I have a problem with shiny objects. I see all the glittery pretty objects and my mind goes to La La land. I will almost always buy rainbow glitter nail polish, even though I have tons of it. I haven't EVEN gotten to all the rainbow glitter polish that China Glaze came out with for the Specialty collection, also called Glitters and Cremes. Oy. Deliberately blurry picture ahead!
China Glaze Polar Ice is from aforementioned Specialty/Glitters and Cremes collection. China Glaze Fairy Dust is from Fashion Fairy collection. Cover Girl City Lights 430is apart of the Boundless Color and is considered a top coat. It was made to replace the discontinued Cover Girl Continuous shade Quicksilver 130. Finally, Savvy Femme Couture "Touch of Glitter" was at my local Sally's in their summer displays. These were all under $5 (more like $3.50, but I can't find my receipts so I'm guessing).
I knew that trying to post these on the nail bare, wasn't going to work. Instead, I took a single coat of CND Blackjack over Seche Natural, and then just one coat of each glitter. Here's the result.
As you can see Polar Ice has this blue/green flash to it, with large square glitter. Fairy Dust and City Lights are totally dupes - both have the same coverage, the same amount of glitter. Touch of Glitter is horrible. Very sparse glitter.
I really liked Polar Ice so I took a super macro shot for you.
Yay! Ultimately, Cover Girl City Lights was cheaper than China Glaze Fairy Dust BUT I only found one bottle of Cover Girl City Lights in my whole town and I had to literally sit on the floor to find it. China Glaze Fairy Dust is in CG's core collection at Sally's (which is also at eye level and higher at my store). I am pretty frustrated with Savvy though. I have another bottle of it up on my untries and I just want to chunk it. What's your favorite glitter from my 4? (PS: this is just 4 swatched... I have like 10 more rainbow glitters including a bar glitter.)
As soon as I saw this color, I immediately thought Wizard of Oz - did anyone else? Gilda was apart of the 2010 Sparkle collection, and listed as "fashion pink sparkling metallic." I'm still not sure why they considered this to be the "metallic" collection. I'm still going with microglitter. Pictures in the sun don't even remotely show how pretty this color is.
I used a base of Zoya Anchor, 2 coats of Gilda, and a top coat of Zoya Armor. This polish was so pretty, went on like a glove on my nails - very nice, very soft.
My sun was setting at this point, so I snapped a quick sun picture so you can see how pretty this shines. The pink is more reddish but did have a blue flash to it, which was quite awesome.
I adore microglitter or glass fleck or whatever - it's just so pretty.
Here in the shade, you can see that blue flash I was talking about - it comes from the glitter - quite cool.
Zoya [official website] can be purchased on their website for $7/bottle.
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Oh back to Claire's. This was another one of their Mood polishes that I didn't think I'd like all that much. As you can plainly see in my bottle picture, It looks like "Daring" is a greyish color (and in the hot Texas sun, the bottle looked like it too), and the "Innocent" color looked like a whitish cream color. Unlike "Calm/Wild", this was a creme polish, not a glitter.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 3 coats of Daring/Innocent, and a top coat of Seche Vite. Imagine my surprise when I saw this.
Um what? Now granted this is in the sun, but that's no creme, that's butter yellow. The tips almost look greenish grey. It reminded me a tiny bit of a banana, but I was going to roll with it.
In the indirect sun, you can start to see more of that butter yellow/olive green color again. Now this was actually the next day (I applied it at night) and frankly, I had a bad day that day. Lots of construction type work, so the polish was starting to chip and peel just a bit.
Now here's the fun part. I went into my bathroom and ran the water. First, I used super cold water to get the "Daring" color to show up.
That is totally a weird yellow green! Not grey at ALL. I'm so confused.
Next I used some hot water (ow) to get the "Innocent" color to show up.
This color is definitely a buttery yellow, not a white cream.
I turned off the water and was able to snap a slight wet but very true picture of how my nails looked most of the day.
Overall, I was pretty happy with this one. I love my glitters, but sometimes I can love a creme too. Again, this was $5 but they seem to constantly have the buy one, get one half off deal.
Claire's is available world wide or online [official website].
I kind of missed the American Apparel craze in my lifetime. That's what happens when you live in a small city and well, we all like to eat BBQ and Mexican food (oh man, valley tacos are amazing). In fact, American Apparel was just one of those things that didn't exist in my small world. When they came out with their nail polish earlier this year (or was it last year?), I wasn't quick to jump. Then all the bottles were recalled voluntarily, so I really wasn't jumping.
However, this past spring, I was at a very upscale mall with my Married Friends (as I call them) - E & B. E (husband) gets slightly irritated with my nail polish collection and tells me I can't buy anymore, but it's nuts. B was pretty fascinated by it, so HAH.
Anyway, we found an American Apparel, and I rushed inside to see if they had nail polish. Now, I don't fit in their clothes. Not even close. Well, maybe I'd squeeze into an XL, but whatever. Back to the polish.
I grabbed 3 bottles as they were 3 for $15, but that's about where my love affair ended. They've just been sitting on my shelf. The bottle is a bit awkward for me - it's very tall and slim but still the standard 0.5 Fl oz - tall bottles mean tall brushes, and I kept thinking I was somehow going to knock over the bottle when I'd pull the brush out, but we're okay.
Dynasty is a light purple, almost lavender creme polish that is pretty much my favorite color ever, so I was pretty excited about this color. The formula wasn't too bad on it either - a little thin but not pooling into my cuticles.
I used a base coat of Seche Natural, 2 coats of Dynasty, and a top coat of Seche Vite.
I feel that in the sun, on my nails, it turns into more of a mauve purple, but it's still a very pretty color.
Here in the shade it's kind of just there. Nothing too special, but at the same time, a nice pretty color. I think I was just so underwhelmed after wearing that crazy gold brown Wet n Wild.
American Apparel nail polish can be purchased in their stores or on their website [official website].
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