Following on from my
"Dancing in the Dark" post comes my next nail polish review of "Across the Universe" (another Deborah Lippmann polish).
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| Macroshot - no filter/edit |
Now I gotta tell you, I'm so obsessed with these glitter polishes - they're just so divine! One day I will figure out how to capture glitter polishes in photos so that it a true representation of what it actually looks like in real life.
As I suspected, this polish is only good on top of a base coat colour as the polish is more like a jelly polish/topcoat as shown below.
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| One coat - no base. |
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| Two coats - no base. |
Two coats of polish isn't too bad but it still wasn't as vibrant as I wanted it to be. So, I went to my trusty polish collection and pulled out OPI's "Just Spotted the Lizard" from the Amazing Spiderman Collection.
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| Macro shot - no filter/edit |
Just Spotted the Lizard is a multichrome colour that reminds me of a peacock feather within the bottle, but once it is on it's more green and gold with not so much visible blue. In hindsight I would've picked a darker colour, or even a plain deep blue for the base colour like
Power Dressing by Ciate.
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| Macro shot - no filter/edit. |
Now that I had the base coat on it was time to layer on "Across the Universe". Even with a base coat, I still needed quite a lot of layers for the glitter to look dense enough but I did love the end result! It's still a win for me even though there is a total of five layers of polish (excluding top coat ;p).
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| Three layers of glitter polish |
Even in the macro shots the glitter looks quite black but in reality it's more of a vibrant blue. This last shot (even though I have boosted the contrast) is more what it looks like in real life. This is definitely one to add to your collection if you LOVE glitter as much as I do! x
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