bubbles and beauty

It is that time of year where its time to whip out fantastically holiday-ish fun... especially on your nails! When I think of holiday - I automatically think of holiday colored glitter (especially GOLD!)

Kirsten, owner and maker of allthatglitters nail polish was kind enough to send me her whole holiday collection of polish. Holy SHMOLY, it was like christmas blew up in the best kind of way.

Unfortunately, after my wedding I lost my camera. I know it is somewhere at my dad's house amidst all of the stuff that was thrown together and packed, I just have yet to find it. I was also scared I wouldn't have time to borrow my sister's fancy camera in time to show you these awesome polishes.

Therefore, I had to resort to using my iphone and jazzing them up in instagram form.

Here they are in all of their glory (i'm only missing one which will be in a giveaway on my youtube channel soon!). How fun do they look altogether?! <3

The swatches below are all on fake french nails. This way you can personally see the opacity of each color with two coats of polish.

Here is cool yule which is my favorite out of the bunch. It's a gorgeous opaque light blue with medium size, circular glitters in blue, purple and a teal. It reminds me of glittering snow!

Here's Pinch of Grinch, which is surprisingly fun. It's a metallic green with small silver, green and red glitter, medium hexagonal darker green and red glitter and an occasional fun YELLOW STAR!!! I always get so excited when a star comes out! Although this is gorgeous alone, as you can see - it is not completely opaque, but when it is layer over an opaque color the green REALLY stands out. (i put it on top of a black color and it was FANTASTIC)

I LOVE THIS NAME! <3 Here is eggnog wasted which is effortlessly fun! It's a creamy white-ish base with teeny gold glitters, small red and copper-ish glitters and green flecks! This is like a party on your fingers! Although you can still see my french tip base underneath the polish, I think with one more coat, the opacity would be perfect. I love how all of her polishes evenly distributes all the fun glitter so you aren't crazy worried everytime you paint your nails.

Let me preface this by saying in no angle did any picture do this polish justice. It's so holigraphically fun! Its a silver base with all sorts of iridescent, holigraphic fun in small glitter, hexagon shapes, squares etc! I've seen swatches of this being completely opaque silver, but mine seems quite sheer. I put this top single coat of my silver Xtreme hardware (sally hansen) polish and it was SO FUN. I think this color on top of different bases would really help the iridescent sparkles really stand out.

You can find her polishes at her etsy shop here :)

Will try to get the others up soon! and a fun holiday tutorial this weekend!

enjoy your weekend! x jess

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Wondering what to get for that special somebody??

Think no further :) I had been eyeing this necklace since the summer started, and finally ended up purchasing it mid summer and still love this necklace so much!

April's shop features beautiful handmade jewelry that is incredibly unique because each piece of jewelry is a little piece of art. You could tell that she pays close attention to detail because every single piece that she has is so beautifully hand crafted! She gets her inspiration from nature and her surroundings... and teaches jewelry and metal classes in Southern California. If I lived there, I would definitely want to learn from her because she is fantastic!

Her 'my name' necklace is made of sterling silver and is the perfect gift for that special somebody because each one that she makes is one of a kind. She hand draws it and designs it and will keep you updated each step of the way. I was really annoying and couldn't decide what type of style I wanted, but April was so patient with me to help me decide what I finally wanted!

It's of really great quality because I've had it for about 3 months now and wore it in the heat where I was dripping sweat, and it is still in great condition. She packages the necklace beautifully and even gives you an anti-tarnish baggy to put your necklace in when you aren't wearing it.