Reddit 52 Week Challenge: Week 1 Taping with China Glaze Riveting

I frequent a section of Reddit called RedditLaqueristas. It is full of awesome people who love nail polish! This week we begin a new year of the 52 Week Challenge. Every week for the next year there will be a new theme to inspire awesome nail art!

Here is the 52 Week Challenge on Reddit

The first week's theme is taping! I have never done this before! It is extremely annoying and I don't own the thin nail art tape, so I used masking tape cut up. Masking tape is good because you get less bleeding, but for the design I chose to do I really needed the thin tape.

Either way! I think my first 52 Week Challenge mani looks really pretty.

I started with 2 coats of China Glaze Riveting (this colour is AMAZING). It's an extremely rich reddy orange with chunky gold shimmer. I love it! The dark colour on the tips is OPI Every Month Is Oktoberfest and the glitter stripes are China Glaze I Herd That.

I think this works beautifully. The red shimmer in Every Month Is Oktoberfest is subtle, but the other colours really bring it out. I Herd That is very dense gold and copper glitter with a sprinkling of holo glitter. This colour is also amazing! The fiery orange of Riveting really plays off the copper in I Herd That.

This was totally worth all the time, effort and cursing involved. 

Cheat sheet:

1. Orly Nail Defense - 1 coat
2. China Glaze Riveting - 2 coats
3. OPI Every Month Is Oktoberfest - 1 coat (taped)
4. China Glaze I Herd That - 2 coats (taped)
5. Orly Polishield - 1 coat

Next week on the 52 Week Challenge the theme is Blue. Woo!

Ninja Polish Color Changing Garnet swatches

This is one of my new polishes that I was very excited about and it didn't disappoint! Color Changing Garnet is part of the Facets collection from Ninja Polish, one of three gorgeous multichromatic polishes named after color changing gemstones. The other two are Alexandrite and Zultanite.