NOTD & some important food for thought.

First a little information I've recently learned about the environment.

I recently had to do a presentation on the effects of pollution on wildlife and learned that there is a floating trash heap in the pacific ocean 2x bigger than Texas (the other oceans have this too). Its killing marine animals, giving whales breast cancer, and poisoning our planet. Most of that trash is plastic from water bottles and trash bags and will take 1000+ years to degrade.

I know a lot of us will go to the drug store for just a few bottles of np, and I'd like to challenge everyone to not accept plastic bags when just getting a few small items. Just say "I don't need a bag" and put it in your purse (after you've payed for it =P ). Even if you don't live anywhere near a coast, that bag could end up in a stream that goes to a river that empties into an ocean 500 miles away, or it could end up in a local pond/lake/whatever.

Now on to my NOTD: I am wearing 3 coats Sinful Colors I Love You and 2 coats LA Splash's Sparkling Lavendar. The sunlight photos are not color accurate but show the sparkle. I Love You is similar to Daddy's Girl, but the base is lighter and it has a lot more gold and purple flecks (like tiny tiny flakies). Daddy's Girl just has gold flecks that are a little bit bigger.






direct sunlight




direct sunlight

NOTD: Glitter gradient with ChG Sexy In The City + LA Splash Oceanspray

This pretty much makes me want to cry and wish I was on a tropical beach.

My camera totally made this look blue so I fixed it in photoshop as much as I could but its still not 100% color accurate, it is very close though. In person the base is a medium teal and all the glitter is light seafoam green.

3 coats Sexy In The City
3 coats Sparkling Oceanspray


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NOTD: Layered LA Splash glitters

This is such a fun mani, its so blingy. The light pink and the fushia set off each other very well. Its a little bit darker and more fushia in person.

2 coats WnW Through The Grapevine (in the small round bottles)
1 coat LA Splash Sparkling Lilac
1 coat LA Splash Sparkling Fushia

Quick LA Splash swatches

I'll do better swatches later but I know these are getting popular and a lot of people want photos and swatches so here are the ones I have. These ones are all glitter in clear bases, Heiress has different sizes of glitter but the others all have one size. Heiress is also the sheerest of the bunch. My favorite is probably Sparkling Lilac, its the most dense and the prettiest color I think. These bottles can be really hard to open, so you can yank off the gold top and underneath there is a round handle that is so much easier to grip. The top slides right back on.

L-R: Sparkling Lilac, Heiress, Sparkling Stratosphere, Sparkling Fushia, Sparkling Fire

one coat

thumb - pinky: Lilac, Fushia, Heiress, Fire, Stratosphere

two coats

three coats