I received some loose glitter for review from NYK1 Secrets and created a glitter gradient.

I happened to create this over an existing manicure of Barry M Ballerina, but you can’t see that through the glitter, so you could easily do this over bare nails.

The plain nails are three coats of Deborah Lippmann Call Me Irresponsible. It’s very sheer, perhaps a jelly (I’m not good at deciding when something is or isn’t a jelly), and even with three coats you can still see some bare patches. It’s a lovely colour, but next time I wear it, it is going to have to be over a base of something more opaque.

I’ve not used loose glitters before, but found it really simple to create this look. I added the loose glitter over clear polish. It wasn’t a quick-drying top coat; I used NYC Grand Central Station, which dries slowly. I did two glitter coats, picking up the loose glitter on an eye shadow brush, and gently pressing it onto the nails. I overlapped the colours a little each time. Using a fan brush, I cleaned away the excess glitter. To make clean up easier, I did it all over some newspaper.

I love the outcome. The gradient effect works so well.

NYK1 Secrets glitters come in 12 pots in a case for £7.95. There’s a nice range of colours, although mine are different from those currently detailed on the website. Mine had just one green and one blue, didn’t have an orange or yellow, and had more pinks.