Welcome to Shimmer Week on Gnarly Gnails!
The lovely Cindy of Shimmer was kind enough to send me a bucketfull of her beautiful polishes to review.
Since I had so many to work with I decided to swatch them a bit differently. Each of the 10 polishes I have to show you this week will be done as 50/50 Manicures so you can see the base vs. over the base, to see how well these cover. I will walk through the review picture by picture. Let's get started.
Erica:
I'm swatching Erica alongside Illamasqua Rampage, an insanely beautiful forest green jelly polish. |
Erica in Macro vision. Cindy of Shimmer describes this is as Crystal Peridot. Pretty spot on Cindy! Tons of varying shades of green glitters along with aqua and blue, gold and silver. |
And here is our 50/50 Erica/Rampage manicure. I've used 2 coats of Rampage with 1 thick coat of Erica over it. |
As with every Shimmer I have swatched, Erica is no exception in the glitterbomb category! |
Erica was a breeze to apply, the Shimmer formula is absolutely perfect, not too thick, not too thin. I literally could think of no cons when I was applying these polishes. |
I won't lie - I am a SUCKER for gold. Gold glitter? Kill me now. I adored every minute I wore this manicure. |
Every swatch of Shimmers this week has been finished off with 1 coat of Gelous + 1 coat of Jordana Quick Dry Top Coat.
11 comments
This looks stunning. I can never have enough green glitters
ReplyDeletei hear you on that one!
DeleteBeautiful glitter!
ReplyDeleteisn't it?!?!
DeleteThis is such a wonderful mani idea! Thank you! <3
ReplyDeletethank YOU! loved doing them - your glitters are the perfect accent for a tape mani!
DeleteFirst of all, I heart Illmasqua! Second, another fantabulous glitter from Shimmer!
ReplyDeleteprecisely my thoughts!
DeleteUh, wow! Glitter bombtastic!
ReplyDeletefor realzizillz!!
DeleteUhh! so pretty!
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