I have been nursing a broken-to-the-quick nail and each time it starts growing out, it breaks again. The nail gods have not been smiling on me. In the meantime, I’ve had a boatload of polishes arrive with no tips to put it on. One of the boxes that travelled to my doorstep contained quite a little collection of LA Splash polishes. My goodness, they have a ton of glitters! It is unlikely I am going to get to these any time soon. So when all else fails, use a nail wheel! Left is with flash, right is without.
So let’s take a closer look, shall me? All were three coats with two layers of topcoat. Some were spectacular. Some were really sparse. And one… well… I don’t know what was going on with its muddy self.
1-6: 12089G Sugar Crystal, 12056G Lighthouse, 12137G Jewels, 12117G Wonderland, 12025G Sparkling Fire, 12017G Fabuluxe
7-12: 12068G Emellished, 12111G Sparkling Lavendar, 12074G Heiress, 12136G Blue Diamond, 12101G Sparkling Stratosphere, 12119G Sparkling Ocean
13-18: 12066 Ocean Sprinkles, 12083G Sparkling Seaweed, 12124G Sparkling Lime, 12043G Green Moss, 12108G Kamodo Dragon, 12144G Sparkling Silver
My favorites were Fabuluxe, Embellished, Ocean Sprinkles and Sparkling Lime. These were full coverage glitters that had some nice color combinations. My least favorites were Heiress, Sparkling Ocean, and Komodo Dragon (not a matte, not a creme, not a glitter and definately not shiny – what the hell is this?). I had really high hopes for Green Moss, but the gold flakes in this one lacked sparkle which kept it out of my top picks.
Hopefully I can get to the non-glitters soon!
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Wow, this is heaven for a glitter girl like me!
Wow!I love all the blues and purples!
wow Komodo Dragon is very cool. Lizard skin for the nails!
I recently purchased Crimson Tide.
The bottle color was really pretty…a burgundy jelly w/silver glitter that picked up rose tones from the polish.
Unfortunately, once applied, the glitter settled at the bottom of my mani…no pretty rose tone glitter and no sparkle.
Does Wonderland have card-suit glitter? I’m not sure if I’m seeing hearts and flowers or hearts and clubs (I’m at work and I stupidly forgot my glasses at home).
I feel like Komodo Dragon could have had some amazing potential if it had some kind of a shimmer to it, but as it is it just looks like some sort of failed franken to me. Shame.
Oh, I’m starting to have that problem too!
For the past six months, my nails has been amazing. But now: cracks and cracks. Way down passed the nail line. I try to mend them, but now I have three nails threatening to break off. So soon it’s back to super short nails …
I think Kamodo Dragon looks totally fantastic. It’s nasty and gross and matte and AWESOME at the same time. I really want it lol.
You guys are too funny with the Komodo Dragon love! I looked at it and went “wtf?!?!” And Elizabeth, lizard polish for the lacquered lizard? That had me rolling!
Diane, I don’t have the bottle in front of me, but I believe the big glitters were just flowers and hearts.
Aw, dang. Still pretty, but not as awesome.
Now I have the urge to go make myself card suit glitter polish. I’m sure there’s club/spade/diamond/heart glitter or mini-confetti out there.
i can’t even lie, “green moss” and “komodo dragon” are so weirdly unique that they are hot!
Hi!
Are you ill? it’s been 2 weeks since your last post?