Review: Essie No Place Like Chrome

I hope you're not sick of glitter yet cos I sure as hell am not! I still have so many pots of glitter sitting on my desk, taunting me (cos glitter can be quite pushy) so I've got quite a few variation to try out. I recently picked up two new Essie polishes from the Chrome collection - a silver and a lavender - and thought that the the silver, No Place Like Chrome, would make a good base for my holographic turquoise glitter.

First up, let's take a look at No Place Like Chrome. I used two coats here which was fine in terms of coverage. I was impressed at just how bright and shiny a silver this was, it really is a true chrome. However, this polish will show every single lump, bump and bubble in your nails and application. Even a top coat doesn't smooth it out completely. I highly recommend buffing your nails and using a very even base coat with this, otherwise you're going to have a bad time. That being said, it's so shiny I don't care, hah hah! Once the two coats were applied, I used my normal technique to add my chequered pattern. If you want to try this, I found the best way to get the pieces to line up is to start in a top corner then place a piece underneath, touching the corner, working your way down in a zig-zag.

The Verdict: These were mistaken for nail decals by, like, three real people so win! The combination of the turquoise holographic glitter and the shiny chrome makes for very attention-grabbing nails. Love it.

The Polishes:

Essie No Place Like Chrome, $6.75, various locations
Turquoise square holographic glitter, ebay.

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 big...

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:

Polish All the Nails

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