Review: Pretty & Polished Valentino

One day I'll swatch regular polishes but I feel that the indies are under-represented in the blogger microcosm and need a voice. I WILL BE THAT VOICE, EVEN IF IT MEANS SHOWING YOU INDIE POLISHES EVERYDAY, HURTING YOU AS THEY ARE QUITE HARD TO FIND! A hint - Etsy "Notify me by email" is your friend. All I do to find these polishes is to turn on the notification and wait, and be prepared to drop the cash when needed. Anyway, on to Pretty & Polished Valentino over the painfully-hard-to-photograh China Glaze Pool Party.

Before we go much further, it might be worth you checking out another review of mine featuring a black and white glitter in a clear base - Cover Band Sticks 'n' Stones. Both hard but not impossible to get if you're quick off the email, they're kinda similar. Valentino doesn't have the bar glitter Sticks 'n' Stones does, and has smaller micro glitter. Whatever, I'll take 100 different kinds of these, I just can't get over how good flat black and white glitter look together. Layered over the eyeball-punching China Glaze Pool Party, well, it's a winner. Application was decent, this is one coat. These glitters are really economical! You only ever need one coat.

The Verdict: I love both these polishes and they're magic together, as much as my camera hates the neon. I don't care that this is a lot like Sticks 'n' Stones which is like Connect the Dots, the world needs more glitter like this!

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

I'm a Proper Mermaid This Time Beeeeaches

Ermerger guys, I don't have any glitter on me! Well, I do, just on my nails. I always have glitter on me. And cat fluff. It's funny how often my bf comes home with glitter in his beard. That means it's been there all day... Anyway, new nail vinyls mean something a bit different. I swear I'm not actually obsessed with mermaids, it just seems like it... Anyway, again, shall we?

Overlaid Red, Black and White Gradient Nails!

Ever since I did this mani recently I've been wanting to do a better version. The colours seemed like they would work together but it just didn't turn out how I wanted. I wanted to try again and decided to learn from my original mistakes. For example, make sure you use a super opaque creme polish on your top layer, don't bother with horizontal stripes and using thicker lines looks cool too.

Polish All the Nails

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