Essie Dive Bar + Deborah Lippman Across the Universe = Heaven!

Oh my, do I have a special combination to show you today, people. Looking through my rapidly-filling Helmer for inspiration tonight I decided it was finally time for me to try out one of the polishes that got me addicted to polish, Deborah Lippman Across the Universe. I've seen this one swatched plenty of times on its own so I thought I'd see what it looked like with a base colour. Essie Dive Bar had the same kinds of colours so I thought I'd see what they looked like together. Man, both of these are awesome!

First, let's look at the swatches for Essie Dive Bar. A dark green-blue-purple duochrome, this is a simply beautiful polish. I love dark colours to start with but this one with it's subtle colour shifts, oh so good. Application was really good, what you see here is two coats.

What I was really surprised by with this polish was how many colours it holds on the close up. Look at the next picture, see all the blues, purples and greens? So pretty. I was so tempted just to stop at this but I tried Across the Universe on one finger and knew I just had to keep going.

Here we have it, finally, Deborah Lippman Across the Universe, swatched at last. After some of the giant glitters I've been trying lately with the Lacquistry polishes it didn't blow me away like it might have a few weeks ago but it's still so beautiful. A blue jelly base with tiny blue hex glitters and large green and blue pieces. Application was nice, as you'd expect, these picture are all with just the one coat, topped with a coat of Seche Vite. I found this a lot easier than most to get an even distribution.

View these in the larger view, I dare you. Try not to be mesmerised by the glass glitter of Dive Bar in the back and lovely glitters in the front. Yesssssss.

The Verdict: I love both these polishes. They applied wonderfully, dried fast and needed only the one or two coats. I love how the two of them together create this sparkly, deep pond feel. Was it worth it for the $20 Across the Universe cost? Hmm. I really wanted this one in particular because I've coveted it for so long but there are plenty of blue and green glitters out there that would probably get you by. Dive Bar, on the other hand, has a surprising amount of different colours and colour shift to it and I'm a fan.

Review: Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles is Accurately Named

It's amazing what you can find when you wander around at night. My favourite time to go shopping is ridiculously late and I'm extra happy when it pays off. I've been looking for Nicole by OPI A Million Sparkles for a while now at that couldn't be more up my alley if it tried. I finally managed to find it in a Shoppers last night and it really does live up to its name. A Million Sparkles is a predominately blue glitter that has an amazing ability to look like a foil after a couple of coats. Combine that with gold, silver and pink bar glitter and you have a winner. It's seriously so sparkly I got distracted from what I was saying at lunch today. Application is decent but you really need four coats to get completely opaque coverage. That's ok, glitter dries fast. It's a little rough too but nothing Seche Vite can't fix. The Verdict: Yay glitter! If, like me, you like sparklies to the point where it's the biggest tag on y

Review: Sephora X Outburst

As you can imagine, I was pretty excited when the new Sephora X polishes came out. Not only were there a million of them, but I could go see them in person, circling the huge stand and singling out my prey. I'm not the most happy that the good ones are FIFTEEN dollars each but what am I going to do, not buy any?? That's silly. I have few now but my favourite so far as to be the incredibly Outburst. LOOK AT IT:

All the ILNP Ultrachromes! Like Shiny Beetles!

Guess what guys, it's not glitter today! Instead, I have the incredibly amazing ILNP Ultrachrome polishes to show you! I saw a picture of these on the ILNP site and gasped out loud when I saw the colour shift. I totally didn't sit for an hour at work, refreshing the page when the preorders went up. That would be silly. I was so excited when they arrived as they looked as amazing in the bottle as they did on the site. I swatched each polish over black, took the photos, but no matter what I tried, I couldn't get the finish to a place where I was satisfied. I'm sure it's something about the way I was applying it, but there would be little bumps or inconsistencies in the finish and it was annoying. So I didn't post them. I gave them another shot in a taped mani and YES THIS IS BETTER LOOK:

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