Friday, May 18, 2012

My Perfect Glitter?

Not QUITE...but close.

When I set out to find the perfect glitter polish, I was looking to mimic Gelish Waterfield, but in a polish that I can use with a regular manicure (rather than a gel mani).

My criteria for a perfect glitter polish are threefold:
  1. Holographic - I don't know if that's even the right word.  But basically what I mean is that each glitter particle sort of changes color depending on the light. So not just a BLUE glitter or a SILVER glitter, but more of a multi-colored look.
  2. Clear base - I wanted something with no color tint in the actual polish.  I don't want to try and buy a different glitter for every base color.  One glitter to coat them all (I hate myself a little for that vague LOTR reference, btw).
  3. Two different glitter sizes - Gelish Waterfield has a very fine glitter, intersparsed with slightly larger glitter particles and it creates a nice effect.
So...did I find it?  Nope.  But what I found meets two out of the three criteria, and it's so pretty I can hardly stop looking at it.

China Glaze Fairy Dust will hold me over just fine until someday when I find that perfect glitter polish.  Here's the picture from just a quick single coat trying it out at the store.  The pictures do not really even come close to doing it justice, but that's ok, you get the point.  Oh, and by the way, the criteria it doesn't meet is number three.  It's uniformly fine glitter, no big pieces.



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