Gridlock Lacquer Electric Tower Ball Drop and Elmwood Village - New Years Eve mani

Hey Everyone!

It's almost New Years Eve so how about a NYE mani?





This is Electric Tower Ball Drop from Gridlock Lacquer. It's an Aubergine metallic it reminds me of crushed velvet. Love this color!



The jagged glitter is Elmwood Village also from Gridlock Lacquer. I used 2 coats here.



On the pointer and pinky I added 2 mm square studs that I got from eBay.



Hope your NYE plans are coming along!

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Gridlock Lacquer Garden Walk and Elmwood Village - purple glitter nail art

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Today I have another Gridlock Lacquer look to show you, I first used the glitter Elmwood Village here.

The purple is Garden Walk, a sort of metallic finish. It was interesting. I used 3 coats because it was kind of sheer, and you can still see a little visible nail line which does annoy me lol Some don't mind nail line so it is what it is. It had a peculiar formula, it wasn't a jelly but almost like a gel? It went on kind of thick but surprisingly dried fast! So that was nice. It is very pretty and had a glowy quality to it! So when I wear it again I'll probably layer it over a pale purple cream for opaqueness. Most people would not be bothered the slightly visible nail line, sometimes I think I'm just crazy lol


Now the glitter, Elmwood Village I adore! It has all sorts of colors and shapes, silver, blue, green, pink, black! It matches so many colors. I used only one coat and it applied nicely.

The 2mm black square studs are from eBay.

Aren't the labels adorable? Love that they show my hometown :)

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China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise and Gridlock Lacquer Elmwood Village

A few weeks back I stumbled upon a local (Buffalo, NY) independent polish brand Gridlock Lacquer. They create polishes inspired by Buffalo and the culture. It was instant love for me! I couldn't wait to try the gorgeous glitter topper Elmwood Village.

I'm currently waiting for my Ottlite to arrive so that I can't take some better pics. These are a little blurry but I think they'll work for the time being :)

Onto the mani!

For the base I used China Glaze Turned Up Turquoise. Looks gorgeous in the bottle with some subtle shimmer, it did dry darker than in the bottle and it chipped in about 24 hours :( It is super bright and there must be neon pigments used for it that caused the chipping. I haven't had good luck with CGs lately and I think I'm done with them.

Look at that adorable label! It's the Buffalo skyline :) it's a clear base filled with silver, green, blue, green small and large hex glitter. There is also jagged pieces of black glitter in there which I did have to fish out the black to place them. The other glitters went on perfect, and the formula was very workable for such a jam packed glitter! Love it.

On the pinky is Julep Brandt, an off black creme. Currently my fav black as the formula is perfection and doesn't look as harsh as a straight black. The neon yellow 3mm studs I got from eBay. This mani made me super happy and then Turned Up Turquoise chipped and made me all angry face grrrrrrr.

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