Confetti Squares Nail Art

Hello lovely blog readers! How has your day been? Mine's been a little rough, so I figured sharing some nail art with you would boost my happiness level! I decided to try something a little different this time. So this is what I came up with! Confetti nails! The cool thing is, the little pieces of confetti are made out of nail polish!

I made the confetti pieces by painting nail polish onto a plastic ziplock sandwich bag and allowed it to dry. Once it was dry I peeled it right off of the bag and started cutting the large pieces into tiny confetti size pieces that would fit on my nails. The polishes I used were all by China Glaze. I used Happy Go Lucky (yellow), Gaga For Green (green), Peachy Keen (orange), Flyin' High (blue), and Sugar High (pink). If you want to give this design a try you definitely have to let the polish dry on the plastic bag over night or throughout the day. Adding a top coat will help the polish dry faster as well.

The base color that I used underneath the confetti is Sweet Hook by China Glaze. It's a cute pink toned light purple. I originally was going to use a white polish, but I decided I didn't want my nails to be too blindly bright, so I figured a nice pastel color would counteract the bright confetti slightly while still keeping it nice and colorful.

I let my base dry and then one nail at a time I put a top coat on, dipped a finger in the confetti pieces, and then randomly placed them all over my nail. They did stick up pretty bad at first, but once I applied my top coat it almost melted them down. It was kind of odd, but good because I didn't want them to be really bumpy. I used Deborah Lippmann's Addicted To Speed top coat.

I think these would be completely awesome for birthday parties!

Want to give these nails a try? Watch my video tutorial!

Polishes Used:

Spoiled Ants In My Pants Dupe of Deborah Lippmann's Ruby Red Slippers

Please excuse the messy cuticles in this picture. I totally forgot to clean up, but this was such a good shot of the glitter.

No... I know what you were thinking... Why does she have spoiled ants in her pants? You silly readers, it's the name of this polish I picked up the other day! This is by Spoiled by Wet n Wild and the name is Ants In My Pants. I totally laughed out loud pretty obnoxiously when I read the name and then everyone looked at me like I was insane. I feel like people do that a lot.. Oh well! If I'm known as the crazy nail polish chick that's completely okay. I could be called something worse.

This polish is a black jelly base with red glitter. It has large and small hex glitter. It's quite a lovely combination actually. At first I wasn't sure about it, but then I carried it around with me while I looked at other things and it grew on me. I came to the conclusion that I must own this because it is pretty original. How often do you see black polish with red glitter? 

But hey hey hey! Guess what! This is a dupe! To be exact, it's a dupe of Deborah Lippman's Ruby Red Slippers. I don't own any DL polishes but from other swatches online, Ants In My Pants is a serious dead on dupe. No joke, go see for yourselves. I payed $1.99 for this polish at CVS. DL polishes are usually around $18 or more. A total steal. Go get a bottle and save yourself tons of money.

The formula for this polish is really nice actually. The black jelly base is a little on the sheer side, but that's typical for a jelly. It's almost a dark grey instead of black, but with more than one coat it's black. So unless you're only going to use one coat, I would just ignore the fact that it's sheer. The glitter stays within the jelly and doesn't drag with the brush which is a super plus! I have 2 coats on in all of the pictures and I don't have top coat on. Trust me... top coat makes it a million times better! I just try not to put top coat on for swatches because I want you all to see what it's like without it. Bare naked polishes baby!! Is that a weird phrase for what I'm implying? Oh well.

Check out my video swatch below!