doing negative space. I was thinking at first that I wanted to do negative space because the slipper is glass. Then I realised that negative space also works because the slipper is missing.

The polishes that I used were Honolulu from Ulta 3, Lily White by Ulta3, Blackest Black by Designer Brands, Radiant Violet from Three Beauties, Freaky like Freud from Formula X, Coach Ella from Fresh Paint, Bonna Blue from Fresh Paint, No Room for the Blues from OPI, A-piers to be Tan from OPI, and Strawberry Sundae from Ulta 3.

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Gold

The first prompt for Nail Crazies Unite this month is gold. I knew what I wanted to do right away, but I had to get a new gold polish. I don't have many glitters and that's what I needed. But with starting a new job and feeling sick, I wasn't able to get the polish until yesterday.

I started off using Blackest Black from Designer Brands. I wanted a gold glitter gradient, so I bought Ripple Effect from Sally Hansen. My nails didn't turn out exactly how I wanted because I  don't have much experience with glitter and this was a really thick jelly base. I ended up meaning that my nails have really awkward thick points even though I used top coat. I still like them a lot, though.

Please excuse the awkward nub on my right hand. I was drying off my hands after washing them and discovered that a piece of my nail just ripped off! I didn't see or feel anything. I couldn't bring myself to shorten the rest of my nails just for the little trouble maker!

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