NOTW: Gel Manicure - Nudie Glitter

Haven't posted what's been on my nails for awhile.  I have been doing gel manicures again, because I am too lazy to do my usual Nail Night every week.  While it is therapeutic, I just don't have that hour a week to do my nails and would rather do a manicure bi-weekly instead.  I recently wore the Red Carpet Manicure Hollywood Royalty on my nails for 2+ weeks and wanted to incorporate it in my next manicure.  Instead of a full glitter mani again, I went with just a kiss of glitter at the tips.  I am hard on my hands with constant washing and doing the dishes and cleaning without gloves.  There is a ton of regular nail polish in my collection that is just sitting there waiting for some attention.  Going to have to invest in some Gelability to give some of those colors some love!

Products used:

• Base - Gelish Foundation
• Color - Gelish Need A Tan (x2 coats)
• Color - Red Carpet Manicure Hollywood Royalty (dabbed at the tips)
• Top Coat - Gelish Top It Off

NOTW: Revel Nail - Supernova

Click, click, click!  The wonders of the web and clicking through different blogs and coming across new brands.  I started following Chickettes: Soak-off gel polish swatches and nail art recently and love Andrea's swatches of various brands of gel polish.  There is a banner for a promotion from Revel Nail and I clicked on it and wandered around the site to check out this brand.  To my surprise, there is an offer for a free sample kit, you just need to pay the $10.99 in shipping and handling.

Sample kit contains 0.5 oz bottles - FULL SIZE!

What the website says:

• Quality and Value at your fingertips - Sold directly to nail salons for $7.49 per bottle
• Made in the USA - Formulated to stay on nails for 3 weeks without chipping
• Soaks off completely in 7 minutes
• Great shine and scratch resistant
• Cures in LED lamp in 30 secs and UV lamp in 2 mins
• Vitamin E enriched to protect and make nails stronger
• 3-Free formulation contains no formeldehyde, DBP (Dibutly pthalate) or toluene.
• UV stable allow viewing of color at top of the bottle.
• All bottles are 0.5 OZ
• Free shipping on orders of 10+ bottles
• Full set - 24 colors plus base and top coat - only $175 plus free shipping
• Click here to view our color selection - (mobile friendly)

I chose the color Supernova from their Fall 2014 collection.  I thought it was a deep shimmer of black and navy per the swatch online, but it is actually a deep shimmery purple.  Maybe I got Queen instead?  Ah well, I love dark colors for fall and winter! 

After 1 week of wear. Still in tact and super shiny!

Cost: Sample Kit - 1 bottle each of base coat, top coat and color of your choice for $10.99

Pros:
-Affordable
-Long wearing

Cons:
-None!

Would I recommend this to a friend?  YES! Revel has a great selection of colors and is super affordable.  This cured well with my small lamp and has worn well for over a week now.  I would love to add more Revel gel polishes to my collection since they are such good quality and great price!