Princess of the Cold

I follow Zoya on Facebook, sign up!  be a pal to them! and they're big proponents of showcasing designs that highlight their polishes.  They put up a photo of something at My Style where they had used an off-white and Electra, from Zoya's Ornate holiday line, to do a drip manicure.

Now let me first say that this is another new-to-me art technique that I was more than happy to spend a Saturday slaughtering.  The photo (which I now can't get to come up) was gorgeous, so I set to work.

First stop?  Basic white with Zoya Purity

So fresh and so clean clean.

Then I laid down one coat of Essie Pure Pearlfection, which I did not photograph because...why.  Then I set to work dragging piles of Electra down the nail in a rough "drop" pattern.  This is a lot harder to do than you would think for two reasons:

1.  I'm not a cyborg with perfect control of both my dominant and non-dominant hands.  One set of nails was clearly better than the other.

2.  Electra is a bar glitter, so forcing that into round shapes was a pain in the butt times one million.

It sparkles!  It sticks you with bar claws when you scratch your face!

I was pretty happy with it, truth be told.  It had a fierce amount of glitter in the sun, and it definitely had that "Winter Ice Princess" vibe to it.  But those piles of Electra that I formed to drag down quickly became never drying balls of sharp glitter rage.  It lasted about fifteen minutes before I cleaned the whole thing off.

Be well, sharp sparkles - we hardly knew ye.