Maybelline Forever Strong - Green Miracle 720 and China Glaze - This Is Tree-mendous (Happy HoliGlaze Christmas Collection 2013)

I bought this green a while ago at a discount store....the green metallic shimmer just called out to me and it needed to come home with me. It was sitting on my little polish "Helmer" for a while and it was overtaken by all the Essie's, Opi's, indies and China Glaze's until now.
Green Miracle is a grey green jelly with a ton of green metallic shimmer, in low light it looks quite dark and in the sun it's metallic green goodness!

Maybelline - Green Miracle 720

The formula is thin and you need to apply a fair amount of polish with as little brushstrokes as possible. Otherwise you end up with bald spots..... This was two layers and when you look carefully you can see the bald spot problem on my ring finger....

Next day, I added China Glaze This Is Tree-mendous on the tips (to disguise some sleight tipp wear).

China Glaze - This Is Tree-mendous

Quite the Christmas combination.....
Usually I like it better to make a gradient from the base of the nail, but well...that does not disguise any tipp wear, now does it?!

OPI - Suzi's Hungary Again glitter gradient

OPI Suzi's Hungary Again is such a yummy colour! It is a warm leaning medium pink with a touch of silvery hidden shimmer. SHA is part of the OPI spring 2013 Euro Centrale Collection. To make it even more festive I added Lush Lacquer Summer Lovin as a gradient glitter at the base of the nail. Summer Lovin is a fun matte glitter polish in a slightly yellow-orange tinged base.

The result:

OPI Suzi's Hungary Again and Lush Lacquer Summer Lovin

The coloured base gave the gradient an extra dimension....it was juicy :-)
Loved that the glitter was on the sparse side, it worked nicely with the tinted base and Suzi's Hungary Again.

China Glaze - Avant garden Collection - Sunday Funday

I loved doing this one: Sunday Funday with CG Liquid Crystal gradient!
It is a slight attempt to copycat a Polished Perfectionist glitter gradient mani like here , I turned it upside down and started glittering at the base of the nail.....

The result is not as clean as AmyGrace makes them (but heh, what she does is just a m a z i n g) but I really love the result nonetheless :-)

Look:

China Glaze Sunday Funday and China Glaze Liquid Crystal

This is 2 layers of Sunday Funday and a good sponging of Liquid Crystal.
The blue of Sunday Funday is very fresh and spring appropriate and the formula was very nice as well :-)
Hope you enjoyed my glitter gradient attempt!