Review: Sephora Formula X Voltage

I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with the Sephora Formula X polishes. I love them, because they're gorgeous and hate them because they're $15 each. I hate them a bit more for being so gorgeous I'll PAY $15 each. After Outburst was so stunning the other day, I had to get the red one, Voltage. Next pay I'll probably get the other three. Sigh. Let's bask in sparkliness, shall we?

Voltage is an absolutely amazingly awesome red jelly polish, packed with different sizes of gold holo glitter. I don't know what it is, but I'm obsessed with the layered effect you get with these polishes. I didn't want to have to worry about opacity here so I started off with a thin coat of Urban Outfitters Spiked Punch. I then layered three coats of Voltage on the top. You can get away with two but sparklies so three for me. I sealed everything in with a coat of Seche Vite and stuck on some Hex Nail Jewelry because I like them for accents. Sparkly!

The Verdict: Of course I love this. My fingers still hate red polish but don't care, this is too awesome. The formula is great - you don't have to dig for glitter - and it's just sparkly all the time. I'm sitting here at work under fluorescent and natural light and they're rainbowing all over the place. I'm just sad I'm going to have to buy the other three now. At $15 each :( silly Canada.

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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:

Pink Mega-Sparkly Nails!

It's hardly a secret how much I love sparklies. If it were at all practical, I would make my middle name Sparkly. Laura Sparkly Tucker. That does have a nice ring to it. Anyway, this adoration of all the sparklies means just about my favourite thing ever is dazzle glitter . It's like a bunch of tiny pieces of glitter were smushed together into a larger piece. And oh, so sparklies. I've done red and silver manis using this glitter before so that's the perfect excuse to use the pink. That makes sense, right?

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