Review: China Glaze It's a Trap-eze vs. Whirled Away

It should come as no surprise I like the glitters in the China Glaze Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away collection. I've always liked the rainbow glitters and matte glitters so there's no way I could have resisted Whirled Away and It's a Trap-eze. I wanted to show how versatile they could be so I thought I'd try them both over China Glaze Purple Panic. Yes.

Let's take a look at the two, to see what we're dealing with:

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To start, let's do It's A Trap-eze. I can't believe how much I love this polish. There's just so much rainbow glitter, in a nice white creme base. My favourite thing about it thought is that it layers well over other colours. Here, I started with two coats of Purple Panic then taped taped off the triangles, followed by a thick, single coat of the white glitter. I'm really impressed at how easily it applied. I've had a lot of polishes before not behave themselves when they have to be layered like this. It's a Trap-eze applied really well with the glitter and base going on nice and smooth. Look how well the pink peeks though without being overwhelming!

Next up, a completely different look for Purple Panic with Whirled Away, a clear polish with black and white matte hex glitter with black bars mixed in. I have a lot of these kinds of polishes but love them every time. It's interested that a commercial brand like China Glaze is getting into the matte glitters. Really gotta wonder what Lynnderella would have to say about this! Anyway, application of the glitter was decent, this is one coat. I had to fish around for the white glitter a little but that's only because I wanted one on every nail. No big deal. By the way, please excuse the inconsistent photos coming up, this is what happens when I let my camera let the aperture and exposure itself :)

The Verdict: Both really good polishes. Really impressive for China Glaze, I have to say. I hope they continue coming with more indie-style polishes, there can never be enough!

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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